Introduction and Table of Contents
Introduction and Table of ContentsThe Proud BumblebeeA Fine MareReflectionMy RosesSome SecretsBlack Churches BurnThe FoxMy ZenithA Present DearBlack Lightn'gWhen Dearest Sleep Betrays My Restless MindEden AgainSome Blesséd DutyDehors ParisThe Lady and the LordShe Gazed Into My Eyes...In London Now...The CriminalMLKBlack Moses At the RiverMichael Brown of FergusonA Gladiator's CryThe Sonnet of a Warrior MartyredMandingo FightingThis PimpKiwi and Cotton Balls' Cadence [aka Ulysses and the Sirens]Judging the "Justice"Mother EarthOn Romney's Vote to Convict [aka Integrity]Sonnet (Cadence) of the American Soldier [aka Heaven's Path Through Hell]
Reflection

Reflection (aka "When I Stare In The Mirror"...)
 
When I stare in the mirror, I reflect
Upon those aspects I might find suspect,
Dissect my soul, abjectly introspect.
Can any soul ne'er perfect be correct!?
Before this subject, I then genuflect,
Lest I deflect, in circumspect, neglect;
I inspect, detect, reject or inject,
Respectfully, each defect or prospect.
But how can one truly such wrongs eject?
When habits, good and bad, interconnect?
When minor faults oft attributes project?
In retrospect, I inflect and prelect:
"That mortal men can e'er their hearts direct,
And e'en the Fates must noble souls protect." 
 
Copyright 2021 Bernard A. Quarterman, Jr.