Category: Poetry Publisher: Pearl N. Harris
ISBN-10: 0978576004
Type: Fiction
Pages: 108
Copyright: May 2006
An Anthology of young poets from Riverwood High School in Atlanta, GA. The poets were members of the Outspoken Poetry club, sponsored by Yvette Appiah.
In this book you will see the promise of a young William Butler Yeats in Dean Shaban, or a Sonia Sanchez in Yejide Olutosin, Zack Feldberg will jump off the page and entertain you while Lauryn Brown is a quiet storm. You will see the influence of great writers in the works of these students and you will also here their own powerful voices emerging. The subsequent renaissance of great poetry starts here at Riverwood High School in this anthology. I encourage you to believe it, and as you read and enjoy the original works of the following young poets, cheer them on.
Excerpt
Behold, the words once dripped from melting tongues
And scorched your minds in a passionate blaze.
The verse once stormed from the thundering brain
And blew as the Zephyr from muse to mouth.
Alas, the lines once flooded the oceans
And washed in tides of romantic debris.
The couplets once tore through tremors of thought
And shook the ideas as trembling earth.
Yet mine heart be unmoved by what was once –
The beats, the Plato, the Galileo,
For such once was I – the quill of the Earth.
Gone may be night, but not days in this time,
Where letters are lovers in courtship’s way,
For, plainly, Plato has got writer’s block.
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Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
