Poetry Is an Art

By David Austin

I am at a lost for words, I didn't think that I would be able to do something like this but here it is, and I would like to thank all of the people who beleived enoough in me to be able to do this with a smile... This is a book that I was stumped at putting together and am happy to say that it has been a real fine time doing so. Please enjoy the love this book has to offer. David X. Austin

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781257265527

David Austin

David Austin is the author of the Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, Moving Against the System:The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James.

Book preview

Austin.

I had a dream the other night

Where I woke up in a fright,

You and I were waiting there

Our hands were clasped you looked despaired,

The nurse and Doctor standing near

Holding something small and dear,

The infinite music from the bundle

Made my heart beat quick as thunder

A boy or girl was not determined

But the Lord has blessed our persons.

You are week from exhaustion

Sweating like a leaky faucet

Perspiration took its toll on you

My love I’ll stay until were through.

Now you’re sleep to no surprise

I kissed you soft upon your eyes

As I watch you’re sleeping state

My heart begins to escalate

I woke up in a violent sweat

Reality hit I had regrets.

I only wish that you could see

How pure a love could truly be,

My dreams an example of what I mean

Where we had made a family!!

April 30, 2005

By David A.

Maybe it’s the things I say

Or maybe it’s just me,

Yet all the women I ever loved

Have turned away from me.

That’s why I try and write my feelings

In my poetry.

I barely write my letters

With