April Is National Poetry Month!
LIFE IS THE ART OF DRAWING
APPEARED IN "TODAY'S NEGRO VOICES: AN ANTHOLOGY BY
YOUNG NEGRO POETS."
Attribution: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ARCHIVE
CAROLYN J. OGLETREE
POET X PAINTER
Life is the art of drawing
Lines, oil, paint, and chalk
Red, white and blue
America
Life is the art of drawing
Brushes, pencil on canvas
Red, white and blue
America
Life is the art of drawing
From bed to bed and room to room
Red, white and blue
America
Life is the art of drawing
Boy, girl, marriage
Saint Mary’s church
Red, white and blue
America
Life is the art of drawing
House, car and society
Red, white and blue
America
Life is the art of drawing
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, children-P.T.A.
Red, white and blue
America
Life is the art of drawing
Black and white, no harmony
Red, white and blue
America
Life is the art of drawing
Wars and countless deaths
Red, white and blue
America
Life is the art of drawing
Peace
Red, white and blue
America
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