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Dear Hip Hop…
Who Willie Lynched your mentality? Who put you under a spell? Why you let them teleport you back to slavery? They could have at least made it look good didn’t have to hang you on the block in your own hood from your own trees could have bridged the gap between the souls you “sold”… Continue reading
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Writer’s Quote Wednesday – Mariah Carey Hero
I have a song for you this afternoon as my contribution to Writer’s Quote Wednesday. This song is so beautiful that I thought I’d switch up my usual quotes with it. The verses that hit home for me this week were: “So when you feel like hope is gone Look inside you and be strong… Continue reading
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Her Song
Her fingers girdle themselves around the microphone like blessings wrapped in silk prepared to sing poetic melodies in front an audience too deaf to hear the angels playing on the strings of her vocal cords to witness the flapping of wings against their skin too blind to see the messages dancing on her collar bone… Continue reading
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My People Hold On – Eddie Kendricks
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Wk 2: Love Poems Challenge: A Love Like Music
Welcome back everyone for another week of Looooveee with Lisa Tetting’s Love Poem Challenge brought to you every Friday. This one is a re-post, an oldie but goodie. Enjoy. A Love Like Music… the instant birth of calm and racing anxiety slowed, and slick, and subtle like splashes of sunlight chipping at our faces warm… Continue reading
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