TOMORROW'S DAUGHTERS

LEBOGANG MASHILE

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STUDENT NAME: JOESETTE PROFESSOR: MS. MEL

MARIE A. OBANI BOQUIREN

CLASS: EL114 AFRO-ASIAN SUBMITTED ON: OCTOBER 14

LITERATURE

I want to write a poem

About pretty black girls
Who don't relax and lie their dreams away
Voices that curl
The straight edges of history
Hair thin slices of a movement
Turning the world kinky
I respect the disciplined silent screamers
Who expose the holes
Emily Dickinson, I am climbing through
To your wooden shed of isolation
Where the robin's song
Robbed you of your sanity
I revere people to my own detriment
Perhaps you did too
But when I enter your hallowed hearth
Please don't turn me away
I want to show pretty black girls
How to look at their hearts
With eyes blaring at full blast
The way you did
Together we can build a bridge
To the promise in their faces
And pull them towards poems
By pretty black girls
Wearing crowns of change
 TOMORROW'S DAUGHTERS
(Paraphrased)
LEBOGANG MASHILE

STUDENT NAME: JOESETTE PROFESSOR: MS. MEL

MARIE A. OBANI BOQUIREN

CLASS: EL114 AFRO-ASIAN SUBMITTED ON: OCTOBER 14

LITERATURE

I'd like to write a poem

That concerns beautiful black women
Who do not lie their dreams away
Their curled voices,
History's straight lines
And movement in hair thin slices
Have the power in turning the world kinky
Silent screamers who expose the flaws—
I admire
I'm making my way through, Emily Dickinson
To your wooden shed of isolation
Where the robin's song took your sanity
To my detriment, I hold people in high regard
Perhaps you did as well
However, when I enter your sacred hearth,
Please do not turn me down
For I want to show these beautiful black
women
How to examine their hearts
With eyes blazing brightly
Just like how you did
We can build a bridge together
To the hope in their faces
And draw them to poems
By beautiful black women
Wearing crowns of evolution