I don't mind admitting it. The cover of this poetry book spoke to my heart first. Thankfully, the poetry inside the book, A Black Girl's Poetry for the World, is just as wonderful. Each poem spoke to me in a personal way. I felt as though Kimberly LaRocca had shared a personal, long visit with me in a park with a stream. There are poems about love.
I wear you on my sleeve.
Take you when I leave.
Whether night or day,
You're with me.
This is why loving someone is a gift. Once I have experienced love it's impossible to feel alone. The person is beside me in every room and in every groove of my mind. As Mrs. Kimberly Larocca writes in A PERFECT WORLD,
In a perfect world,
It'd be you and I.
The poetry book is filled with love words, anger words and words describing every type of emotion imaginable. As a Black female, I carry the world within me. I have traveled from one shore to another shore, spoken more than one language and felt my life blood drain from me in more than a hundred instances.
A blue for when I'm feeling low.
When wide awake, a light yellow.
A range of shades for everything.
When ready, I'm an aubergine.
I liked most of all the fact that Kimberly LaRocca extended her hand in friendship and understanding. I felt while reading she is me. I am her. I will survive to see another day and night. The reason? I am a Black woman.
I have finally found
A friend I haven't seen for a
while.
She's beautiful
That friend I've found is me.
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