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Mark Murphy Moments

...(Snapping fingers rhythmically) Vocalese with ease... yeah... moments… improv… Off the top, breath bubbling, a spontaneous combustion of sounds, to be boppin' the melody/
 Jazz popping vocal notes o...

Categories: baraka, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

KIMWE KYE BAJHOBA , VIRA SONG

...Nabavyusa bavila, 
Nabavyusa bajhoba 
Mweshi ho
Muliho x2

Bashukulu beetu batusigile ndeeto 
Himangeni siye malanga ne ndeeto zetu.
Bakirage bahetiteta  Muvila atatula honiho.
Bakirage bahet...

Categories: baraka, africa, culture, history, imagery,
Form: Free verse

I can't believe you said that

...
The left produces people, who sometimes give themselves away by quotes
Its amazing how many fall for this, and still give them their votes.
Bill Ayers said to kill all the rich and to bring the r...

Categories: baraka, america, betrayal, leadership, political,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Goodbye Maya Angelou

...Clinton's Inauguration 1993

You were so beautiful, Maya
Standing in front of the
President and the First Lady


I didn’t really understand
Your Pulse Of Morning 
Presidential inauguration p...

Categories: baraka, angel, courage, emotions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Obama Rhapsody - Potd

...His full given name is Barack Hussein Obama
The etymology of his first name, "Baraka," a Swahili word meaning "Blessed"


      It's easy to see why he's my favorite POTUS

Categories: baraka, appreciation, celebrity, perspective, political,
Form: Ode

Ba Ba Wa Ajabu Wonderful Father

...BA BA WA AJABU   Wonderful Father  by James Edward Lee Sr.

{{This is the most liked and viewed poem in my PoetrySoup roster with more 
    than 4,500  views as will as being my first number # 1 i...

Categories: baraka, appreciation, blessing, celebration, christian,
Form: Free verse

To Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize Winner

...As soon as I heard 
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted to wake up Hughes and Dunbar
And Baraka and say we ma...

Categories: baraka, assonance, black african american,
Form: Rhyme

Red X 'Trane

...Red x trane 
(a black arts movement kwansaba)
by ‘bro.zayid’

Garvey greased Harlem struttin 
Baraka bluuuue New Ark floats
Chicago ‘sippi blood thick
Watts fire ibeji badd
Big Eazy polyrhyth...

Categories: baraka, inspiration, memory,
Form: Kwansaba

Time Wasted

...Time is too precious to waste.
Time has been wasted.
It flies with every blink.
Wasted, wasted on trivialities.
Baraka and mercy in time lost over time.
We can never regain lost times.
Relive t...

Categories: baraka, bereavement, war,
Form: Prose Poetry

To the Beat of Jazz Poetry

...From bebop, swing to hip-hops thing
True poets had it best
For there is a rhythm in the soul, 
Which they all just had to express

Some could not control
This powerful thing 
 Was so often put...

Categories: baraka, art, black african american,
Form: Free verse