Archives: 'Poetry'

Administrator — March 8, 2006, 9:49 am

Change Gone Come

I was born by the river In a little tent And just like the river I’ve been running ever since It’s been a long, long time coming But I know a change gonna come Oh, yes it is. I was born by the river in a place you might know Some call it the ghetto [...]

Administrator — , 9:35 am

Windows

Coming home from a hard nine to five I stopped on the corner bus stop for a ride home.   I noticed an elder who looked as if he had worked a harder nine to five so I gave him that nigger nod, I know my brother—I know   As we shared a glare of [...]

Administrator — , 9:07 am

My Resume (Circa 1999)

OBJECTIVE: To obtain wealth, maintain my health, and achieve the highest level of knowledge of self while maintaining myself, achieving the potential of self while being myself, so I say to myself – self: who am I and why –and why is it so hard obtaining wealth, maintaining my health allthewhile being myself. And myself [...]

Administrator — , 9:06 am

I’m looking For a Good Sista

I am looking for a good sista. A proper sista -a thorough sista, Not one of them all grown up, so conscious they’re un-conscious- “We don’t need no man” sistas. I’m looking for a real sista- eyes the color of her mother’s- hair the length that God made it- pants/skirt one or another- not too [...]

Administrator — , 9:02 am

March 9th

March 9th hip hop is dead  hip hop is dead–dead I tell ya hip hop used to be two turn tables and a mic, hear the beat drop and get hype. zhigga -zhigga -zhigga Yes – the rhythm, the rebel Without a pause – I?m lowering my level The hard rhymer – where you never been [...]