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Ruby Dee published three of my poems when I was 17 years old in her anthology called “GlowChild”. She was a dynamic woman who believed in her “work”. She and her husband the late Ossie Davis supported the development of my confidence to be a poet, scholar/practitioner and development consultant. It is with great respect for her countless contributions to humanity and her rare sensitivity that I pray now with confidence that she will forever enjoy the presence of God almighty even more than we have thoroughly enjoyed her sweet and knowledgeable presence in our lives. W. Calvin Anderson, M.Ed.
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Poem: Make A New Day
Dedicated to Ruby Dee By W. Calvin Anderson
I
am just
a poet of an Ossie and Ruby creation.
Not a
cosmologist
anthropologist.
i gotta
tell the kids
something each and every morning.
We/they… often wonder
what
really is?
Is the world
material
or
idea?
Is it
Spirit
Science
Economy
Rhythm
Balance
Purpose
Art
Breathe
Poetry
Song
or
Dance?
Is it an
Environmental
Ode
To
The
humanities
climaxing with
a 60’s flower
power
or
thrust-fist nationalism
to
answer
to the
dark-side
of
hip-hip
or the end
of Columbus’
enterprise
when the street signs
turn
back into
Arawak
and God
Says it was
All just a fire drill
which by
the
way could
perhaps
change and
end
schooling
for
the planet in
a few hundred
years.
Is it material or idea?
Is
the right perspective concerned with
the blackness
covering the stars…
and the
blue
carrying birds and planes and clouds
or should we just paint and keep the the sun
shining?
Is it all about
money or heart for exchanging with people?
Is it the power or the magnetism
that fuels purpose to keep
God’s balancing Re-creation a-n-d
r e c r e a t i o n working
like
blood through an ancient body
that
we
don’t
understand?
Or, are
eden still… His malleable
material
or
renewable
idea?
What
is
this 24/7
morning
floor
for?
Make a new day
no matter
what
you think It
is! “k”
I love you Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
W CALVIN ANDERSON, M.Ed 