Atlanta, GA – Business Trip

~~~ The little brown girl inside me wonders will those around me acknowledge my presence? Should bellhops be hailing me taxicabs and I the one tipping the staff? Yes madams thrown out to me easily, while I look out the window, to see a rag woman. She pushes a cart clinging with cans people looking […]

Bread Pudding Love

~~~ Bread pudding has arrived in high-style it’s the latest vogue fashion food. Dressed in a coconut shell covered with amaretto and white chocolate. Six years into the new millennium they line up in Atlanta for a taste. Nobody had to tell my mama how to make gourmet bread pudding. She’s baked memories for […]

Overheard

~~~ Him: I’m not that athletic So my heart does not Skip, jump, somersault, Or otherwise cardio Over you. I’m not that romantic so I do not write poems Send you roses just because Or make Hallmark richer For you. I’m doing me So when I don’t call Or you don’t see me […]

Rebirth

~~~ I’m so sick and tired, of being tired and sick I want to see my way through this fog But it’s dark and thick. . . And I feel like my spirit is being weighed down by a ton of bricks. I don’t want to buckle When I’m feeling weak, I need to be […]

Pinecycles

~~~ Heaven rained a frozen glaze of ice On trees determined to stand it’s weight Of wind, snow and rain Pinecycles hung like frozen broccoli heads Waiting for warmth to render them tender A squirrel waits its time by: Jerlean S Noble (c) 1/11/2011 ~~~ About The Poet: Jerlean […]

When Sistas Cry

~~~ Like Lady Day, Bessie Smith or me, she sings, “Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine.” It’s cuz, “I’m Waiting to Exhale” in “The Temple of My Familiar.” We’re “Daughters of the Dust” who are “Possessing the Secrets of Joy” as we contend with, “Disappearing Acts” before “Jumping the Broom.” So, like “Jazz” life […]