Poetry Archives - The Burning Spear

Makeda Baraka - August 11, 2026

You can't hide in your jobor hide in your churchor hide in your practice of being pleasantor even hide in your own optimismbecause you...

Makeda Baraka - July 11, 2026

We are our own liberators.Surely no one thought we'd sit forever waiting for those who placed us in bondage to free us from it.Surely...

Makeda Baraka - June 7, 2026

We are not asking. Let that settle first.We are not asking for dignity from a system that survives by denying it.We are not asking...

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