#junejordan

[thefreeblackwomanslibrary]

Most people search allof their livesfor someplace to belong toas you saidbut I look insteadinto the eyes of anyonewho talks to me June Jorda

Sparkly new post on TFBWL Substack, A Prayer for Myself written by Jet Toomer

[thecurioussufi]

June Jordan

[sojc123]

Black History poem: "Poem for My Love" by June Jordan. #poem #poet #poetry #literature #writs #words #poetryofinstagram #writing #poetrysociety #poetryislife #poetrychallenge #poetrygram #poetryisnotdead #dailypoem #junejordan #blackpoet #literature #poetrycommunity #blackhistory #americanpoet #blackhistorypoem https://www.instagram.com/p/BtiqvI4BpLY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uhzudx5a092c

[kitchentablelit]

"And burrowing under everything you think you know some of us move slow like inch worms softening the earth to bury you" - June Jordan . . Yes, it's that kind of morning. . . . #blackpoets #blackwomenwriters #blackwomenpoets #poetry #poems #blackliterature #africanamericanliterature #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #meditation #creativelife #literature #junejordan #inspiration #thatwork #realgsmoveinsilence

[viperslang]

Happy Birthday, June Jordan

“I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this but I can tell you that from now on my resistance my simple and daily and nightly self-determination may very well cost you your life”

[islandpeeps]

Happy Birthday June Jordan!!! Civil Rights activist & Writer/Poet was born of Jamaican descent!!! Today we celebrate you!!! #JuneJordan #islandpeeps #islandpeepsbirthdays #poet #wholookatme #someofusdidnotdie (at Spanish Town, Jamaica)

[trespassingassemblies]

I must become a menace to my enemies

Dedicated to the Poet Agostinho Neto, President of The People’s Republic of Angola: 1976

1

I will no longer lightly walk behind a one of you who fear me:                                     Be afraid. I plan to give you reasons for your jumpy fits and facial tics I will not walk politely on the pavements anymore and this is dedicated in particular to those who hear my footsteps or the insubstantial rattling of my grocery cart then turn around see me and hurry on away from this impressive terror I must be: I plan to blossom bloody on an afternoon surrounded by my comrades singing terrible revenge in merciless accelerating rhythms But I have watched a blind man studying his face. I have set the table in the evening and sat down to eat the news. Regularly I have gone to sleep. There is no one to forgive me. The dead do not give a damn. I live like a lover who drops her dime into the phone just as the subway shakes into the station wasting her message canceling the question of her call:

fulminating or forgetful but late and always after the fact that could save or condemn me

I must become the action of my fate.

2

How many of my brothers and my sisters will they kill before I teach myself retaliation? Shall we pick a number? South Africa for instance: do we agree that more than ten thousand in less than a year but that less than five thousand slaughtered in more than six months will WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ME?

I must become a menace to my enemies.

3

And if I if I ever let you slide who should be extirpated from my universe who should be cauterized from earth completely (lawandorder jerkoffs of the first the terrorist degree) then let my body fail my soul in its bedeviled lecheries

And if I if I ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate I o- bey in lieu of impulse and realities (the blossoming flamingos of my wild mimosa trees) then let love freeze me out.

I must become I must become a menace to my enemies.

June Jordan 

[thefreeblackwomanslibrary]

Happy Birthday poet, activist, teacher, muse, mother, truth teller fearless creative genius June Jordan!! 💕✨💕 Resolution #1003 by June Jordan ✨✨✨ I will Love who Loves me. I will love as much as I am loved. I will hate who hates me. I will feel nothing for everyone oblivious to me. I will stay indifferent to indifference. I will live hostile to hostility. I will make myself a passionate and eager lover to passionate and eager love. I will be nobody's fool 🦀✨💕😊