A review of insights and poems by Huey Newton as well as extensive political commentary on the overarching significance of the man.
Political challenges in a selected section of ‘Insights and Poems’ (1975) by Huey Newton and Ericka Huggins
Tag: poetry
Trees of the house
Women and trees interconnect, the nuance of support. They weep and write, create and cry. Trees create magic similarly.
The Finch’s Song
Someone who has made an eternal decision, to find that perhaps the outcome isn’t exactly what they expected.
Taps – The Final Salute
My brother’s military funeral in the pouring rain.
It Is Time To Come Home
Our existential home is found when and where the searching ends.
Nervously Again
A view of early morning existential dread.
distance and divide
The poem is a pied piper for the rats in my mind.
Many vs Few
For Helen Hengxiang Liao
Hug me in my dream
In my memory,
Your lips mother never touched my dimpled face
Time
A meditation
The Voice of Truth
About Shireen Abu Aqla the Palestinian reporter.
Strife is a songbird
A dystopian state of mind, in which the US, amidst a current divide in political and cultural values, throws itself into another civil war.
Ceremonies of Innocence
A wistful nostalgic sonnet.
A Poet Is Born
A very short poem hinting at the mystery of creating.
Certain Things
Wilted spaces of my memories, which remained fettered, and then just one day, those memories began to screech through my temples.
The Fourth One
The first one said, “You should agree, bro. We need one more man in the crew, to finish the project tomorrow.”