Ceci2you

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Ceci2you
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I am a cool auntie, coffee lover and sometime poet. I am a native Detroiter and graduate of the University of Detroit-Mercy. I enjoy reading and learning more about African-American history and genetic genealogy. I love to travel and wish I could do more of that!

  December 2021     2 months ago

Submitted Poems 5 total

The Great Migration: One family's journey (For my niece Adrianna)

Summerton, South Carolina 1861


  He is born half-Black half-White: free in a time of pain and chains

  Yet grows to be a man of power and influence who owns the land that birthed him


  It is 1910. His daughter is born into a life of...

– by Cecilia Marie Holland

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Memories?

Years ago, I lost a grandparent to it.
Today, I am losing a parent
The losses start out small, tiny pebbles of
forgetfulness

Now mountains of memory have been
claimed

In response, to a nurse's query, he does give her his address.
She does...

– by Cecilia Marie Holland

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Memories?

Memories?

Years ago, I lost a grandparent to it.
Today, I am losing a parent
The losses start out small, tiny pebbles of
forgetfulness

Now mountains of memory have been
claimed

In response, to a nurse's query, he does give her his...

– by Cecilia Marie Holland

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Water


Why do you tease and taunt me?
Come into shore and back out again?
Waves carrying stories and souls and untold dreams?

Surrounding me- very nobly, you of the Greatest of lakes?
Michigan's treasures-calm and dangerous ; peaceful and...

– by Cecilia Marie Holland

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The Great Migration: One family's journey (For my niece Adrianna)

Summerton, South Carolina 1861


  He is born half-Black half-White: free in a time of pain and chains

  Yet grows to be a man of power and influence who owns the land that birthed him


  It is 1910. His daughter is born into a life of...

– by Cecilia Marie Holland

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added 2 years ago
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