{"id":1651,"date":"2015-04-19T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T14:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2021-02-22T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:40:39","slug":"blacksmith-named-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"blacksmith named Gabriel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"burial\"<\/a>Dedicated to my sister and art mentor Helene Ruiz<\/a> ..    Peace out humanity !<\/p>\n

I\u2019m this artist
\nwho likes to tell a story
\nof words with an image
\ncaptured in time
\n~    today with
\nSmartphone in hand
\nI begin my
\nphotographic journey
\nalong the Slave Trail
\nin Richmond
\nVirginia
\na somber place
\nrepresentative of
\ncruel and hard endings
\nfor some \u2026..
\nof us human beings
\nhung from
\nthe once was
\nhillside gallows
\nfor instance
\na 24 year old blacksmith
\nnamed Gabriel
\naroused with
\nthe spiritual vision
\nthat in the eyes
\nof the creator
\nall people
\ndespite color of skin
\nare a part of
\nThe Human Race<\/strong><\/em>
\nequal with
\nevery kind of
\nman and woman
\n~    however
\nsuch a righteous revelation
\nto evolve The Human Race<\/strong><\/em>
\nbeyond the defining of race
\nby skin color
\nwas put to death
\ndue to ignorance
\nand ill perceived
\nsanctimoniousness
\n\u2018cause some
\nof a certain skin color
\nblinded by the trade
\nof slavery
\nwere not yet
\nso enlightened
\nabout the benevolent ways
\nof God Almighty
\nfor all    ~<\/p>\n

but to the unmindful
\npasserby
\n~    driving down
\nBroad Street
\nover a bridge
\nthis place appears to be
\na green grass
\npark like lawn
\nnext to some
\nrailroad tracks
\nnot long ago
\na paved over parking lot
\n~    sleepily awaiting
\na full resurrection
\nof remembrance \u2026.   for
\nall those buried there
\nnow a parcel of land
\nwith a shrine
\nknown as
\nthe Negro Burial Ground
\nbut more ethnically
\nnamed
\nthe African Ancestral
\nBurial Ground   ~<\/p>\n

like the blacksmith
\nnamed Gabriel
\nthis experience
\nemerges forth
\na spiritual vision
\nwithin me
\nthis everyday
\nhuman being
\nno better than anyone else
\nwhere the color of \u2026..
\na person\u2019s skin
\nshines on the beauty
\nand rich character
\nof their ethnicity
\nand yet
\nin the light of    ~
\nequality for all
\nskin color does not
\ndetermine race
\n\u2018cause the human
\nbelongs to only one race
\nThe Human Race<\/strong><\/em>
\nif not \u2026.
\nthen resurrect
\nthe Richmond gallows
\nand hang me on the hillside
\nit would be an honor
\nto be buried
\nnext to my fellow
\nhuman beings
\nespecially
\nthat blacksmith
\nnamed Gabriel<\/p>\n

peace out<\/p>\n

Image & Words by     ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n

This story poem will be a part of the May edition that’s a collaboration by the 2015 Poetry Posse  – The Year of the Poet II published by Inner Child Press.  Buy your monthly copy Here: http:\/\/www.innerchildpress.com\/the-year-of-the-poet.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dedicated to my sister and art mentor Helene Ruiz ..    Peace out humanity ! I\u2019m this artist who likes to tell a story of words with an image captured in time ~    today with Smartphone in hand I begin my photographic journey along the Slave Trail in Richmond Virginia a somber place representative of … Continue reading “blacksmith named Gabriel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slaveryinamerica","category-poertyposse2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3395,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/3395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}