RENEE B. DRUMMOND - POEMS

Renee B. Drummond is a renown poetria and artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of: The Power of the Pen, SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, Renee’s Poems with Wings are Words in Flight-I’ll Write Our Wrongs, and Renee’s Poems with Wings are Words in Flight. Her work is viewed on a global scale and solidifies her as a force to be reckoned with in the literary world of poetry. Renee’ is inspired by non-other than Dr. Maya Angelou, because of her, Renee’ posits “Still I write, I write, and I’ll write!”
 

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​MS. RUTHA MAE HARRIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INVOLVEMENT IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (POEM)
 
                                                                             
Thank you concerning the Movement,
with your gift of songs,
Thank you for knowing and singing
“It Was the Blood” for me,
while being done wrong!
Thank you for singing about that “Old Time Religion”,
that we so longed!
 
 
Thank you for singing
“Before I’ll Be A Slave I’ll Be Buried In My Grave”
Thank you for singing
“Just A Little Walk With Thee”
while being brave,
Thank you for singing
“He’s got the Whole World in His Hands”
While Non Violence
was Dr. King’s message of the day!
 
 
Thank you for singing our way in,
and out of those jails,
Thank you for singing
“I’ve got Jesus and that’s enough”,
with no bail.
Thank you for singing:
“He’s so Real” in times,
when you were frail.
Thank you for singing
“We’ve Come This Far by Faith”
can’t turn around,
and we won’t go to Hell!
 
 
Thank you for singing
“Pass me not, O’Gentle Savior”,
and hear my humble cry,
Thank you for singing
“Somebody Prayed for me”
and told Satan GOOD-BYE!
Thank you for singing
“I won’t Complain”
which made our oppressors wonder why?
Thank you for singing
“Walk in the Light”
while always prepared to die!
 
 
Thank you for singing
“Precious Lord Take my Hand”
while you took that stance,
Thank you for singing
“How I Got Over”
while taking that chance,
Thank you for singing to kids
“I’ve Been In A Storm”
and “Respect Yourself” in advance,
Thank you for singing
“I’ve Got A Testimony” to President Barack Obama,
as you ‘RUTHA MAE HARRIS’,
do your Holy Ghost dance
(In Song)!
 

                                                                   Dedicated to:                                                     
Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and White Men who bled and died
 For The Civil Rights Movement!
 
 
Published@ The Metro Gazette Publishing Company, Albany, GA.
All Rights Reserved@2015

Rutha’s Freedom Still Dreams!
 
“If the Son therefore shall make you free,
ye shall be free indeed.”
(John 8: 36 KJV)
Rutha,
those songs
motivated the marchers
to march on
with a King,
But we shall overcome
someday
‘STILL’
needs to be ‘sung’.
Or
has we shall overcome;
come and gone?
Just ‘Sing’ Freedom Singer,
 Just
‘Sang’ on,
for all
wrongs!
 
 

…So ‘SANG’ on
Ms. Rutha Mae
as if it’s
the last song.
…Dance
like David danced
with all your might.
Your chorus
rings out
for those of us
who are frighten.
Your melody
is in tune
with none other
than the Triune.
Your Godly chant
stops Satan’s
unwanted blues.
Your hymns
teach us
of
the Father’s
Good (Infallible) News.
Your track record
is impeccable
with ballads
to choose.
And with
God before your solo-
we simply
can’t lose.
 
 
  
…So ‘SANG’ on
Ms. Rutha Mae
as if,
it’s the last song,
…and then
dance
the dance of David,
 while ‘You’ long
for ‘our’ dreams
of freedom,
within
those songs!
 
 

 
Rutha,
You smelled freedom in the 60’s,
You tasted it in the 70’s,
You touched it in the 80’s,
You saw it in the 90’s
You ‘sang’ about it in the 2000’s
…and ‘I hear’ in ‘2017’…
…just like David’s Psalms;
Rutha’s Freedom
Still Dreams on…
 
 
 
 
I love you Ms. Rutha Mae Harris.
FOREVER ‘YOUR’ Pittsburgh Author: Renee’ B. Drummond-Brown
 
Dedicated to: Songbird/Activist, Ms. Rutha Mae Harris,
Original Freedom Singer of the Civil Rights Movement
 
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SERVICE!

‘Let Freedom Sing’
 
 
Freedom Singers
“Make a joyful noise
unto the Lord,
all ye lands.”
(Psalm 100 KJV)
Now ‘sang’
while you dance
the dance
of David
with all
your might;
hard
as you can!
 
 
Let that heavenly
skillful choir
back you
and sing
a ‘melody’
orchestrated
by none other
than:
Dr.
Martin Luther King.
The
“I Have a Dream”
song
will be
on your soundtrack
Freedom Singers;
so,
just
‘sang’!
 
 
However,
the music
orchestration
is
the written
‘Word’
by
The Script (ure);
the arrangements
of His
musical composition
should
have never
been
tampered with!
 
 
I too,
 someday,
would like
to join
that
heavenly choir
in that
upper room.
But,
 I must first
learn
to ‘sing’
in the
right key,
without missing
His beat;
while staying
 in tune.
 
 
Cordell Reagon,
 will assemble
the backup singers
at those
 pearly gates.
The tenors,
will consist
of
Malcolm, Medgar, Mandela
and that’s not all
you just wait.
“Governor Wallace”
led by
Charles Delbert Neblett,
 sung in bass
 would be
just great.
 
 
 
 
 
Can’t
leave out
the Altos
song
“Been in the Storm Too Long”
led by
Bernice Johnson Reagon.
I can
envision
the Father
listening
from heaven
and
sharing
 t‘HIS’
music
with His
ONLY
Begotten Son.
 
 
Aint ‘gonna’ let
nobody
turn
you around
from singing
at ‘My’
White House
Ms.
Rutha Mae Harris.
So,
gather your sopranos
and ‘sang’
your stories
with
steadfast bliss.
 
 
Mahalia Jackson’s
earthly voice
once sung
“I’ve Been Buked and I’ve Been Scorned”,
but she too,
 joins
the heavenly choir
and now
sings
“How I Got Over”
in that
upper room
dorm.
 
 
Dr.
Carolyn Mckinstry
will Direct
the
‘Heavenly’ Children’s Choir
 if you will~~~
That’ll consist of
Addie, Cynthia, Carole, Denise
and
none other
than
Emmett
Louis
Till.
 
 
Under earthy attacks
Rutha's
directed to sing,
“We shall not be moved"
just like in D.C.,
because,
 deep in their hearts
they do believe
“We shall overcome someday”
you ‘see’;
 and with
everything
to gain
and
nothing
to lose
Freedom Singers
will continue
to sing.
 
 
The development
of ‘His’
music composition
was pure
genius,
down to
the film scoring,
songwriting,
music notation
background;
lest
we forget!
 
 
Freedom Singers,
make a joyful noise
unto the Lord
until
Heaven’s
roll call
rings.
Continue
to tell us
the stories
about
The Civil Rights Movement
and simply
‘LET’
Freedom Sing.
 
 
 
Dedicated to:
The Freedom Singers
who ‘sung’ songs
of hope
and
motivation during
The Civil Rights Movement era;
when others told us
we couldn’t
they were
‘ordained’
to ‘sang’
to the world
that we could!
SO,
WE MARCH ON
IN SONG.
Thank you.
 
 
A B.A.D. Poem