Lyrical Expression

 

Lyrical Expressions

 

They say pictures are worth a thousand words

But the action I put with these verbs

You can says my words are worth a thousand pictures

As I bless this world with poetic scriptures

These are pictures depicting love, life, and everything in it

It is as if I should post a page out of my notebook

Next to a Picasso portrait

In order to portray

How strong my message can be

I just wish to toss

A few poems around

To reach a distressed household like the Red Cross

So send out your S.O.S.

And I will send a few phrases on a quest

On a mission to make the weight on your shoulders feel less

Not trying to say I’m going to change the world

Because the world will not let a young black man

Who listens to hip hop

And does not

Have a college education

Change its natural, off set, rotation

I just hope to reach a little boy

Not like a priest does

But show him a vision of life through my glasses

And maybe he can learn from me

As he does his school classes

So when my time passes

And the ideas are gone

He will be able to take the creator of cremation

And move on

I just hope he won’t be alone

As I have

But that’s beside the point

I just want us to come together, and pick up things

Like an elbow joint

And I will roll up, dressed in all white

And speak making you forget about the burdens

Like a joint

I am black, leaving a residue

Were ever I venture to

It is the dust from the coal

Because I am shaking it off for the common man to find them

And here I stand a diamond

Lasting in your minds forever

That shines even more in stormy weather

A diamond in the smooth

That came from the rough

Here to sooth

The minds of the so called “tough”

But is it enough

Is it enough to achieve?

Enough to believe

That my words can relieve the world of one person

Who has been deceived

I can only pray this is my calling

And answer the door of any and every poetic thought calling

Reviews

[Luqman Qadi]

This is pure art. As I read this piece, I seen a liberator being unfolded before my eyes. Being one that came up during the initiation of the civil rights, there was not a young mind of this magnitude. GREAT PIECE!


Luqman

[S.J.Moore]

Again you left me speechless.
I love that you feel that way.
When I started writing I wasn't thinking about the money that eventually makes its way to us. I was thinking about the fact that I wanted to change the way someone feels.
I wanted to help change someones mind.
Help in anyway.
And be remembered for doing it on my terms.
I loved it.
I can't wait for more.

[Wanda S. Paryla]

This is a very deep confession and observation, and proves that a good education can be found outside of a college, as well as in. I absolutely love the way you open this poetry, and yes, while a picture can paint a thousand words, so can one word paint a thousand pictures - or even a few words can paint millions. That's what writers do. And, I would hope that it's the wish of all writers to reach out and touch another... alas many writers waste their talents on their own personal gain. This work produces such fantastic imagery; imagery that longs, itself, to reach out and touch another human being in some way. It seems you have a knack for metaphores and you use them well here. Your poem is full of fantastic lines, but these interested me a great deal,"To reach a distressed household like the Red Cross," "So send out your S.O.S." The comparison there is phenomenal.

You have some great, even complex, messages that you're attempting to put across here, but also, there's a simple side to this work - the old adage of don't judge a book by it's cover. This work demands to be read and contemplated, and I'm going to place it into my favorites so that a some readers who might not otherwise see it might come across it. I say to you, bless you, for writing such an honest piece of work and saying these things outloud.