Tuesday, November 20, 2012

What really matters…?


What really matters…?





     Embrace the contrast of diversity through its striking beauty, where styles compliment others by a braid of creative strength. We are unlikely allies and that is what makes it work. I have been called “Hollywood” in this game on a few occasions. If the definition of “Hollywood” is; to do God’s work for the love of creating, I’ll be that.  We were battling for 90 minutes straight while the crowd watched us go at it like gladiators. We touched people, we moved people, and we were touched and moved by people. Now we all look for other ways to express ourselves…

Byron Walter will be studio with Shawde Banx.

Karee will be in front of the camera.

Poet will also be in the studio finishing his album.

And Graffiti Bleu has to edit next year’s releases…


Just my Thoughts Moralities, Short stories and Poems.

And “Behind the Lens  with Ayofemi Francino Mophia…


So we will be "underground" for awhile. I humbly tell you that the run we had was for the love. Since March of this year we have been getting it in. Thanks to everyone who shared this with us.


GB

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

My Brother We are the same


We are the same…

My Brother,

A different height, a different tone
A different frame, a different name

My Brother

The more I look at who we are
The more I know we are the same.

My Brother

Flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood
Eager ally and heated rival

My Brother

The young soldier at my back
Forever fighting for our survival

My Brother

The street wise kid
Who was eager to challenge you

My Brother

We fought plenty,
But I could never stay mad at you

My Brother

A different version of myself
The Lord’s way of being clever

My Brother

Through the love we have for you
You will always be remembered.

Just My Thoughts: Love Thy Enemy

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Just My Thoughts: Brave Heart

Just My Thoughts: Brave Heart: I lay deep in his chest protected by bone,  muscle and courage. I am big enough to pump life blood to his imposing frame, ...

Brave Heart





I lay deep in his chest protected by bone, 
muscle and courage.

I am big enough to pump life blood to his imposing frame,

I am strong enough to give optimism to those discouraged.

I am brave enough to extend a humble invitation to a stranger with no name.

I am warm enough to melt a frown until it is upside down

I am free enough to provide all who I touch with fun memories

Yet I am cold enough to keep my distance, and be still without a sound,

I am generous enough to display love for my entire family

I am the beating heart of Dolphus Johnson Jr.

Even though it is obvious now that I am not physically perfect,

And I desired certain things in life you may consider selfish.

Know that I filled him with a passion to live life against the grain,

A passion to make our own rules and to not live life mundane

I know as well as anyone no two hearts beat alike

Know that others hearts live fearfully, without the will to fight.

Remember me as loving my people, loving my friends and loving fun,

Loving my mother, loving my brothers, loving my father and loving my son

I am the resting heart of Dolphus Johnson Jr.


Friday, October 26, 2012

Love Thy Enemy



Extra, extra read all about it!

Hot off the press you can read all about it!

Strangers become friends, friends become brothers!

Budding greatness becomes fear of potential!

Envy becomes failure to count a blessing!

High intelligence and low self esteem become an abuse of power!

A lack of options becomes frustration!

Frustration becomes a murder times two!

One homicide, one suicide...

To go inside the dark mind of the killer turn to page 27

The other 26 are filled with ads straight from Heaven

This publication is divine and void of the usual spin.

That exploits our ignorance, nurtures our prejudice and boosts our vanity.

Let us begin…

The worst place to keep a gun is in the forefront of your wicked dreams.

Especially when all you want is for the pain to go away.

That is what the note said at the foot of the bed.

The sheets are soaked red, where a man lies dead.

The police kept asking how the hell this could be.

He kept his bills paid, has a college degree.

Wife’s a dime and 2 pennies, bless this house at the door.

We may have to investigate this a bit more.

Upon their investigation, they found his wife, and his work highly invested in a spiritual war against him.

They found his best friend dead with a broken wind pipe.

Forensics said it was death by strangulation. 

Fingerprints identified one who felt brutally betrayed.

The brutally betrayed… was me.

And though this is a fictional tale, it was almost my reality.

You may ask yourself; “How in the hell this could be?”

Flash backwards to 1993

With God forgotten, into the woods I walk,

No machete, no armor, no compass and no ministry.

Repeatedly made to bleed by my enemy’s weaponry.

It was almost the death of me until I respectably

Begged him for his forgiveness then I noticed him next to me.

Pause…

He said “Son I was always by your side, you just happened not to notice me”

This story continues on page number 43.

Flash forward to the present day.

The truth of the matter is I premeditated the murder that never happened.

This time I noticed God before I walked in the woods.

“Love Thy Enemy” he said and I mocked him for saying it.

Simply because I couldn't wrap my head around that concept.

So he broke it down in a language that I could understand.

He personified it in verse through a story told by my Pastor.

And I quote:

You take a rod of steel and the raw mineral is not that strong. So you put it in the fire burning 1200 degrees. As the steel gets hot you hit it and shape it. As the steel gets hot the impurities burn off. Everything which is not steel turns to ash besides the glowing red rocks a flame. You pull the steel from the fire and it is 3 times as strong as when it went in. Now it is a shield or a sword or whatever you desired it to be.

Does the sword hate the fire that made him?
And if so does the shield?

“Love Thy Enemy” now makes sense to me.

Sincerely yours;

The publishers of the daily news which is called “God’s plan”



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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Rob My Desire.





Victim I lay before this day,

Mind and loins now prisoner born.

My moon now longer where stars stay.

I am brought down to rest on one knee.

Within inches of the fucking keys.

Stretching my arms painfully

Extending fingers through the bars.

Like long legs parting before moans.

Praying to the lonely stars.

That a new ruler will return.

Time passes and the sky empties,

Empty as one whose shoulders lay grave.

Trying desperately,

For the freedom of sexual expression.

Red Sun Full now at your back worshiping your soul.

Making my desire endless

 Un-tamable

 Blue flames spread like youthful wings

Till the nightfall anxious for her flirt.

Again robs me of my desire.