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the amorphous reality

“And it’s like, well, it looked like a giant spotlight shining down on me, and I call it transmolecularization, my whole body was changed into something else. I could see through myself. And I went up. Now I call that an energy transformation because I wasn’t in human form. I thought I was there, but I could see through myself.”
-Sun Ra (from the book “Space is the Place: the lives and times of Sun Ra” by John F. Szwed)

“What the Doctor explained
was that we had fought
that we had patiently
rushed into our trans
formed
selves.”
-Amiri Baraka (Funk Lore)

“you got to fight for your mind
while you got the time”
-Ben Harper (Fight For Your Mind)

that most feared
is being out
of one’s mind

and if there were
a conventional solution or total cure
it would be a multi-billion dollar industry
for sure

but what if some minds
are designed
not to be so quantified
and defined –

like the infinite void
itself
beyond measure of what can be seen, heard,
or felt?

there is a reality
to that without form or shape
which existed long before
bodies, beliefs, faith, or fate

how do i know? –
i have been there
in the frightful wilderness –
the unknown zone of loneliness and despair

it may be connected
to a lineage of slavery
of untrusting lives
and splintered families

it may be an ancient gift
lacking in current clarity
passed through hidden variables
thought to be protected genetically

be careful of those
who profit from your sickness
they may be of the kind who seek to gain
by keeping others weakest

hone your own healing powers,
protect your given shape and form
let love lead the way
to guide you from wickedness and harm

November 16th, 2011 Posted by jahhannibal | Activism, Commentary, Community, Maiysha, Spiritography, Thoughtography, Uncarved Blog | no comments

a method to the madness

“I’ve learned some lessons in my life
Lessons in my life
Always be careful of mankind
Be careful of mankind
They make promises today
But tomorrow change their mind
They make promises today
But tomorrow change their mind

I’m an upfull man
I love upfull people
I’m a progressive man
I love progressive people
I’m a conscious man
I love conscious people
I’m an honest man
And I love honest people
I’m a determined man
And I love determined people
I’m a genuine man
And I love genuine people, yeah”
-Peter Tosh (Lessons In My Life)

“Mistaken Identity”
-Vernon Reid (Instrumental)

outside the realm
of formula
of the familiar
of formality
of fiscals
of folly
or foundation
one must
find one’s own way
through the
wilderness
of indecision
and the insult
of mortal indifference
and the weapons developed
to make us insignificant

if one thing
positive
was ever gained
from the horror of 911
it was the
beauty
of looking up at
peaceful, resting,
empty skies –
a break
from all the business
of mortals
and the sounds
of never-ending cries

each
has to find
their own way
through this valley of death
because
in the
apex
of barbarity
madness
is the only reality

(for Maiysha Malinye Naima and Lyric Sanaa – 11/5/2011)

November 16th, 2011 Posted by jahhannibal | Lyric Sanaa, Maiysha, Spiritography, Thoughtography, Uncarved Blog | no comments

father-son / farther-Sun

“If I can not dance, I want no part of your revolution.”
-Emma Goldman

when all of the dots
have been connected –
when all points
have been made plain –

no longer the yearning
for real joy –
no longer
the fear of any pain

from the old generation
to the new generation
is just the sacred cycle
of our original Creation

ever give thanks,
praises and blessings
to all old beginnings
and new endings

November 1st, 2011 Posted by jahhannibal | Commentary, Community, Lyric Sanaa, Maiysha, Medusa, Networking, Spiritography, Thoughtography, Uncarved Blog | no comments

blessing for new living space

day

thank you
Mother Moon
and Sister Sun
and Essential Earth
for the strength
to move all i have become
and start anew
a fresh dominion
thank you
Father Fire
and Brother Sage
all essence of welcoming Spirits –
eternal life forces
thank you for the energy
to endure another
breathing day

night

thank you
Sacred Sun
and Mystery Moon
and Eager Earth
infinite cosmos
the boundless
collective universe
the stairways of stars
dotting the
immeasurable darkness
thank you
for the endless imagination
of eternal night
gazing upward
from new back steps

November 1st, 2011 Posted by jahhannibal | Art, Community, Lyric Sanaa, Maiysha, Medusa, Spiritography, Uncarved Blog | no comments

for a certain father

obviously,
he had never known, or had forgotten
Marcus Garvey
and Malcolm
and Martin
and Marley
as he went chasing
the devil’s dollars
at an adult playground
in Hell –
gambling or begging,
both have the same smell

he, too hypnotized
by money machines
to hear his
daughter’s screams

she, seeking attention
among demons –
a little girl playing hide-and-go-seek,
not knowing or understanding
that demons play for keeps

here, it does not take much
to attract monsters
pimps, pranksters
madmen, or gangsters

who knows how many
dead bodies
may lay undiscovered
all across this country?

little girls
were not made to be violated
or molested
or have their necks broken
and twisted
or to be stuffed down into
toilets

Islam, Christianity, nor morality
has ever been a true priority
in a barbarian-ruled country

little girls of seven
were made to be in Heaven

it is time
for a New World examination –
a re-evaluation
of our evolving Creation

it is time
to weed out
the clever demons
who would allow the murder of little girls
such as Sherrice Iverson

[1998: 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson was murdered in a Nevada casino bathroom by Jeremy Strohmeyer while his companion, David Cash, watches.]

January 1st, 2011 Posted by jahhannibal | Commentary, Community, Lyric Sanaa, Maiysha | no comments