- Purple
- Four Years Later
- Sonder
- When the Rain Falls
- Upon Further Review
- Here Now, Gone Later
By Amberia Shoemaker
Love is merely like a highway
Unless it is named after us
We’re reckless and unchanging
Stopping for only a second
Our love is exactly like a waterfall
Forever flowing and powerful
I’ll wait under the edge and beyond the flow
Waiting for the call and beckon
About this series
This poetry series was written for a final project in African American Literature at Pellissippi State. The author, Amberia Shoemaker, writes in the style of noted African American poet and playwright, Georgia Douglass Johnson, who was an important writer during the New Negro Movement and the Harlem Renaissance.
