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Poet's Memory Songz
by Mitzi Kay Jackson → (All Poetry by Mitzi Kay Jackson)
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*there should always be sumptin to sing about
and i sing like springtime
i sing like fall
i sing like summertime
and i sing bitter sometimes like winter's frost

and this is my memory song









Poem Artwork

Aya Oh LaLa
Aya Oh LaLaLa

Sunrise over sadness In sky~ A line of unworthy-ness
The ghetto ain’t no place for flowers like these
They half open
Hopin’ for enuf air to breathe in
Cause they wants to fly
Get higher than those trees
Where memories of ancestors left shadows
Smoke escapes into air that rain down
Down
Down
….on flowers waiting to grow

I sing words of past down logic
Hopin to stop it with me
I know trees that bleed sap
Enuf hurt on the inside
It creates cancer tryin to hide
And silent heroes aren’t made
They grown….and the ghetto ain’t no
Place for flowers like these

We spose to be hunting wildebeest
But we hunting wantabees and husslingbees
And niggas hatin on me and my niggas ridin wit me
And them niggers fighting over choked words
That cut like knives
And bulleted holes bodies
Drugged over flowers that ain’t got no
Business in the ghetto

Ain’t got no room for laziness
Four hundred plus years
And the tears fall on straw
Just ready so so ready to burn
Like ghettos while police fights
Lines drawn so tight
Almost impossible to see which side
Is right
No doubt it is by design and flowers yawl
This fine…..this fine

Was made in rich soil underneath piles
And piles of shitty mine fields
They planted the seed so deep
They whatin expecting flowers like these
So much pollution in our doing
But the ghetto grows and grows and grows
And although you got some of dem flowers in line
They grow and controlled
Nature is nature and she out of your hands


These flowers grows in shadows
Of images left on trees
Seeped in the blood under seas
Walking in the footprints of kings and queens
That knows it all begun
On the grounds of ghettos
Singing like the color purple

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 Reviews of "Poet's Memory Songz"
Reviewed by Walter Jones
Reviewed on January 2, 2007
Your voice pulls forth a feeling hidden, and the sound rings strong as the wind it is carried on, always special and full, you are life, and you sing it well.. Walt

Reviewed by K. Mulroney
Reviewed on December 29, 2006
I can say nothing but. . beautiful.

Reviewed by Tova Gabrielle
Reviewed on December 22, 2006
We spose to be hunting wildebeest
But we hunting wantabees and husslingbees
And niggas hatin on me and my niggas ridin wit me
And them niggers fighting over choked words
That cut like knives
And bulleted holes bodies
Drugged over flowers that ain’t got no
Business in the ghetto

Reviewed by Ian Thorpe
Reviewed on December 14, 2006
Ooch! feels like I've just been kicked in the balls.
This was an honest and eloquent portrayal of ghetto conditions Mitzi. I think the use of patois gave it extra power too.

Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater
Reviewed on December 13, 2006
Maya, Oprah, Whoopie, Tina T, and Whitney would have a comment to the good on this one, Mitzi, you have the microphone positioned just perfect here...ENCORE! Singin' it the wayz ya seez it...Blessed Be.

Sage

Reviewed on December 13, 2006
A very heartfelt song. Thank you Mitzi!!!

Sandie May Angel a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)

Reviewed by Brett Moore
Reviewed on December 13, 2006
Really honest and scathing portayal. Exceptionally well written.

Brett

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on December 13, 2006
I appreciate your song and its sentiments, Mitzi. Thank you for sharing this gift. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on December 13, 2006
Very well done Mitzi!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Aberjhani
Reviewed on December 12, 2006
"Singing like the color purple"
And so you are heard, applauded, and greatly appreciated like the color of kings and queens, prophets and griots, princes and princesses, who smile blessings upon every syllable your heart writes. Never doubt it.
Aberjhani

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on December 12, 2006
These flowers, like your poems come, half-opened to the ghetto because the seed was planted, and it can't help but grow.

Ron

Reviewed by - - - - - TRASK
Reviewed on December 12, 2006
Singen Like Color Purple,i.e. You Get It Off Your Chest-Allows Your Mind TO OPEN To Write Of Greater Things... NEAT Write On...

TRASK

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on December 12, 2006
As always Mitzi your work is a running commentary on the state of life and deatht that exists in the reality of the ghettos. You sing from the soul and heart of the bleeding reality of what America wants to turn a blind eye to. This is deeply intense and personal but also real which is all a poet can strive for and more. Well done Mitzi.

Fee

Reviewed by Art Hernandez
Reviewed on December 12, 2006
Your songz of memories past and the views of realities within the present are a well displayed view of your thoughts and a very well expressed and emotion filled poetic verse of thought...nicely written piece...enjoyed...


Art Sun...


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