June Jordan
These poemsthey are things I doin the darkreaching for youwhoever you are — June Jordan, from “These Poems,” Things That I Do in the Dark: Selected Poetry (Random House, 1977)
Category: Jamaican-American Literature
Claude McKay
Go spill your beauty on the laughing faces Of happy flowers that bloom a thousand hues, Waiting on tiptoe in the wilding spaces, To drink your wine mixed with sweet drafts of dews. — Claude McKay, from “A Song of the Moon.” Complete Poems. (University of Illinois Press; annotated edition edition June 18, 2008)
Claude McKay
Your lips betray the secret of your soul, The dark delicious essence that is you, A mystery of life, the flaming goal I seek through mazy pathways strange and new. — Claude McKay, from “A Red Flower,” Complete Poems. (University of Illinois Press January 23, 2004)
The Vale of Soul-Making 