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    Bennu: a Literary Journal: Volume Two 2010
    Bennu: a Literary Journal: Volume Two 2010
    Bennu: a Literary Journal: Volume Two 2010
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    Bennu: a Literary Journal: Volume Two 2010

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    Bennett College is a small, private, historically Black liberal arts college for women. The College offers women an education conducive to excellence in scholarly pursuits; preparation for leadership roles in the workplace, society, and the world; and life-long learning in a technologically advanced, complex global society. As a United Methodist Church-related institution, Bennett College promotes morally grounded maturation, intellectual honesty, purposeful public service, and responsible civic action.
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    Bennu: a Literary Journal: Volume Two 2010
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    The students, faculty and staff of the Bennett College for Women proudly offer Bennu: A Literary Journal, a collection of poetry, short fiction, plays and essays. Because this work has been authored by many contributors, no one theme is dominant.

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      Bennu - Bennett College for Women

      Bennu

      A Literary Journal

      Volume Two 2010

      Bennett College for Women

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      AuthorHouse™

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      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2012 by Bennett College for Women. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 01/25/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-2549-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-2548-9 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-2547-2 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012901436

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Poetry

      I Say I Am

      Fresh Woman

      Defining Hope

      About Roses

      Marching To The Dream

      Untitled

      Bush Tea

      Whispers

      Desperation

      Soul Travel

      Antipode*

      Stars Immigrate

      Standing Tall In Quicksand

      Terminology Of The Sword

      The Truth

      How Can This Be?

      Untitled

      Abdul’s Song

      My Kind Of Man

      Tested

      What He Doesn’t Know

      Sleeping Beauty

      ¡Por Fin Te Encuentro!

      A Love Robbed By A Longing Of Sexual Contentment

      Absolution

      Mimi Ni Salama

      We Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover

      You Mean To Me

      These Bones Are Poems

      Train Whistle In My Mind

      You

      White Night

      Taste

      Radiance

      Salaryman

      People Of Color

      It’s Hard Being A Young Woman

      Family Thoughts

      Wind Guider

      Are You The Leading Lady

      Or The Understudy?

      . . . Más Allá…

      Sitting On Aunt Ruby’s Stoop

      Sufi Songs

      Shadows On The Water

      Wake

      Why Change Now To Be An Ideal Father Figure?

      Good And Bad

      Dear Creature,

      What Is Your Mission?

      Untitled

      Pops, Play Your Part

      Daddy’s Little Girl

      Ms. Belle

      The Sad Eyes Looking At Me

      Obscuration Of The Truth

      Transparent

      Hieronymus And Bosch

      (Or Late One Night)

      Timeworn Echo

      We Are Not Criminals

      Kayip Cennet

      Lost Paradise

      Three Haikus On Russian Themes

      Unfinished Work To Do

      Shairi Kuhusu Chuo Cha Bennett

      Greed 14 Lines

      My Pleasure

      Brother Atlas

      Passion

      Untitled

      A Poem For Megan Williams

      Love Lost

      A Poem For Us

      Белая Ночь

      What Happens To A Black

      Woman Degraded?

      Something ’Bout Aretha

      Short Stories/Narratives/Plays

      LORD YOUR GRACE

      Excerpt From Diana Sands…,

      A One-Woman Play

      LYDIA ZINOVIEVA-ANNIBAL (1866-1907)

      SWIMMING IN THE DEEP END

      SHE WAS ASLEEP

      RECONSTRUCTION

      SIMPLY PERFECT!

      FLASH BACK

      ROSES

      Untitled

      MY MAMA’S FRIENDS

      MY ANGEL LIKES TO BE CALLED SKITTLES

      Academic Essay

      PREDATORY SPECIESISM, WELFARE, AND RIGHTS

      Dictionary of Twentieth Century Black Leaders

      KAMAU

      Poetry

      I Say I Am

      I say I am music

      For the rhythms move me

      The lyrics, they are the air that I breathe

      I say I am like Dr. King

      For I too have a dream

      But it’s for black people to live together in peace

      I say I am like the mute, unable to speak

      For my thoughts are better off read than said

      I say I am like the Virgin Mary

      Since it will only be by the Holy Spirit that I conceive

      Don’t get me wrong, I do love children

      It’s just not my job to bear them

      Instead I tend to nurture those already here

      Who no one seems to want

      So like Michael Jackson, I’ll be there

      I claim to be like Cinderella

      Except I am already a Queen waiting for my King

      To one day come and rescue me

      So what if I live my life like a fairy tale

      Just call me Sleeping Beauty

      Since I’m walking through life with my eyes closed anyway

      Dreaming every night and all day

      I say I am like a leaf on a tree

      Just being until the time is up for me

      Then I will rest and let my works speak for me

      And my tombstone simply states

      I AM ME

      Queen

      Fresh Woman

      Fresh woman

      Confused in the dark

      A little black girl so lost

      Views still black and white

      Dream of the unknown

      Lying beyond the limits

      Rushing from the breasts

      Green as a string bean

      Pretending to be all grown

      Eyes so wide and long

      Eager to be free

      Blinded by the glare of lights

      Still full speed ahead

      Cannot stop so fast

      Too close now she can’t pull back

      She hits the mirage wall HARD

      Konica Haynes

      Defining Hope

      There are two Shadows of leadership

      In this black stillness, destiny is to fade the light

      They ease slowly and surely toward dignity

      In Long stretched wheels—

      Long stretched wheels that glide up capitol hills to fight—

      To fight a battle that seems to have already been won

      But it is by this challenger who knows the battle has just begun

      Change and hope shiver the bones to breathe desire

      Hands to foreheads salute as we wait to be inspired

      First Ladies arrive and it’s their strength their men survive

      Survive the testing times

      There is a flag that waves cheerfully

      Horns play in patriotic symphonies that shower

      Drums roll silent for victories are in the hour

      Unity vision and greatness are echoed through a pledge of power

      It is these cannons that against the odds are raised

      Raised from purpose, faith and duties connected to a face

      Heritage of falling heroes and guardians of liberty we no longer see

      Moments of a defining generation whose movement generated and started with me

      There were frozen smiles of prosperity on that cold but memorable day

      Inclusion not exclusion is what must pave our way

      Keepers of legacy unbroken in no need of restraint

      As our President speaks of the future we no longer imply the word can’t

      Although it began with the persistence of a man

      We are a nation, together, in efforts we stand

      Hand in Hand

      Our country

      Our land

      Torn are the Shackles

      Because

      YES WE CAN

      Nicole Miller

      About Roses

      Her father said, "Give her one Rose, one perfect Rose each year

      to mark this day."

      Her lover said, A Rose, a perfect Rose! Roses are not bread or earth or sustenance—and one should not make promises that one can’t keep.

      Yet out of the bread and sustenance came bushes and bushes of Roses.

      Which only goes to show

      Fathers can’t know everything

      Not even when it comes to love.

      Ruth Lucier

      Marching To The Dream

      One day I met a man holding up a sign.

      Cold and lonely he was wrapped in a blanket

      Looked at me and started crying,

      "Tell me how can I survive tomorrow

      If I can’t get through today?

      I lost my job I worked my whole life

      and my savings are spent away."

      I told him, "My brother walk with me

      and together we will march

      And spread Martin Luther King’s dream through the slums of the parks.

      We will get through this time together

      Nobody can survive alone.

      Let’s end poverty forever and make our nation a home."

      One day I saw a lady crying on the street.

      She looked scared and helpless

      Terrified she cried to me,

      "Tell me how can I survive tomorrow

      If I can’t get through today?

      No friends, no family, no love

      Alone in the world with AIDS."

      I looked at her and said, "My sister walk with me

      And together we will march

      And spread Martin Luther King’s dream through the slums of the parks.

      We will get through this time together

      Nobody can survive alone.

      Let’s care for the sick forever and make our nation a home."

      One day I met a young boy standing on the corner.

      Selling drugs to support his family

      To take care of himself and his mother.

      He said, "Tell me how can I survive tomorrow

      If I can’t get through today?

      I don’t have an education, or degree

      And the rent is two months late."

      I told him," Young fellow walk with me

      And together we will march

      And spread Martin Luther King’s dream through the slums of the parks.

      We will get though this time together

      Nobody can survive alone.

      Let’s end violence and drugs on every corner forever and make our nation a home."

      And side by side we all marched on.

      Through the slums, ghettos, and hoods.

      Transforming ourselves into kings and queens

      Until everyone understood;

      That when our sisters are dying

      So are we.

      When a child is hungry

      We all starve.

      And when one man suffers pain and sickness

      America loses the DREAM.

      So next time you see a hopeless man struggling to survive

      Tell him, say to him, My brother you are not alone, and march by his side.

      Tiara Miller

      Untitled

      Separation between fingertips and loose smiles

      As the wind blows my hair over my shoulder, I look back

      Back to where the smell is familiar and where the touch

      comforts my soul

      Back to where the acceptance is honest in the grips truth,

      dearest now holds

      Proud as the trees towering as the leaves take their route to coast

      Coast to a balance of understanding

      Separation between

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