LIFE HAS 12 KEYS (From the unpublished book: ' Ten Poems ')


The key to finishing is beginning.

The key to success (victory) is uniquely found on the battle field and is formed through a warriors' cry of triumph.*

The key to any type of revelation; is activation.

The key to liberty is wrought with the hammer of responsibility.

The key to heaven is hidden, it can take a lifetime of searching and, or a single simple decision. **

The key to understanding is found in the application of knowledge through wisdom.

The key to any type of belief is often based on the intangible; a step of faith.

The key to fruitfulness is planting good seed. ***

The key to overcoming is a heart injected with the fuel of persistence. ****

The key to life is recognizing the breath of the living.

The key to love is G-d.

The key to beginning is only made visible at the ending. *****


© Josef-Israel 2013




Performance by Raffi, written by Josef-Israel



*The key to success or victory is uniquely found on the battle field;  forged and shaped in a warriors' cry of triumph.

**The key to paradise is hidden, it can take a lifetime of searching and, or a single simple decision.

***The key to fruitfulness is in planting good seed.

****The key to overcoming is found in the hands of the heart injected with the fuel of persistence.

*****The key to beginning is only made visible at an ending.


LifeHas12Keys

Poem - 'Sober' (Verbal Frenzy) - A reflection on the reality of and sate of Politics


As you attempt to pour more political doctrine down my throat,
I check the change in my pocket for the laxative I‘ll have to buy from my legal drug dealer

Really!?!

Did you not know that your words are indigestible, incorrigible and wholly corruptible? 

How do you manage to politically caress your own eardrums,
Reach through your sinuses, 
Tickling the lining of your esophagus, 
And yet, make me cough!?!

Your response to truth is truly painful,
You feel it in your chest, 
Your bosom heaves and razes
You have a fit - gesticulating policies
Flipping birds that won’t fly

It’s too late,
Mr I went to Oxford so I must have the plan,
Mr self-interest man,
Mr ivy-league, Whitehouse, Whitehall, Cambridge was better,
I can do all things that superman can.
Mr “if we win the elections next year” man...

Take your leave, your term is over, 
School is out and the old boys no longer love you,
Time - to run for cover under colour of your favoured currency umbrella.
But if you’re African - it's ok - you can stay a little while longer
And bequeath the throne to your brothers', sisters', uncles', sons' junior brother!
Turn it into a dynasty,
Bring on board Kwadjo, Mary, Abena, Kwesi Unlce Nepa, Sister Tism and Aunt Ivy

Ah-gyeee! 
This nonsense is highly unpalatable, 
I’m past the word puke,
My bile sack is empty ,
Because your drunkenness is spreading, 
And you’re still blowing me fumes!

Your democracy,
Has made your Guinea-Pigs demi crazy,
Has captured this poets’ goat, 
Slaughtered it and mandated this verbal frenzy.

Enough!
Of this alcoholic experiment,
I’m not drinking anymore, 
I’ve cried blood,
And now "my eyes are red"
Looking forward to being 'teetotaly' sober,
While you contemplate this verse of poetic political murder.



©  Written and performed by Josef-Israel 

Sober Verbal Frenzy

SLEEPING GIANT

A son of Africa
but your sons will remember you
as their father
your daugthers too
and childrens' mother
as that one talk-dark-suave
African brother
her friend and her lover
surpassed only by your faith
in a higher other...
the eternal soul lover

Jesus!!! (Ewruade!)

How quickly you returned
from “where you came…
Chaley” a type of original journalism
May G-d permit my spirit to do the same

Go rest.
We’ll see you when we’ve done our time
when we’re old and journaled grey
In glory crowned as such
reflecting His brilliance bronzed
Footsteps
In faith
we'll keep the watch.

Rest now
African Sun

Sleep

We'll keep the watch

Sleeping Giant

A short feature, a spot public discussion on what poetry means today, if anything at all.

Does poetry still have relevance today?

On a warm evening in April, a journey of observation captured in sound, poetic thought traveling on the London Underground:

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Just how does warm weather conjure the inebriated 
and lovers on to Londons’ Tube?
Are sweaty nights an aphrodisiac tune to an alcoholic groove?

Wavering tight stepped shuffles, 
paired with googly-eyed, hand-clasped, lip-locked, snuggles.
Inward thought toothpicking the corners of mouths,
as cheerful eyes spy The Underground antics of the South.

That off the shoulder dress, stranger clothes, newer shoes; 
a fashionista bazar.
A fleeting memory is Winters’ white metaled fire.

Hapless in this weather what else to do but smile? 
Is it not so much easier than to revile?

Warm weather has a mission…
dismiss disgust
go on London smile! 
It’s a must.



© Qweyku 2014

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UndergroundAntics

The thirtieth proverb from The Book of Proverbs.

Special Edition: Mixed with Jeff Van Houten's 'Just Enough' ~ bit.ly/1weD4vF

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"It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him." ~ 2 Kings 3:15

Proverbs 30: Special Edition

There are three things that don't say "Enough!" Four that are never satisfied.

3Things

In the 1980’s there was an explosion of African music in the United Kingdom, largely made popular through the Ghanaian music genre called highlife.

For many West African immigrants this was the happening music of choice, proudly listened to on the very aspirational “must have” sound system; ‘The Radiogram’ – an old fashioned, multi-functional furniture centre piece made of highly polished wood. 

One Highlife tune that hauntingly remains in memory is the Akan language song ‘Abrokyire Abrabo’ (loosely translated as “Life in a White-man’s country”). I document why the Radiogram was so coveted and unearth the self-searching story behind the song – Abrokyire Abrabo aloft waves of West-African rhythms.


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The twentieth proverb from The Book of Proverbs.

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"It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him." ~ 2 Kings 3:15 

Proverbs 20: Special Edition

The first proverb from The Book of Proverbs, by "Solomon the son of David, King of Israel"

1. to know wisdom and instruction; 

3. to discern the words of understanding;

3. to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

4. to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

5. that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; 

6. that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

7. to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

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The fourteenth proverb from the book of Proverbs

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