Another poem of mine, "Paradise" from my upcoming book of poetry "The Miseducation of James Daniels" will be featured by Pen and Poem Publishers. The anthology is called "Poets Quest". I am very happy as this poem is one of my favorite poems I've ever written.
Paradise
Billy Holiday sang-,
Maya Angelou wrote,
Malcolm-X marched-
Martin Luther King spoke,
I sat and observed-
There I saw a rainbow in the sky,
So I sat in the sun reading poems by Langston Hughes, the whole entire month of July-
Stayed gone ‘til November-
Then the cold days were there in number,
It was when I heard the Christmas Eve notes from that of Mahalia Jackson-
they brought me oh so much comfort,
I was in paradise.
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
This collection of poetry addresses the nature of time, reflections on the natural world, the difficulty of loss,
contemporary social issues and gratitude for life.
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