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I am a Phenomenal Woman
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A phenomenal woman-that’s what you see.
Phenomenal because of what’s inside me.
What makes me so phenomenal, you ask ?
I can summon the powers of those in my past.
Those who endured vicious evils untold:
those who were murdered, raped and sold!
Those with no name, those who wore chains
Those who bounced back from unspeakable shame.

Those who ruled kingdoms in a faraway land.
Those who built pyramids and the Sphinx by hand.
Those who work miracles through prayer and song.
Those who have kept an oppressed people strong.
Those who are here despite every attempt
to disgrace and destroy-yes, I come from them.
I AM a phenomenal woman, you see.
Phenomenal, simply, because all that’s in me!

© 2002 C. Highsmith-Hooks

The Soul of a Black Woman

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Reviewed by C. Highsmith Hooks
Reviewed on February 28, 2010
You are so right, Sue! There ARE some down sides to being a strong black woman; ask my husband!LOL.

Reviewed by Sue Hess
Reviewed on March 11, 2003
wonderful work, and of course we are all the generations that came before us and that isn't always good but it always makes us who we are

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on March 11, 2003
This is one of the finest, most uplifting poems I've read today. Would everyone be so positive. Bravo. Shoot...and you even made it rhyme.

~E


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