A Beautiful Specimen Of A Man! – A Poem about Ali

June 09, 2016 – Issue 657

A Beautiful Specimen Of A Man!

A Poem about Ali

By Dr. Carlos Russell, PhD

Early this morning,

On first reading

Of the passing

Of Muhammad Ali,

Sweet and bitter memories

Came to me.

“A “black man’s Hero” was he.

Though saddened and sullen,

He still is for me.

Who “floated like a butterfly

And stung like a bee”;

Who “shook up the world”

For all of us to see.

“Ain’t got no quarrel with no Vietcong”

Remained with me all life long.

That, was Muhammad Ali!

A beautiful specimen of a MAN!

For all on the planet to see.

“The most colorful fighter in the world”

Was he.

“The “Bear”

The “Mummy”

And the “Beast”

Like struck trees they fell

Flat at his feet.

“He came,

He saw,

He conquered”

–Almost all–

And now he is gone.

The world will mourn his loss.

With tears in my eyes,

This morning,

I ask.

“When cometh such another?”