SIDEWAYS EIGHT PROJECTS

~ Excerpt from previously posted poem ~

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~ balloons in the sky ~

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Keeping eyes on the prize, listening to the wise, meek, and mild. Yet, absorbing the spice which keeps your spirit riled, and processing the art, beauty, and love without being defiled. Keep reaching for the same dreams you aimed for as a child, giving speech and action to the things which seem wild. In so doing, the call will be answered, and the dreams will be dialed.

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If you are a park bench in this life, and you find yourself one of the giving trees in this universe, hang on to them. Chain them to your existence like cool water and warm light. Bind them to your being, and take care of them too. Give back. Give.

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~ alley way ~

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Thank you Poets & Writers for this mornings inspiration.

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~ measure ~

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The bell rings, the beat stops.

The choir sings over the street cops. Arriving to learn, but never leaving. The thriving fire burns in the country that is ever grieving. Another and another sister and brother, not yet fully grown. How do we measure the life of another that is not our own? Statistics arrive in the internet blur, The number two amendment covers the number two pencil, and now chalk outlines surround the beats that were, seemingly our new educational stencil. Parents at a loss. Children feeling unsafe. Are we prepared to accept the cost of separating the wheat from the chaff? We measure our values beside our ammunition, we measure our intelligence alongside despair. Parents bury their students in yet another rendition, of too many lives beyond repair. Too many hive minded trying to hide and survive blinded who seem not to care. We measure response times of emergency services, while planning services for our youth. Thoughts and prayers in one hand, in the other your wishes, while too many see empty hands as their truth. They wish to hold the ones they love as they scream at the sky, Dear God if you are listening above, please show us the ‘why’? Hopefully there are those with them who sit and weep in silence, not saying anything at all, contemplating the unending cycle of violence, grasping for an answer to the call.

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Let us love others not just as we wish to be loved, but as they wish to be loved. As they need to be loved. Let us see each other with fresh eyes, beginner’s mind, and an eternal soul. I’m still in this body, waiting to feel release. Waiting to feel authenticity in others. Ready to be genuine at a moments notice. Carried off by the wind. Heard above children’s laughter in a far off field. Content to breathe. At peace in silence. Full in heart. Empty of agenda.

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~ seams ~

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Wind swept, chopping current breaking into the cries of the forgotten. When waves press fully on liberty, it may not possess enough internal fortitude to hold up and rise under the weight of doubt and oppression.

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Bathe in the lyrics, be washed in the flow, be sprayed by hysterics, yet remain in the know. Show the world you’ve been with them from the beginning, fly the W and see who calls. The only hip hop that is always winning by filling the air between these walls.

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