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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sestina: Dark Skin Beauty<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You may be blind by thy beauty<\/em><\/p>\n of the deep roots of your true melanin<\/em><\/p>\n It cross fades with the prophets<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0true vision of unity.<\/em><\/p>\n Pay no thought of insecurity<\/em><\/p>\n of your ever-glowing dark skin.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some may speak that the gift of thy pearl skin<\/em><\/p>\n which is rich in beauty,<\/em><\/p>\n should be the foundation of insecurity.<\/em><\/p>\n But I say your over joyous melanin<\/em><\/p>\n provides the nation with unity,<\/em><\/p>\n and plenty insights to the prophets.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n They see plenty, the prophets.<\/em><\/p>\n They envision that thy skin<\/em><\/p>\n will be the formation of unity,<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0and everyone shall see the beauty<\/em><\/p>\n Of thy perfect, rich melanin.<\/em><\/p>\n Then you shall learn, that this must not be the foundation of insecurity.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The darkness of your insecurity<\/em><\/p>\n will be what the prophets<\/em><\/p>\n cherished, so deep as the melanin<\/em><\/p>\n implemented in your skin.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0That glorifies your beauty<\/em><\/p>\n and shows thy ancestors unity.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your ancestors found unity<\/em><\/p>\n to defeat the insecurity<\/em><\/p>\n of their captors. They knew of the beauty<\/em><\/p>\n that was spoken among the prophets.<\/em><\/p>\n Your ancestors embraced the skin<\/em><\/p>\n that was gifted to them along with luxurious melanin.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n All do not possess the gift of majestic melanin<\/em><\/p>\n which has been the reason of disperse unity.<\/em><\/p>\n Hate has been decided by color of the skin<\/em><\/p>\n compelling many to believe darkness as an insecurity.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cGiving the man in power to feed and devour,\u201d says the prophets,<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThou will never know true equality until thou embrace the dark beauty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The beauty of your deep melanin<\/em><\/p>\n will awaken the world and provide unity<\/em><\/p>\n to all skin tones defeating, the battle of insecurity.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Recently in the introduction to poetry class, my classmates and I were taught the poem type, the sestina. According to the Oxford dictionary, a sestina is “a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.”<\/em> I honestly found that writing a sestina was extra and time-consuming. It made your mind think about possible ways that your chosen words could fit into the poem. That’s a reason why I enjoyed it as well, you got to make your own story where your chosen words lived. That was so exciting because one of my joys of writing is when you are writing either shorty story, poem, flash fiction, any fiction. And you realize that you are in control of the story and how it plans out, it is such a magical feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sestina: Dark Skin Beauty You may be blind by thy beauty of the deep roots of your true melanin It cross fades with the prophets \u00a0true vision of unity. Pay no thought of insecurity of your ever-glowing dark skin. Some may speak that the gift of thy pearl skin which is … Continue reading “The Dreaded Sestina”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7153,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}