“expanding beyond the boundaries
blow away decay
stale forms collide with freshness”
-Kamau Daaood (“Liberator of the Spirit”)
COLTRANE
MADE THE EARTH’S HEART
SKIP A BEAT
WENT OFF
THE QUANTUM METER
THE SUN IMPROVISED
IMPRESSED BY THE NOTE
MOVED THE ORBIT UP
BY ONE HOUR
STRETCHIN THE DAYLIGHT
TO MAKE THE JAM
A LITTLE LONGER!
COLTRANE SHIFTED THE EAR-TH
CHANNELED OUTSIDE THE NORM
CREATED A FORMLESS HORN
BLEW MINDS MATTER&ANTIMATTER
INTO UNHEARD DIMENSIONS AND
DISTANCES
BLUE UNCHARTED COLORS
COLOREYESED THE
DARKENED UNIVERSE
WITH THE HARMONY
OF LIGHT ….
“John Coltrane was a freedom fighter
Liberator of the spirit from the shackles of form . . .”
-Kamau Daaood (“Liberator of the Spirit” from the cd Leimert Park)
“We are free.
All is Coltrane.
The tyrants will topple.
Coltrane will remain.
-Phil Rockstroh (“Dying Empire Bebop: The Sedition Of Ecstatic Novelty”)
“everywhere drums
peninsula of my berserkness drum
axle of my hydraulic cough drum
diatonic drums
crazybone of my hyenaic laughter drum
thrill of a triad of electrode drums
everywhere drums”
-Jayne Cortez & The Firespitters (Drums Everywhere Drums)
“This flower holds the key to me
Its secrets guarded jealously”
-MC 900 FT Jesus (But If You Go)
“One more set waits
on a makeshift stage
where drums sit gleaming.”
-Rashida Ismali (“The Man Who Fell Inside His Horn”)
the
me-thought
the
method
floating
body
is all in
rhythm-voice
the in-between
entity
of identity
a language
very real
communication
made through flesh
and earth-material
medium thru emptiness –
earth-feel
sound-void field
vibration eternalness
the rhythmik
intensity
converts levitation
into livity
the bodily cyclotron
in full activity
expresses
the surrounding reality
immediately
the Ark
charged
and ready
beat
or bust
upward
thrust
“It looms before us
everyday
genocide does
grotesque & gory
while
some of us refuse to look / refuse to see . . . ”
-George Edward Tait (At War)
“Aristocrats on a mountain climb
Making money, losing time
Communism is just a word
But if the government turn over
It’ll be the only word that’s heard”
-Prince (America)
“As a society, it is time for Americans to stop condoning all this violence, particularly against children.”
-Dave Lindorff (“Killing Kids American-Style” from CounterPunch January 05, 2012)
“The lies you have found, you have woven together.
The rope you have crafted, you will find around your neck”
Simin Behbahani (“Stop Throwing My Country To The Wind”)
down in the bottom
where the stars converge
bone-bass chills emerge
with the lowest of words
beat so raw
make ya shake yo head
hair-trigger niggaz red to draw
make sho yo black ass dead
too many
monsters and demons
occupying this space
of wombmen, men, and children
the time has come
to end the cycles of babylon kingdoms
selling their Souls
captured by ringtones
marching clocks
of flesh and steam
sliced and diced
thrown into the machine
no matter where you go
the same language is heard –
bullets, bombs, barbarism, and bloodshed
understood much quicker than any word
it’s no longer enough
just to be happy to work
you may lose your home and forever roam
the master class determines your worth
let them lead us
where they lead us
to feed us and bleed us
until nothing is left
“method.structure.intention.discipline.notation .indeterminacy.interpenetration.initiation.
devotion.circumstances”
-John Cage ["John Cage (ex)plain(ed)," book by
Richard Kostelanetz]
“Ashes”
-Ronald Shannon Jackson (Instrumental from the cd “Red Warrior”)
“Trilogy”
Nguyen Le (Instrumental from the cd “Million Waves”)
in the
dirtiest of times,
how can one
remain clean? –
only those
who commit
to flow opposite
of the filthy stream
da see plain
da sea plan
discipline
disciple land
is where i guide my hands
and clear my mind
allowing my Soul and Spirit to ever expand
never imprisoned by time
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let the Ancestors
be your teachers
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