ARC AND HUE will be available at the NYC book party on Sunday, Sept.
20, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY
10012. Between Houston & Bleecker, near the F & 6 trains.
As you woke this morning there were already good thoughts surrounding you. People who love you for who you are and what you stand for. May this be a 'wonder filled' day for you. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" and thanks for being a friend.
Umar, You have been a hero to me since 1970. Thanks for all the inspiration. Excerpted from Slow Dancing in Blue Light by J. Otis Powell! ...Dawn Renee Jones says, we be living on a vibe. A vibration on a fault line between self love & a lie flowing through the veins of America. There is a sound in our heads that won’t stop singing, there is a beat in our hearts that won’t stop, even for the grim reaper. It’s a matter of limitations being temporary & erroneous beliefs; innate as failures in life, failures to understand equilibrium & principles of rattle snakes & spirits accepting limitations. Had I known you were leaving I might have said, life, like guacamole, taste like whatever you put in it. Or told you that the voice of nature whispered to Umar Bin Hassan that victory was his, if he wanted it. If it is his, then it’s also ours, because we want it too. Word by word the saga unfolds like a John Coltrane composition.
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ARC AND HUE will be available at the NYC book party on Sunday, Sept. 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012. Between Houston & Bleecker, near the F & 6 trains.
ARC AND HUE will be in stores soon! Pre-order your copy for 20% off before 9/1/09. Look out for the book of lesson plans and the NYC & Chicago release parties too. http://stores.aquariuspressbookseller.net/Categories.bok?category=Poetry
As you woke this morning there were already good thoughts surrounding you. People who love you for who you are and what you stand for. May this be a 'wonder filled' day for you. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" and thanks for being a friend.
So get with me about Black August and your time in the Bay my dear brother. It will be good to connect. PEACE, LOVE AND LIBERATION!
Hey did i show you this vide
o from the other night yet?http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=DPt81xwX.individual&VideoID=64554478
Umar,
You have been a hero to me since 1970. Thanks for all the inspiration. Excerpted from Slow Dancing in Blue Light by J. Otis Powell!
...Dawn Renee Jones says,
we be living on a vibe.
A vibration on a fault line between self love
& a lie flowing through the veins of America.
There is a sound in our heads that
won’t stop singing, there is a beat in our hearts
that won’t stop, even for the grim reaper.
It’s a matter of limitations being temporary
& erroneous beliefs; innate as failures in life,
failures to understand equilibrium
& principles of rattle snakes
& spirits accepting limitations.
Had I known you were leaving
I might have said, life, like guacamole, taste
like whatever you put in it.
Or told you that the voice of nature
whispered to Umar Bin Hassan
that victory was his, if he wanted it.
If it is his, then it’s also ours,
because we want it too.
Word by word the saga unfolds
like a John Coltrane composition.
As'salaamu Alaikum!! Bro Umar..
Thank you for adding me to your cipher of friends... Respect
Sistah Autum Ashante'