And the Beat Don't Stop - Softcover

Morgan, Jabreel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1450291759 ISBN 13: 9781450291750

Verlag: iUniverse, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

And the Beat Don't Stop offers a searing portrait of life in the city, of hope, and of forward movement and redemption in verse-powerful poetry that will touch your very soul. Author Jabreel Morgan inspires us to do whatever great or positive things we want to do. There is inherent beauty in language, and each poem in this collection has its own beat and vibration. From the raw emotion of "Love, Your Son Chris" to the inspiring achievements remembered in "We Still Wear the Crown," Morgan's words have power; they are words that can inspire transformations of the soul and the spirit. Morgan feels that his words are God-given. The spoken word has a deep tradition of knowledge passed down from generation to generation-history remembered in songs, stories, and poetry. This collection inspires readers to fulfill their dreams and desires and to learn to appreciate life and the people who surround us, including those spirits who have passed on and upon whose shoulders we now stand.

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And the Beat Don't Stop

By Jabreel Morgan

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Copyright © 2011 Jabreel Morgan
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Contents

EPIGRAPH..............................................ixPREFACE...............................................xiACKNOWLEDGMENTS.......................................xiiiWHAT IF I WAS A PROPHET...............................xviHISTORY...............................................1NATIONS WILL RISE!....................................3OH AFRICA.............................................5RUNNING THROUGH THE BUSHES............................6BUFFALO SOLDIER.......................................7WHEN LIONS ROAR.......................................8WE INTEGRATED SPORTS..................................9WE DANCED IN JUBILEE..................................11GRANDMA SAW VISIONS IN HER DREAMS.....................12WE STILL WEAR THE CROWN...............................14BARRY CAMPBELL........................................17LEST WE FORGET........................................19IN YOUTH HE COULD DANCE...............................20MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND.........................21MOMMA WAS A STRONG TREE...............................23IN THE SIXTIES........................................26A STRANGE LAND........................................28AND THE BEAT DON'T STOP...............................29INNER CITY............................................31A CHILD'S DREAM.......................................33I WENT TO MY BROTHER..................................35DAMN I BEEN SHOT!.....................................37GENIE MAC GENIE MAC...................................38MAD RUSH..............................................40LOVE, YOUR SON CHRIS..................................42ANOTHER BROTHER GOT SHOT..............................43DOWN IN THE GHETTO....................................44ON THE DIRTY SIDEWALK.................................46IN THE WINTER.........................................47TELL ME WHY TELL ME WHY...............................51TWO DOPE DEALERS DEAD.................................52A SILLY RHYMING POEM..................................53CONWAY................................................54A RIOT................................................55I'M AN ORPHAN.........................................56FATHER WAS A GOOD MAN.................................57THICK LIP WEATHERED AND TORN..........................59STILL WAITING FOR A CHANGE MAN........................60WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT..............................61MOMMA DANCED..........................................62I'M SCRAMBLING........................................64OUR LIVES WERE SO SWEET...............................65I LOOK AROUND ME......................................66BUSTED................................................67BLACK COMEDIANS.......................................68SPIRITUAL.............................................71IT'S TIME FOR ALL MEN.................................73MY SOUL IS A GIANT....................................74WE SING...............................................75GOD'S CHILD...........................................76THE WOMAN.............................................77LET HER GET CLOSE.....................................78I FEEL SPIRITS........................................80GLORY LIGHT...........................................83LIFE OF THE SOUL......................................84WE SHINE..............................................85A SACRED PLACE........................................87ONCE UPON A TIME......................................88I HAD A BROTHER.......................................90BEFORE THE DAYLIGHT...................................91A PRAYER EVERYDAY.....................................93RISE UP OUT OF THE ASHES..............................94HEAL THE WOUND........................................96

Chapter One

    NATIONS WILL RISE!

    Nations will rise kingdoms will crumble
    But if need be we'll build our kingdoms in the jungle .
    Nations will rise kingdoms will crumble
    One day the blessed earth shall belong to the humble

    Tanzania Zaire farther north the Sudan
    Once strong nations built by black men

    Can a race be inferior with knowledge of Africa's interior?
    Kenya was a Mecca of learning and education
    Dry bones rise up you strong black nation

    Go young seekers go and venture far
    Explore exotic islands the land of Zanzibar
    Search your mind search your soul
    Feel the power unfold
    Tell an ancient secret their stories must be told .

    And you'll feel the utopia as you set foot in Ethiopia
    With the glee of a child take a trip down the Nile
    Africa our mother will make you smile
    Now tear the myth asunder Uganda Rwanda
    Africa our mother will be glad that you found her

    Take a trip up the Congo the original Jurassic jungle
    Enjoy the native sounds their dances and their bongos
    But then with sadness you must go into the madness
    Somalia will make you cry
    As you witness the multitudes starve and die

    Profits get promoted on babies' bellies bloated
    Dying is a business that's marketed and sugar coated

    Nations will rise kingdoms will crumble
    But if need be we'll build our kingdoms in the jungle
    Nations will rise kingdoms will crumble
    One day the blessed earth shall belong to the humble

    Nations will rise!


    OH AFRICA

    Oh Africa I cry under the bodies of black bodies

    Your history lies

    Oh Africa I am besieged by a mother's dire needs

    Her children refugees a billion or more

    Seeking aid from foreign shores

    Oh Africa I cry as I watch a mother painfully die

    Oh Africa I cry


    RUNNING THROUGH THE BUSHES

    Running through the bushes of the motherland
    Africans being chased by Africans
    I hear the pounding I feel the sweat, the sticky heat

    The horrid screams the killing cry
    Maybe it would have been better just to die

    The cruel coarse cutting chain
    Women and babies I feel their pain
    The strong men weakened and whipped
    Six hundred black slaves
    On a trader's ship

    Running through the bushes of the motherland
    Africans being chased by Africans


    BUFFALO...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1450291759
• ISBN 13: 9781450291750
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 116
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