L'Nass Shango Poet Acrostic

Marcus Mosiah Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey arose from a little town, yes my lord
A Leo lifting Harlem, kingdom bound, yes my lord
Resuscitated religion around the black man’s looks, yes my lord
Cuddling pickaxe, hoe, and cradling books, yes my lord
Umpire of Freedom from home to foreign land, yes my lord
Seeker of justice from Costa Rica, Nicaragua to Panama, man, yes, yes my lord

Master of the African destiny, this man could dream, yes my lord
Overtures of empire, black starliner on the Atlantic stream, yes my lord
Sentinel and soldier, O Booker T’s light giver, yes my lord
Itinerant leader from island to continents, the diviner, yes my lord
Athletic word maker speaking truth to power, yes O my lord
Sequester again the UNIA at this defining hour, yes my lord.

Greatness is sometimes attributed, sometimes achieved, yes my lord
Africa’s proud son, both in you we believed, yes my lord
Regal was the call you made: “Up you mighty race!” yes my lord
Venerable the acts you did standing to the governor’s face, yes my lord
Earth has no better soul, or Jamaica another child, yes O my lord
Yielding everything to heal the lambs defiled, yes, yes  my lord

How shall we see again the great black visions of grandeur, yes my lord
Evoking in cultureless voids Africa’s splendor, yes my lord
Royalty reduced to slavery would not crawl the dust, yes my lord
Once liberated minds can fly where only eagles lust, yes my lord

We heap up your tributes now that your dead, yes my lord
England’s queen can sleep without a dungeon for her bed, yes my lord

Men who dream are imprisoned to bury their dreams, yes my lord
Instead those dreams prove finite walls too poor, yes my lord
Superior imagination to tame, and brighter still gleams, yes my lord
So when the wind blows look for him at the door, yes my lord 

Yapping Hoover at his heels lied on him to stall him, yes my lord
Over in Jamaica, he broke the walls of prison grim, yes my lord
Uncle Marcus, great hero, O how we miss him, yes, yes O my lord

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Elaine George April 2, 2009 at 1:39 AM MAGNIFICENT ACROSTIC!!!! L'nass Lainie George

Brian Strand March 27, 2009 at 8:48 AM Thank you for your welcome blog comments today L'nass.Rgds Brian

Hgarvey Daniel Esquire March 26, 2009 at 7:27 AM Dear L'nass, A Great Tribute Prayer to Marcus Mosiah Garvey YOU vividly tell of His LIFE, His Dreams , and His accomplishments Superb Write ALWAYS...HG

Denis Joe March 26, 2009 at 3:20 AM I like this. It has some great images to it. This type of poetry has meaning beyond that of the poet's worldview. There is a lot of this type of writing from North Korea, Moaist China and the old Soviet Union. This has far greater quality than the works that came from those places at those times. yet there is something unselfish when a writer puts pen to paper to create an idolitary piece. I think that it is diffiocult to write like this without sounding like a hack. This suceeds well.