welcome to the art revolution.
i really need to get into the habit of performing more. i worked up enough courage to perform at this event on Howard University’s campus (Wednesday Night live)…well…more like asked by a couple friends, and i couldn’t say no because i love them…but still…i worked up some courage to get up and perform/read, and they loved it. i guess i just need to get out and do it. anyways…
my beautiful friend Ms. Britany Elise Rickett, author/editor of “The Poetics Noire, Vol. 1,” and i are planning something crazy.
welcome to the art revolution.
sharing: “clearing”
I would have
Loved to tell you
A beautiful story about how growing up
I had it so easy
Believe me
I think things
Would have gone smoother if I gave you some lines that
Didn’t move you
But fools do love the easiest of methods
I’d expect God to test we as we’re here for good things
Better me, need be?
Then test me
And then she and then he
And then we
and then we will
RiseAcknowledge the tears and the pain and the fear that have been birthed to mold you
I hold you more accountable than you hold you
And by holding so tight, I’d be forced to let go in hopes that
You could hold your own
And you doNotice
This is nothing short of Selftual Revolution
Revolutionizing the thoughts and mindset of a once fragile child, easily shaken
But tests made him
StrongerMake sure
(Make sure
(Make sure))
You see this face
Make sure
(Make sure
(Make sure))
You remember me
Make sure
(Make sure
(Make sure))
You la la la la
Make sure
Take care
Take care.And this would symbolize the end of
Poems but I’ve realized i’m not quite done
Being so used to short pieces and quick thinking
Slow thoughts don’t sit long
Aborted
Cohorts with my conscience
In conscious, tactile moves meant to make me take time to
Leave blank spaces in a page full of words that mean nothing
I wonder if you get me
I’m so far from understanding
At least from what my parents say
Making the easiest things difficult because nothing is really that easy
But simplistic advancements are all too uncommon because everyone loves to cause conflict in conflict
Elementary remedies to a higher elevated mind that can’t seem to understand person, plot, and setting
Unsettling thoughts mix with heated somethings and those things brew
Doing something
I wonder if you feel me.
fearless
God works in…ways that are sometimes confusing and frustrating. but He works. my computer crashed. it has all of my previous designs and over 75 pieces that i was planning to work into my next book. i may be able to get them back, but the point is, i don’t have them now. but while at church today in Tennessee (Kairos Community AME Church, under Pastor Roderick Dwayne Belin) i was inspired to go a slightly different route…the next book was going to be a departure from the spiritual with a centered focus on the human mind and its resilience. there’s no reason i can’t merge the two, hitting even harder than “Letters.” i’m inspired. again.
fearless.
untitled
i don’t know what to title this. so i didn’t. i’ve been away for a little bit… but it was needed… anyways… i sent an email to the Busboys and Poets Bookstore manager to get “Letters from the Editor” in there! fingers crossed and God-willing, things will work out! i’m still working on sales and events and all that great wonderful stuff! i’m still going!
yet another quote
Sometimes what’s on my mind is nowhere near as important as what’s on my heart.
-Dominic Antoine Thomas
