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left handed child (NPM2017 10)
i dreamed of the left-handed child standing in the middle of the road i have been dreaming about preaching on milk cartons most of my dreams come from the ocean my sleep is a classroom my teachers are mostly dead … Continue reading
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Tagged ayodele nzinga, National Poetry Month, poems, work in progress
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The American Century Cycle
I am often asked why August Wilson? Why did I decide to direct the American Century Cycle? I am producing the America’s greatest playwright’s seminal work in its entirety. I will be the first director to do so in chronological … Continue reading
Posted in August Wilson, Black Arts, Life., non fiction essay, North American African Perspective, work in progress
Tagged #black theater, art as medicine, august wilson, ayodele wordslanger nzinga, BAM, complex trauma, Fences, gem of the ocean, gentrification, joe turner has come and gone, Ma Rainey, North American African Perspective, Seven Guitars, The Century Cycle, the ground on which I stand, the lower bottom playaz, theater, warrior art, West Oakland, work in progress
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99 Swang / That New Millenium Dime
99 sheep woke up/came in from the toxic fields/in search of a song/full of tic bites/wolves against no walls/on a come up/calling bluffs/tea parties full of donkeys&elephants 99 sheep/infiltrated/media affiliated/99 sheep awake/from a long slow dance/a tango w/existence insistent on voicing the relevant/trying … Continue reading
A Song for Dirt & Water from “That New Millennium Dime”
this is a song for dirt & water star dust & tears a dark cosmic prayer for redeemption help us forget what we never needed to know someone beat the drum slowly/find the road we are ready to go must … Continue reading
Dirt – From That New Millennium Dime
the people /slowly returning/to the land/ slowly/ slow food /looking for sustenance in the sustainable green ways/leaning on unknowing/relearning/undoing re/remembering what we never should have forgotten/ from dust to dust/how we forget that/2/3’s water/how we forget that/god alchemy/mimic nature/ gods … Continue reading
Posted in Black Arts, North American African Perspective, Poetry, spokenword, That New Millennium Dime, work in progress
Tagged ayodele wordslanger nzinga, blk arts, life lessons, lyrical poetry, narrative poetry, North American African Perspective, that new millennium dime, work in progress
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The Lower Bottom Playaz; Full Metal
Bullets are usually made of lead. If you cover a lead bullet with copper you get a Full Metal Jacket; an armor piercing projectile. It is our intention to wound you with art. You will leave feeling something. You will be moved . … Continue reading
Posted in Black Arts, Craft, INK, journal, Life., North American African Perspective, Performing Arts, Poetry, spokenword, Theater, work in progress
Tagged aspirations, august wilson, ayodele wordslanger nzinga, blk arts, creativity, gem of the ocean, journal, life lessons, lower bottom playaz, lyrical poetry, marvin x, narrative poetry, North American African Perspective, opal palmer adisa, poems, spokenword, theater, warrior art, work in progress
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Canon – (From the collection INK)
in the bosom smelling like milk knowing this is as close to the honey as they gonna let you get it’s bitter to the taste inside the house walking on the bones somebody write this story tell what it cost … Continue reading
Unwritten (From the collection INK)
unless you can write food on a plate words on paper have little to do with empty bellies bloated as if hunger were a being growing in the vacuum drawing flies to eyes puckering brows painting something that has … Continue reading
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. it don’t signify
like blue black wrinkled old men
in stingy brims
teeth clenching 5 dollar cigars
breath smelling of gin and knowing
from a distance
whose eyes grin
as they eloquently explode
divine curses
like corks from aged wine
you gotta shake ya head
so it don’t hit ya Continue reading
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Tagged ayodele wordslanger nzinga, black arts, lyrical poetry, narrative poetry, North American African Perspective, poems, spokenword, wordslanger, work in progress, writing
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That New Millennium Dime- Installment 19- Cairo
revolution/likes figs with thick sweet sauce/is a possibility/like omelets or chicken/there are choices/we choose and lie to ourselves/ we have short memories/i remember iran and the last shah/manijhe mohammedi did you ever go home/i remember revolutions/revolts/yolks thrown off/i remember/i got a long memory/son … Continue reading
