Juanita Brittain Gist

Compton, California

Juanita Brittain Gist, born 6/2/29 to R.B. and Georgia Brittain of Dallas, and attended Los Angeles City College. Her God-given writing talent was aided by "The Famous Writers Course" and playwriting with "The Watts Writers Workshop". Her poetry is published in the top international anthologies and has earned The Diamond Homer Award. She was accorded the highest honor on November 1,1996: acceptance into The International Poetry Hall Of Fame. Her philosophy: "If your friends, and the world, are through with you - and in your heart you want folk to glue with you - EXCEL! EXCEL! In everything to do with you!"

The King of Time

The King of Time in all his glory is indescribably devine.
He is ruler of the universe - but he is impossible to define.
He is the space within the circle; he is the circle unending too,
He is the life within everything, yet is invisible to me and you.

He has no father, no mother, no sister, no brother,
He is absolute and from nothing sprung -
He is inconceivable!
He is unbelievable!
And yet forever be his praises sung!
He is unconceivable!
He is unbelievable!
And yet, he is! He is you see!
And yet - I would not believe that he is - were it not for both you and me!

He is an improbability!
An impossibility!
With neither logic nor reason, nor rhyme!
And yet he is, and yet he is!
The splendiferous King of Time!

What Kind of Man

An ode to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

What kind of man would set his life aside
simpy let his personal plans ride,
to give a needed and a helping hand -
to the hurting people in his troubled land?

What kind of man although shedding a tear
at the sight of injustice brutality and fear
caused a noble nation to realize -
that only peaceful resistance coud win the prize.

What kind of man although beaten and jailed,
and denied his right to simply post his bail
would still kneel and pray, within his prison cell,
that the ones who'd jailed him would not burn in hell.

What kind of man who from the mountain top
has seen the view and knows that his life is in danger too,
would nevertheless carry right on through -
Keeping solid faith with what he set out to do?

He must be a Man of Hope, a Man of Faith, and Sweet Charity.
A man of the cloth - A man of the - light - of the God of Eternity
A man of the Just - the Truth - and the Dove
In short - he must be a King and a Man of "Love"