13 March 2005 by Carl A. Patton, LaVergne, TN

The Book revealed many things, so were the wretched.

They inhabited the earth. Some were brought to toil.

The soil was Black coming up from the bottom.

Some from the Delta. Peaches did grow. Some saw,

Alabama sunshine and red clay hills. The rivers were,

Wide. There was also Mississippi the Delta blues place.

The Tennessee experience was from the middle to the,

West. Upon bluffs of Memphis here the big river,

Came to pass ships from southern ports, and there,

Was Arkansas to the west, many horses roamed in,

Kentucky the blue grass place. Black hands became thoroughbred

Keepers. Black magic Groomed, rode and stood outside,

Many winning circles. The Smokies came down from Appalachia,

To Cherokee runaway hills to North, Carolina.

The south saw sand filled beaches, islands and distinguished,

Black people. Some took the big river south to,

Where the creoles, mulattoes, and quadroons held illicit balls.

That was in New Orleans and new slaves where,

Society created concubines. Many came by river and sea,

To Louisiana. The, Cajuns rested in the swamps among

The extended river. The French held many faces. The,

Blacks came in shades of white, brown and white.

Meanwhile many fields, of white misery filled the air.

I saw Black hands, many calloused and hard from,

Picking white fluffy balls of supple raw forbidden fruit.

Here the tears fall with every reach at life.

About the Author

Meanwhile, the arrogant Dogmatism of some groups in the Black community refuse to agree to disagree. If you don't follow their way and their life-style you are wrong and they don't want to be right. However, there are many different views of life in the Black community. Thus religion is not immune nor is politics, sexual orientation nor economics.