Poems and Essays by Leon Davis

By Leon Davis

The Golden Rule

The law of karma,
Where there is a curse,
There will be an effect,
You reap what you sow,
What comes around goes around,
There is a first curse,
Because there will be a final effect,
The universe is an orderly unit,
Peace is what will reign in the end.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9798823016377

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Published by AuthorHouse  10/18/2023

ISBN: 979-8-8230-1638-4 (sc)

ISBN: 979-8-8230-1637-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023920092

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Contents

See it through

The way it Goes

My Twin

Why we wait

Where’s It At

The Underclass

Black Queen

Black Christmas

King of Mali

Bobby Hutton

Home Alone

We Are The Majority

Love Gone By

Baby Come Over

The Faithful

Coletrain, the Liberator

The Power of Nommo

Addicted

Words of Castles

At school I get off

Self-Accusing Spirit

Freedom from

Where Are The Fathers

Today I Heard

Black Mama

Lust and love

Allah is the Greatest

Steve Biko

Revolution Now

Huey Newton

I Moved Today

Holy Than Thou

Black life

Brown Eyed Gir!

Tripping

I Need Time Off

Steve Biko

Black Mother

Free Mandela Now

Hostages

Goodbye Love

Mother Nature

Look Not Upon The Face Of Death,

Loneliness

Smile on you

Solidarity With The People Of South Africa

Panama

Africa for the Africans

Highway 49

Frozen in Time

Who Am I

Black First

Amen Ra

Religious Uncle Toms

Days of Resistance

Your own choice

Death is a Drummer

Death is a song

Awake the Black Race

The Colfax Massacre

Somalia

You Are Good For Me

What is Life When You Control Nothing

Wild and sweet

Happy Life

Church

Why El Salvador

Atomic Woman

The God of America

The Black Untouchables

The Myth Of Black Capitalism

Panama

Coletrain the liberator

Addicted

When I Was Young

Black life

The First Time

Living Like A Leaf

I Beg Your Pardon

The God in Me

Me

Madness blues

Right Skin

Hanibal

Late Night

E T Cafe

Baby Come Back

Baby Come Over

Breakfast

Black Hope

Patrice

Malcom X to me

Human Rights

White Justice

Allah Wills

The liberals

Plow the Earth

Lust and Love!

Words of Castles

I Smile on You

Look not upon the face of Death

You are Good for me

What is life when you control nothing?

Wild and Sweet

Happy Life

Church

Why El Salvadofe?

Atomic Woman

I need time off

Tripping

Steve Biko

Black Mother!

Free Mandela Now

Hostages

Goodbye Love

I Got Love for you

Loneliness

Bud

I promise myself

Elaine–the Soothe sayer–

Memoirs of Carrie Lee Davis and her lmpact on my Life

My Siblings

A Short Biography of Leon W. Davis

Bibliography

ODE to Marcus

See it through

Don’t start something and don’t see it through,

Never begin an act, and no complete it

Never start something, and not see it through

Any act works starting should be seen

through until the end is finished

Let start over with a new beginning

Before I let us break up,

let me see you through

Let our beginning be forever getting

Deeper as the sea,

Forever it will be, brighter than the

Brightest star,

Forever getting brighter than the

Brightest star,

This is truly who we are,

The endless feeling for you,

I carry in my heart

My love for a, mother dear.

The way it Goes

The best thought out place go bad

The happiest day next day is sad,

The darkest night next day is good

The emptiest day, the night is bright,

Joy and happiness are brothers

One day joy rules, the next day sadness rules,

Nothing is all one thing, life

is full of contradiction,

Sometimes good is all we see,

Yet sorrow will take its turn,

Joy will be yours tomorrow,

So always look for the good in everything,

Somewhere you’ll see bad and good whatever comes,

Think of happy times, when sadness

Seems so near, and your tears

will wash away all the sad times,

Tomorrow joy will surely shine

My Twin

Elaine–Nefertarie

The queen I lost in

My youth–kinship

Destroyed our love,

Life as taken me

Down many lovely roads,

I went to