“Haiti Then and Now”: The Most Widely Read Interviews of 2021

“Haiti Then and Now”: The Most Widely Read Interviews of 2021

Hello Fans and Readers: It is our pleasure to announce the most widely-read interviews of 2021, which we conducted for “Haiti Then and Now” (HTN) during the year 2021, as part of our series of conversations entitled “Haitian/Haitianist Thinkers in the Public Space: An Interview Series.”


We hope you will take the time to read, reread them, and even share them with the people in your circle. We also hope you will find them inspiring, empowering, and informative as we continue “to engage and reflect critically on the human condition–past, present, and future– in Haiti and the Haitian experience in the Haitian Diaspora.”

1. “Haiti Then and Now”: Conversation avec Dr.  Jhon Byron (Parts 1 & 2):
https://haitithenandnow.wordpress.com/2021/11/24/haiti-then-and-now-conversation-avec-dr-jhon-picard-byron-premiere-partie/

2. “Haiti Then and Now” Interviews Professor Lewis Ampidu Clorméus (published both in French and English):
https://haitithenandnow.wordpress.com/2021/08/07/haiti-then-and-now-interviews-professor-lewis-ampidu-clormeus/

3. “Haiti Then and Now” Interviews Professor Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall :
https://haitithenandnow.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/haiti-then-and-now-interviews-professor-alyssa-goldstein-sepinwall/

4. “Haiti Then and Now”: Conversation avec Dre Sabine Lamour  (published both in French and English):
https://haitithenandnow.wordpress.com/2021/01/06/haiti-then-and-now-conversation-avec-dre-sabine-lamour/

5. “Haiti Then and Now” Interviews Dr. Tammie Jenkins:

We look forward to interviewing more thinkers and scholars in the new year 2022 and keeping you informed about what’s going on in the world of Haitian Studies and academia.

Happy reading!
Bonne lecture!

“Winter Births”: A poem for the New Year

As we are looking forward to the new year 2022, I wrote a new poem, “Winter Births,” to imagine a new experience of bliss and optimism. Happy reading, Good People!

“Winter Births”

The harsh weather of fall did not delay your coming.
You come in the spring and allow babies to be born
and live under your care,
before the spring temperatures set in and the parrots sing for joy,
you make new nests for orphaned birds.
Our best defense is to let go our desires to your affection.
You bloom in early autumn,
flourish as time comes near
we hold on to future possibilities,
rising to new eternities
kindness to all children you will be
satisfied youth you will make
When you are here, you add texture and meaning to the new start.

Like the snowdrops of the new dawn, the carnation of winter births,
lead us to the doorway of this new future,
Haven in a foreign land in summer blues,
give us a new passage of peace in winter,
the two faces of time, let us live the fantasy of your kind
diamond in the flesh, we are caught up in your love affair
memory and desire, stirring up our delight
You keep us warm, covering our pain
We are your imagination of tomorrow

Like the daffodils of March, your coming is first sight love,
wiping away the tears of year past
happiness vision you bring
feelings of hope after a long-rough summer
You, the new year, make joy new, pleasure wine delight
treasure love leads our way toward you
It cannot be duplicated,
nor should it be replaced by another form,
a new moment of joy you introduce
a new experience, a chorus of rousing cheers.
ALL EYES FIXED ON YOU!
You, the sunny bloom hidden in the bosom of my mother.

“The Migration of a Star: A Noël Poem”

Merry Christmas🎄and Happy Holidays to you and your family!

“The Migration of a Star: A Noël Poem”

The Divine touched the earth by giving us a star
to behold and light our path.
Its origin is as ancient as the oldest galaxy,
greater than the big bang of life force.
Securing in its hands are many gifts for all God’s children:
Bethlehem joy in the time of sorrow
Mighty comfort in moments of trouble
Just liberation for tomorrow.
We followed its lead
and learned to walk by its side:
one step toward its love,
two steps to touch its heart,
three steps until we become one.

Our eyes were watching the star
not to overcome it, but to welcome its joy into our homes.
We became anxious by its proximity,
and willingness to find another home.
It moved gently and kissed the dust tracks of life,
transforming them to glory on high,
birthing new children of grace to the Father on high,
with the gentle touch of the Spirit of love.

We marvelled and lost track of time.
It holds eternity in its right hand,
our life through time that will never end.
The star filled the vast space in which it migrated:
abandoned corners of the earth renewed,
hidden spaces made visible,
erased sins with the pencil of God.
Our eyes were watching God, Three in One,
becoming a star to give us light and redemption.

“’The Haitian Turn,’ from 2012 to 2022: A New Critical Assessment of the Most Recent Literature on the Haitian Revolution”

“’The Haitian Turn,’ from 2012 to 2022: A New Critical Assessment of the Most Recent Literature on the Haitian Revolution”

The Haitian Revolution was a watershed moment in the triumph of human emancipation and human rights in global history. It was also a memorable event that has changed the slave culture and reversed colonial powers in the Atlantic world. In fact, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to a new people and new citizens, and a new land: the nation of Haiti. It continues to prompt contemporary ideas and actions about the colonial and postcolonial order, political sovereignty and interventions, as well as contemporary writings about the phenomenon of slavery, oppression, and human freedom.

In 2010 when I was writing the prospectus for my doctoral dissertation at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), I coined the phrase “The Haitian Turn” to describe the diasporic buzz Haiti’s national history and the Haitian Revolution had created in the (African) Atlantic world; in particular, I was interested on the influence of revolutionary Haiti in the birth of Black internationalism and Africana literary and intellectual traditions in the twentieth-century. I also coined another phrase “Black Transnational Consciousness (BTC)” (as a conceptual model) to explain the theoretical framework and the historical discourse of The Haitian Turn in the African Atlantic. In fact, my PhD dissertation is entitled “’The Haitian Turn:’ Haiti, the Black Atlantic, and Black Transnational Consciousness” (2012). My PhD is in Literary Studies with concentrations in African American Literature, African American Intellectual History, and Caribbean Culture and Literature. Interestingly, my brilliant and patient doctoral supervisor, Dr. Tim Redman, advised me to publish my analytical assessment on the literature of the Haitian Revolution and stated that I should use the captivating term “The Haitian Turn” in the title of my peer-reviewed article. I listened to my advisor and published the article with the suggested title:
“’The Haitian Turn’: An Appraisal of Recent Literary and Historiographical Works on the Haitian Revolution,” The Journal of Pan African Studies, 5:6 (September 2012):37-55. This essay would become my most cited article in the academic world.

Five years later, in 2017, I decided to go back to the idea of “Black Transnational Consciousness (BTC)” and wrote a follow-up article that needed to be read in conjunction with the one I previously published on “The Haitian Turn.” Hence, I submitted the article to Vanguard, a bilingual academic journal, to be published. I was fortunate the editor has accepted it with minor revisions. The article was published simultaneously in both English and Spanish languages, bearing the fowling titles:

“Beyond Ethnic Blackness: Black Transnational Consciousness (BTC) and the Practice of Black Intertextuality” (English Version), Vanguard / vol. 1(1) / 2017 /43-68.

“Más Allá de la Negrura Étnica: La Conciencia Transnacional Negra y la Práctica de la Intertextualidad Negra (Spanish Version), Vanguardia/ vol. 1(1) / 2017 /44-70.

Perhaps, I should have mentioned the following statement at the beginning of the post to serve as a preface. By training, I am a literary historian and theologian. Some of my research interests include Theological anthropology and ethics, Liberation and Political theologies, Haitian literature and the Haitian Revolution, and the religious sensibilities of the Haitian people and people of African descent. As an intellectual historian, I examine, for example, Black epistemologies and the intellectual traditions of both Francophone and Anglophone worlds of the African Atlantic. Because of my interdisciplinary interest, I always try to stay current on the emerging literature of the Haitian Revolution in North America and among the English-speaking people. Since the publication of my article, “’The Haitian Turn’: An Appraisal of Recent Literary and Historiographical Works on the Haitian Revolution,” in 2012, there have been more than two dozen well-researched and excellent books published in the English language on the Haitian Revolution and its impact in world history.

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of The Haitian Turn (the referenced article above) and to keep students of the Haitian Revolution current on the most recent published texts (books, not articles) in the English language on the Haitian Revolution, in 2022, I will publish the sequel to The Haitian Turn. The Year 2022 will also be the tenth-year anniversary since I earned my first PhD. The new article will be an analytical evaluation and critical review of some two dozen major books on the Haitian Revolution. In this post, I would like to share with you the titles of these texts to be analyzed in the article. Translation works from French to English are marked by an asterisk. A few texts below are not specialized studies on the Haitian Revolution, but they are significant enough to be examined as they engage directly the politics, ideas, events, and actors of the Haitian Revolution.

  1. *The Infamous Rosalie by Évelyne Trouillot, translated by Marjorie Attignol Salvodon (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
  2. Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2014) by Ada Ferrer
  3. The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2014) by David Geggus
  4. Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2015) by Marlene L. Daut
  5. Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic (Monthly Review Press, 2015) by Gerald Horne
  6. Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution (The University of North Carolina Press, 2015) by Julia Gaffield
  7. *Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life (Basic Books, 2016) by Philippe Girard
  8. The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy (University of Virginia Press, 2016) edited by Julia Gaffield
  9. An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom: Revolution, Emancipation, and Reenslavement in Hispaniola, 1789-1809 (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) by Graham T. Nessler
  10. The Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture (Oxford University Press, 2017) by Toussaint Louverture, translated and edited by Philippe R. Girard
  11. The Black Jacobins Reader (Duke University Press, 2017) edited by Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg
  12. Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 by Marlene L. Daut
  13. Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions (Pluto Press, 2017) by Charles Forsdick and Christian Hogsbjerg
  14. *Dance on the Volcano (Archipelago, 2017) by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, translated by Kaiama L Glover
  15. Philanthropy and Race in the Haitian Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) by Erica R. Johnson
  16. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (Verso Books, 2018) by Julius S. Scott
  17. Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti (Yale University Press, 2019) by Johnhenry Gonzalez
  18. Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History (Duke University Press, 2019) by Rachel Douglas
  19. Rethinking the Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition (‎Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019) by Alex Dupuy
  20. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) by Sudhir Harvesting
  21. Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games (University Press of Mississippi, 2021) by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
  22. Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora (Cambridge University Press, 2021) by Crystal Nicole Eddins
  23. Stirring the Pot of Haitian History (Liverpool University Press, 2021) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, translated by Mariana F. Past and Benjamin Hebblethwaite
  24. Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (will be published by the University of Virginia Press on January 25, 2022) edited by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner

• In the new article, I am interested to investigate what new ideas and archival materials about the Haitian Revolution have these new texts/authors introduced to the discipline of history and the field of Haitian Studies.
• I am also concerned about the hermeneutics of the Haitian Revolution and its corresponding social and political events in the Atlantic world (1789-1803). For example, have these books shed new light about the rapport of the Haitian Revolution and the French and American Revolutions, as well as the political governments of Saint-Domingue, England, the United States, Spain, and France?
• In addition to their autonomous thoughts and colonial intellectual climate in the American continent, what contemporary intellectual currents have shaped the abolitionist ideas and political interventions of the actors—both men and women—of the Haitian Revolution?
• What place does gender play when we study the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution from the perspective of women? Does any of these texts engage the political ideas and actions of Women of the Haitian Revolution?
• What have these new texts inform us more about the religious, socio-economic, cultural, racial, and political order of Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution?

*Please leave me a comment below if you have any recommended important texts, written in English in the past ten years (2012-2022), you would like me to assess in the article).

Happy reading!

“’The Haitian Turn,’ from 2012 to 2022: A New Critical Assessment of the Most Recent Literature on the Haitian Revolution”

“’The Haitian Turn,’ from 2012 to 2022: A New Critical Assessment of the Most Recent Literature on the Haitian Revolution”

The Haitian Revolution was a watershed moment in the triumph of human emancipation and human rights in global history. It was also a memorable event that has changed the slave culture and reversed colonial powers in the Atlantic world. In fact, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to a new people and new citizens, and a new land: the nation of Haiti. It continues to prompt contemporary ideas and actions about the colonial and postcolonial order, political sovereignty and interventions, as well as contemporary writings about the phenomenon of slavery, oppression, and human freedom.

In 2010 when I was writing the prospectus for my doctoral dissertation at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), I coined the phrase “The Haitian Turn” to describe the diasporic buzz Haiti’s national history and the Haitian Revolution had created in the (African) Atlantic world; in particular, I was interested on the influence of revolutionary Haiti in the birth of Black internationalism and Africana literary and intellectual traditions in the twentieth-century. I also coined another phrase “Black Transnational Consciousness (BTC)” (as a conceptual model) to explain the theoretical framework and the historical discourse of The Haitian Turn in the African Atlantic. In fact, my PhD dissertation is entitled “’The Haitian Turn:’ Haiti, the Black Atlantic, and Black Transnational Consciousness” (2012). My PhD is in Literary Studies with concentrations in African American Literature, African American Intellectual History, and Caribbean Culture and Literature. Interestingly, my brilliant and patient doctoral supervisor, Dr. Tim Redman, advised me to publish my analytical assessment on the literature of the Haitian Revolution and stated that I should use the captivating term “The Haitian Turn” in the title of my peer-reviewed article. I listened to my advisor and published the article with the suggested title:
“’The Haitian Turn’: An Appraisal of Recent Literary and Historiographical Works on the Haitian Revolution,” The Journal of Pan African Studies, 5:6 (September 2012):37-55. This essay would become my most cited article in the academic world.

Five years later, in 2017, I decided to go back to the idea of “Black Transnational Consciousness (BTC)” and wrote a follow-up article that needed to be read in conjunction with the one I previously published on “The Haitian Turn.” Hence, I submitted the article to Vanguard, a bilingual academic journal, to be published. I was fortunate the editor has accepted it with minor revisions. The article was published simultaneously in both English and Spanish languages, bearing the fowling titles:

“Beyond Ethnic Blackness: Black Transnational Consciousness (BTC) and the Practice of Black Intertextuality” (English Version), Vanguard / vol. 1(1) / 2017 /43-68.

“Más Allá de la Negrura Étnica: La Conciencia Transnacional Negra y la Práctica de la Intertextualidad Negra (Spanish Version), Vanguardia/ vol. 1(1) / 2017 /44-70.

Perhaps, I should have mentioned the following statement at the beginning of the post to serve as a preface. By training, I am a literary historian and theologian. Some of my research interests include Theological anthropology and ethics, Liberation and Political theologies, Haitian literature and the Haitian Revolution, and the religious sensibilities of the Haitian people and people of African descent. As an intellectual historian, I examine, for example, Black epistemologies and the intellectual traditions of both Francophone and Anglophone worlds of the African Atlantic. Because of my interdisciplinary interest, I always try to stay current on the emerging literature of the Haitian Revolution in North America and among the English-speaking people. Since the publication of my article, “’The Haitian Turn’: An Appraisal of Recent Literary and Historiographical Works on the Haitian Revolution,” in 2012, there have been more than two dozen well-researched and excellent books published in the English language on the Haitian Revolution and its impact in world history.

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of The Haitian Turn (the referenced article above) and to keep students of the Haitian Revolution current on the most recent published texts (books, not articles) in the English language on the Haitian Revolution, in 2022, I will publish the sequel to The Haitian Turn. The Year 2022 will also be the tenth-year anniversary since I earned my first PhD. The new article will be an analytical evaluation and critical review of some two dozen major books on the Haitian Revolution. In this post, I would like to share with you the titles of these texts to be analyzed in the article. Translation works from French to English are marked by an asterisk. A few texts below are not specialized studies on the Haitian Revolution, but they are significant enough to be examined as they engage directly the politics, ideas, events, and actors of the Haitian Revolution.

  1. *The Infamous Rosalie by Évelyne Trouillot, translated by Marjorie Attignol Salvodon (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
  2. Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2014) by Ada Ferrer
  3. The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2014) by David Geggus
  4. Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2015) by Marlene L. Daut
  5. Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic (Monthly Review Press, 2015) by Gerald Horne
  6. Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution (The University of North Carolina Press, 2015) by Julia Gaffield
  7. *Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life (Basic Books, 2016) by Philippe Girard
  8. The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy (University of Virginia Press, 2016) edited by Julia Gaffield
  9. An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom: Revolution, Emancipation, and Reenslavement in Hispaniola, 1789-1809 (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) by Graham T. Nessler
  10. The Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture (Oxford University Press, 2017) by Toussaint Louverture, translated and edited by Philippe R. Girard
  11. The Black Jacobins Reader (Duke University Press, 2017) edited by Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg
  12. Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 by Marlene L. Daut
  13. Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions (Pluto Press, 2017) by Charles Forsdick and Christian Hogsbjerg
  14. *Dance on the Volcano (Archipelago, 2017) by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, translated by Kaiama L Glover
  15. Philanthropy and Race in the Haitian Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) by Erica R. Johnson
  16. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (Verso Books, 2018) by Julius S. Scott
  17. Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti (Yale University Press, 2019) by Johnhenry Gonzalez
  18. Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History (Duke University Press, 2019) by Rachel Douglas
  19. Rethinking the Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition (‎Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019) by Alex Dupuy
  20. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) by Sudhir Harvesting
  21. Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games (University Press of Mississippi, 2021) by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
  22. Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora (Cambridge University Press, 2021) by Crystal Nicole Eddins
  23. Stirring the Pot of Haitian History (Liverpool University Press, 2021) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, translated by Mariana F. Past and Benjamin Hebblethwaite
  24. Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (will be published by the University of Virginia Press on January 25, 2022) edited by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner

• In the new article, I am interested to investigate what new ideas and archival materials about the Haitian Revolution have these new texts/authors introduced to the discipline of history and the field of Haitian Studies.
• I am also concerned about the hermeneutics of the Haitian Revolution and its corresponding social and political events in the Atlantic world (1789-1803). For example, have these books shed new light about the rapport of the Haitian Revolution and the French and American Revolutions, as well as the political governments of Saint-Domingue, England, the United States, Spain, and France?
• In addition to their autonomous thoughts and colonial intellectual climate in the American continent, what contemporary intellectual currents have shaped the abolitionist ideas and political interventions of the actors—both men and women—of the Haitian Revolution?
• What place does gender play when we study the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution from the perspective of women? Does any of these texts engage the political ideas and actions of Women of the Haitian Revolution?
• What have these new texts inform us more about the religious, socio-economic, cultural, racial, and political order of Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution?

*Please leave me a comment below if you have any recommended important texts, written in English in the past ten years (2012-2022), you would like me to assess in the article).

Happy reading!

“Love and Commitment Among Young People: Year 2022 and Beyond”

“Love and Commitment Among Young People: Year 2022 and Beyond”

Commitment to relationship in the twenty-first century is progressively becoming something of the past; it is indeed a rare occurrence between young people in the American culture and of this generation, especially among young American males.

Nonetheless, it gives me great joy and delight to see many young men in this generation are making more marriage proposals to their future spouses, and they’re cerebrating them openly on social media and with their friends. This attitude toward love gives me abundant hope as many young men in this generation are often afraid to love and worried about deliberate permanent commitment to relationships and intentional long-term marriages.

Let’s hope in the new year (2022), young people will give love another chance, will love more passionately and more actively, and will commit to each love more faithfully in loving relationships and marital bond.

Here are my five words of advice to you:

  1. Do not rush to love when the moment is not favorable.
  2. Do not postpone love when it is the right time and most beautiful thing to do at the moment.
  3. Genuine love and sustaining commitment work together, and they should never be separated in relationships or marriages.
  4. Love and desire are not the same, but desire fuels love toward beauty, kindness, passion, and reciprocity.
  5. Love should always link to passion to make it more envious, enticing, and delightful.
  6. Love is an imitation. Learn from those, including your parents, friends, and family members, who have cultivated years of strong bond of love and nurtured a life-commitment to endless love and fidelity.
  7. Always remember that love still remains the highest form of human virtue and the most desirable emotion among people, as well as the highest expression of self-giving, life-commitment, and human openness/hospitality.

“The Migration of a Star: A Noël Poem”

Happy Sunday, Good People!

As many of us begin to think about “The Advent,” an important moment in Christianity’s sacred calendar, I wrote a poem this morning about the mystery of the incarnation, in which God in the person of Jesus became a human being to redeem all children of God. I named this new poem “The Migration of a Star.” Happy reading!

“The Migration of a Star: A Noël Poem”

The Divine touched the earth by giving us a star
to behold and light our path.
Its origin is as ancient as the oldest galaxy,
greater than the big bang of life force.
Securing in its hands are many gifts for all God’s children:
Bethlehem joy in the time of sorrow
Mighty comfort in moments of trouble
Just liberation for tomorrow.
We followed its lead
and learned to walk by its side:
one step toward its love,
two steps to touch its heart,
three steps until we become one.

Our eyes were watching the star
not to overcome it, but to welcome its joy into our homes.
We became anxious by its proximity,
and willingness to find another home.
It moved gently and kissed the dust tracks of life,
transforming them to glory on high,
birthing new children of grace to the Father on high,
with the gentle touch of the Spirit of love.

We marvelled and lost track of time.
It holds eternity in its right hand,
our life through time that will never end.
The star filled the vast space in which it migrated:
abandoned corners of the earth renewed,
hidden spaces made visible,
erased sins with the pencil of God.
Our eyes were watching God, Three in One,
becoming a star to give us light and redemption.

“The end of a Rainbow”: A New Poem

I wrote this new poem tonight just a few hours after I had my booster shot. Lol
I gave it a name: “The end of a Rainbow.”
Happy reading, Good People!

“The end of a Rainbow”

You are the end of the rainbow
my heart is trapped with your soul
unable to cross over the other world
to be in your endless weekends
falling under the hypnotic spell of your romance
to reach the rainy season of life
the dark kiss of the bluest star

You are the custodian of the moon
the physical entrance to heaven’s gate
You are an island oasis, my raindrop pearl.
Your imagination is like the aroma of passion fruit flowers,
the delight of Baobab trees
that defy the drought of my soul.
I compare you to a living fossil that sustains life in me,
and prolongs human existence in the outside world
You, the leaves of Maple that glisten with different colors of love: green, crimson, russet…
I relax in your bungalow of care
finding you is like finding the end of a rainbow

You are the shelter of the soul
looking at you makes me marvel where eternity begins
why the Ginkgo tree drops beautiful yellow leaves in the morning
why the birds sing during the midnight hour
I am inspired by your golden sunflower
to rest in the warmth of the sun of your skin
I crush on this fun fragrance of you
and dream of happy days with you
You are the end of a rainbow.

“In the Shadow of Your Love”: A New Poem

I spent the entire night working on a new poem. I gave it this name: “In the Shadow of Your Love”

In the shadow of your love
Love of stronger sea waves,
more secure than the umbilical cord of life,
more robust than the firmness of Samson.
Love that beats faster than the Queen of Sheba’s heart,
more inviting than her Black caress to the King,
seducing all young lovers to fall,
L’ Abri of dehydrated souls, rest and refresh.

In the shadow of your love
Love of ancestral past,
memories that will last,
steadfast like the brute fire force of Ogoun,
transcending the wisdom of Athena,
more beautiful than the beauty of Aphrodite.
Love that does not give up nor give in.

In the shadow of your love
Love of powerhouse of life,
upholding all powerhouse girls in light,
the shield of Harlem night dancers, delight and candlelight,
supporting all women to shine and be themselves.
Love that carries human joys and charms to the stars.

In the shadow of your love
Love of one thousand rainfalls,
make our life blossom for a thousand years,
manifest our dreams to create the life you love,
You, the guardian of my destiny,
the name of my rose,
the clarity of my passion,
come back to me to live without shame
our story can resume in the name of love
lead me to walk in the shadow of your love.

“The Editorial Scholar” is Launched for Business!

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