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    Posted: June 28 2007 at 10:45pm
Greetings,
 
Anomis had a lot of great ideas on how she wanted to develop this forum with Poetry and other written words.
 
I am sure Anomis will start this off with some of her Written Words.
 
Please support Anomis in making this a great new forum.
That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger or drives you totally insane. :-)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 11:01am

I’m a hip hop cheerleader

I’m a hip hop cheerleader
carrying hand grenades
and blood red pom poms
screaming from the sidelines of a stage
I built
afraid to part down the middle
for feminine riddles
raining words of proverbs
of prophets who never get heard
because the microphone is just another phallic symbol
that allows jack to be nimble
jack to be quick
leaving jill with a man who can’t climb
a hill and a bucket of spit
she can’t drink or find her reflection inside

she hides

inside crooked eyes of amber
allows her life to be slandered
if hip hop is conscious
we must change the standard
my womb - mate’s been slandered
I planned her arrival
of letters and lyrics never sent to those lovers
who claim that they know her
but still blow her off as a flunky
not a microphone junkie
fiending for a quick fix
not fast cars & hoe tricks
her mouth matrix is taped
hooked on phonics escaped
left her language for rape
so she ate her words
and became an instant interlude
a cute break between the music
when she was an electric lady
a black flower rhyme scheme romantic
a breathe and release tantric with five tongues
and no one
understood why her flow was so fast
asked to slow down
hesitate - never last

to the finish I’m gonna win this
all the dj’s gon’ spin it
when you’re a woman
sometimes all you have is a minute

I’m a hip hop cheerleader
I buy all your records
despite the misogyny
not looking for the blond in me
respond to me
I feel molested hip hop fondled me
I know the conscious brothas follow me
hollow me with half breaths
real emcees don’t half step
but I never slept
took my poems and made food
put my babies in school
taught me
to wait for no one
never turn my back from the sun
of man
I know all my fly mommas understand
got the rifle on my back
with a mic in my hand
I’ll be your tubman compass
so we can map out this land
I’ll be the air that you breathe
I’ll be your number one fan
I’ll scream the HAY’s
I’ll tolerate all your hoes
I’m a hip hop cheerleader

there she go
there she goes

self love freed me
despite all your rhymes with bitches
I know you need me
complete thee believe me
I see you growing In me
looking out from belly
your rhyme schemes are telling
sang those lullabies to nelly
close to my edge like melle
doing cartwheels and air splits
u stage diving into white chics
when I got your hair pic
your weapon of choice
I chose my voice
cause I only gotta quarter left
on this microphone meter
I got on a short pleated skirt
I’m a hip hop cheerleader
there she go
there she goes...
((by Jessica Care Moore))



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 11:04am

Speak up

All hip hop is POETRY.
 
 
BO$$
 
Time is running out I'm still self employed
They talking this Pitt sh*t but I'm tryin to get back to DETROIT!
f**k it if I need to do these n****s I'm a do 'em too
And step the f**k off as if I never knew them fools
See ya!
Now the sh*t is going my way
I'm hittin' the highway
No mo' drive by's 
In my drive way
This is what's happening
I'm finally at my destination
I ain't one of 'dem bitches tryin'
I gotta get crackin' f**k a curling iron
I'll get that sh*t did lata
Meanwhile I'm on some ol'
Bucka a sucka quick sh*t fo paper and
I'm disectin' at the same time progressin'
Eliminating like a lunatic shootin quick
Call it what you want but I'll be brief
I don't trust a motha f**ka
Unless a motha f**ka is me g!
Getting' sweated is just an inspiration
So I don't regret it when you get your BC date
Cause it's all about elimination
(got to go yeah, got to go)
f**k up and I'll have yo ass hitch hikin' 
From Idaho Yo!
Bo$$ is knockin' out silly sh*t
Let me hit this philly spliff
Now it's time to really trip
I gettin the feelin' that these n****s
Is into my sh*t
Plus the muchies got me wanting a burger
But first the murder
Knockin' em off was a cinch but I'm stuck
And ain't no way that I'm a rest my head on
Another bench f**k!
I'm sick of this sh*t
Let me slip into this alley 
And try to fly as high as I can get
With 200 blunts and 100 spliffs
(tryin to make it to Detroit, Detroit)
Now every member of my click is in his grave
I'm truly the BO$$ bitch now
Nobody's slave!
How do I plea?
Listen! I'll neva give an explanation
Cause as far as I'm concerned
The only way to progress is through
Elimination!

 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 11:07am

I want you all to understand  that I do not live and die by the zodiac.
 
BUTt-
 
I am a true Gemini in the truest nature of the Zodizc sign.
 
How else can I love Pac, and Poe
Now that's hot!
 
Speak up!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 5:08pm

Awesome Anomis.  Thank you so much.  Off to a great start.

If you are a Gemini Sun Sign do you know your ascending sign and moon?  I have been recently studying Chinese Astrology and it is interesting to compare the Western charts to the Chinese.
 
Thanks again.
Karen
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 6:07pm
Wow, I think my sign is chicken or mouse in the Chinese atrology LOL I am not really sure.Smile
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thats really cool anomis
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2007 at 8:09am
Thats nice!!!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2007 at 4:56pm
I see you all have  been to the spoken word set.
 
had some tech glitches it's everything now
 
so it's on.....


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WOW!!! You're pretty good Anomis.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2007 at 12:52am
Sleepy B.
checken' out past battles,
u puttem' to sleep? ? ? hilarious, nice flow,
y u call yourself Sleepy B.

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bullet Topic: Some of My favorite Poems
    Posted: October 24 2007 at 12:43am

No man is an island
by John Donne
 

  No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
 
Death
BY

Khalil Gibran

Then Almitra spoke, saying, "We would ask now of Death."

And he said:

You would know the secret of death.

But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;

And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?

Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Your Laughter
BY

Pablo Neruda

Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.

Do not take away the rose,
the lance flower that you pluck,
the water that suddenly
bursts forth in joy,
the sudden wave
of silver born in you.

My struggle is harsh and I come back
with eyes tired
at times from having seen
the unchanging earth,
but when your laughter enters
it rises to the sky seeking me
and it opens for me all
the doors of life.

My love, in the darkest
hour your laughter
opens, and if suddenly
you see my blood staining
the stones of the street,
laugh, because your laughter
will be for my hands
like a fresh sword.

Next to the sea in the autumn,
your laughter must raise
its foamy cascade,
and in the spring, love,
I want your laughter like
the flower I was waiting for,
the blue flower, the rose
of my echoing country.

Laugh at the night,
at the day, at the moon,
laugh at the twisted
streets of the island,
laugh at this clumsy
boy who loves you,
but when I open
my eyes and close them,
when my steps go,
when my steps return,
deny me bread, air,
light, spring,
but never your laughter
for I would die.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Because I could not stop for Death
by Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death – 
He kindly stopped for me –  
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –  
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility – 

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –  
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –  
We passed the Setting Sun – 

Or rather – He passed us – 
The Dews drew quivering and chill – 
For only Gossamer, my Gown – 
My Tippet – only Tulle – 

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground – 
The Roof was scarcely visible – 
The Cornice – in the Ground – 

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads 
Were toward Eternity – 
Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare (1609)


Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.


 
John Donne
DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
 
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,  
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,  
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.  
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,          5
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,  
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,  
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.  
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,  
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,   10
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,  
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;  
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,  
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.


Edited by Anomis - October 24 2007 at 1:02am

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Posted: October 25 2007 at 9:15pm

We Need A Revolution

Topic: M1 Dead Prez
 
The system ain't gonna change,
unless we make it change.

The white house is the rock house.
Uncle Sam is the motha f**kin' pusher man.
What I gotta do to make sure ya understand?
Spit it on a beat by Timbaland?
What I gotta do?
Kidnap Aaliyah, take her melody?
Make it relevant? Hold her harmony hostage
to these people, ???army verses,
that's??? the arms in the churches,
bombs in the purses.
Just when you think it's
calm on the surface,
we bomb on the first.
Uncle Tom get nervous and reverse.
Revolutionary curse words.
First come, first served.
It ain't no lost love.
Freedom cost blood.
That's the word to the
???mouth bird???, n****.

We need a revolution,
We need a revolution,
The system ain't gonna change
unless we make it change.
(x2)

(Black Power) We need a revolution, (RBG's)
We need a revolution, (RBG's)
The system ain't gonna
change (RBG's) unless we
make it change. (n**** this
that RBG's)
(x2)

Gotta cure for AIDS and cancer.
Wanna know? Come follow me now.
Diabetes and sickle-cell, even
mad cow. Wanna know how?
I can stop these cops from killin',
I can feed these hungry children,
I can stop racism, a
product of cap-it-a-lism.
I can unpack the prisons, and
turn religion back to
???re-livin'???
I can stop the bloods from peelin'..
caps
and the crypts from peelin'..
back
I can get yo' cousin off crack,
I can stop the war,
that's in the black hood,
Send the money right back to
the po' fo' sho' an'
if you with me n****, let me know.
Let's go, if ya really wanna know.
(I wanna know.)
(We need a revolution)
Mutha f**k they constitution

RBGs off in this thang
they hip to the game,
get it off the chain

The system ain't gonna change,
unless we make it change.

Posted: October 25 2007 at 9:19pm

Dedicated to me and my Revolutionary, Conscious, Brothers and Sisters.
 
Resistance!




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