Jungle Taste
There is a coarsenessIn the songs of black menCoarse as the songsOf the sea.There is a weird strangenessIn the songs of black menWhich sounds not strangeTo me.There is beautyIn the faces of black women,Jungle beautyAnd mystery.Dark, hidden beautyIn the faces of black womenWhich only black menSee.
There is a coarsenessIn the songs of black menCoarse as the songsOf the sea.There is a weird strangenessIn the songs of black menWhich sounds not strangeTo me.There is beautyIn the faces of black women,Jungle beautyAnd mystery.Dark, hidden beautyIn the faces of black womenWhich only black menSee.
There is a coarsenessIn the songs of black menCoarse as the songsOf the sea.There is a weird strangenessIn the songs of black menWhich sounds not strangeTo me.
There is a coarseness
In the songs of black men
Coarse as the songs
Of the sea.
There is a weird strangeness
In the songs of black men
Which sounds not strange
To me.
There is beautyIn the faces of black women,Jungle beautyAnd mystery.Dark, hidden beautyIn the faces of black womenWhich only black menSee.
There is beauty
In the faces of black women,
Jungle beauty
And mystery.
Dark, hidden beauty
In the faces of black women
Which only black men
See.
Finality
Trees are the souls of menReaching skyward.And while each soulDraws nearer GodIts dark roots cleaveTo earthly sod:Death, only deathBrings triumph to the soul.The silent grave aloneCan bare the goal.Then roots and allMust lie forgot—To rot.
Trees are the souls of menReaching skyward.And while each soulDraws nearer GodIts dark roots cleaveTo earthly sod:Death, only deathBrings triumph to the soul.The silent grave aloneCan bare the goal.Then roots and allMust lie forgot—To rot.
Trees are the souls of menReaching skyward.And while each soulDraws nearer GodIts dark roots cleaveTo earthly sod:Death, only deathBrings triumph to the soul.The silent grave aloneCan bare the goal.Then roots and allMust lie forgot—To rot.
Trees are the souls of men
Reaching skyward.
And while each soul
Draws nearer God
Its dark roots cleave
To earthly sod:
Death, only death
Brings triumph to the soul.
The silent grave alone
Can bare the goal.
Then roots and all
Must lie forgot—
To rot.
Edward Silvera.