What My Mind Tells Me

Nothing in this world in one sense Mere geography if you ask my eyes Until my mind comes along and … More

Never Been Kissed

Hard to believe that movie title When the heroine is Drew Barrymore But believing as she did in true love … More

I have seen through love And its many guises Never have I seen love In either myself or others That … More

I no longer love anyoneLove requires the OtherBut it is God alone I seeAll around me in this worldAs you … More

Brown’s poetry was influenced by jazz, the blues, work songs and spirituals. Like Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and … More

The saddest day will have an eve, The darkest night, a morn;Think not, when clouds are thick and dark, Thy … More

If thou shouldst return with the sweet words of love, So earnestly spoken that day,Methinks that thy words, this sad … More

My window opens out into the trees And in that small space Of branches and of sky I see the … More