struggle
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You Don’t Wanna Know
“…the instrument behind all this poetry…..yea…U don’t really wanna know bout the degradation it took to straighten my pen into this position…what it took to have the courage to wear my feelings on my sleeves….and to bleed words for a living.” Continue reading
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Struggle
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.” – Rainer Maria Rilke What I love most about this quote is that struggle is such a powerful teacher. It passes… Continue reading
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Guest Feature – Exerpt from Ntozake Shange
i can’t hear anythin but maddening screams & the soft strains of death & you promised me you promised me… somebody/anybody sing a black girl’s song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/struggle/hard times sing her song of life she’s been dead so long closed in silence so… Continue reading
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Spoken Words for Silent Wars
I speak for the people in places where hope hangs its strings in the crack filled streets of Harlem where iron style floors and bronze heavens are polluted with “I told you so’s” morgues loitered with toy soldiers who died believing defending a street corner was keeping it real Continue reading
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Hopeless
The blazing echo of darkness as it hovers its deception over welcoming eyes…. is it easiest to speak of morning than to actually believe that it exists? are we walking contradictions…. do we fill our hearts with hope and yet…are we hopeless? Continue reading
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