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Snappin' Out!
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Poems
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Dessie Bey
black history 365
* The African’s Experience in America – A Poetic/Jazz Timeline Poetry by Dessie Bey, Accompanied on Saxophone by Doc Wilsonphone: 412-464-0321/412-392-8105
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© 2006 by Dessie Bey. All rights reserved...
ISBN: 1-4241-0690-7
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Every Woman
Who am I ???
Every woman
It’s true
Let me introduce myself to you
From Tubman to Ross
And that’s Diana, not Betsy
I paid the cost
To be the boss
I am Eve in the garden
I am Queen of the cotton field
I am mother of all nations
I am the wildest figment of your imagination
I am the mother of your children
I am the keeper of your name
I am your wife, your friend, your comrade
I am your distressed damsel
And your confidant dame
I can strut and shake it up like Tina
I can moan like none other than Nina Simone
I can make you feel like King of everything
I can make you pant
Like a dog after a bone
I will take up arms like Angela
And free your soledad mind
And after that
Shackle you in the womb of womanly musk
And imprison you by desire’s
Ravishing lust
I am whatever the situation or condition calls for
In any given time, space or place
I Am
Woman
Lady
Female
I Am
That I Am
Yes, even that I am
Next to God
The Creatress of this human race
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Election 2000
Amerika
Sweet land of liberty
Held hostage by democracy
The trump was sounded
A voice in the wilderness
Cried
“Stay out the Bushes”
Freedom to voice my choice
Am-Bushed
By Dumbo,
The republican Elephant
While being
Gore-d to the core by the Stubborn
So called democratic Jack-ass
Beware of the thorns
In them there Bushes
The confederate flag
Banners the trunk of Dumbo
As he reveals
His Neanderthal technology
Bush-whacking
His way to preside over
Amerika
Sweet land of liberty
While the Gore-y details
Of the blood
Of those who died for this right
Streak the Red, White and Blue
And pricks the finger
Of those exercising
Their democratic constitute
In the density of a ballot
As Dumbo exposes
And decomposes
The land of the free
U.S. of A.
With his peripheral vision
He vows Republican confederation
Confiscating the vote
And kidnapping
Amerika
Sweet land of liberty
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Ecstasy
As the warm wisp
Of your breath
Gently dances
Across the dew
That rises
From the root
Of my love
I close my eyes
To see
The soul of you
I taste the nectar
Of sweet
Sticky
Honey
As my tongue slips
Missing your mouth
And slides
Over your glistening torso
Until every open pore
Is soaked
With hot lava
Pulsating to escape
Entwined in ecstasy
I trace every bone in your body
With tender
Fingertip touches
Sculpting a masterpiece
Wrapped in intoxicating oneness
Slowly melting
Into euphoric nothingness
Collapsing from the eruption of paradise
Caressing lifelessly
We finally kiss
And say
Goodnight |
And it gets mo' bettah...
60 more poems in the book for your pleasure & intellectual curiosity |
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King’s Dream Deferred (Tribute to Langston Hughes)
Langston asked, What happens to a dream deferred? Take a look around The answer is evident When blissful ignorance is preferred
Creation of a false utopia state As the dream flips To a night-mare-ish enticing fate
Langston asked, What happens to a dream deferred? The American dream Masquerades as freedom to liberate
The vision lost in a dream Allowing a winking eye to subdue The "we shall overcome" scream
Dropping the neighbor from the hood Left our future – victim Doing our community no good
Langston asked What happens to a dream deferred/ The answer is now evident When blissful ignorance is preferred
Integrating the dream Into the Amerikan scheme The vision denied Even before "home land security" was implied
The night-mare-ish Amerikan scheme That arrested the King’s dream Notwithstanding, the 40 acres and a mule Reparations settlement That was never redeemed
Destroy the family That is part of the scheme of things Throw in "women’s lib" The Black Kings will never rule Without the strength of Adam’s rib
Oh and Let’s drop ship the euphoric marijuana, cocaine and poppy Direct to the hood For a future of dealers and the stone junky And let their seed invest in the business Of self destruction and total corruption
Make available all sorts of ammo AK47’s and Uzi’s to kill It will make your extinction easier Because desire and greed Will demand that you feed That macho, egotistical need
Langston asked, What happens to a dream deferred? Take a look around The answer is evident The visions’ been blurred And a night-mare-ish utopia is preferred
Wake up! Ya’ll please wake up! So I can get me some sleep!
- Dessie Bey
©2004-1/18/04
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WHERE IN THE WORLD HAS DESSIE BEY BEEN LATELY

In Honor of Women's History Month
Come Meet Women Authors Who Share their Work and Techniques
Saturday
March 24, 2007
SoHo
203 Federal Street
Federal and General Robinson
Pittsburgh, PA
Located on the North Shore in the Marriott
If purchased online, price for Breakfast, Program, Parking & Buffet Lunch -- $45.00
If at door the day of the event -- $50.00
Or if purchased separately --
Registration, Breakfast & Program -- $25.00
Parking -- $5.00
Buffet Lunch afterwards -- $20.00
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Program
8:00 a.m. -- Registration, Continental Breakfast & Networking
9:00 a.m. -- Pittsburgh Women of Achievement "Role" Call -- Pat McGrath Avery, Heather Schmidt, Carolyn Scott, Heidi Schmidt and Joyce Faulkner
9:20 a.m. -- Introduction by Anna Marie Gire, Editor of Women's Independent Press
9:30 a.m. -- "Breaking Through the Fear of Reaching For Your Dreams: Writer's Block and Other Bricks in the Water Bucket of Life" -- Nancy Mramor Ph.D. , author of "Spiritual Fitness" and an educational, health and clinical psychologist, a Spiritual Fitness Coach, a speaker
9:50 a.m. -- Ten Minute Break
10:00 a.m. -- "The Art and Craft of Poetry" -- Dessie Bey, author of "“Snappin’ Out! in more ways than one” and founding member and Assistant Director of the Langston Hughes Poetry Society of Pittsburgh and on the Board of Directors of UMOJA African Arts Company.
Legacies: Providence, Rhode Island
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