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 - but I always called it home.
Times were […]

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 understanding a bus passed […]

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 tight/not too short.
I wanna “I don’t really […]

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 I?m in
You want stylin? - you know […]