Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Days of Darkness 2





billionaires now in power
the darkest of hours has arrived
money now rules...fools on the warpath
yet the Bible says
“For the love of money is the root of all evil…"
avarice…gluttony…greed
the seed of war now planted
into future partnerships with haters…dictators
racism and bigotry
exploding over the country
dropping bomb shards that kill
empathy and reason in the season of hate
to late for justice for all…
hypocritical right winged
Christianity spreads a disease of the mind
with such ease…hypocrisy
continues to promote unjust acts
don't tax the rich
silence the voice of a woman's right of choice
set limitations on the immigration of Muslims
times up for for the achievers...the dreamers
self- righteousness rules

the moral right is so confused...
cultivating darkness
embroiling America in
a spiritual contradiction of a religion
devoid of the love of Jesus
who they profess to believe in...
cultivating darkness
no justice for the oppressed
no justice for the poor
no justice for the downtrodden…
only death, the grave, and hell.

now real justice it seems
has once again become only a dream
of social democracy in the land of the free
wouldn't it have been glorious to see
universal health care
affordable housing everywhere
sustainable care for the elderly…
living out their lives in peace
education for all citizens
the school to prison pipeline eradicated at last
massive incarceration a phenomenon of the past...
O' what a wonderful country this could be…
if taxation of the rich was a reality
helping to pay for social programs
that could assist in the elimination of poverty
and then this nation would truly be
“One nation…under God
with liberty and justice for all.”

Sunday, December 11, 2016

The Blue Mirror




























Chords ...piano sounds

Trombone…tenor sax

Notes flowing…flying 
  
all around the rhythm of the drums… 
                                                                                                      
Jazz proclaims supremacy 

in celebration of a musical legacy… 
   
The Newark Blues People Festival lives on.


A soloist accompanied by

harmonizing voices declares  
                                                                                                                    
the reason for the season. 
                                                                                                        
Silent Night in the Blue Mirror  
                                                                                                       
sings of heavenly peace…   
                                                                                                              
A peace to release the mind 
                                                                                                  
from stress and worry 
                                                                                                                   
from violence and from hate …    
                                                                                                           
Contralto tones interweave   
                                                                                                         
with chords falling between beats   
                                                                               
crescendo-ing into a spiritual explosion

declaring amazing grace 
                                                                                                                        
in the blue mirror.


Voices curve in and out
                                                                                                           
accentuating spaces in the music…  
                                                                                                         
The breathy sound of the flute softly enters 
              
whispering melodically of 

hope    
                                                                                                                                            
The music rumbles        
                                                                                                                           
The music rolls      
                                                                                                                                    
The drums explode …  
                                                                                                                             
A glissando sends sixteenth notes    
                                                                                                         
cascading into the atmosphere

igniting spirits to take wing and soar…

lanterns lighting the way   
                                                                                                             
in the blue mirror.


Abstract designs                                                                                                                                      
reflect bass notes 
                                                                                                                                     
walking through the mirror 
                                                                                                                      
in search of the one… 
                                                                                                                               
The beat that connects musical exploration
                                                                                
 into a unifying force   
                                                                                                                              
 in search of creation…  
                                                                                                             
 in search of a peace to release  the mind  

from stress and worry   
                                                                                         
from violence and from hate…  
                                                                                                                
in search of a peace 
                                                                                                                    
that serenades unity in the family of man.