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Slots poker machines unsolved murders Illinois

Lake county music company filled with 
slots carney folk real carny folk the little 
pete's illegal gambling road show throughout 
the  Midwest gaming like your idol Frank Peter 
Balistreiri the mad bomber stops Metropolis...

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Categories: chaka, america, beautiful, blessing, integrity, march,
Form: Free verse

Fair Weather Parents

“It’s all in a day’s work
 Tryin’ hard to defend
 The time that I spend alone.”
     ~ Chaka Khan, “What ‘Cha Gonna Do For Me” from the album  UNSUPPORTED CODE...

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Categories: chaka, betrayal, childhood, family, home, longing, parents, vanity,
Form: Verse

Steps In My Mind

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The Emote Monologues Series

 

by Ashleigh Chaka

 

 

 

 

The steps in my mind


 

Dear....

 

l have written this with due diligence that it gets to you quickly,

For you are the only person...

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Categories: chaka, conflict, emotions, family, grief, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Old Skool Love

Give me that old skool love, a groovy throw back

kind of love that is black and white like the first TVs.

A tapered leg acid washed jean trouser and a crop

top feeling sexy.

A striped miniskirt with...

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Categories: chaka, love, nostalgia, spoken word,
Form: Free verse

Silk, Satin and Cashmere: A Tribute To Phenomenal Singers

#A GIFT...AN UPLIFT! A GLORIOUS SHIFT  OCCURS WHEN HAVING BEEN PRIVY TO AN OUTSTANDING SINGER! THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, YOUR HEART FEELS A GLOW...
BECAUSE A SINGER HAS MOVED YOU SO...

"A SINGER HAS M...

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Categories: chaka, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, dedication, feelings, passion, song,
Form: Rhyme

Her Eyes, Like Fireflies

The concert had been perfect ...

Chaka and Al Jarreau on the grass at Foxwoods
     A dry and warm July evening
Sleepy full moon peeking up over the horizon
    ...

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Categories: chaka, july, love, metaphor, romance, sensual, youth,
Form: Free verse

Help Me Forget

Please help me forget
The stubborn nostalgia of a long'-gone ardor
What magical pill have me to get-
To ease up this cussed disorder?

Our sweet long-gone ardor of the days
Was as sweet as perfume of roses
And as enjoyable...

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Categories: chaka, break up, divorce, i miss you, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme

Ijele By David Nedu Okpokwasili

Bum! Bam! 
The exixt of jokers,
They run for they shall not witness the coming of the Ijele
They say, "are we not masquerades? ain't the Ijele as Spirit as we are?"
But, their courage fell as the...

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Categories: chaka, africa, art, hero,
Form: Free verse

Chaka Zulu

Chaka Zulu 

Dlungwana son of Ndaba!
the greatest warrior of all times
conceived out of wedlock by his mother Nandi and his father
voracious one of Senzangakhona
son of Nandi kaBebe, the daughter of a Langeni chief
born in Langeni...

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Categories: chaka, april, farewell, father, fathers day, feelings, children,
Form: Narrative

A World Without Music

A world without music, is a life without inspiration,
music itself is inspired by every nation.
No jazz, no soul, no rock, I'd probably die,
no tunes in my ear when I travel and fly.

No sound when I...

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Categories: chaka, happiness, imagination, inspirational, love, music, world, music,
Form: Free verse

Beyond

my destiny stems far and beyond

born with the spiritual

no need for a magic wand

within, ancient wisdom corresponds

people unintentionally fear the black swan

I’m a freedom fighter better than Flynn from the movie Tron

the force in me...

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Categories: chaka, destiny, dream, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme