Sherman L. Fowler

Cahokia, IL, USA

Sherman has been a published poet since 1967. He is an educator and photographer who works as Parent Coordinator for School District 189 in East St. Louis, Il. He has taught at the Universities of Ife and Jos in Nigeria. Sherman's poetry has been published in anthologies, magazines, and by The National Library of Poetry. He is co-author, with Eugene B. Redmond and Marcus Atkins of the book, VISIBLE GLORY: THE MILLION MAN MARCH (to be released December, 1997). Sherman is a co-founder of the Eugene B. Redmond Writer's Club and says, "Writing poetry lets my spirit sing."

Hot Flash

I am caressing her
pressing my face against
her slim black body...
My exploring finger touches
her motion button she
exposes the object of
my fevered passion...
Best picture I've
ever taken of a Rose.

Thinking

The fog rolls
over under and through,
hiding Black rocks.
It turns and tumbles
unaware of time,
dispersing itself into the elements.
Carved images burst forth
vomiting tidings
only the mind can hear.

The News: Invisible Men

The news would have
given me the blues,
had I not been there
standing tall with a
MILLION PLUS MEN.
Had I not witnessed the
multitudes draped in trees,
dangling on light posts,
sitting on statues;
and lying upon the ground
UNCOUNTED...
INVISIBLE AGAIN!

Sherman welcomes correspondence.
You may E-Mail him at: lovem@gte.net
View his personal webpage at: http://home1.gte.net/lovem/lovem.html