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To my Unborn Children

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My sons please come and listen, Sit down once u have eaten, Let me share my thoughts, Let me pass down the customs, I took this picture longest time before, Before you came to be, But as I fade into oldness, This picture still remains clear, Time ticked away into days, and months into years, But words ma father once said, Are still lingering and fresh, I contemplate them every day, Now let me get them to my sons           ....2 b cont...

I Did Not Break The Rules

I started out by breaking my pen, I could not write anymore yet I had a lot to tell, I had nothing nevertheless I wanted to sell, English was empty of words so I wrote this in French, But because you are my favorite I just had to translate, This piece is not that super, I did not put the commas, I could not think of any style All I did was just write, Even if they liked it when the end rhymed, They wanted something flawless, Similar to old wine to quench their sorrows, Something fine so that the lines could flow, Just like water from high to low, Just like a poem from top to bottom, I had none like that so smooth, All in all this is the only way I can prove, That I did not break the rules, My stanzas were not the same, They kept changing as the content changed, Perhaps I was new to this game, Perhaps I did not belong in this arena, But I kept fighting hard like a Gladiator, Spilling ink like they did spill blood, When I felt weary I used the other hand and all I did was just write, S

K'naan Ft Nas-Nothing To Lose Lyrics

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[Verse 1: K’ n aan] Uh, someone called the cops on him Someone told his pops on him He was talking crooked and he had some rocks on him Tucked, tucked in his socks’ corner Chucks, chucks and the Charlotte Hornet Cap, when he flowed then they all surprised on him Yes, he's a Fugee but he go all Nas on ‘em Well, can’t go pras on ‘em And he got that crossover But he from the streets you don’t cross over Hut, hut to the block soldiers Buck, buck to the cop vultures Nope, no I don’t know pilots Nigga I know pirates Violence the islands Shout out to my idrens Put your hands up like it’s a mother fuckin’ siren [Hook: K’naan] Well, I paid all my dues Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah Shone a million shoes Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah ‘Cause when you got nothing left Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah You got nothing to lose Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [Verse 2: Nas] I used to stand on Vernon and 10 Burnin’ a spliff burner on hip Wishing to flip a bird, yac burning my chest Black certainly I’m dress

Against You

Journey of thousand miles Starts with a single step Yours has just started But get this you are headed in the wrong direction Battling me is just trying to get attention I have come from very far The east and I have been following the star When I come round the streets They say am going to see the king Only great poets sit down with the masters Am the one who makes their minds relax The one who touches their hearts And my lines are for great musicians To turn them into songs                 I regret why I put you in these lines Coz I will be saying this with a sigh I made you famous And that is the end of this verse.

Am not Complete

At times I feel like I don't know how this game is played I cant figure out how the rules are made, I make mistakes but again so is everyone else, yet today I tried very hard to cover the mess, do everything right and check it again hoping next time I will win, yes I know this life is real no one lived in the future and returned to warn us of what to expect so I can avoid making mistakes and live life simple and correct I wish I knew what tomorrow might bring so I live life carefully trying to be perfect. tonight I go to bed with an open mind, an open heart and a thoughtful expression, saying good nite Emmanuh, tomorrow will be a better day

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMANUH. DEDICATION FROM THE POETS CLAN

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Many years from the cradle, I still hold my candle, The light mama passed to me is still burning, This life I live, for more am still yearning, Walking on the right side of life coz the left seems so wrong, It’s been a long time the young me is now grown, Feeling elderly boy am getting old, The heart remains forever younger, But I am ever stronger, Now I catch pen n paper, My song for mama I now shall sing, Forever u shall be the gal of ma dreams, Together with papa u raised this young king, Best ways now u taught me, And coz of u I am gladly 2 be your kind, The last to end these lines, And that’s a poet’s version of life, Many days lived many years to live, Forever young I shall be, And that’s the reason why,  I shall with joy celebrate this day, Make it happy as the day I was known, Coz this is an anniversary for the time I was born, HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMANUH thanks be to God, Then the last stanza I end. 

Tusker Project Fame Top 10 Album

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The long awaited tusker project fame top 10 album has been released and is now available at the Tusker Project Fame Website . You can now listen to the number one song by the 2012 #Tpf5 winner Ruth Matete online. Here is a list of the top ten songs. Please note the list is not in sequential order signifying the best songs. Artist                      Ruth                                  Ndoto Langu Steve                                 I'll Be There Samatha                            Avec Toi Jackson                             Sio Mapenzi Joe                                    Set Me Free Nancy                               Welede Allan                                 No Jealouse Me Eunice                               This Kind of Love Sharon                              Nzi Ndi Nawe Doreen                              Muciari Hope the artists will make more songs for their fans and not be like their previous artists from the academy.

A Toast to Mr DJ

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E-Yo Mr DJ, please engage the replay, While you are making that mix-tape the party-people be throwing their hands in the air, just like in the old skull they don care. turn it up loud and rewind selector, while the records spin and spin again, hit me with the samples let me hear, the "ikibamba sana wapi nduru!", Mr DJ what is your kinda of style, is it free or full headsets swag, are you the digital DJ or the VDJ, Scratch, scratch the decks for my song, I miss the vinyls but now we have gone modern, it used to be Cd's then, but if your the DJ nowadays we use Ipods, or even sync the decks to a Mac-book pro, en if you are a pro get your fans on facebook Jo, maybe you will say am off the hook, but the DJ makes lots of money than the MIC MC, as Mr DJ always controls the beats, leveling, sequencing and thus turn the dancers into beasts, while on the floor moving their bodies to the motion, tell you Djying is a movement out there, when on the streets everywhere, the Matatus bla

Genius Talk

If I could think like a genius, Then all my life will be serious, It’s like am thinking hard to find it easy, Then see the sense and stop thinking, I will be dead, but guess am still living, That’s why I write these words, And turn my ideas into songs, Trying to show me the write ways, Am lost these days, But that’s cold life, in other terms, On the streets HIP-HOP is ma vehicle, With lyrics I try to forecast ma destiny, And think big like myself Trying to remember the golden ages When every grown up did right When my perception was only limited to my sight, Days of warm and cold nights But now things have changed as ever I see reality more than pen and paper I know white from black Front from back, If am leaving or am gone for good These words are simple, but coz of the beats They sound like riddles They aren’t a challenge, but it’s simple Message set in your mind To think it simple don’t be serious So that you can crown yourself a genius.

Friends Forever (2005)

Down the dusty road, My friend by my side Through valleys, hills and mountains He falls I give a hand I cry he lends a shoulder Side by side we walk If someone comes and takes you Let him take me along We share the joy If you are hurt, I do that too We share the pain Alone on this road Side by side we walk If death comes by And takes you my friend I know it won’t leave me behind We shall die together…. Then you come to Heaven And by bad luck I end up in hell We shall build a bridge of friendship (from heaven to hell) To share happiness and sadness Forever side by side.

Determined

Am just writing as the ideas flow, Want to compose something huge and just show, Make it unique perhaps for the universe, Maybe let you read this in reverse, I surrender my thoughts to wander freely, So I can grasp the best things in reality, So I can acquire a clear conscience to write. But every time I can’t picture; The best vowels, the best lines.., to make this stanza richer, My syllables are not inline, My rhymes are not in tune, They follow no sequence, But they are said in time; a time in the presence, Factual indeed with no pretense, Yet I failed again to show you the message, I forgot to include the clue and let you take a wild-guess, Leaving your mind in suspense, That is what I want to tell you.

ME MYSELF AND I AND US

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I make out the guy in the mirror, Looks by some means familiar, I have seen the same for years, All rounded think of three dimension, Spotless, precise and on perfection, Yesterday was the same, Today still no change, Different from your perspective, But your view isn’t that reflective, Of the true self image, That is not clear, Of the guy I see in the mirror.

A story told of Kenya

The reason I write, is to tell you a story, A story told by my mother to her grandchildren my children, I remember the time, sometime in 2012 A time during Easter festivals, I visited my lovely mum, I took the whole family, Left for the countryside to unite with the rest of my family After the hugs, the feasting, and the laughter, Around 9…pm That is when it all began. My last born daughter ran to her grandmother who was sitting by the fire. “Grandma! Please tell us a story,” she asked with glittering eyes. Everybody as if caught in a silent trap sat down and was all ears… This is what mama said to my daughter. “My little angel, in the future when am gone. You shall have a family, you will be married to anybody you choose. Your life shall be the life we can only dream of to be. You shall live in any part of this beautiful country, You shall have different brothers and the proverbial brother from another mother shall come true. Everyone in your time shall have the same ideas of democrac

LEAVERS ADVICE (2004)

Finally we are out/ its bin 12 years in da education house/ ups en downs in da class we passed the system/ we young victims of teachers who now cant reach us,,./ this is Wat was on the minds of the 4m 4 leavers/ but out there da worlds open/ everyday u hear bullets dropping/ coz there are no rules/ life is so rude/ en so nice.., its not school with written motto's/ no when u fail u face the law/ there is no principal with speeches in the oral/ dat am a parent,,../life has some warrant/ though to few who gone en faced da shape of the other phase/ bt after school,,. ma father abandoned me to ma own/ on roads like many am looking 4 a job/ in possession a cert from the ordinary level/ it hard like the orientation/ back in stage 1/ never know life outcome/ but still hopeful nothing will turn me down/ toward the light I head,,/ ideas blowing in ma head/ out of the tunnel is ma pride/ but ma success only comes when I lead one astride/ further from initial position/ to positi

Dreams Cut Short

Now I turn on the radio Listen to Nas rakwell Say to myself I can rhyme like that too well Take the microphone and do a mic Check Just like he does in “It aint Hard to tell” Trying to echo his voice Not good but I got no choice Turn off the radio and pick my pen Ideas start to flow like the rain Covering paper with sentences, Telling you this is real no pretense But things don’t get clear I skip a line here to the rear The knock on the door gets me to wake up Damn

Lighting Your Way by justageorgiaguy

If I was one thing, I'd be a candle Lighting the way so you can handle Your life easier without woes Not having to fight with your foes. I'd help keep you from stumbling over Things blocking your path to an open door. If I light your path, life is easier, Even strong winds, my light will not deter. No matter what, I'm here for you To cheer you up when you are blue. Do not fret when times get tough, If things look down or kind of rough. Just remember, I'm always here, In your heart, close and near. I will help you out in every way, Happiness and love in your heart will stay. Don't blow me out, that's one request Unless it's me you do detest. I do not try to hurt anyone That isn't good or any fun. But one day you may leave me behind You may no longer need my light to shine. If that day comes, go on your way And I will hope to see you again one day. If one day, I don't appear, Do not worry, do not fear I may be gone, but in your heart The light I gave y

I Miss Her

This morning I woke up early, The sun is hot but I feel so cold, Thinking it has been a while since she left my side, Encouraging myself be strong saying I am a man, But I can’t hold back the tears flowing in my heart, I try to close my eyes but I still see her, I still feel the beautiful smell of her hair, All is not well for I miss her. Every time I try to move on I turn around and come back solo, In my dreams she visits me, In my thoughts, in my blood she flows, All am left with are beautiful memories, Of how we used to be the pair, And of the beautiful love that we shared, Oh if I could turn back the hands of time, She still could been mine but now I miss her. I loved the way she rolled her lips, Still see the beautiful eyes looking up at me, Carrying me away to a place I called heaven That sound ooohoo she made, The times we embraced, The promises we gave through text, Through the nights lost in love, All that was her in my life, I miss her. But now she is gone, The short sweet

A Reason to Write

Every day I sit down to write, I see pictures in my mind, Think to myself! that is some fine works of art, Occasionally I hear a beautiful melody in my sleep, Extraordinarily real I feel the aroma of the music so sweet, But when I wake all that I felt is gone, It is like a dream that I never had, Now I failed to include the best lines, To come up with such a flawless piece, I have been searching the alphabets, for the best vowels, So I can flaunt to the world what I feel, Illustrate to humanity these pictures in my brain, Sing to the world the songs in my head, Let them perceive the world through my eyes, Breathe through my nose and listen through my ears, For I have found a reason to write .