1. from Home Coming: homecoming --
the final solution/to CHucK --
poem for dcs 8th graders--1966-67 --
definition for blk/children --
Memorial [1. The supremes--cuz they dead . . . ] --
Memorial [2. bobby hutton . . . ] --
2. from We a BaddDDD People: SURVIVAL POEMS. a poem for my father --
right on: wite america 1 --
right on: wite america 2 --
right on: wite america 3 --
right on: wite america 4 --
summer words of a sistuh addicton watching a world series game --
LOVE/SONG/CHANTS. 10:15 am --
last poem i'm gonna write bout us --
TCB/EN POEMS. "To Fanon, culture meant only one thing . . ." --
why i don't get high on shit --
sunday / evening at gwen's --
a poem for nina simone to put some music to and blow our nigguh --
minds: a ballad for stirling street (to be sung) For Amina and Amira Barakanow poem. for us. --
3. from Love Poems: Why --
Haiku [we grow up my love . . . ] --
Haiku [Was it yesterday . . . ] --
Haiku [O i am so sad, i . . . ] --
Haiku [o i was wide and . . . ] --
Ballad (after the spanish) --
Haiku [if i had known, if . . . ] --
To You/Who Almost Turned/Me On --
Haiku [there are things sadder . . . ] --
Welcome home. my prince --
Haiku [your love was a port . . . ] --
Haiku [i could love you Black . . . ] --
I Have Walked a Long Time --
Haiku (written from Peking) --
Listening to Jimmy Garrison --
Haiku [in your wet season . . . ] --
Haiku [O this day like an . . . ] --
4. from A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women --
PAST. [COME into Black geography . . . ] --
PRESENT. 1 [THIS woman vomiting her . . . ] --
[WHEN i stepped off the plane i knew i was home . . . ] --
5. from It's a New Day poems for young brothas and sistahs --
For Morani/Mungu/Meusi --
Words for Kali and Poochie --
Words for Geoffrey and Stephanie Hamilton --
to P. J. (2 yrs old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon) --
6. from I've Been a Woman --
(Haikus / Tankas & Other Love Syllables) --
7. from Under a Soprano Sky --
BEGINNINGS. Under a Soprano Sky (section 1) --
elegy for MOVE and Philadelphia --
Philadelphia: Spring, 1985 --
At the Gallery of La Casa de Las Americas, Habana. Dec. 1984 --
haiku for morani and mungu --
3 x 3 shigeko: a hiroshima maiden speaks: --
3 x 3 Carl: a Black man Speaks --
the poet: speaks after silence: insomnia --
"There is no news from Auschwitz"question for mrs. rinaldi --
words for mr. and mrs. rinaldi --
Last recording session/for papa Joe --
tanka for papa Joe Jones who used to toss me up to the skyhaiku (walking in the rain in Guyana) --
on listening to Malcolm's Ballot or The BulletSong --
No. 3 for 2nd & 3rd grade sisters --
Fallshort poem: at midnight --
haiku for mungu and morani and the children of soweto --
A poem for my most Intelligent 10:30 am Class/ Fall, 1985 --
Haiku for Paul Robeson --
From a Black Feminist Conference --
Reflections on Margaret Walker: Poet --
Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament --
A Poem of Praise for Gerald Penny . . .Father and Daughter --
9. from Homegirls and Handgrenades --
StoryPoem Written After Reading Wright's "American Hunger" --
Haiku [i see you blackboy . . . ] --
A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King --
On Seeing a Pacifist Burn --
Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele --
10. from Wounded in the House of a Friend --
PART I. Wounded in the House of a Friend: Set No. 1 --
PART II. Catch the Fire --
A Love Song for Spelman --
Poem [What I have seen in the twentieth century . . . ] --
PART III. Love Song No. 3. Introduction of Toni Morrison . . . --
Poem for July 4, 1994 For President Václav Havel --
This Is Not a Small Voice --
PART IV. Poem for Some Women --
haiku 1 [i have died and dreamed . . . ] --
blues haiku 1 [all this talk bout love . . . ] --
tanka [i have taken five . . . ] --
haiku 2 [everywhere i turn . . . ] --
haiku 4 [your breath in exile . . . ] --
haiku 6 [if i had known then . . . ] --
sonku [have mercy on the . . . ] --
South African tanka [the necklace i bring . . . ] --
haiku 8 [i am hunched down in . . . ] --
blues haiku 2 [ain't no curves in his . . . ] --
haiku 9 [the sprawling sound . . . ]
from Does Your House Have Lions? --
12. from Like the Singing Coming off the Drums --
Haiku [you ask me to run . . . ] --
Tanka [i don't know the rules . . . ] --
Haiku [i come from the same . . . ] --
Haiku [i have caught fire from . . . ] --
Haiku [love between us is . . . ] --
Haiku [i turn westward in . . . ] --
Sonku [i collect . . . ] --
Sonku [i who have . . . ] --
Blues haiku [you too slippery . . . ] --
Haiku [come windless invader . . . ] --
Haiku [i am moving in . . . ] --
Haiku on passing Toni Cade Bambara's house --
Blues haiku [what i need is traveling . . . ] --
Haiku [old man standing long . . . ] --
Haiku [it is i who have . . . ] --
Tanka [this man has sucked too . . . ] --
Haiku [i am watersnake . . . ] --
Haiku [i am the ugly . . . ] --
Haiku [have you ever crossed . . . ] --
Haiku [mixed with day and sun . . . ] --
Blues [even though you came in december be my january man . . . ] --
Haiku [how fast is the wind . . . ] --
Blues Haiku [let me be yo wil . . . ] --
Blues Haiku [am i yo philly . . . ] --
Haiku [my womb is a dance . . . ] --
Haiku [sweet woman dancing . . . ] --
Poem [i am dreaming . . . ] --
Sonku [love comes with . . . ] --
Haiku [c'mon man hold me . . . ] --
Tanka [c'mon man ride me . . . ] --
Sonku [i feel your . . . ] --
Sonku [i hear the . . . ] --
Haiku [i am who i am . . . ] --
Haiku question from a young sisterPoem [Good morning, sex . . . ] --
Blues haiku [yall talkin all under . . . ] --
Blues haiku [i wuz in Kansas . . . ] --
Haiku [i am looking for . . . ] --
Haiku [these waves boisterous like . . . ] --
Haiku for Louis Massiah --
Sonku [what is love . . . ] --
Blues haiku [my face is a scarred . . . ] --
Haiku [derelict with eyes . . . ] --
Haiku [they smell like rust . . . ] --
Haiku [a tint on the tongue . . . ] --
Haiku [my teeth can write your . . . ] --
Haiku [i have carved your face . . . ] --
Sonku [my eyes look . . . ] --
Haiku [i am a small piece . . . ] --
Haiku [to be lifted in . . . ] --
Tanka [woman without heat . . . ] --
Haiku [it was nothing big . . . ] --
Sonku [what i want . . . ] --
Haiku [i hear your breath . . . ] --
Haiku [red orange breasts sweet . . . ] --
Haiku [and i am flesh burnt . . . ] --
Haiku [this poem is for me . . . ] --
Short Poem [quite often without . . . ] --
Haiku 2 [my bones migrate in . . . ] --
Haiku [do you want ashes . . . ] --
Haiku [if i were an old . . . ] --
Haiku [you are rock garden . . . ] --
Tanka [to surround yourself with . . . ] --
Sonku [to worship . . . ] --
Haiku [my bones hang to . . . ] --
Haiku [in this wet season . . . ] --
A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald --
For Tupac Amaru Shakur --
from Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara --
For Sister Gwen Brooks --
13. from Shake Loose My Skin --
Morning Song and Evening Walk --
For Sweet Honey in the Rock --
Aaaayeee Babo (Praise God) --
Haiku [man. you write me so . . . ] --
An Anthem for the ANC and Brandywine Peace Community --
14. from Morning Haikuhaikuography --
10 haiku for Max Roach --
14 haiku for Emmett Louis Till --
from 21 haiku for Odetta --
15 haiku for Toni Morrison --
6 haiku for Elizabeth Catlett in Cuernavaca --
2 haiku for Ras Baraka --
5 haiku for Sarah Vaughan --
9 haiku for Freedom's Sisters --
6 haiku for Maya Angelou --
haiku poem: 1 year after 9/11 --
15. Envoi: For Harriet Tubman --
Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman.