Poet Tyehimba Jess is on Saturday Verses (poems and lyrics)

Please read Blind Boone’s Apparitions by Tyehimba Jess

C

my motto for life

– merit, not sympathy, wins-

my song against death.

E♭

i stroke piano’s

eighty eight mouths. each one sings

hot colors of joy

F

pentatonic black

keys raise up high into bliss,

born to sing my name

F#

whippoorwill, hawk, crow

sing madrigals for blind men.

forests blooms through each note.

G

my eyes: buried deep

beneath earth’s skin. my vision

begins in her womb.

B♭

darkness sounds like God

flowering from earth’s molten tomb…

writhed wind. chorded cries.

Copyright, 2016

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