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   Dessie Bey 

 

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* 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

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

 
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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

 WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOST A BOOK SIGNING FOR

Ms. BEY

OR A READING

e-mail

dbey@pointpark.edu

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http://www.publishedauthors.net/db_poet/bio.html

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

 

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

Black Student Union :: Point Park University

Open Mic night, speakers, panel discussions, Black History Month, fashion shows, movie nights. Adviser Dessie Bey, Honors program, 2nd Fl. thayer Hall, ...
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