The Poetree

WHEN A NEW LOVE DESIRE IS DFERRED.--TIME AFTER LAST LOVE CHAOS, EPISODES,I'M IN SOLITUDE.WONDERING A NEW LOVE SHOULD I SEEK,ROMANTIC ENCOUNTER APPROACHES ME,WILL I ELUDE. .LISTENING TO THE RAIN,WHILE IN MY ROOM,AS I RECLINE.NO PLANS FOR A NEW LOVE,WHEN THE LAST LOVE IS IN MY MIND...TO EACH OTHER I ASSUMED, WE DID SOULFULLY BELONG.BECAUSE OF HER WANDERING LUST MY DISTRUST,REASON THE RELATIONSHIP WENT WRONG..HOW LONG BEFORE I LONG,FOR EROTIC PASSION,WHILE LISTENING TO THE MIDNIGHT RAIN...RELUNCTANT,WONDERING,WILL A NEW LOVE,BE A LOVE I CANNOT RETAIN..AFTER TIME,WILL A NEW LOVE DESIRE BLOSSOM LIKE A SUMMER ROSE./OR WILL A NEW LOVE BECOME A LOST LOVE WITH RECURRING H…

OH WHEN I THINK OF MY LONG SUFFERING RACE.FOR WEARY CENTURIES DESPISED OPPRESSED.ENSLAVED AND LYNCHED DENIED A HUMAN PLACE..IN THE GREAT LIFE LINE OF THE CHRISTIAN WEST.AND IN THE BLACK LAND DISINHERITED.ROBBED IN THE ANCIENT COUNTRY OF IT'S BIRTH..MY HEART GROWS SICK WITH HATE BECOMES AS LEAD.FOR THIS MY RACE HAS NO HOME ON EARTH.THEN FROM THE DARK DEPTHS OF MY SOUL I CRY..TO THE AVENGING ANGEL MY SOUL TO CONSUME.THE WHITE MAN'S WORLD OF WONDER, UTTERLY..LET IT BE SWALOWED UP IN EARTH'S GREAT WOMB.OR UPWARD ROLL IT AS SACRIFICIAL SMOKE..TO LIBERATE MY PEOPLE FROM IT'S YOKE.///.

A NEGRO WHO GOT RICH DID STRAY.TO CLAIM HE WAS NOT OF THE RACE...BUT ALL THE WORLD COULD ONLY SAY..HE WAS A FOOL AND A SORE DISGRACE.YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR SKIN MY MAN,FOR NATURE MADE YOU AS YOU ARE..YOUR WISH TO CHANGE YOUR FATHER'S CLAN IS IGNORANCE THAT GO TO FAR..THE WOMAN OF ANOTHER RACE YOU CHOOSE TO SHARE YOUR FORTUNE WITH..AND HAVE HER TAKE TAKE YOUR MOTHER'S PLACE ,MAY SLAY YOU AS IN SIREN'S MYTH..AND WHEN YOU FIND THE DEED UNWISE,IT WILL BE TO LATE TO MEND..THE RACE YOU DID DESPISE,WILL COUNT YOU OUT AS TRAITOR'S END.//.

CENTURIES AFTER THE SLAVE SHIPS 1600'S./SYMBOL OF FREEDOM, LIBERTY,AMERICAN FLAG,THE RED,WHITE AND BLUE..LIBERTY,FREEDOM NOT FOR THOSE WITH A DARKER SKIN HUE./OUR ANCESTORS CAPTIVE AFRICANS,SLAVED ON SLAVE SHIPS,FORCED TO A STRANGE LAND...CHAINED,SHACKLED,AT SLAVE AUTIONS,SOLD,BOUGHT,NAKED AS THEY STAND.....UPON SLAVE PLANTATIONS,BENEATH THE SUN AND MOON LIGHT GLEAM..FOR HUMANITY,FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE THEY DID HOPE,PRAY AND DREAM..,DESPITE PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN FREEING THE SLAVES AND EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.BLACK PEOPLE STILL OPPRESSED,WITH NO EQUALITY IN THIS NATION...BLACK SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL CONTRIBUTIONS,INVENTIONS HELPING BUILD THIS GREAT LAND...PROT…

OBSERVING WHAT'S HAPPENED FROM A REVOLUTION DEFERRED..BLACK VOICES HAVE BECOME LIKE AUTUMN FALLING LEAVES,A SOUND NOT HEARD..SEEMS BLACK POLITICAL NOT SPEAKING TOGETHERNES,AS SEASONS AND TIME GROWS...DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND MALCOLM X,THEIR VOICES BECOMING FADING ECHOES......UNITY RELUNCTANT,THE BLACK PREACHERS,DELIBEARTELY MISLEADING BLACK PEOPLE,GREED PROFIT THEIR MOTIVATION...UPON BLACK PEOLE'S MIND AND SOUL,DR . MARTIN LUTHER KING,MALCOLM X, BRUNG KNOWLEDGED LEVITATION...BLACK COMMUNITIES,SELF ENSLAVEMENT HAS COME,AMIDST CHAOS AND CONFUSION...YOUNG BLACK YOUTH,DO THEY HAVE,WILL THEY HAVE A DFINITION OF REVOLUTION////WIL THEY FEEL THE NEED TO MOTIVATE AND BR…

LISTENING TO THE CLOCK ON THE WALL,MANY WAYS IT'S GETTING LATE..BLACK PEOPLE SELF SEGREGATED,DIVIDED,FROM POLITICS AND RELIGION,MORE AND MORE WE SEPARATE.//TIME FOR BLACK MEN TO BE OF THE SAME,VISION,VOICE AND MIND...NO LONGER SELF DETAINED,HAVING BLACK COMMUNITIES IN CONFINED.....FOR IDEAS,,SOLUTIONS,THE PROBLEMS WE NEED TO ANALYZE...BROTHERS,TRIBE WARRIORS,BLACK MEN,COME TOGETHER AND RISE....POOR BLACK COMMUNITIES,COULD BE TRANSFORMED INTO,KNOWLEDGE, REIGN..GANG VIOLENCE,DRUG SELF DESTRUCTON,IRRESPONSIBLE SEX,OURSELVES WE MUST UN CHAIN...BLACK MEN,,LEADERS,PREACHERS,NEED TO RESPECT BLACK WOMEN AND BECOME MORE RIGHTEOUS WISE.....BROTHERS,TRIBE WARRIORS,BLACK MEN COME…

WANDERING IN THE FLOWER GARDEN,RETURNING IS THE WARM SPRING SEASON..LOVE GROWS WARMTH WITHIN,LIKE SRINGTIME REJUVENATES FLOWERS TO BLOSSOM..MARIGOLDS,YELLOW ANEMONES,LESSER CELADINES FLOWERS BRIGHT S THE SUN ABOVE.FROM A AUGUST ROMANCE ENCOUNTER,WE HAVE SOWED THE SEEDS OF LOVE..GARDENIAS,JASMINES FLOWERS WHITE AS THE CLOUDS IN THE SKY..UPON GRAPE HYACINTH .. AND ORCHIDS ARE NEW BORN BUTTERFLIES..WHILE SHE ICKS PETUNIAS,TULIPS AND VIOLETS FOR HER SPRING BOUQUET..UON CHERRY BLOSSOM TREES,DOVES AND SPARROWS SERENADE THE WARM SPRING DAY....FLAME AZALEAS,PERENTIALS,TRUMPET LILIES TALL THEY GROW IN THE WARM SPRING SUNSHINE..UPON HOLLYHOCKS HUMMINGBIRDS JOYFULLY.. SIP NEC…

IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY,AMONG US THEY OFTEN WALK..TO US THE NON USERS, THEY OFTEN TRY TO TALK..THEN THEY RETURN TO A PLACE WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN...TO THE DRUG HOUSE,WHERE THE SIDE WALK ENDS..NO MATTER THE SEASON,THE WEATHER,DAYTIME OR NOCTURNE.WOMEN WILL SELL THEIR BODY FOR THE DRUGS THEY YEARN.THE NEED FOR DRUGS STRONGER THAN FAMILY OR FRIEND..AFTER RETURNING TO THE DRUG HOUSE,WHERE THE SIDE WALK ENDS..BLACK MEN,THEIR SLAVED REALITY.DIFFERENT FROM THEIR ANCESTORS WHO WERE SLAVES....THEIR ENSLAVEMENT ,THE POWDER COCAINE,COOKED COCAINE THEY CRAVE...THEIR MINDS DRIFTING LIKE LEAVES UPON A STORMY WIND..AFTER RETURNING TO THE DRUG HOUSE,WHERE THE SIDE WALK ENDS....BABIES …

CLOUDY NEW YEAR EVE DAY,RAINING WITH SOUNDS OF THUNDER,SEEMS A STORM COMING...REMEBERING LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME,APPROACHING WAS ANOTHER NEW YEAR..WONDERING THIS NEW YEAR'S EVE ,BLACK LEADERS COMMUNITY RESOLUTION TALK WILL I AGAIN HEAR.////TOMORROW WILL UNITED BLACK VOICES SOUND LOUDER THAN THUNDER AND A MILLION TRIBE DRUMS../AGAIN WONDRING TO MYSELF,WHEN ANOTHER NEW YEARD DAY COMES.///FOR COMMUNITY GUIDANCE, THE KWANZAA PRINCIPLES WILL BLACK PEOPLE OBTAIN.//OR IN THE NEW YEAR,WILL CHAOS AND SELF ENSLAVEMENT IN BLACK COMMUNITIES REMAIN.///WILL IT END,DESTRUCTION,SELF DESTRUCTION,MUCH OF THIS BLACK PEOPLE THEMSELVES IT IS FROM...AGAIN WONDERING TO MYSELF,WHEN AN…

Listen to used The mud did the girl, What song to sings. The first movement --------- You use mud I created, but my heart, I used the people do not know Many Secret, sweet spring water. . . And some other things, Composition is formed, Created. My master, You said that you often wearing a the new green jumpsuit dress, carrying a pottery Go blue Behind the tall mountain Fountain absorb water? Shengquan you say this will be singing in the daytime, green and blue at night issued rosy flame it? You said your heart, you use people Unknown Many secrets, sweet spring water, formed, created it? You said your h…

Please Dear Poet, Writer,Readers friends, appreciate me for the poetry, Here a total of five poetry, The first poem, rose_rosy [一朵玫瑰色的玫瑰] By the Chinese poet fengwenshu My space 's small emperor-my son As a Roseate for endless routh, When unborn my son, Lived in lofly belly of a flowering tree of dreaming. And fire phoenix fly, like one single moonlight_azure, In phoenix's body breed, In rosy rose had Vomit and lent to the nigths, hills, Rivers, grasss, groves, And greatures.her sweetly joy and Fire of love, I sangs upon my son…

The Good Ship Jesus *The Good Ship Jesus", or the "Jesus of Lubeck," was a 700-ton ship that would become the first vessel to bring Blacks, as slaves, from Africa to the Americas I am Mandinka Jawaaro, Mandinka Warrior From Kunga to Sinkandinga And, with these black fingers Curled around my spear and my shield, I stood with other boys, who wished to become men And learned the dances of death; Learned the Warrior Ways; Learned the tactics, strategies and rules of engagement Training from dusk ‘til dawn, as the Elders instructed, But knowing in my heart that no one would try to attack our village Nor try to rape, rob, or pillage us For …

WINTER HOLIDAY TIME/ A HEART THAT WAS LIKE FALLEN LEAVES UPON THE GROUND WITHERED..HAS NOW BECOME, LIKE NATURE AFTER WINTER SPRING WARM REJUVENATED.FROM A SUMMER ENCOUNTER, A NEW LOVE I WAS ABLE TO OBTAIN.. A SEEKER OF LOVE THAT ESCAPED THE LONLINEST CHAINS.DRINKING MOCHA COCOA, BY THE WINDOW WATCHING THE FALLING SNOW..IMAGINING ENBRACING EACH OTHER OUTSIDE BENEATH THE MOONLIGHT'S GLOW..SNOWFLAKES DRIFT, UPON THE WINTER BREEZE, INSIDE SO MUCH WARM WE CONTAIN..A SEEKER OF LOVE THAT ESCAPED THE LONLINEST CHAINS..OUTSIDE THE FALLING SNOW HAS THE STREETS GLISTENING..TO THE SWEET SOUNDS OF OLD SOUL MUSIC WE ARE LISTENING..SMILES WARM AND TENDER,REACHING …

IMAGING,OUR VOICES TOGETHER,WE COULD BE STRONG AND PROFOUND..INSTEAD, SILENCE LIKE FALLING SNOW IS THE,REALITY, SOUND...BLACK PEOPLE,EACH DAY,EACH HOUR,EACH SECOND.,LIKE A WINTER SEASON IT SEEMS..SO DARK AND SO BARE LIKE NAKED WINTER TREES...THE ADDICTS,SELF DESTRUCTION,THERE ARE THOSE WITH WITHERED SOULS AMONG US...THE FIENDS,SABOTEURS, GANGSTERS,THAT WANT OUR RACE TO BE TOWARD A EXODUS...BLACK LEADERS,WATCHING THIS,SOME IGNORE,SOME RETREAT, OTHERS FLEE..SO DARK AND SO BARE LIKE WINTER NAKED TREES...THE RIGHTEOUS BLACK FOLKS WHO ARE CHURCH SUNDAY BOUND..SINISTER PREACHERS HAVE THEIR SOULS MORE WITHERED THAN THE LEAVES UPON THE GROUND..SOULS DRIFTING LIKE SNOWFLAK…

My Soul My pen is a symbol of my soul, when I write it releases the tension that is destined to inspire… To uplift and pivot your spirits, to bring a means of brotherhood and togetherness that shall not expire nor retire… Like Nasir Jones only needed One Mic…All I need is One Like… And watch me take flight, as the heavenly Father guides my hand, as I know it’s his plan, so I shall move at God Speed, with no other needs, but to believe and achieve… No weapon formed against me shall prosper, therefore I am proper… like a noun, so capitalize my Fame when it’s set and done… I already told u once, ain’t nothing new under the sun. You can keep your ma…

Dream Chaser Continue to chase your DREAMS… I know it’s easier said than done, while I know there’s nothing new under the sun, and some treat Dreams as something you should shun… Continue to chase your DREAMS… Continue to chase your DREAMS… Even when the world around you have their doubts, while the people around you suggest you take another route, and nobody wants you when you’re down and out… Continue to chase your DREAMS… Continue to chase your Dreams… Even when your fear overtakes your emotions, while you try to conquer that fear and use it as a means of devotion, but you just feel like a small fish in water with the mass of the A…

NIGHT TIME RAIN FALLING,WITH A FEW OF MY FRIENDS..GATHERED AROUND THE TABLE, SOON THE SEANCE WILL BEGIN . OUTSIDE THE MOONLIGHT IS HIDDEN BY GATHERING STORM CLOUDS..SPEAKING OF ANCESTORS AND TIME, AS THE WALL CLOCK TICKS LOUD...BLACK PEOPLE ENSLAVED, WITHOUT HAVING THEIR SLAVED ANCESTORS SHACKLES AND CHAINS.BLACK RACE IN BONDAGE, BLACK PEOPLE HELPING THE DEVL MAINTAIN...TO THE SPIRIT WORLD, CHANTING AND INCANTATIONS I WILL SPEAK.SEEKING ADVICE FROM ANCESTORAL VOICES, I WILL TRY TO REACH..THROUGH A TIME PORT HOLE, COMING FROM A SPIRIT WORLD PLACE..CAN THEY GIVE ADVICE HOW TO UNCHAIN THEIR SELF ENSLAVED BLACK RACE.//.FROM A SPIRIT REALM DO THEY WATCH US FAL…

RAINY MIDNIGHT,AS THE STORMY BREEZE HAS THE BRANCHES CREAKING.APPEARING IN MY ROOM, GHOSTLY HUMAN SHAPED SHADOW TO ME BEGIN SPEAKING.GHOST SPOKE, HE WAS A WATCHER FROM A SPIRITUAL REALM...SPIRITS OF LONG AGO BLACK PEOPLE, WATCHING US, THEY ARE OVERWHELMED..BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BECOME DIVIDED,MISGUIDED WANDERING SHEEP IN A STORMY RAIN..TOLD TO ME FROM A GHOSTLY BROTHER WHO NEVER SAID HIS NAME...FACING EVIL WITH ETHNIC CLEANSING PLANS, BLACK PEOPLE LONG AGO WITH FAITH WERE UNDAUNTED...WATCHING US, FEAR OF A BLACK RACE EXTINCTION HAS THEM HAUNTED..MANY FORMS OF SELF DESTRUCTION, COMMUNITY DESTRUCTION BLACK PEOPLE EACH DAY MAINTAIN..TOLD TO ME BY A GHOSTLY BROTHER WHO NEVE…

IF I PLAY THE JEMBE AFRICAN DRUM.SPIRITUAL JOURNEY TO AFRICA I WILL COME...SEEMS THE DRUM SPEAKS, ENVISIONS COME NEAR...IN MY MIND AND SOUL AFRICA APPEARS....IMAGING STANDING ON THIS OLD DARK LAND...SEEING MAASAI AND MANDINKA TRIBES JOURNEYING ACROSS THE KALAHARI DESERT SAND...SEEING, DANCING BARA DRUMS PLAYED BY A ZULU TRIBE...ECHOES OF ROARS BY A UNITY LIONESS LION PRIDE...UNITY ELEPHANT HERD, HEARING THEIR LOUD TRUMPET SOUND...SERENGETI, WILDEBEEST AND ZEBRA,THEIR THUNDERING HOOVES UPON THE GROUND..CALM,PEACEFUL MEDITATION BY VICTORIA WATERFALLS..STANDING BY MOUNT KILIMANJARO,HEARING BLACK EAGLES TO EACH OTHER SING AND CALL...CHIMPANZEE AND LOWLAND GORI…

From Ezili Danto's Live one-woman Vodun Jazzoetry show:

CONTEMPLATING,AS STORM CLOUDS GATHER,SILENT RAIN FALLS OUTSIDE.BLACK MEN BRINGS TO BLACK COMMUNITIES, CHAOS AND CONFUSION.BLACK LEADERS ARE NOT COMING TOGETHER WITH IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS..BLACK COMUNITIES ARE SELF ENSLAVED,CONFINED AND IN DETAIN.BECAUSE OF THE WICKEDNESS OF BLACK BROTHERS LIKE CAIN...THE FIENDS,PIMPS,THUGS AND DREAM SABOTEURS.DRUG SUPPLIERS, PROVIDING DRUGS TO DRUG USERS...BLACK COMMUNITIES, SO MUCH, ANNIHILATION,DEVASTATION AND SELF DESTRUCTION IT CONTAINS.BECAUSE OF THE WICKEDNESS OF BLACK BROTHERS LIKE CAIN..BLACK PREACHERS PREACHING SALCVATION SERMONS ON SUNDAY..MOTIVATED BY GREED, BLACK PEOPLE ARE LED ASTRAY.BLACK PEOPLE MINDS AND SOULS FROM R…

NIGHT FLAVA, SMOOTH JAZZ MUSIC IS PLAYING..ROMANTIC LOVE WORDS TO EACH OTHER WE ARE SAYING...ANTICIPATION FOR EACH OTHER, WE BOTH SHOW..MIDNIGHT LOVE, IN THE MOON LIGHT'S GLOW..SUMMER RAIN SLENTLY FALLS UPON OUR NAKED EMBRACE. .COMFORT AND JOY SHOWN FROM THE SMILES UPON OUR FACE..THE SENSATION, THE VIBRATIONS, GROWS AND GROWS.MIDNIGHT LOVE , IN THE MOON LIGHT'S GLOW ....DEEP PASSION,FROM WITHIN BRINGS A NATURAL HIGH..SO LOUD THE MOANS,SO SOFT THE SIGH..DESIRED LOVE WITH EASE, NICE AND SLOW..MIDNIGHT LOVE, IN THE MOON LIGHT'S GLOW...TO AND FROM EACH OTHER WE RECEIVE .TO AND FROM EACH OTHER WE RELIEVE....LOVE MAKING, LIKE SMOOTH JAZZ MUSIC, A PEACEFUL FLOW...MIDNIGH…

Check Bro James Brown puttin this 100% real poetry down... Ladies and Gentlemen Fellow Americans Lady Americans This is James Brown I wanna talk to you about one of our Most deadly Killers in the country today I had a dream the other night, and I Was sittin' in my living room Dozed off to sleep So I start to dreamin' I dreamed I walked in a place and I saw a real strange, weird object Standin' up talkin' to the people And I found out it was Heroin That deadly drug that go in your veins He says: I came to this country without a passport Ever since then I've been hunted and sought My little white grains are nothin' but wast…

Sankofa My sons and daughters Why remain disconnected? We have been waiting. Holocaust Come let us reason. Everyone else remembers. We forget our own. Rosey In the West Indies, The truth is sweet like sugar Here, soft as cotton. Hell It wasn't so bad Yes, this is the narrative Told... and accepted. Keepers Keepers of the flame Torch within non-consuming Keepers of The Way. Legacy We must remember That this is not all there was There was still "before"

BLACK GRADUATES OF 2012-HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE-RENAISSANCE REVOLUTION..YOU ARE THE FIRST CHAPTER OF A NEW GENESIS..YOUNG GIFTED VISIONARIES AND WITH PROUD BLACKNESS..BLACK MEN AND WOMEN IN RESPECTED UNITY FORMATION...IN POOR COMMUNITIES ORGANIZIG POSITIVE TRANSFORMATIONS..SINCE THE PAST BUILDS THE FUTURE,BLACK HISTORY KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM YOU RETRIEVE..BLACK HISTORY SCARIFICES AND WITHIN YOURSELVE YOU BELIEVE..NOT YEILDING TO COMMUNITY CHAOS AND CONFUSION.INSTEAD COMING TOGETHER WITH IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS..ANXIOUSLY PURSUING AMBITIONS,DESIRES AND DREAMS.DESPITE COMING FROM POOR COMMUNITIES, CONFIDENCE IS YOUR THEME...SPEAKING WE NEED TO DEFINE OURSELVES AND TOGETH…

ARLINGTON,NOON DAY,SILENT RAIN FALLS UPON ENDLESS WHITE CROSSES..PLACE WHERE THIS COUNTRY HONORS SOME OF IT'S WAR LOSSES..A BLACK SOLDIER LIES WITHIN A HORSE DRIVEN CARRIAGE THAT CAME DOWN THE STREET... FOLLOWED BY A GENERAL,MILITARY BAND AND SOLDIERS ON MARCHING FEET...MILITARY BAND PLAYS THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER,,SILENT CROWD,SOME SALUTE, AMERICAN FLAG SOME WAVE..HONORING AND RESPECTING THE SACRIFICE THAT HE GAVE..THE MILITARY CHOIR BEGINS SINGING HYMNS OF INSPIRATION.CARRYING HIM,THE SOLDIERS ARE IN SILENT FORMATION.....HE WAS IN A FOREIGN LAND DEFENDING AMERICA,THE RED , WHITE AND BLUE..IN HIS OWN COUNTRY HATED AND CONDEMNED BECAUSE HIS SKIN WAS A DARKER HUE....HE …

ACROSS AFRICA'S CONTINENT, RISING IS THE SUN..AFRICA'S PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AWAKENED,A NEW DAY HAS BEGUN..HEARD,ECHOES OF ELEPHANTS AND LIONS ROAR..PREPARING TO FISH,ARE TRIBEMAN AT THE SHORE..TRIBE WOMEN TEACHING ANCESTRAL TRADITIONS TO THEIR YOUNG..WITH THEIR CHILDREN ANCESTRAL SONGS HAVE BEEN SUNG..UPON AFRICA,AFTER CHASING WILDEBEEST AND ZEBRA ON THE SERENGHETI..A MOTHER LEOPARD, TAKES HER PREY TO HER CUBS UP IN A TREE.A LIONESS,PREPARING TO POUNCE,SILENTLY CREEPING.OBSERVED BY GAZELLE,THEY QUICKLY BEGIN FLEEING..LEADING THE FEMALES AND BABY ELEPHANTS IS THE MATRIARCH ELEPHANT MOTHER...BABY HIPPOS WITH THEIR MOTHERS AT THE CONGO RIVER.YORUBA AND ZULU TRIBE WOM…

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING ONCE SPOKE, WE AS A PEOPLE WILL GET TO THE PROMISE LAND.DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING COULD NOT HAVE ENVISIONED,THIS WOULD BE STOPPED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE'S HAND.BLACK PEOPLE SELLING,BUYING AND USING DRUGS.BLACK PEOPLE BECOMING FIENDS,SABOTEURS AND THUGS..STREET GANGS MAKING COMMUNITIES BECOME MIND CONFINED GHETTO'S..GANG WARS HAVING BLACK MEN ON THE GROUND SILENT BELOW....SOME BLACK PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN CIVIL RIGHT SACRIFICES OF LONG AGO.SOME BLACK POLITICIANS HAVE BECOME PLANTATION OVERSEER'S AND HOUSE NEGROES..BLACK CHURCH,THE SERMON FROM THE PREACHERS VOICE.LOVE A WHITE GOD,WHITE CHRIST AND REJOICE.CIVIL RIGHTS SACRIFICERS,WEALTH,THE BLACK RICH…

Tell dem, Judge Betta Mus Cum! I LOVE this!

Affirmation by Assata Shakur I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine in windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs. And I believe that seeds grow into sprouts, And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic of the hands. And in the wisdom of the eyes. I believe in rain and tears. And in the blood of infinity. I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade march through the torso of the earth, sculpting mud bodies in its path. I have seen the destruction of the daylight, and seen the bloodthirsty maggots prayed to and saluted. I have seen the kind …

MAJESTIC,SHE FEELS THE WARM SPRING BREEZE..SHE LISTENS TO THE BIRDS SINGING IN THE TREES..NOT CONFINED BY THE LOUD GHETTO NOISE.HER FLOWERS BLOOMING IN HER GARDEN IS AMONG HER JOYS....SMALL IMAGE OF EDEN SHE IS TRYING TO OBTAIN.ABANDONED PLACES IN THE GHETTO,NATURE IS OFTEN DETAINED. ..THIS YEAR IN HER GARDEN GROWING,BLACK THORN AND CHERRY BLOSSOM TREES..UPON GHOST FLOWERS GETTING NECTAR ARE THE BEES..MAGNOLIAS,LILIES,GARDENIAS, AND JASMINES LIKE THE CLOUDS WHITE..POPPIES,PANSIES AND MARIGOLDS LIKE THE SUN BRIGHT...BLUE JAYS,BLACK BIRDS AND RED BIRDS IN THE GARDEN STIR..UPON GERANIUMS,,IRISES,BEGONIAS AND TULIPS FLOWERS OF MANY COLORS..UPON AZALEAS,PETUNIAS AND ORCH…

Sonia Sanchez Now Poet Laureate of Phillly From "Great Things Happ'nin'/ January 2012" Compiled and edited by Louis Reyes Rivera Louisreyesrivera@aol.com Sonia Sanchez Now Poet Laureate ============================= As of Thursday, December 29, 2011, Mayor Michael Nutter and the City of Philadelphia have installed West Philadelphia resident Sonia Sanchez as their first Poet Laureate. In his announcement, Mayor Nutter called Ms. Sanchez "the longtime conscience of the city." Throughout her vocation as such, the 77-year-old poet has geared her poetry as a tool for social activism during the culminating periods of both the Civil Rights and Black Arts move…

HE IS NOT INVOLVED, WITH COMMUNITY PROBLEMS,SEEN BY HIS OBSERVATION. UNSPOKEN BY HIM,THE REASON FOR HIS GETTING INVOLVED HESITATION.HE SEES, THE BLACK ON BLACK COMMUNITY VIOLENCE ANNIHILATION..HE SEES ,THE WHITE, SUPREMACY ORGANIZED BLACK COMMUNITY DEVASTATIONS..HE IS A BYSTANDER WITH PROTEST AND EQUALITY DEMONSTRATIONS..HE IS UNCONCERNED ABOUT, COMMUNITY CHAOS,HE DOES NOT USE DRUGS,BUT IT MIGHT AS WELL BE A MIRAGE, OR HALLUCINATION...SOON,WILL HIS MIND AND SOUL MAKE A TRANSFORMATION/. OR BLACK COMMUNITY PEOPLE WILL HE ELUDE,PREFER SOLITUDE AND REMAIN IN ISOLATION..WITH BLACK VERSUS BLACK,WHITE POLICE PURSUIT OF BLACK MEN, LIKE THEY WERE PREY,WHAT IS …

THERE THEY ARE.AND HERE THEY COME.IT'S FROM THEM, HE IS FLEEING FROM..WITH EACH AND EVERY NEW GHETTO DAY.THEY ARE COMMUNITY PREDATORS,AND HE IS FLEEING PREY...HE HAS PURPOSE,EMBRACES KNOWLEDGE,THEY DO NOT CARE.HE IS BEGINNING COLLEGE,OF THEM HE HAS TO BEWARE...HE FLEES FROM BLACK MEN,WHO HAVE NO SELF MOTIVATION....HE FLEES THOSE WHO BRING COMMUNITY DEVASTATION...HE FLEES FROM DRUG DEALERS..DRUG DEALERS THEIR DRUGS THEY WANT HIS MIND TO CONTAIN...OR LURE HIM INTO SELLING DRUGS AND END UP IN A CELL DETAINED..HE FLEES FROM BLACK WOMEN ,TEMPTING,SCHEMES,ON PURSUIT..HE FLEES THE PIMPS STREET CORNER PROSTITUTES...HE FLEES FROM STREET GANGS WHO ARE ON PURSUIT..THE GA…

TEDDY PENDERGRASS,LUTHER VAN DROSS,ASHFORD AND SIMPSON,THE MUSIC THAT I PLAY..IN EACH OTHERS ARMS,UPON THE BED WE LAY..PASSION HEIGHTS WE TRY TO OBTAIN..MAKING LOVE, WHILE LISTENING TO THE FALLING MIDNIGHT RAIN..FULFILLING EACH OTHERS FANTASIES AND DESIRES..PASSION GROWING HOTTER THAN FLAMES OF A FIRE...SATISFACTION,EACH CARESS AND KISS CONTAINS.MAKING LOVE,WHILE LISTENING TO THE FALLING MIDNIGHT RAIN....MAKING LOVE,SMOOTH,NICE AND SLOW..LOUD,THE SIGHS AND MOANS THEY GROW..SURROUNDED BY 20 BLACK CANDLES GLOWING FLAMES.MAKING LOVE,WHILE LISTENING TO THE FALLING MIDNIGHT RAIN..TO EACH OTHER WHISPERING ROMANTIC LOVING WORDS..WITHIN PASSION IS ENHANCED AND STIRRED..ENJOYING …

STANDING BY THE SHORE,LOOKING OUT INTO THE SEA...IN MY MIND IMAGES OF SLAVE SHIPS I BEGIN TO SEE..WHITE MEN CAPTURING AFRICANS UPON THEIR AFRICAN SAND. .FORCING THEM INTO A SHIP'S CARGO HOLE,LEAVING THEIR AFRICAN LAND..MEN,WOMEN AND CHILDREN,CHAINED,SHACKLED CONFINED...A WAY TO ESCAPE AND FLEE IN THEIR MIND...DIFFERENT PLACES IN AFRICA THEY ARE FROM. DIFFERENT TRIBES EACH WITH A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE TONGUE...FROM THE CARGO HOLE,AFRICAN SLAVES FORCED UPON THE SHIP'S DECK.SLAVE CAPTIVES WITH CHAINS SHACKLES ON THEIR WRIST,ANKLES AND NECK.LUCIFER HIMSELF THE CAPTAIN ON THE SLAVE SHIP..JOYFULLY BEATING THE SLAVES WITH HIS WHIP..SLAVES THROWN OVERBOARD DAY AND DARK.BO…

LET ME TAKE YOU BACK,ENVISION IN YOUR MIND.LONG AGO,SOUTHERN WOODS, IN THE DISTANCE,THE DEVIL AND HIS DEMONS,THEIR EVIL VOICES ECHOES..BY THE MOONLIGHT,UPON THE GROUND, A HANGED BLACK MAN'S SHADOW..DRUG GANGS,STREET GANGS, WOULD THEIR BLACK COMMUNITY VIOLENCE END/.IF THEY REALLY LOOKED AT PICTURES OF HANGED BLACK MEN/.THEY WOULD HANG ONE BLACK MAN, SOMETIMES TOGETHER 2 OR 3.NAKED BLACK MEN SWAYING BACK AND FORTH BY THE SOUTHERN NIGHT BREEZE.. STREET GANGS,.THEY COULD SPIRITUALLY TRAVEL BACK IN TIME UNDERSTANDING WHERE BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BEEN..IF THEY REALLY LOOKED AT PICTURES OF HANGED BLACK MEN....SOME BLACK MEN WERE BURNED ALIVE BEFORE THEY WERE HUNG.CELEBRATING,NO …

WITHIN AMERICAN FLAGS RAISED ,EACH DAY AS THE SUN RISE..THE AMERICAN BALD EAGLE ABOVE FREELY FLIES..SHE ALONG WITH HISTORIC IMAGES,LIKE THE WHITE HOUSE,LIBERTY BELL AND STATUE OF LIBERTY.THE FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA IN THIS LAND OF THE FREE..HER ANCESTORS WERE SLAVES ON SLAVE PLANTATIONS..NOW SHE IS THE FIRST LADY IN THIS GREAT NATION...HER HUSBAND THE PRESIDENT,WHO WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTRY,HIS SELF DISCIPLINE SHE HELPS HIM MAINTAIN..DEMONIC PEOPLE,AN ANGRY BLACK MAN ,THEY WANT HIS SOUL AND MIND TO CONTAIN..DESPITE DEMONIC PEOPLE,TRYING TO MAKE HER AN ANGRY BLACK WOMAN,SHE PEACEFUL AND CALM LIKE THE RIVER'S FLOW..HER SPIRIT SHINES BRIGHT AS THE SUMMER SUN'S GLOW....C…

MY WORDS TO BLACK WOMEN IN THE GHETTO./STRONG BLACK QUEENS,YOURSELF YOU SHOULD DEFINE.NOT LETTING GHETTO REALITY HAVE YOU IN CONFINED..FROM THE GHETTO,YOURSELF YOU MUST SAVE..TO RISE WITH REIGN LIKE THE SUN AND THE OCEAN WAVES..CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF, YOU MUST BELIEVE.WITH AMBITION AND DETERMINATION YOU CAN ACHIEVE .NOT LETTING A CONTROLLING AND DISRESPECTING MAN HAVE YOU ENSLAVED.TO RISE WITH REIGN LIKE THE SUN AND THE OCEAN WAVES.....FOR OTHER GHETTO WOMEN, BE A BEACON OF INSPIRATION.LET YOUR VOICE BE LOUD, BRINGING MOTIVATION..DESIRES, AND DESTINY HEIGHTS YOU MUST CRAVE..TO RISE WITH REIGN LIKE THE SUN AND THE OCEAN WAVES....TRANSFORMATION OF YOUR MIND A…

DAY DREAMING,THE BAHAMAS,ALL IN MY MIND..IN MY MIND I CAN FEEL THE SEA BREEZE.. OBSERVING NATIVE GIRLS DANCING UNDER PALM TREES...FEELS CLOSE, BUT THE BAHAMAS IS FARAWAY..THE BAHAMAS DREAMING,ON A CONFINED GHETTO WINTER DAY...SIPPING ON A NON ALCOHOLIC DRINK,HELD IN MY HAND..WALKING BARE FEET UPON THE ISLAND WHITE SAND..WATCHING THE SEA BIRDS AS THEY LAND THEN FLY AWAY... THE BAHAMAS DREAMING, ON A CONFINED GHETTO WINTER DAY...LOOKING OUT INTO THE OCEAN, HEARING THE ROAR..WATCHING THE PELICANS AND SEA GULLS WANDERING UPON THE SHORE..PEACEFUL MEDITATION,AS UPON THE ISLAND GROUND I LAY..THE BAHAMAS DREAMING, ON A CONFINED GHETTO WINTER DAY.....WITHIN BLUE OCEAN WAV…

I was taken aback by the slight hint of cat urine in Mrs. Eels basement but honored at the same time. I took baby steps as I followed her down the stairs into his place where she would come and lurk at her beautiful things. The stairs didn’t creek or make any noise as old staircases would and they were clearly rotten or being eaten by the rats of my assumption. I don’t think the smell bothered Mrs. Eels because she never said ‘excuse the smell my dear.’ She never said it out of all the times she allowed me to be in the magical place of beautiful things. Mrs. Eels pulled a string that clicked when she pulls it and about 30 watts allowed us to see the fantasy and shine. T…

ANOTHER DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY IS APPROACHING NEAR.I IMAGINE,FROM THE SPIRITUAL BEYOND, THAT DR. KING COULD APPEAR..IN BLACK COMMUNITIES AND CHURCHES,DR. KING COULD WANDER AROUND US....OBSERVING HIS PEOPLE SELF ENSLAVED,AND IN A SELF GENOCIDE EXODUS..DR. KING WAS SPIRITUALLY STRONG AND PROUD.FOR HIS PEOPLE,EQUALITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS HE SPOKE LOUD.. SOUND OF THUNDER,HIS VOICE WAS SPIRITUALLY BECKONED. DR. KING'S RIGHTEOUS QUEST FOR CIVIL RIGHTS,BLACK PREACHERS AND LEADERS HAVE ABANDONED..MINDS AND SOULS WERE, STIRRED,FROM DR. KING'S I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH..SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE FROM DR. KING,BLACK PREACHERS DO NOT SEEK....BECAUSE OF PROFIT GREED,DR. KING'S HOPES,DREA…

THE DEVIL KNOWS WE ARE NAKED.BLACK PEOPLE ARE MORE BARE ,THAN THE DARK LEAFLESS TREES IN WINTER.WE ARE BARE BECAUSE WE SHOW WE CANNOT HAVE UNITY.. OUR BLACK LEADERS VOICES, MORE SILENT THAN THE SILENT RAIN THAT FALLS..BLACK LEADERS CANNOT ORGANIZE KWANZAA PRINCIPLES UNITY IN OUR COMMUNITIES..THE BLACK RICH,THE ATHLETES,ENTERTAINERS, SHOW THEY WILL NOT COME TO POOR BLACK COMMUNITIES AND CREATE A NEW BLACK WALL STREET.THE BLACK MEN AND WOMEN SHOW,THEY CANNOT USE SEXUAL PROTECTION,NO FEAR OF AIDS,HIV VIRUS.BLACK MEN AND WOMEN SHOW THEY HAVE NO RESISTANCE, NO SELF DISCIPLINE WITH DRUGS...AND THE CHURCH,BLACK RELIGIOUS SHOW THEY HAVE NO STRENGTH TO DEBATE THE P…

One fine morning a little mouse named Beatrice got ready for church. She went to her closet to pull out her finest church shoes that were hammered together with a piece of wood from a couch, maybe it was birch. Beatrice searched for her only hat to go with the shoes. This is something she thought she would rarely lose. She found the shoes and now it was time to find the dress. It was tucked away in her closet with an elegantly well placed hole she had stitched with a hairtress. Beatrice slipped her little nylons on her small clawed feet. She only had one glove to cover her paw and it had a small stain but once she put it on, it looked fairly neat. Beatrice spit on h…

LISTENING TO CHRISTMAS MUSIC,A SNOWY CHRISTMAS EVE NIGHT.SNOW ON THE GROUND GLISTENS FROM HOLIDAY NEON LIGHTS..OLD CHRISTMAS PHOTOGRAPHS SO MUCH JOY THEY BRING.WHILE LISTENING TO JOHN COLTRANE'S MY FAVORITE THINGS..REMINISCING OF CHRISTMASES LONG AGO, PRACTICING FOR THE CHRISTMAS PLAY..THE NATIVITY SCENE,MEMORIZING THE SCRIPTURES,POEMS I HAD TO SAY..REMEMBERING ON CHRISTMAS EVE NIGHT, I WAS JOYFULLY CAROLING.WHILE LISTENING TO JOHN COLTRANE'S MY FAVORITE THINGS.REMEMBER EATING CHRISTMAS COOKIES THAT GRANDMOTHER USED TO MAKE.THE TURKEY,HAM,CAKES AND PIES SHE WOULD JOYFULLY BAKE.REMEMBERING THE JOYFUL CHAOS WITH THE CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATING.WHILE LISTENING TO JOHN …

INNER CITY,THE GHETTO,PLACE NEAR UJIMA LANE...BLACK MEN HAVE GATHERED UNITY THEY HOPE TO OBTAIN.NORTH,SOUTH,EAST,WEST WITHIN THIS COUNTRY THEY ARE FROM..ORGANIZING A BROTHERHOOD OF BLACK MEN, THE REASON THEY COME..SALAAM AND HUJAMBO TO EACH OTHER THEY GREET.GIVING IDEAS FOR THE COMMUNITY THEY SPEAK..MALCOLM X PICTURE,THEY OBSERVE UPON THE WALL, .AS THEY SPEAK OF HIS ONCE STRONG VOICE, FROM THE PICTURE,THEY HEAR HIS VOICE BECKONING A UNITY CALL./FIRE APPEARS IN HIS EYES WITHIN THE FRAME.HIS PRESENCE THE PICTURE SEEMS TO OBTAIN...ONE MUST HAVE A MIND OF REVOLUTION THE VOICE FROM THE PICTURE SPEAKS..SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS,SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS ,ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE ONE MUST S…

WITH EACH NEW DAY THAT HAS BEGUN.HER SOUL AND MIND BLOSSOMS LIKE LILACS,GERANIUMS AND CHERRY BLOSSOMS THAT GREW IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER SUN...SHE NOT LETTING THE AUTUMN GHETTO CONFINEMENT REALITY GET HER DOWN..EACH DAY SHE BLOOMS LIKE THE MAGNOLIAS,VIOLETS AND DAFFODILS IN SPRINGTIME,THAT BLOOMED FROM THE GROUND..LIKE AFTER WINTER, WITH SPRING NATURE IS REBORN...AMONG THE GHETTO COLDNESS,HERSELF SHE REDEFINES AND TRANSFORMS..HER AMBITIONS AND DETERMINATION BLOOMS LIKE THE JASMINES AND PETUNIAS THAT IN SPRING BLOOMED ALL AROUND..SHE NOT LETTING THE GHETTO COLDNESS AND SELF DESTRUCTION,HAVE HER ,LIKE THE AUTUMN LEAVES,FALLEN AND WITHERED UPON THE GROUND..WITH THE …

SHE WALKS IN PROUD DARK BEAUTY.WITHIN HER EBONY EYES THERE IS MYSTERY. .HER ESSENCE SPIRITUALLY FREE WITH WARM GRACE.RADIANT THE SMILE UPON HER FACE.HER SOUL LIKE THE SUN GLOWS..GENTLE AS A PEACEFUL RIVER'S FLOW..HER NATURE IS TO BLOOM LIKE A FLOWER. ,REJUVENATED LIKE NATURE AFTER A SUMMER SHOWER...

I’m a soul food diva You can have your Barbie doll, size one, low fat lifestyle I’m a sista who’s built to last— Fine, beautiful and strong You see, I’m a soul food diva I was raised on… Pork chops, black eyed peas and corn bread That’s why my hips—strong and wide—can give birth to twins I named... Malcolm and Huey I’m a soul food diva I was raised on… Fried chicken, biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy That’s why my thighs—so warm and creamy—can hold any lover in place I make them scream... Hold on! Good God, sweet mother of grace! I’m a soul food diva I was raised on… Sweet potato pi…

ONE NIGHT,EERIE SOUNDS I BEGIN TO HEAR..THEN,SHADOWY,GHOSTLY IMAGES BEGIN TO APPEAR..GROWING,RECURRING,ECHOING NOISES,AS BLACK HISTORY SPIRITS BEGIN GATHERING AROUND.ARE THEY THE HAUNTING,MOANING,AND RESTLESS SOUNDS./..SOULS OF SLAVES FROM SLAVE PLANTATIONS, BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY CHAINED ON SLAVE SHIPS THAT TRAVELLED THE SEAS..SOULS OF BLACK MEN THAT WERE HUNG IN SOUTHERN TREES.DO THEY OBSERVE SELF ENSLAVEMENT,SELF CONFINDMENT AND SELF GENOCIDE BOUND..ARE THEY THE HAUNTING,MOANING AND RESTLESS SOUND/.. REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING,MALCOLM X, MEDGER EVERS, AND EMIT TILL..UNSEEN AMONG US, DO THEY CREEP..UNHEARD AMONG US, DO THEY SILENTLY WEEP/DO THEY WONDER IF BLACK UN…