greetings brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and others. ive been neck deep in a new project. this new thing has opened up really before i finished my last thing (tis the norm in my life). so The Meccan Openings album is still coming. fret not. when i make some more headway on this new project i’ll share it with yall. your going to love it.
i know some folks are upset with me for my last post. the mos def joint. yeah the link has expired. ill put it up again so you guys can download it for your listening pleasure.
everything is good. just creating creating and creating.
love light and peace,
amir
ps. i dont know anyone living (emphasize ANYONE) that is better at writing poetry than this young woman http://www.warsanshire.blogspot.com/ . any of you who know me know i dont make statements like this casually. so im not saying that shes better than everyone else. all im saying is i dont know anyone better than her. [and i know some damn good writers]. shes 21yrs old (i think). shes a phenomenal writer. shes releasing her first book soon. not sure how soon. i dont know the name of it or whose publishing it so dont ask me. ask her.
v1
when I die
oh dearly beloved
ive nearly departed
from the empty heart
of an artist
my art is narcotic
without heroin or methadone
without break beat or metronome
cathartic
my thought is
most poets are liars
and most liars are artist
but as an “honest” artist
ill tell you
when your teachers preacher
fail you
the artist can show you where God is
I put that on
sayyidina
habibina Muhammad
salaallahu alahi wa ala ahlihi wa salaam
civilize the lawless
you dont gotta be concious
just cognoscente
dont take a genius to make GOOD music
its just the consequence of common sense
we were kidnapped
but not totally conquered
by colonist
so we live and grow right here
we’ve mastered slavery
despite fear
sometimes we make GOON music
just getting out our nightmares
ive got an idea
God damn the Goddamn devil
and oh yeah Peace
v3
im between
abi and umi
shia and sunni
heaven and earth
rakim and rumi
if you knew me
you know its not a new me
their magic doesn’t fool me
lose me
or move me
Tesla with heckler
swordman sufi
take ten thousand men
with two sheets of loose leaf
please excuse
my brother introduce me
hes most def and im absolutely
Im first to dive in
last one to surface
with something from moses
my staff is my verses
magicians bamboozle
mystify
woo you
conversely
my verse eat the face off the serpent
at best you laying with the nurses
or worst
or have you sleepin with the sea urchin
hex curses
merlin’s nervous
death becomes him
end scene
curtains
ponder the space between your eye and the star
youre seeing the light of what’s already gone
likewise by the time you hear this song
10,000 light years we’ve already moved on
even if your watching live perform
youre only there seeing the life in my form
eeni meeni miney mo what planet im on
I go where I want I the slave of The GOD
i cant wait for our show next thurs. gonna be niiiiice, inshaAllah. its refreshing having a show at a really intimate exclusive spot. its a whole different vibe. this is at an art gallery that only seats 60ppl. thats dope to me. i need to check how many tix are still available. if youre trying to come cop ‘em now http://www.lizagarza.com
how is love expressed to the lovers
except expressed through the lovers
love lays upon love
pushing itself into itself
and on her inner thigh
I have written a lullaby
that cant be sung or spoken
it can only be stroked open
love spread over a moment
stretched over the monument of my atonement
with her pleasure of knowing
that the pain will evolve into pleasure
im holding
her breast
like im holding
my breath
frozen sweat
like tiny stars
adorning her chest
my mouth counting the constellations across her torso
I am face first
beneath hajars skirt
my lips brushing her black stone
whispering my most secret sacred
my desire wont let my face lift
for a few moments the whole universe lay naked
her world of things turns to her world of thoughts
my world of thoughts turns to the world of naught
in that moment caught
clawing to catching her breath
amidst the sound of sweat and flesh
by consequence
she speaks without consonants
only ohs and ah
her countenance between confusion and convulsion
then a chorus
of gospels and gasps
oh my God oh my God
ascetic indulgence
my
righteous indignation
beating against the bottom of her beating heart
until her breathing stopped
her back made noah’s ark
a rainbow appeared after the rain stopped
and I gave her the good news of the coming of her Lord
what more can I love besides what The Loving loves
and The Loving loves The Beloved so I love
theres not enough love
you gotta make love
and remake love
co create love
cremate love
reincarnate love
gotta make Love
just make Love
Big thanks to Director: Mustafa Davis, Composer: Mikaal Sulaiman, and DP: Jeff Corrales. please check this out and spread the word. http://www.amirsulaiman.com
mark my words
words will mark their marksmen
words will push bullets backwards into their barrels
and brothers back into the bosom of their mothers
betwixt lovers
language pushes love into love
and thereafter pushes love into life
if it weren’t for rumi
they would have
ruined me
luminous language
lit
lovers lane
traversed by the drunk and insane
language
like liquor
an elixir
that licked her
earlobe
to let her know she was not alone
not the only lonely
soul knowing
that in the morning
we’d be mourning
the night
that kept our nakedness
from sight
in private
I speak the truth almost inaudibly
such that
I can hardly
hear the God in me
there is a harmony
if sang with sincerity and clarity
one’s soul will transcend
one’s anatomy
angels and ancestors
in one’s veins and arteries
the silent majority
attempted a lobotomy
to cut the lumumba malcolm marley mansa musa outta me
no more fear
they either martyr me
or pardon me
it doesn’t matter
I am not matter
I wish I was an anomaly
but im more normal
than I thought I ought to be
but it is not fitting
for me to
ignore the most precious part of me
my secret
the difference between
melody and harmony
harmony
requires more than me
your secret
in unison we must all sing
your secret that is lost in me
my secret that is swimming
in your heavenly body
until God is in plain sight
the full moon on a cloudless night
mark my words
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