Marquette Beach Gary

Welcome to the Mind of a Poet
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Unplanned
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Oxymoronic Pedagogy
Friday, July 29, 2011
People Don't Care
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Afro Blue - Pick My Brain
In I go indigo never ignorant
Indiscriminate anti-indigent ingredient
Militant when muted
Mind unpolluted
So I remember my heart beats
Like a djimbe or Congo
From the horn of Africa
Blown into the rhythmless Americas
On ships i rocked
Made waves
As we paved ways of free men
Forced to be slaves
Escaped and became indian braves
Buffalo soldiers on angel wings
Leaving angel dust
Showing open toed footprints
Walking away from culture
I represent the melanin of many men
Running from the fed and state pen
Where they try to say my kind will be ending
Unless we pretend we don't represent
Where all life begins
At the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro
Follow why they know all of I be related
I be Lucy's blood relative
The Hottenot female with extended rear
That shadowed over her path
Scrutinized by strangers
But Mendel let your secret out
Genes don't get darker
They get lighter
When mixed
They dilute in strength and content
But worse than humanity
It hurts and hits harder
When it affects the mentality
The Black Man Fallacy
My wealth has to be stealth
My health depends on how i resist
And look like I'm conceding
Bleeding you slow until unconscious
I stay conscious
Waiting on my opportunity to strike
In the name of my ancestors
I stay restless
Kum Apem Ah Apem Beba
When you kill millions
Millions more will come
Pamoja Tutashinda
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Portable Solutions
Friday, May 20, 2011
In Search Of...
Sunday, May 15, 2011
B.U.L.L.Y
I better understand lives like yours
You demonstrate a lack of willingness
To accept the individuality of others
Something inside you smothers your humanity
Your humility absent because you don’t feel loved
You were abused – raised in the dark
And my light shines so bright
You frown as so not to drown
In your own inadequacies
You sink deeper into groupthink
You are toughest when you are with others
Alone I exhibit more strength than any group
Decide my own direction until perfection
When you or your group start doing what I do
I must be doing something else
In order to stay fresh – and you need me
Your existence is so gray and archaic
Someone told you that pushing me would hurt me
And it would make you feel better
But all it did was help me become stronger
The longer you harass me
The weaker you become
I become numb to your name-calling
I loose all desire to be around you
Or anyone else like you
I grow a distain for anyone
Or anything that condones your type of behavior
We cannot have the same Savior
My God can never be that abusive
I felt alone everyday
Inside my home I closed the door
And I’d go deeper inside of me
I won’t hide inside of my pride
To stoop to homo or suicide
But don’t push me
You love to say “or what!”
“What are you going to do about it!”
Well, I am going to remain who I am
And gain strength while you
Disappear into nothingness
The older we get the better you used to be
The better I am currently
I will travel this planet and see
That the whole world loves someone like me
I was born with natural leadership qualities
You say you know people
People say they know me
And publically or silently
They always admire my ability to be free
I better understand lives like yours now
You used to chase me home
You and your friends used to make life hard
The older we get the more of you
Are now behind bars
The older we get the less respected
All of you have become
You all used to be so cool
Now you all look so dumb
You made me an outsider
So now of course I’m not here for acceptance
Every time I perform
I am having creative conversations with my Creator
Of which I’ve given you permission to listen
Multifaceted we are – painting pictures
Painting pictures actual or abstract
But always graphic
And I would love for you to love it
But if you don’t I rise above it
See the drama and the trauma that I went through
Makes me never covet any acceptance from you
Through all of life’s complications
I put together bits and pieces of my life as presentations
To the resilience of human manifestations of triumph
Someone you picked on as a nobody
Now I am a GIANT
“I’m 20 feet tall”
And I don’t mess with you at all
But if you mess with me
You’ll soon see my ability
To remove all noise from my life
To find my harmony
Yes I am that little boy from Catholic school
The one you said only had
1 shirt, 1 tie and 1 pair of pants
The one you would not let be
Until I learned that the only one
I could depend on to fight for me
Is me
So Bully
I better understand lives like yours now
So I’ll dedicate this life of mine
To let the children know they are safe
And there are more of their kind than yours
And our job won’t be done
Until the last child tells a bully
You will leave me alone
I am no longer afraid of you
There are people here that understand me
And will protect me if you continue
So I refuse to run!
Look out world here I come!
See I better understand live like yours now
And it’s time
You better understood
Lives
Like
Mine…
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
It Continues
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
The Magic Box
Monday, April 18, 2011
Brian Stow
Monday, April 11, 2011
Love As A Breeze
If I had the nerve or the strength to get inside of myself and push
Make me be quiet and listen to the rhythm of the wind
Maybe then I could begin to understand that loosing myself in you
Would be the best destination for my quest to become a new
A different vibration is what love has to be
Through the chaos of the day I should comfort you
If only in thought because distance has no barriers on love
Every hue is magnified inside of it as if we glow together stronger than the sun
Your radiation amplifies as I close my eyes to remember why I feel
It is only necessary to transfer a sense of your being
All tenses, present, past and future reflect the possibility
What you mean to me is more than the atom to life
Less complex than the science behind the molecules of the fear of loosing you
Bonded together in foreverness before the power of we or us can be forgotten
I will transform myself into something powerful and remember
Time shall be obedient to this kiss of eternal magic in tanden as we dream
Of being close and together again in flesh or spirit
Shhhh… there are no words that can define a love Divine
It only caresses the naked body as it moves through space as a breeze