Comments on: Champion Karim Mayfield and director Robert Townsend bring knockout power and star power to San Francisco Black Film Festival

By: @RenaldoRickett

@RenaldoRickett — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:02:38 +0000

a poem for my next book:
A Singles Bar
Animated lonely people dipped in chocolate covered paranoia

Drinking sugar water washed in Icicles of past gleam soaked in

alcohol bar- stools of false hope~ Slick lines masticate in mid

air with promises as promises of a married life of lies bounce off

the floor like a sore of despair rolling snake eyes nostrils flared, two

dark holes out of breath panting again in search of partners

unknown ~
Last/lost call for alcohol shouts the bartender the lonely singles gather to tip for the last drink they file past last exit sign to

meet the parking lot ghost that sleeps in the back seat of their cars.

by Renaldo Manuel Ricketts

By: @RenaldoRickett

@RenaldoRickett — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:00:01 +0000

i willcertainly be aat one of these events -hands down .
I wrote this poem in Panama after not visiting my country for 26 years, I finally returned to my chagrin, the country was in a chaotic state of great discomfort compounded by great personal disappointments and betrayal. Pain is not the word that bests describe the turbulence and tribulations I suffered from 1988 -to 1989

A poem form my book "Velvet Dreams"
Wretched Acts__
Inspite of their wretched acts against me,
I will prosper in a sea of happy wishes
and dreams
To be dreamed in my eternal soul
to be found in the everlasting truth in
my spirit
to be free of torment
and saved from the scorching anger
of their wicked
twisted fears.