I Never Rhymed for My Father
Published on 29. September 2020
98 pages
978-1-0980-4548-7 (ISBN)
Description
Choosing the title of this collection was an easy decision for Donald. He has written poems for weddings, birthdays, funerals, and other occasions. His father, however, disappeared from his life when Donald was just four years old. I Never Rhymed for My Father is a book of poetry by Donald King who summarizes, "I'm not sure he would have appreciated the poem that I would have written about him!"
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I Never Rhymed for My Father
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Content
- Intro
- Why I Curse the Snow
- Bug
- Air Jordans
- For a Greater Appreciation
- Beans and Greens
- A Beautiful Name
- My Precious Smile
- Questions Needing Answers
- A Beautiful Collage
- Our America
- More than Color
- I Wish
- Evil
- Who
- A Message from the Wind
- They Tried
- Beneath the Color
- Let Us All Join Hands
- Grammar
- To Raise a Child
- A Man
- Rhymin'
- Terrifying Questions
- Looking Out the Window
- An Unpaid Debt
- Check It Out, Brother
- From My Perspective(An African American)
- And the Children Led
- The Perfect Gift
- Breathing through Straws
- Ebonics
- You Never Called Me Son
- For Just a Smile
- Alzheimer's Agony
- Duped
- Daddy's Baby, Maybe
- Who I Am
- Just Voicing My Opinion
- Shades of Slavery
- A Poem for Contemplation
- When I Was Colored
- A Red-Blooded American Bigot
- More than Just a Country
- A Peek into the Past
- A Classless Act
- Lesson Learned
- Colors
- Mama's Porch Swing
- If I Could Dream
- Apples
- Shades of Black
- My Dearest Friend
- How Long
- Why We Volunteer
- Reminiscin' the Past
- What the Captives DidAnd My Thoughts Only
- Excuses
- The Bitter Truth
- It's a Jeep
- The Night
- The Distance to Perfection
- The Hooded Ones
- Just Sitting Here Thinking
- Redemption
- Out of the Darkness
- Under Achiever Me!
- A Mirror for Her Man
- Foster Child(An Excerpt)
- Flashbacks to Autumn
- Created Equal
- Outside the Schoolhouse
- Self-Esteem
- From Bondage to Citizenship
- I Write
- The Basement
- A Judgment Call
- A Few Words and a PoemFor My Wife
- I Cried for Them to Stop
- They Just Wanted to Play
- When You Stand Before My Flag
- Where Our Treasure Lies
- Leading the Blind
- And the Flag Is Our Witness
- Who I Am
