Showing posts with label BLACK POETRY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BLACK POETRY. Show all posts

Sunday, December 15, 2013

BLACK POETRY ON OBAMA!- A BLACK PHARAOH! -A POETIC MESSAGE BY MENELIK CHARLES-FROM FACEBOOK

Friday, December 06, 2013

"BLACK PHARAOH" ? -OBAMA O! -A BLACK IN amerikkka PHARAOH? -A POETIC MESSAGE BY MENELIK CHARLES! -FROM FACEBOOK

BY Menelik Charles.


The return of the Black Pharaoh...

You were the 'change' we believed in from
A Bush who mistook his rule as a tool
To violate all the governing rules...
He just wasn't cool...

But something about you had all of us fooled

You were the face of color...a man of valor
A President who promised to
Rule with candor...

And empty jails of Moslem males and
Save their boys from wars gone stale
In Arab lands where bloody stands
Were made 4 men with evil plans

Elected before your rule now abhors
It's no longer 'on it' its more
like Pharaonic.

I'll let my people know!


(C) MENELIK CHARLES 2013

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

BAYO ADEBOWALE'S LATEST BOOK IS OUT!-IT PUTS AFRICAN POETRY IN A NEW CATAGORY WITH ITS BRILLIANT AFRICAN IMAGERY! - GET YOUR COPY NOW!

BAYO  ADEBOWALE’S  AFRICAN MELODY
SINGS FULL-THROATED POETIC SONGS FOR AFRICA
Bayo Adebowale’s newly- published book, AFRICAN MELODY, (A Poetic Exposition of the African Essence) combines sweet melody with harsh melody, melody of expectation with melody of hope, for the African Continent. The 144 page book, containing a total of 61 poems, takes readers on a poetic excursion through the socio-cultural history of a Continent at the focus of global attention.
 
Nature and landscape in the book receive close scrutiny, as much as a number of selected political and historical events in the life of Africans on the Continent, and Africans in the Diaspora. (e.g slave trade, colonialism, coup d’etat, poverty, class distinction famine, racism, genocide, etc.)The poet adulates the achievements of the heroes and heroines of the land, while despots who smear the Continent’s beautiful garment with mud, receive castigation and several knocks on the head.
 
Sweet melody reverberates right from the beginning of the book, as readers encounter ‘motionless crocodiles basking under the blazing afternoon sun, at the magnificent swimming pool of Limpopo’ (p.12); ‘termites milling protectively round their Queen in the palatial fortress, inside the kingdom of the giant anthill’ (p.86); ‘photographs of brown-grass savannah teeming with spotted long-necked giraffes  journeying on the express road of the mind in the open horizon of Pategi’(p.19) ; ’ the receding evening sun sitting down on the busy bay of Lake Chad, immobile like a fat market woman transacting business.’(p.6)
 
Harsh melody, in one other section of the book, exposes Africa as ‘an ailing giant walking with the limbs of a stegomyia and nursing a pulsating numbness in the region of his left leg’(p.53). The ancestral land here has become ‘an elephant crippled by a snare; an antelope caught in a trap; an impala extricating from a tightening noose; a puff adder with his stomach swollen by an undigested rodent; and an earthworm dancing the dance of death in a lake of salt.’(p.59-60)
 
Melody of hope resounds in the book with the arrival of notable icons – African role models like Shaka –‘ the black pugilist of the unconquered land of the rugged Zulu nation’(p.14); Kwegyir –‘ the amiable Goldcoast whiz kid who at school chanted multiplication table with ease and acted Daniel in the Lion’s Den with dexterity’(p.21); Makeba – ‘the cool evening nightingale perching on the African bamboo, dishing out symphonies of pleasant solo tunes in mezzo-soprano octave to a listening universe’(p.84); Luthuli – ‘the blooming banana rhizome on the bank of the roaring River Orange’ (p.10); Ali –‘ the buzzing bee with a deadly sting, the graceful butterfly floating in the openness of the blue sky’(p.110); and Mandela, ‘who trod, unscathed, the narrow freedom road, strewn with pricks and pains, thistles and bristles.’(p.98) and Barrack Obama – ‘the long African broom, sweeping the New World horizon incredibly clean and penny – bright… the arrow head of mighty Luo spear shooting staright to target’ (p.124).
 
In Bayo Adebowale’s AFRICAN MELODY, it is music all the way; Music ‘touching the incore of our heart; jerking us to alertness; and stimulating in us, wonder and incredulity’… Music,’ soft as the murmur of the dove at dawn, pervading our days with delight, in cadences of joyful bubbles; and music, harsh as the monotonous tap on the blacksmith’s anvil permeating our nights with grief, in sequences of sad gurgles.’ (p.23)
 
The inclusion of a Classified Index in this brand new book is unique, so also is the full-colour display of imaginative photographs {nine of them}, supplied with highly creative captions by the poet, for readers delight. Adebowale’s AFRICAN MELODY indeed is a ‘deeply-researched and competently – crafted work of art.’
                                            PROFESSOR ISAAC ADEBAYO ADEYEMI
                                            VICE CHANCELLOR
                                            BELLS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OTA.
 
Cover Price of the Book: N600; $5 {+ $2 Postage Cost}; £4 {+ £1 Postage Cost}
Page: 145
Year of Publication: 2012
Contacts for Purchase:
-          African Heritage Publishers (AHP); P.O.Box 36330, Agodi Post Office, Ibadan, Oyo State, NIGERIA.
-          Email     :               africanheritagelibrary@yahoo.com
-          Phone:                 +2348034495485
+2348072871715
                Yeye Akilimali Funua Olade:      +2348160176922
                Gbemisola Edun:                             +2347063413233
 
"WE HAVE GREAT WORK TO DO. WE HAVE BEEN CALLED UPON TO BUILD A NEW AFRICA AND A NEW BLACK WORLD!"
DR. BAYO ADEBOWALE,DIRECTOR/FOUNDER
AFRICAN HERITAGE RESEARCH LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTRE
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Saturday, June 19, 2010

"SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA" BY AMIRI BARAKA-A TRULY BLACK REVOLUTIONARY POEM ABOUT 9/11!


Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems


Black radical enigma.(The Essence of Reparations, Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems, Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual, ... Review): An article from: Monthly Review

Somebody Blew Up America.


Somebody Blew Up America



Amiri Baraka

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      SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA
         (All thinking people    oppose terrorism    both domestic    & international…    But one should not     be used    To cover the other)
      They say its some terrorist, some          barbaric                           A Rab, in    Afghanistan It wasn't our American terrorists It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads Or the them that blows up nigger Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row It wasn't Trent Lott Or David Duke or Giuliani Or Schundler, Helms retiring
      It wasn't the gonorrhea in costume the white sheet diseases That have murdered black people Terrorized reason and sanity Most of  humanity, as they pleases
      They say (who say? Who do the saying Who is them paying Who tell the lies Who in disguise Who had the slaves Who got the bux out the Bucks
      Who got fat from plantations Who genocided Indians Tried to waste the  Black nation
      Who live on Wall Street    The first plantation Who cut your nuts off Who rape your ma Who lynched your pa
      Who got the tar, who got the feathers Who had the match, who set the fires Who killed and hired Who say they God & still be  the Devil
      Who the biggest only Who the  most goodest Who do Jesus resemble
      Who created everything Who  the smartest Who  the greatest Who  the richest Who say you ugly and they  the goodlookingest
      Who define art Who define science
      Who made the bombs Who made the guns
      Who bought the  slaves, who sold them
      Who called you them names Who say Dahmer wasn't insane          Who/  Who /  Who/
      Who stole Puerto Rico Who stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan    Australia & The Hebrides Who forced opium on the Chinese
      Who own them buildings Who got the money Who think you funny Who locked you up Who own the papers
      Who owned the slave ship Who run the army
      Who  the  fake president Who  the ruler Who  the banker                    Who/ Who/ Who/
      Who own the mine Who twist your mind Who  got bread Who need peace Who you think need war
      Who own the oil Who do no toil Who own the soil Who is not a nigger Who is so great ain't nobody bigger
      Who own  this city
      Who own the air Who own the water
      Who own your crib Who rob and steal and cheat and murder        and make lies the truth Who call you uncouth
      Who live in the biggest house Who do the biggest crime Who go on vacation anytime
      Who killed the most niggers Who killed the most Jews Who killed the most Italians Who killed the most Irish Who killed the most Africans Who killed the most Japanese Who killed the most Latinos
       Who/Who/Who
      Who own the ocean
      Who own the airplanes Who own the malls Who own  television Who own  radio
      Who own what ain't even known to be owned Who own the owners that ain't the real owners
      Who own the suburbs Who suck the cities Who make the laws
      Who  made  Bush  president Who believe the confederate flag need to be flying Who talk about democracy and be lying     WHO/ WHO/ WHOWHO/
      Who  the Beast in Revelations Who  666 Who decide    Jesus get crucified
      Who  the Devil on the real side Who got rich from Armenian genocide
      Who  the biggest terrorist Who change the bible Who killed the most people Who do the most evil Who don't worry about survival
      Who have the colonies Who stole the most land Who rule the world Who say they good but only do evil Who  the biggest executioner
         Who/Who/Who     ^^^
      Who own the oil Who want more oil Who told you what you think that later you find out a lie Who/ Who/ ???
      Who fount Bin Laden, maybe they Satan Who pay the CIA, Who knew the bomb was gonna blow Who know why the  terrorists    Learned to fly in Florida, San Diego
      Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion    And cracking they sides at the notion
      Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere
      Who make the credit cards Who get the biggest tax cut Who walked out of the Conference    Against Racism Who killed Malcolm, Kennedy & his Brother Who killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing?    Are they linked to the murder of Lincoln?
      Who invaded Grenada Who made money from apartheid Who keep the Irish a colony Who overthrow Chile and Nicaragua later
      Who killed David Sibeko,  Chris Hani,     the same ones who killed Biko, Cabral,        Neruda, Allende, Che Guevara, Sandino,
      Who killed Kabila,  the ones who wasted Lumumba, Mondlane , Betty Shabazz, Princess Margaret, Ralph Featherstone, Little Bobby
      Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo, Assata, Mumia,Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton
      Who killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton,     MedgarEvers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney, Was it the ones who tried to poison Fidel Who tried to keep the Vietnamese Oppressed
      Who put a price on Lenin's head
      Who put the Jews in ovens,      and who helped them   do it Who said "America First"         and ok'd  the yellow stars                                                 WHO/WHO/ ^^   Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, Liebneckt Who murdered the Rosenbergs    And all the good people iced,    tortured , assassinated, vanished
      Who got rich from Algeria, Libya, Haiti,    Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon,    Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine,
      Who cut off peoples hands in the Congo Who invented Aids Who put the germs    In the Indians' blankets Who thought up "The Trail of Tears"
      Who blew up the Maine & started the Spanish American War Who got Sharon back in Power Who backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo,       Chiang kai Chek                       who WHO   W H O/
      Who decided Affirmative Action had to go   Reconstruction, The New Deal, The New   Frontier, The Great Society,
      Who do Tom Ass Clarence Work for Who doo doo come out the Colon's mouth Who know what kind of Skeeza is a Condoleeza Who pay Connelly to be a wooden negro Who give Genius Awards to Homo Locus        Subsidere
      Who overthrew Nkrumah,  Bishop, Who poison Robeson,         who try to put DuBois in Jail Who frame Rap Jamil al Amin, Who frame the Rosenbergs, Garvey,          The Scottsboro Boys,      The Hollywood Ten  
      Who set the Reichstag Fire
      Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers    To stay home that day Why did Sharon stay away                    ?                                           / Who,Who, Who/                          explosion of Owl the newspaper say the devil face cd be seen       Who  WHO     Who WHO
      Who make money from war Who make  dough from fear and lies Who want the world like it is Who want the world to be ruled by imperialism and national oppression and terror    violence, and hunger and poverty.
      Who is the ruler of Hell? Who is the most powerful  
      Who you know ever Seen God?
      But everybody seen The Devil  
      Like an Owl exploding In your life in your brain in your self Like an Owl who know the devil All night, all day if you listen, Like an Owl Exploding in fire. We hear the questions rise In terrible flame like the whistle of a crazy dog
      Like the acid vomit of the fire of Hell Who and Who and WHO (+) who who ^     Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo!  
                                   AMIRI B  10/01


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