Black Poetry : Am I...? (After N. Giovanni's Ego Trippin)

Legacy21

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Am I as deep as the many rivers Langston speaks of?
Singing my ageless song like chained warriors on a gang line
Am I as deep as the baritone bass lines?
Leaping off jazz chords
While Billie’s blues belie
The bellowing blares of Miles trumpet
Like he’s blowing on Gabriel’s’ Horn
Awaiting the great morn
When the Earth will fade into blackness
Curtain fall over eternity
Leaving me with the moon dust in my eyes
From too many nights of kissing unfaithful stars
Who flee into the deep purple folds of the night sky
Just cause I dared to caress them with my fingertips
Capture them in my pen and bleed their gold hues
Into the seams of ripped time portals
To heal the Universe of its human disease
Ease my way around the burning heat of the Sun
So I can entrap solar showers in my eyes
Wrapping the speed of light around my shoulders
Wearing Saturn’s rings as my bracelets
Step off Pluto and pluck a wormhole from the galaxy
Lace the aurora borealis in my locks
And smiles at you with gleaming teeth of numerous moonbeams
Am I deep enough to sit on the edge of the Sphinx
Out think the next strategic movement of Alexander the Great
Dash off the tops of pyramids
And sip the Nile in the land of the Morning Sun
I speak tongues unknown to anyone
Translate me in over 100 languages and dialects
Only to find that you will never perfect the artistry of my motion
Rolling words on tongue tips like water sizzling off hot frying pans
With Black mothers bouncing baby boys on their hips
A prayer on their lips
Never to see their seed sprung into strange fruit
That I pluck from the noose as they swing low
And here I come with Apollo’s chariot to carry them home
I stole Adam’s rib and created myself
Who needs Eve when I can give birth to seven sons
Become Sekhmet and teach men how to war
I am the lioness that roars
With the voice of Pharaohs
I am the beauty of Nimrod’s mother that interrupted riots
Bringing peace to the unrest of streets with my mere presence
I am the next breathe in your chest
Captured
Enraptured
For I am Bast the Black goddess of pleasures and joy
Tantalizing you tenderly through titillating tantra
My name is your personal mantra
Recite me inside your head seven times
Recite me inside your head seven times
Recite me inside your head seven times
Recite me inside your head seven times
Recite me inside your head seven times
Recite me inside your head seven times
Recite me inside your head seven times
I defy the seasons, the elements, and define time
I am the reason and the rhyme
I draw irrefutable conclusions that left Confucius in a state of confusion
I debated Darwin’s theories of evolution into non-existence
Set Shakespeare’s sonnets to verses of shell shock
Put it in the mouths of angry Black youth and called it hip hop
I be the riffs of rage in rock
I set my heart to the beat of jungle drums and called it rhythm
Took the tears of ancestors from the midnight skies and created blues
Place me on your tongue and I become Truth
I am the divinity that obliterates men’s multiple divisions and religions
I am justice with clear vision
Not blindsided by the hypocrisy of men tipping the scales in the favor of their hidden sins
I drank the River Jordan from the cup of deepest sorrows
Stabbed my own self in the side with a spear and bled hope for every tomorrow
So don't ask me if I Am!
I think therefore I am
I think therefore I am
I am
Poetry
 
Legacy21,

this is breathtaking...I mean ****, thank you. this is beyond definition...OUTSTANDING...10...PRICELESS...nothing can describe this MAGNIFICENT piece. and the part:

"...draw irrefutable conclusions that left Confucius in a state of confusion....put it in the mouths of angry black youth and called it hip hop"

that is poetic beauty personified.

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 x 3.14...


blak
 

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