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So could you please educte us on your 'modern' approach? |
lyricalpontiff: Plssss if U̶̲̥̅̊ don't к̲̣̣̥п̥̥ọ̥w̶̲̥̅̊ jack,do deceive people because I am d president of the biggest poetry club in Nigeria and I do spokenword too. Poetry slams in the US are very diluted to the point that it n☺̴̩̩̥̩̩̩̥ longer becomes poetry. There is nothing like Poetic prose it is either Poetry ☺я̲ ♌φτ̲̅ Poetry. §☺̴̩̩̥̩̩̩̥ if U̶̲̥̅̊ c ♍e do ♍Ɣ written Poetry on stage it doesn't make it spoken word poetry. Spokenword poetry is Hiphop ♌φτ̲̅ literature check the historyWhat club is that? And whoever said poetry performed on stage is spoken word? Spoken word is just rap without beats to me. Poems should be performed, but its beauty lioes in the hidden messages and metaphors when read. |
Never seek poetry, She seeks you, Then leads you to the path Like ants on a sugar trail. She is heaven, That cannot be reached. She is hell, That must be feared. Yet she abides everywhere, Visible, like the luminesence Of fire flies lighting up, The muddy river bank. She is the sea between man and gods, The cloud of dawn, that fastened noose of noon The language of the spirits, Sang aloud in whispers Never seek poetry Unless your verses are strung like pearls, And jewels are wasted, On the plains of your utterances. Never seek poetry, Unless you are a poet She would be unattractive Like a hippo in a corset |
In the paint of gloom With the brush strokes of doom With a face of crime And shoes hasty to strife. You paint a portrait of me, With no mouth to speak. I carry a bag of rituals To appease the gods of cannibals. I cover my unclothedness, With ethnic garments I bear the eye of the mystics, And the voice of a tribalist I am unrefined, That why I need a hand You accuse in your books, I look, bemused. To build my toilets, And till my lands I depend on aid For I am wild, untamed East-west scavengers, Spill the blood of trees, Poison the roots of children, Playing war games with m-16s You have judged, Should I feel begrudged? For fame and glory, Your pens spill gory, In the name of a story, The 'perfect' African story. |
Where can we get this? |
Last saturday, I passed through campus, Amused, By my foolishness. Reminiscing, On relationships, That stood, on broomsticks Lofty dreams, Strung with cobwebs, Where reality, is scene of my fiction. Clothes mattered, Phones, status symbols Trying to impress With money not earned. The alcohol, and smoke Behind closed doors, Where only the walls Understand our language. The girls who took, Looks over books The guys who took, Boobs over cooks. But our calabash of dreams fetch not of reality's streams Flowing from life's hills Outside our campus gates |
Yeah, I have watched some spoken poetry performances and I enjoyed it. Its beauty is in the stage, cos it uses its tongue as a pen. |
They say, Spoken word is poetry. I say, Try coke and pepsi For one lives for the stage, Rhythms and flowetry, The other lives in the page, Methaphors and imagery. They say, Spoken word is poetry, I say, A sea is not its tributary. One is direct and vivid, talkative and expressive. The other is secretive, Says more with few words. They say, Spoken word is poetry, I say, Use omelettes to cook egusi. One is superficial and flashy Seeking to capture your eyes. The other is an endless abyss An emptiness that fills the heart They say spoken word is poetry, I say, Compare silk and cotton. One is a bride, Without jewels The other a maiden, With a string of pearls. They say, Spoken word is poetry I say, Marriage is not wedding For one, The tongue is a pen, For the other The pen is also the tongue They say, Spoken word is poetry. I say, A War song is not music |
ehie: i have to pst TS eLLIOT'S hOLLOW mENLike seriously in a thread for works by African poets? |
Insensitive, You say I am. How can it be? You can't connect to my heart Out of your tipped nose, Your utterances drop. Like hot akara From mama bisi's pot Like water, In broken clay pots, Your words, melt Like ice in the sun You have masked, The face of your tongue, Like a damask, On a leprous corpse Tasteless, Are your words, Void of garnishing Of proverbs and metaphors Like a bride without pearls, A maiden without jewels, Your utterances walk, Raggedly, without finesse. In form and movement, You look like my brother. Yet in speech and accent, You sound like another. Waste you are, Like cow dung. 'Cos you conspired (with strangers) To poison our mother tongue. |
[quote author=KINGwax]if u finish disturbing yourself, you'll define me 'uprightness'! For once it was clear, dt a man who said 'no tv' actually did got one! And then the song changed, 'not dt no tv, but only if d programmes cld be controlled'. Now, i'm not sayin he's not upright, but i'm cynical when it comes to them all! And d issue of that thing askin for them to go to prison is jes one of his 'too-holy' stunts again. He shld shut up, and put his house in order first![/quote ] I think you should do the shutting up and put your brain in order. Did he not include himself in the list? If someone speaks the truth Nigerians complain, then the next thing you cry out to God for redemption. Your kind are like the jews who murdered Jesus while still praying to God to send a messiah |
![]() baddiguy: you're being played. stop wasting your er'ection.No worry. I have enough pussy to go round, but not enuf girls to smoke with |
slimyem: This thread and comments make me wanna smoke weed...just to know the feeling..What area do you stay in? I can hook you up. No expenses. Would even pay your fare |
candieangel12: Lol. Some people are talking as if the woman found out her hubby does cocaine or heroin.Candie I dey feel U̶̲̥̅̊. Make I send you mail na? Or how I go hook up with U̶̲̥̅̊. Let's leave these self-righteous punks |
Michky: Some people even go mad from smoking this shiit. Everyone saying its good on this thread must be trying to justify their helpless addiction. There's a school built by lagos state for such substance addicts. Many of its inmates are kids from well to do homes. Their families took them there as a last resort. Mehn, you need to see what this weed is doing to good homes. Yall should look for that school and get treated now abeg!Sharrap! Who told you that its weed that made them mad? Theu won't tell you that its cocaine. That's what most of these rich kids take |
ManchyBabe:Then go take a swim in the deepest part of an alligator infested ocean |
SELFWORTH: You can tell by most of the responses here that none of you have lived with an addict (I.e someone who is dependent on something). It can destroy a whole family talk less of a marriage.How would it destroy his life? Have U̶̲̥̅̊ heard of anyone who smoked weed and sold his house and properties like coke addicts do? Abeg talk another thing jare |
dayokanu: Since that man changed his last name to Israel I want to change mine too to AfghanistanAbeg o. Before Obama send drones to you. |
Ask him o. Why don't greek and roman gods carry curses, only African one. Mtsheww. Colo-mentality |
Loveaflame: Some people can be so strange when it comes to real issues.Put the church aside,Africans believe in the supernatural.That is for real.We were and still many are idol worhippers by nature.You can't deny the facts that people still worship these gods or goddesses today.Except you are living on another planet.How do you explain ritual killings for money?Even in the developed world a lot of mysterious things go on there also.If you don't believe in the supernatural,then do this,go to your father's village and destroy their village shrine secretly and wait for the repercussion.Evil spirits are real.I have seen them many times.We should stop deceiving ourselves with the socalled Western Education we have been brainwashed with.No fear of God again in the nation.No wonder someone said we should let our leaders swear with Ogun(god of iron) or Sango(god of thunder),than with Bible or Quran.They will sit tight because they fear those ones than God.So the Europeans that you borrowed christianity from nevet at one time worshipped idols? Idol worshippers by nature my ass!! |
Then why do you guys pray to Mary? |
brito: My father named me after his mother, I don't know the meaning of d name so right from when I was young I wanted to change it, I told a lady my name and she started laughing, later I learnt it is d name of a deity in her village in Bonny. I have change it.So you prefer to answer the names of greek and roamn deities abi? |
Colo-mentality. I did the contrast. I dropped my 'english' name for my native one. As someone rightly said, why not change it to another name in your own language? |
With news like this, I can't help but cry for christians http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/11/10/pastor-oritsejafor-gets-private-jet-as-birthday-gift-from-church-members/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter |
Ishilove: Prrrrr. . .my cat will swallow your dogs. . .Not if they are Rotweillers |
Finish this story or I would send the dogs after the cat in you |
Candieangel12, I would like to hook up with you. Can I send you a mail? |
Demex40: Com 2 d north nd see hw igboo iz makin pple go insane....dey abuse itDon't go there. Those in the north lace theirs with codeine, rubber and other drugs. That's why they go mad. |
candieangel, I dey feel you. Don't mind these haters. Fela smoked weed but he is more of a legend than their 4 generations put toghther would ever be |
stupor: You only failed yourself young man not anybody.Skunk is weed laced with chemicals. Don't forget that |
emmysenior: I have witnessed cases where a seemingly sane person suddenly goes insane and became useless as soon as he/she tasted the deadly marijuana. One was a female nurse and some couple of guys with bright future. @ times I am forced to think that wisdom has nothin to do with age. Smh 4 this man. What is the essence of lagalizing dt sh.1t?What cases? I have been among chronic smoker for over a decade and never seen anyone go mad for smoking weed |
Bodyguards would have barricaded, And the blood would still be an issue. Offerings bowls would be passed around, To feed the multitude. To Jerusalem, a convoy of cars, He would need- A grand entrance For Pilate, an army of lawyers, To mount defence. The woman in Samaria would continually thirst, Because he has ethnic preference. The merchants in church would bring returns. He would build universities his members can't afford. In his 'holiness', he won't wash dirty feet, For his reverence, he won't sleep in the streets. Miracles would be public spectacles, Lazarus would have paid a handful. The blind man would lean on his staff, Waiting for the angel to stir the water. He would have sold his soul to the devil, for the riches of the world. He would send the 'holy ghost' fire, To cremeate judas, The cup of life would have passed over, And he would be another jonah. He would have used the courts, To block the pains of the cross. Asking not forgiveness, for the mob that cursed. he would never have died like a thief, To bring humanity everlasting relief Because jesus was not christian. Before you start throwing tantrums, this is a poem juxtaposing the life of Jesus and the modern day christian. |
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No hope at all! My jaw dropped from the first page to the last page.. WOWZZERR