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Superstar
by T. Semakula
(dedicated to Luis Bernard)
There is a poet who throws words up into the sky
And lets them sit there to float like stars
He spits metro psalms that fall out of his lips
There is a poet who moves the crowd with the shove of his vocabulary and his smokin list of demands
His glossary is tight with direct movement
His words give like a cheerful tither, in praise of his God, leaving room fo salvation
There is a poet who gives love with metaphor or a commanding stanza, or a toxic free verse, or an electric sonnet set to my heart’s pentameter
There is a poet who is a bad mother..um..um and he knows it. So fly and energetic, a walking breathing roaring urban poetic. Throwing challenge at form, speaking truth to power, speaking rain to flowers, speaking glow to the moon, speaking space to a narrow room. Supplying base to the boom
There is a poet who lives like a floating haiku, an aggressive rhyme, a potent shout out, a slow moving song
Ohh.. there is a poet, who , like Jill Scott said… was born and will die a poet,
Who wakes up, invisions, and sleeps a poet,
Who moans and cries a poet,
Who chisels and crafts a poet
Who inhales and breathes a poet
Who returns and leaves a poet
Who births and raises other poets
Who sets planets in order
University of Liverpool
Superstars Project aims to provide you with the information and support to enable you to take your education further....
For those of you who would like to work with a Superstar one day, Buttafly offers a wonderful workshop titled "Project Cinema"
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