Poetry
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Guest Feature – The Earth is a Living Thing
is a black shambling bear ruffling its wild back and tossing mountains into the sea is a black hawk circling the burying ground circling the bones picked clean and discarded is a fish black blind in the belly of water is a diamond blind in the black belly of coal is a black… Continue reading
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His Birth Pains
There’s a woman laying in the hospital and armed with the next generation in her womb, and she’s about to give birth real soon she breathes in another breath as her body jerks, to the sound of the television… it is the news. reporting another mass murder of black men he moves inside of her… Continue reading
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Disconnect
Common Sense has now been down-graded on a scale of OMG, I’m LMBO, I can’t hear the sound of laughing my butt off! can’t tell if my voice is hard or soft where have all the people gone? Real players must have given it a new definition because I can’t hear the sound of my… Continue reading
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Live Words
Anoint my imagination with the personification of sound let it walk its way through my memories so we may build dreams as infinite as the sky bless my brain with a physical manifestation of text do not speak to me or translate my feelings into emoticons but metamorph into the vibration you wish to kiss… Continue reading
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Genuine
Loving you is not a game It will not play psychology With language Will not toss rhetoric from walls Or hang deception on emotional hooks That dangle temptation like foolish tongues Will touch neither your body Or your mind Without permission instead Sincerity is the loudest whisper you’ve ever heard Laughter fills your belly to… Continue reading
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Spoken Word
What is Spoken Word? Spoken Word is an oral art form; performance-based poetry that is focused on the aesthetics of word play and story-telling. However, there are aspects of the artistry that indicate it is, indeed, spoken word without the necessity of it being poetry. While Spoken Word Poetry is the foundation of what we… Continue reading
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A Private Symphony
When deep breaths are like swallowing hurricanes that stir up in your stomach like roller-coasters and leave you holding on to jagged tooth remains of your invisibility call upon the deliverance of notebooks and journals or the speedy salvation of the keyboard make them your masterpieces Those days When you feel like quarter notes beaten… Continue reading
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