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"The Fall" by: Nubian Star

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The Fall
I usta be able to 
Pull it out 
on
Demand
But now
Now
I wait
Like an addict
Sick for my next hit of
Ink
Words
Stanzas 
Carefully places thoughts
Yes
I miss it 
Like clean air
Or grandma grown veggies
Homemade marmalade 
I miss seeing a poem in
EVERYTHING
Every thing I could imagine
Came thru my hands
Etched out the tips of my
Fingertips
Drip from the ball of my pen
Creating masterpieces placed 
Lovingly together by
Emotional structures
Standing on the accent of each stroke
Every BOLD crooked 
Printed cursive line
I’ve never written symphonies
But thru my pen
I have conducted 
The opera of life thru
Words
Played the sweetest harmonies 
That dance in front of your eyes 
My every experience 
Was held 
Majestically 
Between the spaces of 
Each
Word
My triumphs
Myself induced 
Defeats
My struggles
My ambitions 
Dreams
All stored 
Between the spaces
& The many pages
of countless
Notebooks
Journals
Napkins
Menus
Flyers
Scrolls
Parchment 
It was my religion
& I was the most devote 
Believer
Worshipping
Words
Holy scriptures 
Gifted to me by the Most High
Anointed Scribe
But I forsaken it
Took the blessings for granted
Selfishly
Pridefully
Sinfully
I fell
Broke my quill
Could no longer spill
Ink
On gilded pages
No longer serve
In the army of 
Writing soldiers 
Give away my mojo
For vanity
And now I suffer
Fiend
For words that once wore my
exclusively
Want the words to 
Love 
Me
Again
End Point
4/7/14
Written by: Nubian Star

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Poetry "Ancestors" by:Nubian Star


I bet our ancestors are angry
Angry our backs are scar less 
Furious that our hands have
Never labor in any way like
Their calloused fingertips
We have no idea what cotton
Feels like pure from the ground
Under a hot Mississippi sun
At high noon
Can’t even imagine what it must have been
Like to watch my daughter be raped
By our master
Her father
I would guess the souls of those
That built what I now benefit from
Turn endlessly at the ignorance we resort to daily
Giving homage to them only in February
For 28 or 29 days
This country’s roads are paved on their graves
Haunted by their continual misfortune
The lives they were told they should be thankful for
Treated less than animals
Forced to pray to a God that didn’t even recognize them as human
Made to sing praises to a deity that demanded they give their blood
As worship or be punished
Monsters yielding
Black leather bound books
With gilded crosses
Filled with foreign markings
Inhuman teachings
Unrealistic requirements of devotion
I KNOW our ancestors cry out in rage
Every time we pick up instruments of hate
And kill one another
Over
Shoes
Jealousy
Lust
Territory
Behaving like the very ones that
Stole us in the first place
Ignorant
I bet our ancestors watch us now
Ashamed
End Point
4/10/14


Written by: Nubian Star

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Poetry "Soul Music" by: Nubian Star



Soul Music

Horns blow
Blaring with the strength to 
Herald angels in
Horns blow again
This time accompanied by Cello’s
Bellowing strings
Then the saxophone sings in Alto
On the up beat the keys chime in
And just as toes being to tap
Here comes that hi hat
And there you have it
Ladies & Gentlemen
Jazz
As the trumpet hits a high note
On a smooth solo
That’s when bodies hit the floor
Grinding
Bouncing
Gyrating
Cat calling
Announcing the way that rhythm
Makes them sway
Makes bodies shaking
& Wiggling
In betwixt the cello & keys
You can hear the sweetest things
See the bass drop
Low
Then it’s the drum solo
Now it’s really jumping
Ladies slide thru legs
Others slice thru the air
All on the call of the notes
It’s a melodic dope
That gets you
Heaven High
That Jazz train
Everybody can ride
Do a soul glide
Bringing that beat back again
Never wanting it to end
Screaming for an encore
Horns Blow
Angels do the jig
To this hypnotic heralding
Strumming head nodding strings
As beautiful keys and a saxophone sing Alto
To a kick drum and hi hat hitting
Jazz
Ladies & Gentlemen
Let’s dance!
End Point
4/15/14

Written by: Nubian Star

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