My Lips
March 27, 2007
My Chin
Rivers
I Come Forth
COMING FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
Sunrise and Sunset
Through every minute andEvery second
Every hour
Time transcending
Spirits ascending
Passing faces
Familiar faces
Walking down paths that I remember
Hearing same old stories told
SHIVA
BUDDHA
OSHUN
SHANGO
NYAME
OGUN
YEMANJA I come forth by Day and by Night
Spirits on top of spirits on top of spirits
Riding bareback between water and rock
Cowwry toes
Tree branch fingers
ME-Octopus
Whirling and spinning about
Hopping and jumping
Squating and laughing
Like a thousand ants moving all about YOU
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
Creeping through your pineal gland
Along cortex groves
Stimulating testes and ovaries
Waiting to dance on the climax
Beckoning your tongue to be loosed
Come and reunite with me
Through History and prayer
Come bow down at the shrine
Taste clear blood
Drink of all
Understand the flow of all that exist outside of your body
You are no more
You are no more
You are it
You are all
COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
ALL OF YOU LOST SPIRITS COME FORTH
BY DAY AND COME FORTH BY NIGHT
AWAKE
Awake to the rustling of your wings
Let them carry you to place of remembrance
Let them take you beyond the mirror
Step into darkness; damp hot sweaty darkness
Every drop has color
You create what you wish and you are
all that you create
Black butterflies fluttering as eyelashes
Turtles as feet
A sword as a back
An elephants trunk for a belly
Weeping willows for arms
A lotus as a face
Eyes of fire and
Lips of purple dust
With every twirl and whirl of your hips;
a rush of flower petals surround you
COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
AWAKE YOU AWAKE YOU AWAKE YOU
Take hold of the energy that directs you
Take the hand of a babob tree
Pass through oceans into black holes
Through meditation rituals
Dig beneath the earth and hear the ancient stories
Told from the mouths of beetles
LISTEN- walls do talk
LISTEN trees do hear
LISTEN birds know who you are
I evoke spirits within spirits
I evoke water within water
Air within air
I call to Mama, Baba, Creator,
All that will hear me
I come bringing gifts:
Dresses made from eagle feathers
Shoes of gold
Glass volcanoes
Teeth of pearl and
A baboons drum
I come forth by day and by night
Like a pitch black cloud that sweeps across every
Planet at 18 hours in a second
Sending wisps of coconut scented milk drops that
fall and dazzle on top of every spine; like gold diamonds
Volcano power erupts from my palm
Apricot nectar drips from my lips
With woven breast made like a birds nest housing elephant babies-
I nurse them with the juice of black cherries
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
With ancestral skulls buried underneath my armpits and
aborted babies kept snug in my navel
with snakeskin wrapped snugly around my thigh and beaver
fur tied around my ankle
a stolen noose from a southern tree drapes my shoulders with
Black neck still attached
Homeless people ride my back and
Single mothers suckle gold coins from my toes
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
With hidden secrets in my fingernails and the answers to all
questions imaginable in my eyebrows
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
With all things seen and unseen
Myths and history
Truth and disease
Antidote and voodoo
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND NIGHT
Evoking spirits within spirits
Evoking water within water
Air within air
I COME FORTH BY DAY AND BY NIGHT
NIGHT IS DAY
DAY IS NIGHT
AND
MY
EYES
ARE
ALWAYS
OPEN
Black Beauty's Song
BLACK BEAUTYS SONG
I sing on top of mountaintops
I sing at births and weddings
I sing at jazz clubs
in Hip-hop clubs
Reggae fests and
Auditoriums
plays and musicals
parks and supermarkets
bathrooms and bedrooms
I sing of into the night talks and 5 a.m. runs and walks,
Of holding hands while walking through the mall
Of tender back of the neck kisses and gentle ear caresses that mimic it all
I sing of black on black love that stood through thrashes and rapes
A love that stood through hound chases and over the broom disappointments
A love that floated to the top of the sea, above tarnished ancestral bones
A love that passes through prison cells and ghetto walls
A love that crawls over mountains and dances through high
grass
I sing in your ears babies
On my knees baby
I sing of good mornings and restful nights
Red roses and bottled wine
Lingerie delicacies
Secret fantasies
Loud love and hushed moans
I sing of hope and resurrection
I sing of peace and friendship
I sing of warmth and comfort
I sing of kisses and tears
From blue-black to the lightest of the beige
From nappy to the nappiest
From the tallest to the shortest
From the thickest to the bony
I sing black-beauty’s song
Loud and soft
Hard and tuff
Black-beautiful-black
I sing, I sing, I sing
Because of my Mama and my daddy
Because of my grandmother and grandfather
I sing because of my daughters and sons
I sing because I got too
I sing because God told me too and because
Oshun blessed me to
I sing
I sing through tears of remembering and heartache from understanding
the pain of yesterday that creeps into today
but, I sing of rebuilding, mending, and feeding black bellies
of planting and watering fields of black hearts and souls and making them
healthy and whole
I sing black beauty’s song and it sounds so sweet.
March 26, 2007
Black Pearls and Feathers
Black pearls and feathers
As a gaze at the moonlight,
and glance at the clock;
"11:30"
“Humph. You should be here
by now”.
Anticipation and longing erupt
all through me.
My heart is beating, my skin is
moist, my throat is dry,
I feel like birds are flying and
nesting in my stomach.
I’m beyond nervous. But, my
longing for you exceeds every
emotion. I love you, it’s true. I know
that your coming too, cause
you love
me.
So, I'll wait..
I'll sweat, I'll drip, I'll glisten, I'll hunger and swallow
in the moonlight,
in black pearls and feathers
(and your favorite pumps)..
(and your favorite pumps)..
The Quilt
LAST NIGHT
Last Night, I sewed a quilt for you
Last Night, I stitched over 360 patterns for you
Last Night, I needled in and out for you, out and in for you
Last night I sewed a quilt for you
I mixed yellow in with white, green with blue, I added
purple to orange, brown to beige and gold to silver too.
Last Night I weaved love into pain
I threaded tomorrow into today and truth into justice
I put the bees in with the birds, the trees with the clouds
I combined elephants with crocodiles, lions with rabbits
I put roses with lilac, hyssop with juniper
cinnamon in with vanilla, and honey with seaweed
I sprinkled salt with a dabble of coconut milk
Last Night I braided my glass pots in with my ceramic jars
I took crystal and put it with rock, I took a wood panel from my floor and cotton
curtains from the window, I took a lock of my hair
and twisted it with an Aunk from a bracelet
I took those old pictures of your mother and combined them
with my grandfathers war photos
Last Night, I sewed a quilt for you
I knitted kidneys with hearts, tongues with toes, pericardium
with gallbladder, uterus with pineal gland, liver with spine
lung with large intestine, legs with hands, knuckles with earlobes,
eyes with mouth and spirit with soul
Last Night I sewed a quilt for you
And once I finished I wrapped it around my body
to collect all of the juices of my labor
with admiration and love I folded, and pressed, rolled and packed
With a lick from my lips and a star shaped kiss,
I laced it with honeysuckle vine and tied it with a butterfly bow
And gently, very delicately I tucked it in our sacred place
That quite comforting place at the left side of my right pupil
That small dark spot that you always seem to acknowledge,
I placed the quilt there
And that way I’ll always keep the love that I have for you safe and treasured
Never to be stolen, never to be taken or given away
And in that way, every time you look into my eyes you’ll know the depth
of my love, the seas of my being, the heart of my existence and you
will Never, never forget who I am.
WAKE ME UP
Wake up toes...
Wake up legs
Wake up knees
Wake up thighs
Wake up pelvic
Wake up pubic
Wake up navel
Wake up stomach
Wake up breast
Wake up nipples
Wake up arms
Wake up shoulders
Wake up neck
Wake up ear
Wake up scalp
Wake up mouth
Wake up lips
Wake up tongue
Wake up to loving
Wake up to touch
Wake up to fingers
Wake up to kisses
Wake up toes...
Feel it, rise to it, accept it,
Wake up eyes (SEE)
Wake up voice (Speak)
Wake up to loving
March 25, 2007
MY Purple Hue
My PURPLE HUE. Luscious, fruitful, duel animation, duality in time, sleek design, lotus wings
blossoming in moonlight, blue-berry rasp, cotton candy dazzle, tender clasp, strong grasp,
hypnotizing linger, beloved bellow, delicate butterfly, treasured piece, My PURPLE HUE. Lasting
love, continuous flow, sacred heaven, wide eyed temple, spiritual hymn, glistening drip, magic
touch, whistling blow, pebbled kiss, violet dance, harmony bling, transcendental Shiva,
transatlantic connect,
My PURPLE HUE
DANG!
<Today> lost in political jargon, and domestic refurber (whatever that means),
loathing and loving irony, exsisting in fantasy and spectacle, waiting for midnight and longing for
sunrise.
A New Day! Free from political, social, economical crap. "Do it this way, my way, or that way or no
way".
A "Sam Cooke's" Change has "Got" to come. Today! Populated pressure, with childlike
confusion. I really don't think anyone Knows what "their" talking about. Anyhow, anyhoo!
I want a new day, one that I create, My own Sun, My own Sky! I guess i gotta paint it. Cause
actually, I'm so caught up in the mess myself, I'm losing Vision! I gotta see it.
Love Me RIGHT
Love me right
I got rivers flowing through my breast;
that babies suckle from
that tiny toes dance through
I got rivers flowing through my breast
Elephant trunks sip
Grandmothers bathe in
Grandfathers are baptized in
Love me right
I got a cowry shelled belly that houses the Sun
Fruits and vegetables nurse in
Blue-black slaves hide in
Lost souls rest in
My children played in
Love my belly, love my belly, love my belly right
Love my voice
Listen, it does have something to say
It sings, It laughs loud, It whispers, It sweetly sasses, it delicately scolds
It firmly teaches, it mimics past monarchs, and it sounds like my mother and echoes of my
grandmother
It floods with the wisdom of my grandfather
It blows the gentle love breezes of my father
Love me right
I am a dream, a hope, a vision, a blossomed flower, a planted seed for tomorrow,
I am your mother, I am your father, I am your brother, I am your sister, I am your son, I am your
daughter, I am you.
I am the ancestors, I am the deities, I am the trees, I am water and air
I am life and death, I am spirit and breath
Love me right
Ascension
