Musicians, Street Pianos and Snowfall an excerpt

He brought his piano
and played a new song
it sounded like sleigh bells
and notes that were all wrong
but a lifetime of tickling keys
could only bring forth good cheer
the harmony of the melody
crescendo-ed right into the new year

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman

Birth Haiku

Christmas comes early

For a Child is born to us

Life everlasting

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman

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Higher Authority (an excerpt)

Under the new regime

children from across the waters

navigate trouble with caution

be clear, this is not Zion my babies

freedom was never free

but Divine love is everywhere

let no rhetoric guide thee

stand on shoulders tall if you will

walls built can't interrupt grace

we're chanting down Babylon

trusting JAH the Most High in this race

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman

Love Poem

Bobby said I'll never write a love poem

so I'm gonna sing one, sing one...

oh yes I'm gonna sing one right now

Somebody said I'll never write a love poem

so I'm gonna sing one, sing one 

oh yes I'm gonna sing one right now

Got a lot of visions running through my head

about some things some body said

never thought it would get here

I abandon all my fear because
Bobby said I'll never write a love poemm

so I'm gonna sing one, sing one 

oh yes I'm gonna sing one right now

Somebody said I'll never write a love poem

but I'm gonna sing one, sing one 

oh yes I'm gonna sing one right now

Think I better pay attention to my heart
telling me to make a brand new start
so here I go stepping out on a ledge
and to myself I will always pledge 
to be my own love poem

so that you might hear me...feel me

as I un-apologetically 

give you my love

and my poem

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman

In My Africa

Sweet rivers flow there
In my Africa
Purple wind...it blows there
In my Africa
Black earth...solid foundation there
In my Africa
Drink the glow of Ra there
In my Africa
When I think of there
I wonder if eternity knows
that its mission means forever
In my Africa

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman 

Get Life!

Poetry is my old man
Music is his wife
When poetry and music kiss
the roar of the crowd says get your life!!!
Rhyming by candle light
Singing to children at the circus
When rhyme and song become one
the nosey neighbor says
that was on purpose!!!
I never thought I'd see the day
He never thought it could be
When letters and notes hook-up
the whole world quivers
from the glow of harmony!!!

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman

I blues sometimes

When I sing

it says everything in those broken notes

my screaming bass-strings split your earring hearing vessel

my fuse is the blues over muddy waters

my Guru man catching rain water in a boiling pot

and everybody still talkin' bout Trump on a Moped

I just wanna lay a pillow on my own bed

those broken notes sing the blues 

and my screaming bass-strings just split

your 2 flapjacks into 4 and 3 fried eggs

as this bumpy road winds all around

my deep southern roots...what?  I said I blues sometimes

uh uhn uh unh uh unah uhn uh

yea that  deep southern is Detroit roots baby

it says everything in those broken notes 

      when I sing  

                    by Shonnese C.L. Coleman