My Life as a Civil Rights Activist or Revolution: And Other Poems

By Cleo E. Brown

MY LIFE AS A CIVIL RIGHT'S ACTIVIST or REVOLUTION is a collection of over eighty poems which underscores the author's efforts, throughout her life, to integrate the United States by making of it a true melting pot! Believing strongly in the medicinal power of interracial relationships to achieve a truly integrated society , Ms. Brown's poetry is also a product of the Comparative Literature Courses she audited while a Graduate Student at UC Davis. Using the elements of poetry, she recreates and brings the romantic era of The Civil Rights and Counter Culture Movements to life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669803478

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Copyright © 2022 by Cleo E. Brown.

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Rev. date: 12/21/2021

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This book of poems is dedicated to Robert Redford, whose

Presence in the Universe has taught me to constantly strive

To be a better person.

CONTENTS

1. In Life

2. After-Life

3. Sentimental Journey

4. On New Year’s Day (A Prayer)

5. Needing You

6. The Academy Awards

7. Landon

8. A Sunday Offering

9. To Jake

10. Longevity

11. At Sixty

12. Space

13. Dieting Again

14. I Love You

15. Anticipating Gratification

16. Respect

17. Casino

18. You

19. Dust

20. Heartache

21. Elation

22. CHRISTMAS

23. New Years’ Resolution

24. Awaken

25. Mercy

26. Maybe

27. Irving

28. Past

29. Cameron Diaz

30. A Rose Shorn

31. Work Ethic

32. Eugene Lunn

33. THE WORLD

34. Trash Compactor

35. Caps

36. Without You

37. The Other Woman

38. Brian Moore

39. Ramblings: Part II

40. Gustavo Reyes

41. For A Man And His Wife

42. Life

43. Levon

44. Last Night

45. Humility

46. Feet Of Clay

47. Race Relations

48. Original Sin

49. The Approach Of Winter

50. The Wrong Train

51. 472 Years Of Abuse

52. Never So Much

53. Beware Of:

54. The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

55. Ramblings: Part III

56. Thinking

57. Castration

58. A Black Youth’s Right

59. Paul

60. The Famine

61. Mj

62. A Prayer For Retaliation

63. Predestination

64. The Trinity

65. Rain

66. Rachel Levy

67. Enigma

68. The New Adam

69. Woman

70. Multi Cultural Utopia

71. My Life As A Civil Rights Activist

72. May I Have A Cookie Please?

73. Invisible

74. A Single Woman

75. A Man In The Rain

76. To Connie Taylor On Her Birthday

77. From Afar

78. Sid

79. Bob

80. To Feed The Homeless

81. William My Son

82. Darryl

83. Delores

84. Time

85. The Yum Yum Tree

86. Bliss

IN LIFE

Busses traveling to and fro

Carrying weary travelers

Wherever they want to go.

Coming from the South;

Flanked from the North

Destinations are pre-ordained

Dependent upon life’s choice.

Seeking a focus

Without frequent hops

Hocus Pocus: A pretty