Jazz After Dinner, livre ebook

Poems of celebration and endurance.

Poems of celebration and endurance.

From "I Am a Black Man"

I am a Black man
my history written with blood
some sweet songs of sorrow
are composed for my soul
and I
can be seen plowing in the fields
Can be heard
humming
in the night

In these poems of celebration and endurance, Leonard A. Slade Jr. addresses the human need to be connected not only to the physical "now," but also to the other lives and other music we pass through during our lives. Slade's unique voice exposes the sweetness, the sorrow, and the humor of life's celebrations and struggles, but above all is the importance of love and the reliance on God and in faith for transcendence. These are poems to help us to endure, to grow, and to triumph.

Acknowledgments

Jazz after Dinner

Jazz After Dinner

For Our Mothers

Drinking

We Must Remember
His Professor

My Friend, My Survivor

Overcharged

Thanksgiving Celebration

In Praise of Summer

Sounds

This My Father

Queen for Patrons

Freedom

He

Citizens in Heaven

How Beautiful, O God

And When I Die

I Am a Black Man

Be Grateful

New Year

Advice I Wish I Had Taken Earlier in Life

Never Forget

The Sad Adult

Be Like the Flower

Conversation

Black Philosophy

Reasons for Celebration
Classic Shed

Brown Portrait

Reasons for Celebration

The Great Mother

As a Friend

New York City

Life and Death

Golden Years

Family-Glorious

How Great You Are

When I Heard from the Tax Man

Lilacs in Spring

Rapping My Way Home from an English Conference at Hunter College On March 22, 1997

What is a Father?

The Black Madonna

A Child’s Play

For My Forefathers
Black and Beautiful

Black Woman

For My Forefathers

Family

Before the Death of Dad

And Want No More

Growing with Grace

A Plea for Peace

Love Should Grow, Not Wither

The Street Man

Acquaintances

Rain

Embden Pond

Cat

Pure Light

The Country Preacher’s Folk Prayer

The Anniversary

Morning After Morning

The Countryside of Northampton

Elegy for Therman B. O’Daniel

Forgiveness