Superior Hair Quality

Right now I am wearing my hair in a afro.  I love the way it looks all unruly and when I touch it , it is soft, strong and thick.  It is in a healthy condition.  I have relaxed my hair in the past, or I should I say try and kill it by drying it out and drowning it in chemicals.   Anyhow it has forgiven me and recovered.  To the next experiment. Afro hair is so versatile I am certain there is not  style out there that cant be achieved.

I have noticed when I have my hair in  an Afro the general concess is that someone wants to touch it.  Now I regard my hair as being personal and private.  The area about your head is vital when it comes to channelling positive energy.


Posted fb 10/07/13

#160 My Nappy Hair

My hair is described as nappy

This makes me happy

It is also unruly

And cannot be tamed

Like the woman within

My independent brain

My hair is superior

Which naturally means other hair is inferiria

It is versatile

It can be combed in any style

It can be slicked back

If that’s where you think it is at

My hair doesn’t lay flat

If I locks it

It will climb happily down my back

My hair is happiest in afro

That’s what is unique you know  

In the 70’s it was symbolic and right

My hair stands upright

Like it’s an antenna

Ready for a fight

Tracking for the next satellite

I remember the tears

As a child

Wanting to wear my hair wild

To avoid the comb which I would fear

Now I am in control

I comb it without tears

I recall sitting down

At my mothers feet

This time spent together

I now regard as a treat

Time spent alone;

With my mother my hair

And that wretched comb

Nelson Mandela Gravely Ill

The news of Nelson Mandela ill troubles me more that I ever expected it to do.  My father was keep on Politics, he says whether you like it or not Politics are everywhere and you encounter during your day whether you choose to take part in politics or not.  I understood despite being maybe eight.  My father would speak of Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko and so many atrocities which had occurred in this country.

My point is I have always been aware of Nelson Mandela.  I was 27 when he was finally released he had spent 27 years in prison.  For some reason it stuck in my mind.  by 27 I had my daughter and was settled into my career.

Imagine 27 years of your life being taken away.

so now that he is ill, all I keep thinking is he was robbed of 27 years of his life.

posted fb 30/06/13

#151 They Owe Him a Life

They owe him

They owe him a life

Some people never make it

Some people need to think twice

They owe him so much

Don’t let him die

As long as there is hope in sight

He stood for truth

He stood for justice

He stood against the evil system

That made his people bled

Incarcerated locked up for

Standing up for your rights

Songs were made to pursue his release

This system is wicked

He was in the belly of the beast

27 years

27 years that’s almost a whole life

For something that wasn’t  completely true

He kept dignified

He kept true

Then that fateful day

After they finally had there fun

Decided to let release him

Maybe to see where he woud run

He stayed true to his word

This country he would run

A term in Government

Was not enough to do all that had to be done

Now he is ill

All I can think

Look how they have treated

This African Son

Live on Nelson Mandela

Live out all your days

We will keep you in our hearts

Your name we will praise!

Nina Simone The High Priestess of Soul!

Nina Simone, to this day she truly fascinates me.  Every time  I stumble across  a picture or a song I haven't heard.  Her style was effortless and uniquely hers.  She didn't just sing a song she felt a song.  The Fugees once refer to her as  'Defecating  the mic' I think i know what they meant.  She just tells it like it is.

There are so many songstress going around mimicking the sound these great Singers of long ago made.  When Billy Holiday sang she sang from a point of direct experience. That's what made it so powerful.  The music they made intrudes on your daily life, grabs you by the throat and it compels you to listen.

The era they made music in the Black race was experiencing such unjust atrocities.  Everyone knew someone who had been killed just for being black.

Experiences like that change you forever , also dictates what and how you sing.

Nina Simone sang in her most pained voice as I guess she had experienced a lot of pain

So when someone comments about a posting about her album named 'The High Priestess of Soul' . They casually say I have heard her music and it is more kind of Jazz ( I think you have lost the right to comment  I think it is only right for me to say.  'How dare you?!'

posted fb 19/06/13

#139 The High Priestess of Soul

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Nina Simone

‘The High Priestess of soul’

She was so much more

She represents the struggle

Of our people at the time

Her music her voice

Commands attention

Whatever she sings

She makes it her own

I listen to her sounds

I know she was a troubled soul

She was aware of things going on

She knew the right from the wrong

She was persecuted

She was strong

Her memory lives on and on

Nina Simone

‘The High Priestess of Soul’

I really don't hate Candy Crush

I wrote this on the train, as there are even more people lost in Candy Crush world.  Every day on the train the free paper The Metro is available, if they took their noses out of their various electronic gadgets.  I know the news is depressing but this is our world.  Even if we think we  can't do anything about it. That is no reason to disengage yourself.


posted  fb 20/06/13

#141 Half The World

Half the world are playing candy crush

While half the world are getting crushed

Half the world is dying

While half the world are sleeping

Half the world are starving

While half the world are obese

Half the world are sleeping

While half the world are standing

They are shifting the balance slowly

In their own way

So the question is

What are you doing today ?

Dumping ground for unwanted children

The Situation in children care homes they are worse than we ever thought.  It's like this little children are just there to be abused.  The recent stories of girls being groomed and children being brought into Brixton Police Station as Sex slaves is shocking.  These poor children who at first were abandoned then to be subjected to this systematic abuse.

So when women become pregnant and they feel it necessary to terminate or put the un planned unwanted child in care.  Every needs to think longer and harder about that option.

posted fb 22/06/13

#142  The Forgotten one

I am the remainder of a bad relationship

I am the leftover from a broken promise

I am the forgotten one

I am the one born out of passion

I am the one to not be loved

I am the one that will be rejected

I am the one not selected

I am the one waiting

For my time to come

It wasn’t my choice

I didn’t do anything wrong

Yet I will be punished

Forever for what went wrong

Mixing Friendship and Business

It's a pet peeve of mine. Not everyone is business minded. So friends or so called friends who like to bring business into a friendship are simply screwing you over in the name of friendship. I if I wanted to do business I would walk into a shop or an office.

posted fb 15/06/13

#135 Friendship over Business

Friendship over business

When you enter into a friendship

Thats all there is

Someone you meet

Connect with

Help you through the thick and the thin

Then knock knock

Opportunity is at the door

They can make a bundle

Suddenly your friendship

Is not important anymore

They make the deal

They take your stash

Trading your friendship

For a bundle of cash

After that they can’t face you anymore

Knock knock

What’s that?

An old friendship

Laying by the door

Happy Father's Day

I hesitated coz it seemed mean to post this on Father's Day.  So I waited until nearly 10 pm .  That's my only compromise.  There are fathers out there they know who they are.  They are not around in the early years then when they get to pre  teens or some magical age they suddenly want to be in the child's life.  I don't get that. Then they have the audacity to get the same  aka laid as a Mother on Mother's day


posted  fb 16/06/13

#136 Happy Fathers day

For all those fathers

Sitting at home

Waiting for the card

Waiting for the call

Waiting

With your spliff and your special brew

Where did you go wrong?

Why is it this celebration

Is not about you

For all the fathers who quit

Because those nappies was

A little too smelly

Then the fathers

Who wanted to focus

On  xbox and telly

For the fathers who never made

Parents evening

‘What they really need to see both of us?’

I’ve got runnings and things to do

For the fathers who missed

All those school plays

That just went on and on

I don’t need that fuss

For the fathers who never read the night time book

Never bathed the baby

Never rocked the cot

On one of those too many sleepless nights

Where is my present?

Where is my card?

Where are my flower’s?

Not even a phone call

Now I know how it must have felt like

This is so hard

What have I done to deserve this?

Whatever I done

Didn’t you understand

It wasn’t directed at you

Now it’s my time

For a Happy Father’s Day Rhyme