Romella Kitchens

Romella Kitchens Poems

Think about it...The more ugly the world treats one group of people
the more beautiful they become.

Consider how the human creature had walked the earth for all these
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A Poem For Pete Seeger:
It Is All Etched In Crayolas, January 28,2015

It is the coldest day, it is always the coldest
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La Tumbra Sin Nombre
The Unmarked Grave

The mother of plantains and holy thoughts
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The praying man does not let violence into his heart if his prayers are truly prayers.

He can be raised in violence.
He can have practiced violence at some point in
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The Immigrants

1.
It is incorrect in a society to have an exile that
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Oregon

Oregon, I remember you. The way your
trees were unregretful and made imploring love
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What Rusts In The Rain
(For The Memory Of William S. Burroughs & Typewriters)

It is Lawrence, Kansas and the sky opens
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If you have aged, it is not because
you have set out amongst the rocks
and cavernous dens of existence
to do so.
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I must tell you in life there, has
been nothing better than honey in warm
milk with consistent plain, bread warm like
unto human skin - except for peace.
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Broken-Hearted Blues

From Georgia those blues came walking, wearing worn shoes.
Broken-hearted, migrant from the orphanages,
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East St. Louis

Sorrow is not done for the Black man.
Here it comes, pouring down like
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Nothing is of purpose in this world but love.
Love has the ultimate value.
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The Day For Living Angels

It was sunlit that day and, we headed by car up to
Ohio Pyle in Pennsylvania.
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REVOLUTION, REVOLUTION, REVOLU-

God's palms lay beneath the earth.
The earth is not suspended in this...
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The Shroud

Reconciliation of the lost soul with the inquisitive soul and
the found.
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"We Wish Light"

1.
We wish light.
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God's Harmonic
Melodic.
Song of life sung by God.
Work the rows.
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clemency

over the rough gravel and
up the severe grate his feet bleed
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What Has Not Changed

In the evening, the ones that clean and cook head home.
No ride,
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We were in Washington D.C. to March so an assassinated Black man could have a holiday.
And, everywhere we went, there were these very poor Black people living in the shadows
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Romella Kitchens Biography

Romella Kitchens is a Pittsburgh-based poet who has been published in 5AM, The California Quarterly, Mainstreet Rag, The Autumn House Anthology, Chiron Review, Iodine Poetry Press, Mudfish Review and others. She has done poetry residencies and addressed many school groups concerning poetry. In 2014, she was a judge for the city wide level of Poetry Outloud.)

The Best Poem Of Romella Kitchens

Brown Sugar Babies

Think about it...The more ugly the world treats one group of people
the more beautiful they become.

Consider how the human creature had walked the earth for all these
centuries and still can not get in a traffic jam without damning
everyone.

Mankind crawls through the window of the world and seeks gold but look
and behold the true secret to any prosperity is the spirit and the gold
of the spirit's gleaning. Look within yourself if you have trouble with that
meaning.

Think now of who you hate and hated for no reason except their skin color,
race, ethnicity or hue and how they still seem to be growing despite what
you say or do....

Brown sugar babies. Sweet to the taste. And, you know its true.

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