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The 30th annual Celebration of African American Poets and Their Poetry:...
This poem is water
It is palm wine to the ancestors
Ones with heads up, lips parted
Utterance stuck in throat
It is fresh water with peppermint
It is nommo
Words into flesh
Blackness
Melanin
A magic hue
Sun kissed by time
Wanda’s Picks for December 2011
Sobonfu Somé, West African healer, says that when people die and become ancestors, they get smarter and often try to repair any damage they may have made while in this physical form. Ancestors want to be busy making our lives better. She said we can call on them to intercede on our behalf when we are troubled.