Writing Excercise

Here's a writing exercise we did in my Performance Poetry Class a while back.
We had to create a poem out of questions.

I just wrote a string of poetic questions that have nothing to do with each other.

Why does she give birth to more children than sonnets?
When did we become more like ants than gorillas?

Why do we enslave ink in our pens and then put them on the auction block of paper?
Why are our heads filled with brains instead of hearts?

Why must I walk in your shoes to know your story wouldn't it be better to walk in your skin?
Why does it matter how many colors are in the rainbow when we don't appreciate them equally anyway?

How many poets does it take to screw in a light bulb? None because they're too busy writing about its former luminescence. 

LIVE FREE WRITE

Right now I'm just gonna blog a free write (10 bars) based on the last thing I see on twitter lol. NO EDITING, NO BS Here it goes:



necolebitchie:

  

im flipping through the channels and they have a whole segment dedicated to Gabby Sidibe weight smh...


Are you intimidated by her roles or her rolls
Just cuz your skinny butt can't act and you're wack
Gabby is taking it to new levels while you're stuck on the same one
Why are you hating on your fellow colored woman
I love it when an intelligent black woman is on my TV screen
So what's up with the attitude? what do you mean...
smh? shaking your head? 
You should be clapping instead
Really surprised at you necolebitchie
I guess this is why Gabby's way more richie


LMAO... I am so corny

ttfn loves.......

By the way, check out this discussion about Gabby: (I love Niecy Nash!)

What is your opinion? Should she lose the weight? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40z8T4oZxt4

Weekly Inspiration

Here's an original piece by me. (not finished btw)
Read this today in my Performance Poetry class

Enjoy!

My Crow, Soft Word

you were my favorite

grammatical error

no matter how much I tried to fix you, you just kept 

popping 

up 

on my page as incorrect

I kept typing you in over and over in different orders 

and you still came up in Spell Check

I gave my all.

Placing my brackets around places I never put them before

Inserting your comma within my quotation marks

Entering and back spacing 

entering and back spacing

ENTER

BACK 

SPACE

SPACE, TAB, SHIFT, SHIFT, ALT, 

CONTROL

RETURN

until my      fingers hurt 

My friends said, "This is a fragment, consider revising" 

But I begged to differ

I was determined to mold you into the perfect phrase

I tried everything that i could yet

you still had that little green squiggly line dwelling underneath you

you really began to piss me off

you were the one thing ruining my life's masterpiece

so i decided maybe my memoir was better off with out you 

and miraculously 

all my problems were over once i hit that button. 

DELETE.

ttyl .... xoxo

Weekly Inspiration

I know ... I know... I been gone for minute. but.... I'm back.

To get some inspiration this week or this weekend. Try going to a poetry reading, a slam or a poetry lounge. For events checks out either this blog during the week or search online for a nice spot.

I live near NY so here are a couple of links to spots that I like know of:

1. Nuyorican Poets Cafe : http://www.nuyorican.org/ 

2. The Bowery Poetry Club : http://www.bowerypoetry.com/  

TTFN ..... X O X O 

don't mind the bushy eyebrows lmao

By the way, if you're in New Brunswick. I will be performing at the Bi- Annual Jazz n Java Poetry Open Mic this Friday at 8:00 pm in the Douglass Campus Center. Come out and show love for some great poets.  =)

MCATs and ish

THIS

HAS TAKEN OVER MY LIFE

I have been M.I.A once again because I have been vigorously studying for the MCAT. But now I am back at school and must begin the process of learning how to handle both effectively. I'm really excited about my classes though.... Systems Physiology, 19th Century Black Lit, Creative Writing and Orgo Lab....think i can handle it???

Anyway I've decided that no matter what I will post a weekly inspiration piece/excerpt from either one of my poems are someone elses every Tuesday.

Weekly Inspiration:

Why do I still feel enslaved?

Like there are mental shackles wrapped around my brain.

And on every application where I see African hyphen American slash Black

Why do the words resemble a chain?

Pulling me back to the: you don’t belong here.

Reiterating that I’m just a former slave

I’m just a visitor chilling on the streets paved over my ancestor’s graves

Slavery can’t possibly be over.

Because the white man has always been massa to me

I begged to get a perm when my hair was too peasy

Now I cover up my naps with a full blown weave

- Samara Henry (excerpt from Emancipation Proclamation) 

Events, Events, Events!! and Randomness

So first....I have an event to tell you guys about!
It is going down!!!


Where? The Key Club
58 Park Place
Newark, NJ
When? Thursday, December 10, 2009
Say What?!!! Some of the best spoken word you'll ever here in your life.
How much? only 10 bucks for a mind blowing evening of poetry and other special performances
 Donations will be going to the free Thomas Fund so that's a plus.
Honestly, Thomas is one of the coolest people I know. Someone who would help out anyone in need, give great advice and mentor who ever came his way. Nobody's perfect but if you knew Thomas, jail and him do not fit in the same sentence. So come out and help out a young artist in need because trust me, if he knew you he would do the same for you.

More info on slamglobal.org click the "FREE THOMAS" link

On another note....
I need a nice player for this site...I want to git it poppin on my page without havin freakin "imeem" messing up all the time. So, if you have any ideas and/or suggestions lemme me know.

Here's a few lines from "french music"

you dont have to speak my language for me to understand you
the dark pools in your eyes hold enough ink for me to draw your emotions
curly swirls of confusion drift down your face like roller coasters
bending and twisting around your newly formed wrinkles
i can read the disappointment in your nose crinkles
i can write a novel on the resonance of your cries alone
holding out-of-phase tones
unknown
but bold "Come back here!" you scream in your native tongue
i can see the way you punish yourself with every blink
thick wet lashes against your upper cheeks....

  -By Me duh!! lol

(wanna hear the whole thing? let me know)

TTFN

I'm back!

I'm back even though I was never really here to begin with. Probably due to boredom and the Thanksgiving break. But anyways, I suppose I should try to get back on here more often. Coming up this winter....more tips on writing, more poetry by myself and others, and poetry events.

Thanksgiving was great but still not over.

In my family we have two thanksgivings....(because of course you can never be too thankful). We have one on Thanksgiving itself which is at my God mother's house and my uncles house (we do house hopping, a true Antiguan tradition) then when we have one on Sunday at my house. (those pics will be up) And I'll finally have something on this boring page.

So anyways, I'll be back (promise) lol