Black History Month POETRY!

White Things
 ~Anne Spencer

Most things are colorful things—the sky, earth, and sea.
                  Black men are most men; but the white are free!
White things are rare things; so rare, so rare
They stole from out a silvered world—somewhere.
Finding earth-plains fair plains, save greenly grassed,
They strewed white feathers of cowardice, as they passed;
                 The golden stars with lances fine
                 The hills all red and darkened pine,
They blanched with their wand of power;
And turned the blood in a ruby rose
To a poor white poppy-flower.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on September 29, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.