Written Against Cultural Stagnation

• Amerika the Beautiful (29)
• Writers Block (11)
• Food for Thought (6)

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

W.E.B. Dubois

WACS Publishing presents

Written Against Cultural Stagnation: Vol. 1 The Raised Curtain  By: Anthony Pearson

The objective is to express my thoughts on a range of topics which I feel are relevant to our everyday lives in society through poetry and prose. This is my first published collection displayed in 48 pieces of poetic interpretation in 4 chapters.

I The Cause and the Affects

II The Ties that Bind

III The Ground is Shaking (but nothing is groundbreaking)

IIII The Race to 2008

Regina’s Room

The Art of Belief

The Brick City Blues

The Tavis Smiley Corner

The WACS Co-Op

Society’s Forecast

The Art of Politics

The Bookshelf

Why Read? We Owe It To Our Ancestors!

TAZ4KIDS

Dedicated to, and made for, our children of a brighter generation.

When They Carve My Name In Stone

The only thing I've ever owned

no strings attached and no debt to pay

I held on to it with total control

The path I paved through countless days

sleepless nights, restless hours, and weary minutes

A story worth words unspoken and unscathed

in the name of liberation

They will carve my name in a stone made for me

yet I am not in a grave

my spirit flies

Remembrance floats so high

that it trickles down

to the many who won't ask why

They will simply accept the presence

of a soul manifested

in the form of a lesson and a blessing

Heavenly I will sit

promoting the gifts of the future

as I did in my present day life maneuvers

When they carve my name in stone

let it be known

Just incase they thought wrong while I was in the physical form.