Just My Thoughts: Do You Love Yourself Enough...

Just My Thoughts: Do You Love Yourself Enough...: You love But do you love yourself enough? You love to fit imaginary lovers into the cookie cutter silhouettes of wishful thoughts. Y...

Do You Love Yourself Enough...

Collective Member: Graffiti Bleu

Do You Love Yourself Enough?

You love

But do you love yourself enough?

You love to fit imaginary lovers into the cookie cutter silhouettes of wishful thoughts.

You love the thought of someone who does not exist as they bake inside the oven of misguided meals.

A watched pot never boils and watched batter never rises yet...

You love to watch the ingredients of your imagination through the hot tempered glass.

You love to sprinkle these ideas on bake with sugary vanity unimportant to the soul.

You love the warmth and smell of the pastry

You swear that it's tasty till it burns your mouth and hands.

Now... cookies need love like everything does, but do you love yourself enough to not get burned again?

Do you love yourself enough to know that too many cooks can spoil a pie?

I'll tell you why.

"Get yourself a doctor girlfriend" 

As if he can heal your soul with the loose change he has left from the time he barely spends with your ass.

"Get yourself a woman who doesn't have any children"

As if killing the opportunity of a woman and child in search of a guardian is in the best interest of our people.

Really though...


You love

But do you love yourself enough?

Do you love yourself enough to go back into the kitchen of your soul and start again despite the pain?


Do you love yourself enough to cook from the feel of a freestyle, instead of the preconceived notions of a recipe for success?

Money, power, status and the appeals of the flesh are like confection to the tongue.

But when you swallow the bitter reality your palette is cleansed and the sweetness is done.

I personify in this fashion not to be critical of your desires...

Hell... You like what you like.

I'm just trying to show you the karma of cooking your "Happily Ever After" with sugars of the wealthy.

So if cakes, pies and cookies are all metaphors for unfulfilled love...

Do you love yourself enough to eat healthy?

Just My Thoughts: rebirth

Just My Thoughts: rebirth: "This is my life right here. The rebirth of my creative life. I have looked the dragon square in his eye and smiled at him fearing not. ..."

Just My Thoughts: The Outsider...

Just My Thoughts: The Outsider...: The problem with love is that too many don't practice. Or so I thought, naive as I go out as a sheep among the wolves The sheep represe...

The Outsider...

The problem with love is that too many don't practice.

Or so I thought, naive as I go out as a sheep among the wolves

The sheep representing how vulnerable you become when you create for the love of creating

The train tracks could very well be the first wolf I encountered

I will take you back to the days of my love of graffiti.

Watch that third rail booooooooooyyyeee.....

It will light your ass up! they would say

They never lied to me

We were all brothers creatively

We did it for love and it kept the art pure

But wait I'll tell you more...

The problem with love is that too many don't practice.

That was a philosophy I should have kept when Hip-hop entered my life.

Walked into my space as if she was my wife.

Coming to guide me through this jungle called life.

We were doing so well until the game became trifle.

I'll be the first to plead guilty to the courts and admit I was stingy with my creations

Stingy because of fear. Not quite sure how a mamma's boy
should express himself in a land of testosterone.

If my father was home

perhaps some of his courage would have rubbed off on me.

Again am I a sheep among the wolves.

This time the wolf represents the one's who mean to exploit your passion.

The problem with love is that too many don't practice.

So I persisted and became a better lover to women by loving my passion daily as the rising sun.

I practiced sharing my whole life through creativity which brings me to who I've become.

The fearful are so familiar that they no longer scare me with their insecurities.

And so I have time to practice.

It allows me to be free enough to create for the love of creating.

Though I walk on a path designed for me I walk not alone but with God's wind at my back.

His presence and divine grace is the one thing that makes me

comfortable being inside of the flesh of an outsider.

One of the few who practices love every day by creating for the love of creating.

I am no longer a sheep among the wolves

I stand as a symbol of a forgotten custom.

The custom where love has the freedom and strength to fly always...

Just My Thoughts: Quickie...

Just My Thoughts: Quickie...:            Call me old school, but I believe you should treat people how you want to be treated. This is simply good business. I proudly w...

Quickie...

     
     Call me old school, but I believe you should treat people how you want to be treated. This is simply good business. I proudly work with people and make sure we exchange ideas of equal value. For me it takes the stress away from the business so that I have more brain power to create. Many have accepted a "something for nothing" value system to equate success. Where as, if they aren't raping you, it's not good business for them. This is ridiculous to me. This thinking breeds laziness to me. As well as kills more art than it exploits. For those that know me well. This is not an attempt to get at anybody. I hold no grudges, this is me just speaking on the evils. If you feel I am talking about you then call me and we can both pray about it. 


Now then...


I am on the second half of my life and I do not have time for anything less than excellence. Make no mistake I love the business side when everyone respects one another, but I love the art more. So I am compelled to protect its integrity through originality. 

#JustMyThoughts...

Just My Thoughts: gbleu.com & "Pretty Tony" interview "The Collectiv...

Just My Thoughts: gbleu.com & "Pretty Tony" interview "The Collectiv...: http://youtu.be/gJkJ6QUmrdE gbleu.com & "Pretty Tony" interview "The Collective"

gbleu.com & "Pretty Tony" interview "The Collective"

http://youtu.be/gJkJ6QUmrdE

gbleu.com & "Pretty Tony" interview "The Collective"

Just My Thoughts: "The Collective" Guest Blog: Karee Shaw

Just My Thoughts: "The Collective" Guest Blog: Karee Shaw: Collective Member: Karee Shaw I’m the “Icing” on HIS cake! Fear you put in my heart, cutting me with words and images I...

"The Collective" Guest Blog: Karee Shaw

Collective Member: Karee Shaw

I’m the “Icing” on HIS cake!

Fear you put in my heart, cutting me with words and images

I just didn’t fit in with trying to be the person you wanted me to be

I mean isn’t that love, sacrificing everything for us

And what was “Us”, we wasn’t even connected

We were just on the surface, nowhere deep intellectually

I was afflicted with Love that was a non-existence

I hoped, I waited, patiently wanting you to love me

Thinking about the what if’s, what if I just get this, what if I just do that, what if do this better,

What if I, what if, what if, what if

I was so in love with You…. I didn’t even know what was right

Losing sight, because I was ok with you lying and cheating

Satisfied with you giving me “What was left”- Doggie Bag- Check Please!

The cost of your efforts was cheap, but mines was expensive

My description reads…. A beautiful disaster caught in the whirlwind of a tornado and destroyed within

My reflection in the mirror was broken into pieces

If you picked me up I will cut deeply: Anger, Pride, Bitterness, Sorrow, Jealousy, Hurt, Depression, Loneliness etc..

Feelings of worthlessness

I was in love with you and you deceived me

You meant the world to me

And when I finally came to my senses, 

Hearing no longer impaired by your voice, sight cleared of your views,  I knew…..It was no longer you!

My focus was on him, He who’s seen me at my worst and believed I was the best

He who became poor so I could become rich, 

He who wanted my heart not my body

He who spoke truth, words of elegance that will enlighten you.

He said trust me and he’ll direct my path, giving me life abundantly

And it wasn't “US” with him. (Defining “Us” Separately)

But it was you in I, Me in you. (One)

He was right there never forsaken me

Loving me faithfully; but he told me I had to choose

He said love me with your lips, but your heart is still with him.

Why you want Mr. Wrong, when you know what is right

Why go back, when you’ve seen the light?

In the midst of my triangle of unfaithfulness, he still loved me,

And he says “I’m fighting for you and I’m coming back with my deepest love

But you better be prepared; because I did everything for you to see I love you

Blood, Sweat & Tears

All because he wants a relationship with me

I said Forgive me, He said I already have

Just come back to Real Love again

Mr. Wrong……. The World! Holding me to expectations of what I should be and how I should live.

My Good dude is Christ!  His power and his love speaks of a true existence. The sun, the moon, the food on my plate, the breathe I take, the roof over my head.

I thank him….he is my source, my provider, my Father

And He says this one last thing to me, you are the last piece I needed on earth to make everything complete, you are the icing on the cake, so know your Self-Worth.

This Poet’s Pursuit of Pleasure is Passion in knowing who He Is:

The Icing on His Cake

Foot Note: What more can I say? Karee is one of the most sincere poets in the game. What you see is what you get and that is precisely why she is a member of this team. The next time we meet, "Poet" will add to the guest list, until then I'll see you in-between the margins...

#JustMyThoughts

GB

Just My Thoughts: "The Collective"

Just My Thoughts: "The Collective": Guest Blog by Collective Member:  Byron Walter "Mind's Oak" Trying to remain level headed, cool, and collected. Sitting back...

"The Collective" Mind's Oak by Byron Walter

Guest Blog by Collective Member: 

Byron Walter

"Mind's Oak"

Trying to remain level headed, cool, and collected. 

Sitting back putting everything into perspective.

Find it hard at times, with my mind racing in all 

directions. 

Jumping from different topics and ideas slightly from a prior encounter or situation. 

But I store them in my mental vault and treat them like life's investments. 

Which they are if you consider my growth as a 

manifestation. 

Somewhat of a rehabilitation of my childish ways 

in previous phases. 

Still have some old habits in need of changing. 

I don't consider them a factor in this transformation, unless they hold me back from
what I'm chasing. 

A better me. 

But their are so many imperfections in perfection.

Causes me to question how will I know if 

I obtained that. 

I'll never truly know, so why not branch into 

another area of confusion. 

Then again that's all life is or seems to be. 
Lessons buried inside of mistakes that illusions 

causes us to crave. 
Maybe that's why there's a self achievement or humbling grieving at the end of every

phase. 

Either way don't hold yourself back from your true potential. 

Just understand with every chapter of your life, is a story you have to live through. 

Foot Note:

     The Collective is a conglomerate of poets, storytellers and singers that consists of 4 members. Many who have come to the shows or support our collaborative efforts, often do not know what to "Make" of such a group. So this would seem to be a perfect opportunity to explain the history behind this group and try to provide some clarity for those who are curious to know our ambitious agenda. 

There is nothing new under the Sun. I am sure there are artists somewhere who have unified like this, even though few come to mind. I cannot speak for other groups but our agenda is a complex form of simplicity. We are attempting to blur the lines between the spoken word, music & theater. Each show sets the bar higher for the next one & creatively, this team has found its stride. So much so it seems sinful not to share any writing from this group or its individual members on this blog. 

     Kat (Owner of Kat's Cafe) told me that her spot (The coziest spot in all of Atlanta) was our home, and that we were always welcome to perform there. We were grateful and humbled by that. I would like to follow suit by featuring guest blogs written by my team on this  blog. From left to right the members are as follows. Byron Walter, Karee, Poet & myself. The details of how we've come to be are too long to write for a single blog. So we taped it...

#JustMyThoughts

GB