Iyesus Kristos (Jesus Christ) according to the traditional iconography of the Ethiopian Church (17th-18th c. Ethiopia). Image from Black History by John R. Moore.
This is the first poem I ever wrote. -One Love-
Give thanks, Rastafari….
via NUBIAN EYE
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Language Barriers
The negative use in the English language towards most things black, apart from money (in the black) which no doubt comes from the inhuman trade in slaves from Africa, really irritates me; newspaper headlines with ‘Blackmail’ or the journalist who announces tongue in cheek after some death or tragedy that it was a ‘Black day’. Why black, after all white is the colour of death!….Rastafari…
GBH
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The Petrol they say is now lead free
Still stinks if you ask me
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The cigarettes you smoke are a joke
Clog up your lungs and make you choke
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In the shops the beef is unclean
It has a degree in BSC – if you know what I mean
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The lamb is a scam
A bit like spam
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The chickens grow up fast, don’t ask-
Fowl play, you might say
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As for the pork
Swine fever no joke
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Eating the veggies is suicide
For too much pesticide
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And everything else
Has Added additives, and plenty of preservatives
It’s enough to make you wanta lay down and take a sedative.
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Sonya Dawn
© 1984
THE BOER NEXT DOOR
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You could have knock me down with a feather
Would you believe it, living next door to a Boer
A real live Afrikaan
And me a Jamaican
Needless to say, we didn’t see eye to eye
My music was greeted with thumps and bangs on the wall
My children they couldn’t play out at all
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Stone the crow
One night I got so low,
I decided that one of us had to go
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In a rage I contemplate,
The force with which one could hate
Without though or hesitation
Filled with anger and grim determination
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I went next door to confront the Boer
Picking up something heavy,
I lobbed it through a window
Blind with rage I kicked in the front door
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Back to the window and smashed it some more
Violence is not the way- there always a price to pay
But its one they understood
For, the very next day the boring Boers fled
Enough said.
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Sonya Dawn
QUOTE “Mistakes are portals of discovery.” – James Joyce
QUOTE “Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
QUOTE “Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa
QUOTE “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. – George Burns
QUOTE “Don’t wait for your ship to come – swim out to it.” – Anonymous
QUOTE “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
QUOTE “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” – D.H. Lawrence
QUOTE “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
QUOTE “To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” – Confucius
QUOTE “Everything is connected… no one thing can change by itself.” – Paul Hawken
QUOTE “There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.” – Niels Bohr
QUOTE “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
QUOTE “Yesterday is a canceled check – tomorrow is a promissory note – today is the only cash you have –
so spend it wisely.” – Kay Lyons
QUOTE “Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.” – Edward Tenner
QUOTE “No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens. – Abraham Lincoln
QUOTE “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
QUOTE “Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
– Tennessee Williams
QUOTE “All the wonders you seek are within yourself.” – Sir Thomas Brown
QUOTE “The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.”
– Harvey Milk
QUOTE “Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself.” – Oprah Winfrey
QUOTE “The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.” – Peggy Fleming
QUOTE “A setback is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
QUOTE “To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” – William H. Walton
QUOTE “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
QUOTE “Where there is great love there are miracles.” – Willa Cather
QUOTE “When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
QUOTE “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
QUOTE “It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.”
– Adlai Stevenson
QUOTE “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
– Oscar Wilde
THE TWO TOWERS
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From way up in the sky
Death rain down from on high
Torpedoed by two jets
Like flaming bats from hell
Two Towers fell
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High up inside
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
On a stairway to hell
Two towers fell
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Crashing and burning, Stomach churning
Mangled steel and flying glass
Shooting flames from another blast
An inferno in hell
Two towers fell
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Plumes of black smoke, to make you choke
Ashes raining down like snow
Awestruck!
The World wanted to know
Who dealt this blow
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What master plan- dropped this bomb?
This towering inferno- this carnage from hell
Torpedoed by two denizens of hell
Two towers fell.
Sonya Dawn
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on July 10, 2013