Life is a Roller Coaster
Linda Hayes
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ISBN: 1591963877

"Life Is A Roller Coaster" is a collection of poems depicting life's ups, downs, twists, and turns, as seen through the eyes of Linda Hayes, an African American poetess.

Excerpt I
African Burial Ground

In New York City, May of 1991, construction on a federal building had begun. As excavators started removing stones, they dug up a graveyard full of human bones. Archaeologists were brought in to exhume the graves, and discovered these were the remains of African slaves. Slaves that cleared shorelines, and built New York's first roads, incurring premature deaths from carrying crushing workloads. The information gathered from this discovery, will help us to secure our place in New York's history.

Listen to the ringing of the old church bell, as we bid our forefathers, a proper farewell. African Americans dance in the streets, to the thunderous sound of pounding drumbeats. Lifting our voices in a mighty chorus, we pay tribute to our ancestors before us. Individual coffins carved by hand, were fittingly commissioned from the homeland. Their bones were reburied, their souls finally free, on the fourth of October 2003.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:


Born in Brooklyn, New York, Linda Hayes still resides there with her son, Lawrence. Although she has been writing poetry since junior high school, Linda abandoned poetry in her late teens and only began writing again in 2003, over thirty years later. This is her first chapter.

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