Black Poetry : POETRY....OR Not???

afrostotle

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:teach: Poetry or Not???

Before I get started I…
Wish that I could say that… this piece
Is going to be about something
Beautiful…a beautiful image a…
Serene release of… sonnets and roses
A piece of… lyrical prose
Where Man confesses and professes
His… undying but certain Devotion of…
Unwavering commitment with sensuous
Soul-searching emotions
A…poem with…nostalgic phrases
Symbolizing the lows and highs
The …Joys of life through… various Stages…
Cherished memories for All ages…
Most readers like those Kind…a lot…
I wish I could say that this is that kind of piece…but…
It’s not

I…
Wish this piece which… I am about to read
Was filled with… sensational stories
Of…Patriotic glory and… heroic deeds…
Chronicles of brave travels sending me
Across rough seas I… wish I could tell of
Voyages to uninhabited lands with
An abundance of treasures…Some
Delightful desert oasis…My Nights filled with
Guilty Pleasures… tall tales
Too terrific to believe yet…too thrilling to be
Forgotten…I…Wish this was that kind of Piece…but…
It’s Not…

Truth be told…
This… piece I’m about to release
On paper resembles a literary eye
Sore… and brainwashed minds might
Get glazed eyes and despise my rhymes and
Label it a bore…because it lacks
The traditional Preferred fluff and lofty
Metaphors… and all the things poets
Do to be clever…I do read those
Sometimes…HOWEVER… when this
“Prophet in chains” needs a release from
Society’s pain and starts to squirm and
Grow Anxious It’s… laymen’s terms and

Plain language…that supplies the medicine
Curing me of my symptoms of
Mental anguish… No matter how
Hard I try to get things going
Still…I can’t just…Scribe merely
For the sake of writing poems
Full of tricky talk and …slick slogans
Just for the sake of me having
Something good to show them
So- I- Write pieces of- wit and wisdom
That Speak to my people…
Arming them with… x-ray vision…
So they can see through
Camouflaged evil

Then-
I- hit- them- with- more-
Pieces that… cures them of their drug
Induced delusions of… a unified Multi-ethnic
American inclusion…while exposing how
King’s Dream- became- an- illusion of
False prophecies and… defecto policies…
The true “Politricks” of Demonic Democracies…
These… Lyrical lessons of Blessings strengthens
Young minds and…focuses the blurred line
Between hip-hop and…hip -oc racy…
To once again-be the voice of the oppressed
Like It was first designed to be…
Who…Me???

When I release… Best believe it’s
A mentoring piece… designed to rid
My peeps of their grief and… provide
Real-time relief from the sins found
Within most urban city streets
Exposing to them…
An escape from hate and-
Changing one’s fate- from a
Life of strife and- giving them a Worth
More than the price of gold at their
Weight…Giving them and- us and- you
And- ME…a… sense of how things need to be
If “WE” are ever going to be …I said…
A sense of… how things……need to be…
If WE- R- EVER- GOING- 2- B- FREE- 2- JUST- B

So…………
Whenever my soul is…
Filled with strain
And the pain starts to use me
I …sit patiently………Waiting
For those Ancestral spirits to move me…
Then- I-Afrostotle- Black Man- with-
Pen in hand- scribe only the words that choose me
And once wordz chosen are spoken- the-
Rhetoric rendered slowly starts to sooth me…
Now…Out of breath…I must stop…(SIGH)
I wish I could have written some renaissance
Classical piece….But… reality’s…All I got

Peace, Power, and Prosperity

Written by Afrostotle Turr`e
 
Thanks for the LOVE.....

I got into an argument of sorts with a english "scholar" on campus, and he seems to feel that anything say pre-Harlem dayz...Other than Sir Langston, is the truest form of poetry...and spoke to and for more folk than today's more Loose style of writing..........One Love
 

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