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Category Archives: music
Say My Name
Definitely watch the entire thing but minute 13:45 is the start of her song “Say My Name” her tribute to Sandra Bland, killed 4 years ago today by the police.
Posted in Black Lives Matter, death, music, sandra bland, Uncategorized
Tagged death, life, Mumu Fresh, music, NPR, sandra bland, Say My Name
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The Ignorant American: Professional Courtesy to the GEO Group
(Music by Toby Keith) American girls and American guys will always look the other way when black and brown folks die or when they see a baby crying in the hands of the feds left to sleep on the cold … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, america, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, child abuse, collateral damage, death, democracy, ICE, ignorance, Iraq, music, poem, Poetry, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance, white privilege
Tagged capitalism, country music, GEO group, ICE, immigration, lyrics, music, poem, Poetry, refugees, refugees welcome, Song, Wall Street
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Breathe
The radio plays classical music, listen it will help you breathe
Posted in haiku, music, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged classical music, haiku, music, poem, poetry
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Skipping Stones
I last time I had skipped a stone across the water I was seventeen it was the waning weeks before my senior year of high school on a hot summer evening after a hard days work on the farm still … Continue reading
It’s Just Paper & Pen
We pray, everyday, take our blues far away we just want to watch the game the stadiums filled, is the present God willed? All our skeletons look the same… Closets are clean when screens are green watch the elephant … Continue reading
You Can Sing Out Of Tune
Don’t let them tempt you to barter your soul never bow down for plastic, or gold or paper, or powder, or dwellings, or cars turn off the noise and look to the stars… The answers are out there, the … Continue reading
Spangled
You might think that we’re free, because of pawns sacrificed but for millions of people, it’s long been darkness, no gleaming What we see now is par, though an unseemly sight on the TV’s we watch, and the internet streaming … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, american flag, Fourth of July, music, poem, Poetry, song, Uncategorized, war
Tagged 4th of July, America, american dream, american flag, music, poem, poetry, Song
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The People Danced
The bullets stopped flying and the machine guns turned into musical instruments and a symphony of death became a symphony of life as soldier after soldier on both sides of the imaginary divide joined together as one playing the most … Continue reading
Spring
The script was written long ago with an apple bitten so we’d never know that the truth was in us all along but they stole our solstice and silenced our song and said the devil made us dance and if … Continue reading
Posted in bible, church, dancing, empathy, eyes, fear, god, hate, hell, history, human rights, humanity, life, love, music, poem, Poetry, religion, song, Uncategorized, war, writing
Tagged dance, fall, god, humanity, life, mother earth, music, Peace, poem, poetry, rain, religion, solstice, Song, Spring, summer, truth, war, winter, writing
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The Eyes Have It
The eyes of the prophets are crossed and the line is dotted signs are spotted in the crowd remove the shroud it’s too loud to think swim, don’t sink but crossed eyes blink Morse code teaching us to curse the winding … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, America, american dream, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, dancing, drugs, earth, empire, eyes, football, god, government, greed, human rights, humanity, Kaepernick, life, mother earth, music, nature, Peace, poem, poetry, poverty, Propaganda, religion, Rome, seasons, taxes, truth, violence, war, writing
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