Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Aesthetically Audbibly Me
"Aesthetically, Audibly Me" is a book of Spoken Word pieces designed to invoke images and sounds that will point the reader to God.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
LET's Get Lifted!
8/8/10 1:06 a.m.
Elevation
I don’t think you’re ready for the truth of this spit
Cover your heart
Cuz it’s about to hit
Them quiet reserved spaces
Them places where you hide
And nobody can surmise
Not even the prophet with the keenest eyes
That you a thief
You’re a closet prostitute
Selling your wares for the biggest compliment
Searching for approval from man
Looking for a hand… out
To applaud
Your efforts to be fake
Not sharing the truth of your being
Because truthfully speaking
You don’t know it
And you show it
Every time you open your mouth
Your words betray you
They say that you
Have no idea
Live beneath your privileges
Not understanding your wealth
Crying about the hand you been dealt
My momma didn’t love me
I was dropped at birth
I wasn’t educated
On these things, you place your worth
Mephiboseth help to declare to the cripple and lame
Their place at the kings table still remains
Help me, Moses, stammering in speech
Declare to the feeble minded, God will speak
Education is not the key
What God speaks will be
He’s declared to the unloved
You are loved
He’s closer to you
Than a hand in a glove
He’s proclaimed to the crippled
In Him you walk again
And to the uneducated
Let this mind be within
That mind of Christ
The sword
The Word
The Knife
Christ is the Life
And the Light of the World
Illumination is the right of Creation
Be enlightened
And enlighten your self
Stop breathing earth fumes
And take this Eternal breath
Come up higher
Retire
The old man
Your place is in heavenly places
And spaces
Where Christ sitteth on the right hand
Come from the bottom
And join Him
Doing It!
8/8/10 12:46 a.m.
Evangelism
The creative juices are flowing
Inside me knowing
That this is an expression of Him
The true gem
I can take no credit
For this gift is not my own
But it came straight from the throne
From the bowels of the throne room of compassion
This limitlessness is matchless
None can compare
O contraire mon frere
Who would dare?
I am but an extension of Him
The true gem
Gem germinates the innate within
His next of kin
Stirring and contemplating
What part of him he will birth
Through poetry
Through dance
Through the arts
His best he imparts
To the unsuspecting
The suspect being
The ones without
Those that don’t shout
But shoot up
Caught in a rut
Wanting to die
Scared to try
To live
To these ones
He gives his gifts and talents
His abilities and possibilities
The drunk on the street
Is a philosophizing beast
Because the gift to reason is on the inside of Him
Inspite of Him
That thugged out pimp
God didn’t skimp
On the gift to sing
Everything is not about His diamond rings and bling bling
There’s an impartation in him
No less than them
Who cry Holy Holy on Sunday morning
These is the highways and hedges folks
That God calls us to invoke
Life in
That prostitute, homosexual, wife beating lunatic
Is your next of kin
GO GET THEM
Do You Really Know Whose I AM?
Take me out of your box
You got me trapped in a box
In your pretty little mind
O f what you think I should be
Not really seeing me
You see the dancer
Prancer
Rhythmic motion romancers
And you think
Hey she’s easy
A slick hook and a nice beat
Will lull this beast to sleep
With this same box
You remember the locks
Or kinky twist I used to wear
So you think
Like my former hair
Style
My pattern is tight
Easy to be straightened
Some grease will increase
The elasticity
So you think you can stretch me to fit
Whatever you deem appropriate
Or you think that just because I hum an occasional tune
Create a skit, using the metaphors of the stars and the moon
Or intellectualize on a theory
Or a conclusion surmise
That you see through my eyes
You think that I am rewritable
Like a hook on song that you just don’t like
Or made into 16 bars to make it tight
To your delight
Or a scene in a play that can be misquoted
Demoted
Or just outright made of no importance
I am not your concept of me
What you perceive me to be
See what you don’t see
Is this simmering eruption
This burning within me
To be the fullness of He
That called me
There is a cataclysmic eruption
Stirring within
Bubbling and gurgling
At the sound of Him
My next of kin
Hearing the ebbing, swelling tide that He is
Bursting to express to men
That He Lives
And He’s coming back again
For His next of Kin
The ones that look like Him
Walking
Talking
Breathing
Sighing Him
I just want to be like Him
To look like Him
To Please Him
To see Him
To Be Him
In Earth
His nature I must birth
I’m pregnant with possibility
Potential potentially potent to
Burst the water of my womb
The contractions consume
Consume my prayers
My meditation
My devotion
My dedication
His voice
My only medication
Will birth this nation
That’s on the inside of me
Please don’t take me to be
What you think you see
But truly see
That I am He
And He is me
Take me out of your box
Recess is OVER!
Stop Playin’
See Imma come at this piece
Like my life is about to cease
Because it is
This is my one shot in life
To effect with the knife
This sword in my throat
Is about to make me choke
Choke to get it out
Choke to spit
Choke to say
I’m sick of this sssh
Don’t say it out loud
It’s a crowd
Don’t you dare say that you sick of status quo
Here comes the big woe
The big woe of church folks
Man I could choke
I mean for real
What are we really doing?
Are we affecting change?
Or are we continuing to maim
Yeah, I get your three point sermon
Hopping and leaping
While the sinners murmur
Looking at us
Saying, Man I know they fake
Cuz that same bite of sin
Together we just ate
Digesting fornication
Sipping on thieving contemplation
Hyprociting the mystery
Corruption, a part of the church’s history
We can’t deny it
We need not even try it
We folks been lying
Since God put the sun in the sky and
Nailed His Son to die and
What for?
Do we really think that Satan ain't gone even the score?
Out of hell, we can’t connive
Or contrive
No more will we be alive
So how bout now
Now we stop playing games
And just do the dang thang
Get on our “J”
And get out of the way
For the revolution is a forward notion
A motion of people pressing in
Investing in
The next of kin
Laying seed in these kids
Living the life amid
This dying generation
This population
Full of aggravation
Needs every congregation
To just stop playing!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Calling All Warriors
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Satan, You Just Got Played
Nada, Zilch
Looking for an outlet
A looking post
A place to peek
Into the master’s piece
His piece of me
Which is all of me
But you gets nothing
Not one inch
Not even a lil’ bit
From Your Attempts
I’m exempt
Covered By the blood
Free from Demonic Pimps
You can’t play me Son
I ‘m God’s chosen one
Birthed of Holy DNA
Chromosomes display
The ladder to the Father
Connection to Resurrection
Total Perfection
Eternally Scripted
God depicted
You Gets None, Son
Son of the Morning
Lucifer
Shatan
Whatever your name
You gets none
You can’t faze me
Cause you ain’t raise me
Up out of my sins
Righteously Ignited to Begin
Spittin’ Verbiage
Lips a Liquid Pen
Seeping
Leaking
Anointedly Reaking
Holy Fire
Righteously Attired
To spit your defeat
To verbalize your demise
Son open your eyes
Cause Satan
You just got played.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Total Recall
This level of intimacy supersedes
You know that sho’ nuff loving
You got when you wasn’t
Supposed to be getting it
Hitting it
In the crevices
The secret places of your rendeavous’
Known only by you
And your boo
Or boo’s
Depending on the season
Or current
Of your present emotional state
Whatever needed to be filled
Through lust revealed
Oh don’t be fooled
You was empty
Open
AND
Broken
Searching for a token
You remember that?
Yeah, you remember
See this is something better
You might say out of this world
This passion knows no limit
Or length
No restriction
Or affliction
It doesn’t maim
Or cripple
It doesn’t leave you wondering
Crying and sighing
Sitting by the phone
At home alone
See, he’s a constant lover
It’s not a guessing game with Him
You never have to play games with Him
You don’t have to dress up
Or put on makeup
Never have to shave your legs
Find your best suit
Or shave your head
Your favorite perfume or cologne is not his fragrance
The incense of your praise is what He savours
He searches for you in the depths of your being
The real you, He’s always seeing
He’s not a surface lover
There is no other
The major pursuit
In your heart he roots
Supermodel size
Or hunk physique
Giorgo Armani
Or Donna Karen
He’s not impressed with what you are wearing
The unmade you
Is who He loves best
You know the unshaven
Morning breath you
That awakes to the first day light
No pretense or pretension in sight
Lord, good morning
Yeah that’s this level!
You know what it’s called
Kingdom!
Remember That?
Jeremiah 1:5
5Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.
Psalm 139: 13-18
13For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother's womb. 14I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well. 15My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously worked in the lowest parts of the earth. 16Your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. 17How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Verbal Revolution
But an admittance
That I am His
And He is Mine
Although politically incorrect
I must interject
JESUS IS THE KING
This is a Verbal Revolution
Spouting Creations Solution
Interrupting Satanic Pollution
Introducing................................
Verbal Revolution
Can you get with this?
'Cause you can't stop this
One WORD only
And the worlds were formed
One WORD only
Interrupting the norm
It took a WORD to create it
It took a WORD to devastate it
It will take a WORD to change
It will take a WORD to rearrange it
Speak a WORD only
Verbal Testimony
Let's start a revolution
Speak the solution
What's the WORD?
The WORD was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld His Glory. The only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)
My phraseology is not an apology
But and admittance
That I am His
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Reflections
It's a new year and new season to turn up the volume. It's time to speak louder about this thing called life. Reflection is necessary for introspection. Can't look within until you look back. This is the year to look back at all your junk, and mess, and straighten it so it won't continue to muffle the sounds of freedom.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Say What?
Little known black history
A black man was responsible for eternity
Carrying on his shoulders destiny
Simon the Cyrene
Carrying the cross of you and me
Helping Christ to bear the burden
While up the hill to Golgotha journeying
From Cyrenaica, North Africa
You ain’t know
Black Man representing
For Sho’
Say What?
On The Shoulders
On the shoulders of black folk
Many strides were made
From discoveries to inventions
In spite of the henchmen
Black bodies swinging
Southern Trees bearing strange fruit
Still didn’t stop
Ever present Melanin
From Taking root
Harriet Tubman carrying the souls of black folk
Cross the line
Shoulders never broke
Freedom time
Strong enough to lead others to be free
On the shoulders of this black
The stride of liberty
Zora Neale Hurston
Penning, scribing
Freedom through free verse
Writing Prose converse
Shouldering Strength through script
Scribin’ equipped
To write way
To cultural ellipse
Not to mention Nikki
Giovanni that is
Ego Trippin’ born in a Congo
Revolutionaries' kin
Strong enough to be strong
Fierce enough to be fierce
Following the legacy
Of the King pierced!
He shouldered the wood
Making strides when others could
Not able to stand
Preparing way for not just the black man
But Every man can!