Clear Thoughts from a Deep Black Man: A Book of Poetry

By William E. Oliver

My poems ponder the meaning of life. Some in a whimsical form, some in a serious form. They ask, "How can this be?," "Why can't they be?," and "If this exist, why does that not exist?"

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9798889601531

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Clear Thoughts from a Deep Black Man

A Book of Poetry

William E. Oliver Jr.

Copyright © 2023 William E. Oliver Jr.

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2023

ISBN 979-8-88960-141-8 (pbk)

ISBN 979-8-88960-153-1 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Rap Is Not New

Dawning of Our Love

Advice Is Easy

I’ll Try

Just a Little Love

Promises

Can’t Say, but I Can Feel

Asleep at Work

Hollow Man

Inner Beauty

The Right Questions

A Good Man

War, What for?

Against the Grain

Lynnette

Feelings

Bareheaded

Lydia

Call to All Insomniacs

Two Lonely People

Proud or Foolish?

They Say

Concern for Our Patients

Measurement

The Makeup of Me

What Do I Know of Love?

Out of My Grasp

Why?

Imperfect Stranger

Two-Ton Tessie

To the love of my life

Who has not always been here

But I pray will never leave

And to my wonderful daughters who

Have always been here.

With these women in my corner,

I need little else.

Rap Is Not New

Kids of today think they are so cool

They think all their parents are just a bunch of fools

They say when it comes to rappin’ that they are the best

But I say look here kiddo,