Inspired by Black Boy Wonder Poem Down A Mountain Their stories were entrenched in the echo of pain long lived. Today I stood before a mirror that did not belong to me and the reflection startled me. I looked in as a woman but stared out as a Black Man. Vulnerable but willing to sliceContinue reading “Black Actors Pay Tribute to Trayvon Martin: “Little Black Boy Wonder””
Category Archives: poetry
Map to My Heart
Open my mind and you will stumble upon my heart. (C) Kiana Davis 2013
The Silence Between Us
We have lost words that fill silences but our eyes speak complete sentences. ~Kiana Davis 2013
Paved Road
Once
Once I scaled back my own skin Silent Forced fingers still and died But now every thought blooms And i believe in the possibility of flight. (c) Kiana Davis 2013
Surreal
This day has been surreal. I feel like a part of me walks among the dead. And because their waters aren’t troubled my sadness is out of place. Kiana Davis 2013
Voices‬ in My head
Cryptic voices speak of circling and I see the mountain but do not want to travel it again. Kiana Davis (c)2013
The Verdit
The ancestors weep how far we’ve come but our young are still murdered because of their skin. Justice is blind folded again. Kiana Davis 2013
Intuitive
Knowing something will happen before it happens is a gift. Waiting for it to unfold is patience. Kiana Davis
Memory
#reflecting Pictures inspire me i am that little girl who looked out at the world and wanted to mend the broken pieces of a community under fire. – Kiana Davis 2013
