Things Built: Poems Constructed

By Xlibris US

Inside of a slightly dimmed room, with just enough light to see the canvas but still its as if the room is completely dark the way thoughts become visible without distraction. Slight ventilation from a cracked window constantly rumbles papers on the floor out of sight of the light. On my desk are lined paper and a box of pencils rather than pens because Ive grown to become indecisive in this process. In these sessions I often thought of the greats who influenced me. So to the left of my paper was a typewriter and behind me were timeless horns and vibrant jazz screaming from vinyl. This is the room where I learned to invent. This is the room where things were built, a body of poems that was designed to serve as a portrait rather than just a collection. Every piece had its own blueprint and was built with certain details to depict aspects of the overall image portrayed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499007343

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Copyright © 2014 by Anthony Green Jr.

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Contents

Free Lyric

For Emmett and Trayvon

Conversation Piece

Winter Cleaning

Spies

Stray

Touch

Midnight Transit

Higher

Piece of Peace

Rushing to Inhale Part 2 (Peer Pressure)

Wait on Love, Pray for Growth

Building Shade

16 L words

Rumors

The Blue Hill Establishment

LAMP

Finding Lost

1996 Camry (Haiku)

The Deflowering

Thin Engines

Gold Things on Woman

Guilty Being Free

Money Talk

Snakes

Today Is Different

Not Quite Sleep

Fashion Flowers Fragrance

Other Drugs

Rehab for the Last Time

Bouquet

Dead Dozen

The Approach

Three Novembers

Safe in Song

Home Song

Charlotte, Chicago, Part 2

Windbreakers (Rebels)

Things Build, Things Break

Anna’s Poem

Invented Sentences

The Realization

Dogs and Diamonds

Defining Deep

Creating Climax

The Medley

Lately, Soon, Maybe

Ferrari Jazz

Things Built from Saxophones

Nina Victoria

Gold Inheritance

A Peasant’s Risk

To Die Trying

New Kings

Champion Sound

Galatians 6:14

Initiative and Incentive

Future Interviews

Dead Souls by Lynn Washington

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Dedicated to Cody Dallas, Love you little brother

²art

noun \ärt\

: something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings

Free Lyric

There is no need to be creative when

I need you to comprehend quickly.

This generation is in trouble and time

is against us.

Freedom is free, but it seems we are still

paying for things I wish we were dismissed

from.

We play our own enemies in a game where it

takes numbers to win.

We are losing sight of what we are fighting

for.

Our morals have become storied suggestions, and

our youth is drowning because they were never

taught to correctly swim.

How many have to drown before we realize what needs

to be done?

How many do we have to save before we notice where the

poison comes from?

All of the villains are the same.

Sadly, in every image of the enemy is a resemblance

of you and me.

So only we can make a change.

This generation is in trouble.

Freedom is free, and hopefully, it forever is, but

I hope it doesn’t take us forever