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     Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2010 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
 No ...that's not James Brown. I think he's somewhere doing the big payback. I love to hear MC's introduce acts. The great ones know how get the crowds excited. Ray Charles had a good one. That guy could speak several languages and make it sound real good. The guy that introduced James Brown was special, he had a duel role. I can vividly remember Ol'James doing his thang and falling to his knees. His boy would run over and throw a cape across his back. James would cast it aside and break out in another song as Maceo and his band played along, sending the crowd to their feet and sometimes onto the stage. Who doesn't remember the days of Michael Jordan and the Bulls ..."AND NOW - YOUR CHICAGO BULLS!" Although I don't have a mic in my hand, I have the pleasure of introducing a friend of mine from Australia. I don't have a mic but she rocks the mic - she's a poet. No, she's a brilliant poet. Even if you're not too deep into poetry, I truly believe her poetry will hit your soul. I have to admit that some poetry shoots over my head. I don't know if I am stupid or some poets are just deeper and bigger thinkers than me. Whatsoever dat der be, she has graciously allowed me to post her work as a guest blogger. I've chosen a few of her poems. They speaks to motherhood, American Politics and one I know we all can relate to ....Michael Jackson. Without further ado: LADIES & GENTLEMEN ...FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER ...A BEAUTIFUL CHOCOLATE THUNDER ....Maxine Clarke ! http://slamup.blogspot.com/ Picture above. ...................................................................................................................................... hush (a poem) mama / don’t go out to say poems / without me tonight he leaks at me / with those drooping chocolate eyes / two & half a years / is too little time to have known the word sacrifice / so i try hush knowing hush won’t stop the crying / little stricken chest draws rasping breath at hush / i will be back soon we both know hush can’t read the bedtime story / hush won’t twirl that afrocurl to sleep / or let him dip licked peter rabbit spoon deep down in the milo tin / hush can’t snuggle warm in bed & smell like me / still i say hush / pretending maybe that he will / but every mother knows / when her child’s heart is breaking & i felt the weight of his / hanging chubby off my ankle okay / hush hush / okay okay / pumpkin i will stay two years & some is too little time to have known the word sacrifice / so i try i’ll stay & arms flung around my neck he says / no silly take me with you on the stage Photo (c) Michael Reynolds, 2008. (c) Maxine Clarke .................................................................................................................................... little michael (a poem) dear michael / would you believe it congress stood for you today & not just the coloured section the whole goddamn fucking chamber you might have guessed by now mike / that jesse jackson made them bt i swear / for real / we heard no whisper of objection oh michael / wz the least we all could do / sixty seconds quiet / for lifetimes of what we did to you / oh little michael / who brought salvation back / little michael witnessing the streets / jehovah come in a five inch afro & size ten bell-bottom jeans all shook our heads & stood for you / little michael silent / not knowing wz the worst that we could do cz all yr life folk stood around & watched / here comes little michael everybody shhh check out what he can do oh / michael / would you believe it today congress stood for you same old little michael / nobody spoke / we found gabriel in that voice of yours / & looked past the empty eyes / childhood locked up / behind a thug on a tour bus / nobody spoke up & little michael / a tired twelve-year-old / sold platinum / how ‘bout that everybody wz sayin little michael / y’know small black boy with the hair / cute smile / sings that song / ABC & somethin ‘bout salvation oh / little michael congress stood for you today & not just the coloured section the whole goddamn fucking chamber (c) Maxine Clarke .................................................................................................................................... open letter to the president mister president obama / oooooh i like the way you shake your round / black women stare at you like they’d ditch their southern fried jerk chicken in a finger-licking flick i wanna be the one who tucks the president between the sheets at night / i wanna lead the leader of the free world astray / mister obama (no disrespect to your wife) i dig the way your slip hips sway / when you do that live jive-walk across the stage the way you flash that baaad black smile at me across the morning paper page as if to say hey / it’s just you and me in that voting booth on polling day young lady / so let’s make a baby cause i’ll show you where to hide your weapon of mass destruction if you’ll be the cure to my electoral dysfunction mister O mister oh! mister OH! let me be secretary to the state of your affairs the homeland security blanket that warms you everywhere president obamai wanna rule the roost where the man who rules the world roosts when he’s not ruling the world i wanna jump up & down on oprah winfrey’s couch & scream that i’m obama's girl mister O mister oh! mister OH! i wanna suck your dream of hope from those wide brown lips let me be one nation united invisible under your rhythmic hips president obama i like the way you shake your round / black women stare at you like they’d ditch their southern fried jerk chicken in a finger-licking flick (c) Maxine Clarke photo (not included)© Michael Reynolds, 2008. Taken at Noise Bar, Brunswick, while performing Open Letter To the President for the first time. ...................................................................................................................................... Maxine Clarke ladies and gentleman. Can she go or what! Lets give her an All American welcome and a hand of applause. These few are just finger food - some of my favorites. The main course meal is at her site. | ||
| Cagedbird Veteran Poster Username: Cagedbird Post Number: 133 Registered: 02-2004 Rating: N/A |
I read All the males posts @ TC. Your blogs are very long, but what YOU have 2 say is quite interesting. Keep up the good work!! P.S. I wish YOU would come holla at US on LL. board, BUT THEY don't want YOU back, like the Jackson 5, lol! | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2011 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Re: LL board ....Racists without hoods. "Indiana wants me, lord I can't go back there" All males posts? | ||
| Rondall Moderator Username: Rondall Post Number: 178 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Very interesting said the fly.... |
