Poetic Justice...

Today one of the youth I work with reintroduced me to Def Poetry Jam, she showed me a poet named Gemineye who's words inspired the tagline she used for a Peace March she spear headed; "Would you rather die for nothing, or live for something?" . Her and I watched a bunch of clips on youtube,I almost forgot how much I love poetry that means something that says something. Although sometime the spoken word style is a little hard for me to digest and listen to, all those choppy cadences and guttural stops, but, there are those few that have something to say and can say it with a passion all their own.




And Yo this Next chick I watched tonight when I got home. Still high on the poetry that my youth showed me earlier I've spent the past hour watching Def Poetry Clips. As a Gangsta of Love and the Vice President of the Responsible Cupcake committee, I hella feltIshel Yi Park's poem even though her steez is a bird of a different color I feel her content... from her economic standpoint to her description of the strain of living life and being in a relationship where one deals not only with their own life experiences but is in love with another person who has life experiences that aren't dealt with. Love is War...



And her "Love Poem to Myself" is pretty fly too. The journey to racial identity and personal identity it a tough one in American Society...