The band forms via destiny sprinkled with chance.
Traveling backroads, they bond in blood and struggle.
Moreover, there's love, camaraderie, perseverance.
Destined to lick the tangy mist atop their peak.
The journey, deeply rooted in soul-seasoned sweat.
Ego arrives bearing a rash of tiny leaks.
Slowly sinking, they jump ship and disband.
Going solo, seeking and kneading their own clan.
Sometimes they try to reunite to recapture the past.
But it just isn't quite right; the magic has jumped the vinyl groove.
Green feet have no desire to step back into worn shoes.
I have the right to misquote
Yet I cite reasons to vote
I have been lied to
Trench got courage to still pursue
I am an African boy
Colonial empire take me a toy
That have no right to be annoy
Yet in me resides joy
I am an African guy
Whose leaders bely
Enough to separate or rely
But will never say goodbye
It is my father land
In which I made myself a brand
That can not by language disband
No storm can still its sand
I love Africa
Huge envy cum America
I love mama
One I will never sub for grammar
I like Oranges
For dice, it abridges
While collecting apple
Nothing worth my people
I love the herbs
To never perturbs
Alternating health issues
The best we choose
African; pure amigo
Imperial colonial masters' influence I outgrow
Red Blood would Fight for this Land
All Native Rights would Disband
Pale White Treaties in the Sand
By a Godless Greedy Hand
No Longer will Rights Disband
The Hour of Judgement's at Hand
True Americans will Stand
Sentence the Godless to Sand
Welcome to The State of Dis Union.
Here are some “dis” words to describe The State of Dis Union.
Dismantle, disruptive, disagree, disrespectful, distract,
Disappointing, disable, discredit, disregard, disobey,
Dislike, disloyal, dislocate, disaffiliate, disrepute,
Disgrace, disaffirm, dishonest, disembark, disinfect
Disgusting, disturbing, dismiss, discontinue, disarm,
Disconnect, disorderly, disassociate, discreet,
Disapprove, dissent, dispute, disorientated,
Disorderly, discord, disadvantage, disbelief,
Displeased, dislodge, disclaim, dishonor, distant,
Disarray, disconcerted, disintegrate, disinform,
Dismal, disown, dispatch, disparity, disguise,
Discriminate, discard, dissolve, distort, distrust,
Discombobulated, disband, discountenance, disaster…
Yep, sounds about right.
Friendship is like color magic
Keep us closer together in life
Hanging out with friends
Always have a beautiful smile on the lips.
Friendship is like ticoy
Every occasion is special
The bond and camaraderie is strong
It's hard to disband, hard force to cut it.
Friendship helps you grow business
Friends are your first customers
They are your marketing staff
They are your business partners.
Friendship goes with feather
If it's done in purpose it flies together
False friend fluck out easily with storm
True friend help you fight the storm.
I don't understand,
This reflection I command.
Nothing goes as planned,
I watch my hopes disband.
Disappointed again and again,
Doing the best I can.
I don't understand,
Unconditional demands,
The grand scheme at hand.
I'm a Tired rubber band,
Ready to snap if I expand,
I couldn't be a better man.
I don't understand,
This plan of a Promise land.
It cost so much I can't stand,
Money feels bad in my hands,
Keeping me trapped to demands,
Testing what I can withstand.
I don't understand,
A way to create it on demand,
Spread it through the mainland.
Ending hungers command,
Letting Love become,
The Promise Land.
I don't understand,
This reflection I command.
Nothing goes as planned,
I watch my hopes disband.
Disappointed again and again,
Doing the best I can.
I don't understand,
Unconditional demands,
The grand scheme at hand.
I'm a Tired rubber band,
Ready to snap if I expand,
I couldn't be a better man.
I don't understand,
This plan of a Promise land.
It cost so much I can't stand,
Money feels bad in my hands,
Keeping me trapped to demands,
Testing what I can withstand.
I don't understand,
A way to create it on demand,
Spread it through the mainland.
Ending hungers command,
Letting Love become,
The Promise Land.
We become
what we see
We become
what we make
As damned
or forgiven
We reap
or forsake
Both scripture
and sermon
Prophetic
command
Until saved
by the Word
Our spirits
— disband
(1st Book Of Prayers: August, 2024)
Author Dana Redricks
April 10, 2024
When I break, I break, there's only so much a woman can take. When I walk out the door you won't be seeing me no more. Like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall when I fall you won't be able to put me back together again.
In the face of pain, resilience takes its stand, a woman's strength, a force that won't disband. When shattered, like glass on the floor, she'll rise, stronger than before.
Echoes of strife, a past left behind, through storms endured, a new self to find. With each step taken, a path to create, alone but unbroken, I'll navigate my fate.
Soaring high, beyond the past's cry, in solitude's embrace, she'll learn to fly. No more shadows to bind or restrain, her spirit untamed, ready to take my place to reign.
My garden soothes my soul each day.
It’s like a place I go to pray.
I use time there to weal sustain.
The sun is free and so is rain.
I need this tiny plot of land,
To help my tensions to disband.
To the one who sat here so very long ago
Rooted, I daresay, with so many things to sow
Your needlework is etched upon the faded fabric
Where the story you convey, is interwoven magic
Between the struts and arched divide
Your back you laid, with a family by your side
Each picture on this chair depicts a child you had
And a smiling husband that made you feel so glad
As years move on and life succumbs to change
No longer babes, they're all grown up and in the adult stage
When ceased your work and time you have
To craft upon the chair, those pictures sewn with love
Baby's boots upon the pins, a granny you'll be soon
A time to dress those tiny feet, count toes and really croon
But happiness and loss will at times go hand in hand
Those tears of joy are certain to make the grief disband
You sit and stitch upon this chair, your work so fair and neat
Now the story on this fabric is ended and complete
I wonder at this chair I bought, to see myself sit there
Content with thread and needle, affixed to this old chair
From the chartreuse scene to a dusty bronze land.
This the sky’s calling for their wings to soar, to disband.
The sun is their shadow, they bathe in her honey-stained glory.
Under the silence of the stars, they never surrender their flight story.
The days are long, they travel beyond all rhyme or reason
This is their journey, in life and in season.
Fragile hearts drum on in tawny twilight.
From feathered soldiers by day, to winged spectres of night.
Come morning, they are ushered, ablaze by warm, crimson skies
In earthly kingdoms below, they are but the envy of every land creature’s eyes.
The compass points north, over mountain and rooftop they climb.
Beyond sun kissed valleys and storm swept seas they glide.
This the tale of the swallow, for in every heart of one, they do lovingly sing.
A voyage of courage is what the swallow bird does bring.
Housework
Can't shirk
Dust dirt
Desert
Dusting
Busting
In hand
Disband
Move forth
With cloth
Wipe clean
Shine sheen
Wash clothes
Dirt goes
Hang out
Line route
Switch on
Iron
Decrease
Each crease
Vacuum
Bedroom
Wash floors
And doors
No fun
Jobs done.
*Route pronounced rowt for rhyme purpose*
25.08.23
COVID
Everything I built crumbles.
My job goes under
My friends disband
Some of them drop off the face of the earth
Others dealing with trauma for the first time
Nobody talks to me now but the boy
I move in with the boy
Our relationship is strong
My parents don't like him
I like him
They don't like me living with the boy
Despite the benefits to finances
They cant decide how much support to give me
And give me anxiety instead of stability
The boy graduates
I get one more year
HE and I no longer talk at Holiday
I think HE only comes for the food anyways
I finish school
While the school is still a husk
I didn't gain anything
But a flimsy piece of paper
Looking back
Nobody in the school believed in me
Or even thought of me
On a regular basis
That kinda hurts
I can’t even tell
If I failed the social circles
Or if they failed me
Covid Complicated matters
If you pop off like so Duh you’ll get carbonated by the greater leader/
Who’s lewd and balks will infuse and let loose the Dr. pepper/
True shrewd walks through new hues shake up and fizz out/
Who knew soft drink talks brewed late would diffuse and flatten down/
A few could have caught a case while flapping around/
There’s a new juice to use as you grew your own fruits /
To improve clues to truths of uncouth abuse /
How you’ve misused the news and stayed true to loops of untruth/
Life continues in new shoes with cues to choose moves for your crew/
Lives renew his aiming from hereon in we’re here to zero in/
Peer on in at the position I’m a hero in /
I’ve never been as near or within a jeer on sin/
Freer I blend gas and gear up a poster man for my own loved ones/
Disband from that brand with new planned action no acts spun/
Just realism with no love from realization of the matter of faction
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