Marvin K. White's "Dream Book on Water"

because sometimes I'm at a loss of words to describe how I feel about certain things... like the array of emotions, wrongs, bravery, hopes that surround our peoples down in Naw'leans right about now.... i can turn to other word magicians who say it perhaps mo' beautifully than I could have imagined. I'm proud to know Marvin and am one of his students. Enjoy... and remember that as much as they need our charity, they need our belief, our faith, our conviction.


Dream Book on Water
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Water - if flowing water, such as a river or stream, increased romance.
If water is murky, one is unsure of one's own feelings.

Let us shed tears that celebrate life. Let us do something brave. Let
us do something kind. Let somebody see it. Let our love and our
bravery and our kindness be an island for some soaked southern soul to rest
on. Let our acts impact the universe. Lets remind moon that it can
pull back waters. Ain't nobody powerless in this.

Even if all we got is words.

Even if all we got are bodies which are as much water as the flood.

Even if all we got are prayers.

I hope somebody, somewhere in the South, my recent past, the birth and
burial place of my people, the Whites, the Blows, the Fords, the
Draughns, the Browns, the Broussards, the Sherrills, can feel me comforting
them.


Marvin K. White
Poet, Artist and Arts Organizer
Last Rights(2004 Redbone Press)
Nothin' Ugly Fly(2004 Redbone Press)
www.marvinkwhite.com