POETRY; A CREATIVE POSE

I started writing when I was in high school.  I was a rapper during the inception of rap along with the the Sugar Hilll Gang, Curtis Blow, RUN DMC and the like.  I was a pretty good rapper, so I thought.  Writing was born in my spirit as rap music became my muse.  I also became a DJ during this same time and my parties were always packed.  I charged $250 per party and was booked every Friday and Saturday night until somehow I wound up retiring from that even though I was easily earning $500 a weekend at 16 years old.  In retrospect, why did I ever stop that?  Hmmm.  Oh well, it was still the foundation that set in stone the desire for vocable expression through words.

After years of pen to paper, I have decided to publish some of my poetry, to be followed by a novel detailing specific obstacles, growth and changes that would later alter my life in a more succinct fashion. All poetry discusses lives passed, present and future.  Some poetry is a fundamental account of the way another experiences life and tries to relate it to those that can similarly relate to that familiarity or knows someone else that has been dealt that very hand.  In a lot of cases, it is freedom of speech that transcends its way to the heart, soul and bone marrow of our existence.  In some cases its raw.  It other cases it can be a soothing assurance.  In every case, it's a cry out to those that will listen and become conjoined to the message being announced.  Notwithstanding, we mostly associate poems with love, death and hope.  Below, please enjoy a recent entry that espouses about the greatest feeling of human existence, i.e.

“I LOVE YOU”

PONDERING THE THOUGHT FOR DAYS; YET IRRESOLUTE OF THE RESPONSE
BUTTERFLIES SPARKLE INSIDE AS THE HEART BEAT INCREASES IN UNISON
ALL THINGS OLD BECOME NEW AND IN THIS MOMENT, NEW THINGS BECOME NEWER
THE GLEEM OF JOY OVERTAKES THE PATH AND DIRECTS THE CORRIDOR OF YOUR MENTALITY

EARS YEARN TO HEAR THE MELODY OF THIS BEAT PLAYING REPETITIOUSLY FOR YOU
THEN, THE WORDS ARE SPOKEN LIKE A FLYING ANGEL LEAVING THE LIPS OF HEAVEN
ALTHOUGH FEW IN NUMBER, THE GRAVITY OF RESONANCE EXCEEDS THE UNPENETRABLE
FOUNDATIONS BEGIN TO SHIFT AND ALL THINGS HEIGHTENED IN READINESS

BEHOLD THE WARMTH OF ITS EMBRACE GRAPPLING EVERY FILAMENT OF SUBSISTENCE
NOTICE THE TENDERNESS OF ITS LANDING AS IT ENVELOPES THE PRESS OF YOUR SOUL
CHEER FOR THIS IS THE MESSAGE OF UNITY THAT UNITES IN FIRESTONE
AND SYNERGY BECOMES THE FLOATATION DEVICE THAT GUIDES THE REST

BEHOLD THE MAGNIFICATION OF YOUR EMOTIONS CONJOINED WITH ANOTHER
SEE THE TRANSPARENCY OF MY CORE BEING BROADENED WITH EACH WORD
BRUSH KINDLY AND PLACE YOUR COUNTENANCE CLOSER TO MINE; NOW LISTEN
NO LONGER PONDERING. RESOLUTE IN THE RESPONSE “I LOVE YOU” IS WHISPERED REPETIOUSLY FOR DAYS.



We insert our own lives into poems that stop to peek inside windows that seem to parallel our personal cause, albeit, my own creative pose.  I pray my poems will touch the lives as passionately as each one is written and ordained by my higher power...God! Amen.