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Spoken Word

...in all my life I sought
for You ...my Love
eclipsing in my heart
like moon drops kissing my skin

dancing with my emotions
I drown inside this passion
carresing my every dream
embracing You ...my Love

a tenderness of emotion
waning inside my soul
where your voice lingers
with the softness of the setting sun

You are ...My Love

whispering to core of my being
for the vault of my heart to know
the shadows may veil the stars
but our love shall never evade us

because... You are My Love...

Love Poems: Victoria L. McColley

You Are My Love

Bachata the justification of your invasion onto my back. 
Tangle me in your tango. 
Chew charlestons into my seams and line me w/ puppet strings propelling me 
Unstoppablly 
Into the mess of your misery and remind me why I'm required to stay. 

Why I've gotta pitch a tent in hell between poles of fire and brimstone 

I been stoned 
self medicating in the vapors of green leaves and serenity 
Praying for peace in the home you built on top of me. 
The one I won't dare to run back to 
The one I'm too scared to call home. 

And don't take this as a fuck you we had no good times poem 
Like I wish I never met him at all poem 
It got better before worse 
18 rounds before i went down for good 
Surrendering the ring to a woman that can stand the heat. 
There was smoke. 

I guess the roof was always on fire
And I need every ounce of my energy now to drag myself out and onwards 

imma need my journal back (Spoken Word)

Mahogany Toned Matrimony

You've made me beautiful again 

You listen 
when I tell you how much I appreciate your essence 
And you hear it 
You see me 
Seeing you 
And I feel affirmed 
Because it is all I have ever wanted (to say) since last spring 
“Underneath the sickemore tree

Made me A...
more sicker emcee” 
With “a sickening addiction 
Living with this 
Living witness” to life and her shit list  
Would make you, run from “religion, …
 with the quickness” 

My country capitalistic 
Puts 
babies beneath ballistics 

where nice people are pressed into machine cogs
While *kats* that are *so poetic* spit poetry (later bars) in between subway cars 
And everyones too preoccupied pretending not to notice 
We're riding a reading rainbow 

No invite tho? 

to dine at life's table of pleasures 
And I feel guilty 
Eat with me 

The thirst in this city is outta control sometimes 
Considering the high level of I I don't give a fuckery!

A sister and brother 
giggle and tug 
on childhood
to my right 
and I can't help but to smile 

I’d hate to be the person who can

People respond to my questions 
about their happiness aggressively 
As if I needed a lesson 
in-all-the-ways-that-things-are-so-succinctly-screwed-up 

She's tense 
She's their mother 
She winces 
And grimaces 

She asks me to take the baby 
I would but I'm getting off the next stop. 
I realize she's speaking to her daughter who is shocked- 
that I would cradle a stranger 
 
Not knowing that I waltz horizontally with friends who make themselves strangers with great walls sealed with emotion 

Give me your body 
I cradle him too
Give me your boy 

I know you intimately 
And I don't know the first thing you 
 
I 
do know I gotta go back downstairs
tho ..The family dollar got pads cheaper than bus fare 
And after last night I'm flowin like a poet with Milky Way kisses along her cheekbones
“Alive with a hive of a mind buzzing with” rythmic words and lyricism 
No need to switch the *Algorythm* 
This is simply the that way it is 

sway with me 

But not the only the way it needs to be.



sway ... 4you, nyc & 4brooklyn

Download & Donate here: https://livedehtdnaem.bandcamp.com/releases

For Dontay. 

This is a free release, however any money contributed will be donated to the families of victims of police violence.
credits
released 17 April 2015 

Written and performed by Masai and Amani 
Produced and arranged by Mike Arson 
Mixed and mastered by Fat Buckle Audio 

A reimagining of "Me and the Devil" by Robert LeRoy Johnson, as performed by Gil Scott-Heron 

In loving memory of Donald "Dontay" Ivy.

Me And The Devil (In loving memory of Donald "Dontay" Ivy)Amani O+ & Masai ATG #BlackLivesMatter

For everyone, for Poetically Undefined, for the Poets, for QEW 7, for the reader, for the listener, for YOU!

Visit www.amanipoet.com for more poetry. 

(Background music The Album Leaf Into the Blue Again cover. The Album Leaf website http://www.thealbumleaf.com/index.php?galleryNum=0)

Brilliance (For You)

Poet: Amani O+
Audio: Catching Flies - Let Your Hair Down

(He Came With Love) Wednesday morning poetry

YISRAEL: The Daughter Of Zion Weeps



My eyes weep in separation by the River Jordan,
into these descrying moments awakening my dawning.

I feel as a willow within the quietuses of stillness;
Sheltering the beatific glories of bird songs, 
so that my soul shall be released and redeemed;
Surrounded by the eminences that have built Jerusalem…

Where your footsteps once caressed the bank of the dead sea;
I find my self beckoning to see the citadel and the palace one more. 
This denoting city of David beyond the deep chartreuse valleys…

Or is it the heavenly city chosen by our holy father God;
That from the salt of salts wounds I shall return with knowing,
bleeding as the death of my soul flows into the tributary rifts?

I am an abandoned seed into the heavenly blossoms of kingdom’s sacred vine,
these baptismal sands and seaside flowing through all the lands of Yisrael
offers me to awaken within the knowing that I am but a speck of dust
beneath the rock and clay of all mankind…and my eyes they weep…


© Poetry Devotionals by Victoria L. McColley


YISRAEL The Daughter Of Zion Weeps

Slam Poetry: EM Press Slam Poetry Series on Audible:  
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The EM Press Slam Poetry Series includes readings and performances of the best slam poets in the country. Performing abridged works from their poetry books, this series features the most significant voices in the slam poetry community, including, slam founder Marc Kelly Smith, Louder than a Bomb co-founder Kevin Coval, Marty McConnell, Jack McCarthy, Billy Lombardo, and Regie Gibson. 

"You sing and chant for all of us. No one gets left out." 
—Kurt Vonnegut


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Slam Poetry: EM Press Slam Poetry Series, Excerpt #4

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Summary:

The EM Press Slam Poetry Series includes readings and performances of the best slam poets in the country. Performing abridged works from their poetry books, this series features the most significant voices in the slam poetry community, including, slam founder Marc Kelly Smith, Louder than a Bomb co-founder Kevin Coval, Marty McConnell, Jack McCarthy, Billy Lombardo, and Regie Gibson.

"You sing and chant for all of us. No one gets left out."
—Kurt Vonnegut


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Slam Poetry: EM Press Slam Poetry Series, Excerpt #6

Everyone has a fascinating story. I like to hear them I like to tell them. In my mind (heart) I paint scenes, choreograph ballets with my words. I'm a plant it's my photosynthesis, I'm a sun it's me shining, I'm a newborn just inching towards a beautiful boob...I'm just doing what I know how to do and investing my time in what I think is important. (I was recently deathly afraid that line would make me sound conceited).

We are all Divine ...this is me having the audacity to let my light shine. I WANT YOURS TO TOO! 

I "pray" for a divine-awareness revolution where everyone realizes that we are already on heaven and that life is truly ours to direct. 

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." Audre Lorde
Inspirations: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qptyt0-S9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXq_mVU8nyc

imma need my journal back (Spoken Word)

Amani O+ Poet & Emcee