Yvonne Coleman-Burney who goes by the pen name AqueenPassing considers herself a creative writer who tries to cover all aspects of life mostly her own in her writing. Her work has been featured (Guest Poet) on the following sites: The Underground Poet's Society, Timbooktu, Ebony Poetry Shack, Nubian Poets and many more. She is the featured artist and winner of the 2003 Buttaflyjonez Publishing contest in which she has published a chapbook called Color of leaves as well as a number of anthologies with some of the top upcoming spoken word artist. She has in the works a few projects, her first which will be released the latter part of 2005 called Suga Cane and Corn Whiskey a collection of poetry and short stories of southern folk and growing up in Mississippi in the late fifties.
Ms. Coleman-Burney resides in Philadelphia, PA a college student she enjoys her other passions in her free time Photography, painting and reading.
You can contact Ms. Coleman-Burney via email at jusastoryteller@yahoo.com or visit her website http://www.aqueenpassing.com
Extensions of a Man
I have seen desolate places and have cried upon
clouded hill tops all in the name of love
tears stained upon my face for the
sacrifice I have given thee
I have suffered in the name of man
and tasted the blood of the cross for
burdens I do carry as I maintain the role
of being merely my brother's keeper
To live free a man must be totally free
free from chains of racial conflictions
and derogatory actions reaping
from the color of my skin
or the mere tone of my voice
I had to die in slavery through the paths
of my mind stuff the cotton in dark cracks
of memories as I crawl in a fetal
position and fight the tears that command
their presence like a child I call for
my mother to save me my woman to love me
and my brothers to respect me
My only defense against the key keepers
is that I walk in God's light only there
can I be safe and whole and find
the tools I need to build my way
to strengthen my walk
and the extensions to
gather my faith
The streets a known
institution of realities
notions of a society
driven by famine
Streets of prostitution
by every political sense
yet discrimination thrives
like addictions
the cost of lives is more
than the rate of return
each day someone pays
the cost while cardboard
signs wave of needy
resolutions left unfilled
Broken bottles of gin
dictates the drunken
slumber of newspaper
beds left unread fighting
the night wind to keep
your cover
The morning sun catching
glimpses of the tear stained
tracks left where the body
laid now all is left is the marks
from the shopping cart as it
makes it way down the lonely
street once again
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