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Black Roses & Love Letters: Urban Poems & Love Letters for the soul
by J. Lafayette Bunton
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Synopsis
In a city of sirens, streetlights, and late-night grocery aisles, Black Roses & Love Letters follows one Black man’s heart as it learns to love, lose, heal, and bloom again in concrete.
These poems move from first glances on trains and in coffee shops to midnight arguments, unanswered texts, ...
These poems move from first glances on trains and in coffee shops to midnight arguments, unanswered texts, ...
In a city of sirens, streetlights, and late-night grocery aisles, Black Roses & Love Letters follows one Black man’s heart as it learns to love, lose, heal, and bloom again in concrete.
These poems move from first glances on trains and in coffee shops to midnight arguments, unanswered texts, funerals, and therapy sessions. Along the way, they explore what it means to be a Black man raised on toughness but starved of soft, trying to unlearn “don’t cry” and finally say, “I feel this.”
Blending the energy of spoken word with the intimacy of love notes, J. Lafayette Bunton writes about:
Falling in love in the city—subways, sidewalks, corner stores
Heartbreak, ghosted calls, and the ache of “what we could’ve been”
Grief, mental health, and what therapy looks like for Black men
The women who held him together, called him out, and called him home
Turning pain into petals—becoming more than survival
Black Roses & Love Letters is for anyone who has ever loved in the city, lost someone they weren’t ready to lose, or tried to be soft in a world that rewards hard.
If you like raw, honest, urban poetry with real feeling and real stakes, this book is your bouquet.
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