If
yesterday was today
and today, tomorrow
where ever you’d be
I would follow
by C-Note
©2018 Donald C-Note Hooker
Tag Archives: neo Jim Crow art
Da Woman
I seen the sunrise the other day
and it was incredible
But not incredible as you
when I first laid my eyes on you
Then my soul had a quivah
my core a tighting
my eyes a blinking (cause I had to look twice)
What was before my eyes to see
was quite, quite the woman
by C-Note
©2018 Donald C-Note Hooker
Angelic Tempest
Angelic Tempest
I feel from grace
at least from Man’s
Not from His grace
I guess the plan
The prism
from prison
Is birds don’t fly
Not jailbirds
there’s no wind
beneath their wings
But infused with spirit
when someone saw my worth
To be more
than a dirt of Earth
You were the wind
beneath my wings
Now my imagination soars
with greater possibilities
That my life could give meaning
to the world
by C-Note
©2018Donald “C-Note” Hooker
Out of Time and Out of Words
Winter’s cold
or evening night
fireplace warmth
candlelight
Bearskin rug
the meeting place
out of time
and out of words
by C-Note
©2018 Donald “C-Note” Hooker
Tender Caresses
Tender caresses
a cross your face
back handed fingers
travelled with grace
a wisp of your hair
fell out of place
clasp of my fingers
leans to embrace
essence of our eyes
the meeting place
soulful connections
in outter space
motions of kisses
a lipstick trace
from tender caresses
across my face
by C-Note
©2018 Donald “C-Note” Hooker
Zoo Loo’s Don’t You Run
Zoo Loo’s
Four Nuc#les & A Thumb
You want some
Come get some
Here I come don’t you run
I’mma Zoo Loo!
Four Nuc#les & A Thumb
Real Soldiers never run
Modern day slavery
Still got chains on me
Tell me I’m free
Yet you still wanna lie to me
It’s plain to see
all the lies you keep telling me
I’m no lame
I was a King before a slave
Look into His•story (History)
It’s still being done to me
did all you could to me
Murdered Blac# Families
Say you’re not my enemy
Wanna be a friend to me
Hide my History
and made it what you want it to be
Five Hundred years
Eyes full of tears
Showin no fears
Tha revolution is here
Zoo Loo’s
Four Nuc#les & A Thumb
You want some
Come get some
Here I come don’t you run
I’mma Zoo Loo!
Four Nuc#les & A Thumb
Real Soliders never run
Tha law’s made against me
You broke before me
The taken of a land
with tha stricken of your hands
Why am I not free
Like I’m supposed to be
A blac# man in a land
that never gave a damn
Sisters and brothers dissing one another
No respect
Send
See
Revolutions!
Poison our communities
Taken opportunities
Playing make believe we’re in the land of the free
My wife at home
with my children all alone
Never knowin
if they’re father ever coming home
Lost without me
Now a broken family
Children fu#ked growing up
And now the blame is on me!
Zoo Loo’s
Four Nuc#les & A Thumb
You want some
Come get some
Here I come don’t you run
I’mma Zoo Loo!
Four Nuc#les & A Thumb
Real Soliders never run
Tha prison population proves he’s a racist
Take a look at tha crook
who makes a living off me
His crimes justified
while I’m doin time
For the laws that he broke
when he wrote
what he spoke
The taking of a country
that was once free
Give to all
by God
in one unity
Why am I here in a cage
full of rage
Turn tha page
and you see nothing but reality
Zoo Loo’s
Four Nuc#les & A Thumb
You want some
Come get some
Here I come don’t you run
I’mma Zoo Loo!
Four Nuc#les & A Thumb
Real Soliders never run
by Fred Smith aka Rabbitt Loeco
Goodness In Virtue Everyday (Give)
When you were born God gave you the gift of life. Then you were given nourishment and clothes in able to grow. You were given the opportunity to live life as you see fit. Given the strength to make it through ups and downs. Given the chance to make mistakes and the fortune to make it out. You were given breath, a past, a present, and an idea of hope for a future. You were given choices whether good or bad. You were given a chance to laugh, to cry, to play, to learn, to have experiences. All of these things you were given for nothing more than the love of God. You did not earn it. You did not ask for it but it was given. Life is to give and to give is life. You can’t not give without love and you cannot love without giving. What you give shall be returned. You will be given things you do not deserve. Everything you got in life will be given to someone else when you die. You cannot receive without being given.
The question becomes: Do I give to get or do I get when I give?
Jesus gave his life for the sins of men.
Muhammad gave his vision which produced the Koran.
Buddha gave us a way to be enlightened.
War gave us hope for peace.
Give of your SELF and your SELF will be given!
by Dar`cy Bolton
I Reached
I reached for a pen
and there was no ink
I reached for a pencil
and there was no lead
I reached for a heart
and there was no blood
I reached for you
and there was love.
by C-Note
©2018 Donald “C-Note” Hooker
The World’s Greatest Threat: Being Black With Self-Respect
They never likeded my swag
cause it was rooted in gang culture
cause out here in L.A.
WE DON’T PLAY.
Nineteen Sixty-Five
ain’t never died
year of the Watts Riots
cause thirty years later
Nineteen Ninety-Two
We kicked off some shit too
year of the L.A. riots
But who really brought it your way
N-Double-U-A
You know what dem Niggas had to say
about dem cops
Police brutality had to stop
But that was before Black Lives Matter
and that shit came from the Town
Oak Land
Where Huey P Newton was the Spokes Man
for the Black Panthers
and its Organization for Community Defense
you see it all makes sense
Now
that video recorders dun came around
But it didn’t to Rodney King’s jurors
who saw his Black ass take a beat down
from six cops standing around
Naw
six cops actively participating
in the demise of an uppity ass negro
cause who he think he was
that he can get away with running from the fuzz
It only took a dahz
of whites
to say
Hell No! To Black Liberation
if that shit didn’t disturb your sleep
Why are you surprised of white criticism
when Beyonce speak
of Female Black Liberation
so join Her Formation
But again this ain’t nothing new
in the Red White and Blue
maybe because whites refuse to have
that conversation
about Nationhood reconciliation
don’t talk about chipin in dem funds
for reparations
They can for the First Naytion
and American Japanese
but when it comes to Black folks
we only get sympathies
from overseas
Because whites don’t wanna
do nothing about changin
the situation
about Black acclimation
into fabric Americana
wit your dirty lies
about apple pies
and second amendment aggrandization
Cause when was there ever a time
we could do
what we wanted to do
as a Black man or woman
legally armed
with a gun in our hand
Change California law
when Huey went to the State capitol
opened and carried
Killed Philando Castillo
in Minnesota
as a illegally armed
Black motorist
Standing on her own property
as a licensed gun owning Black woman
Michigan would rather imprison
a pregnant Swatu Salam Ra for two years
than let her use
their “Stand your ground” law
Due take notice
these were all liberal States
It’s like fake news
in prison blues
that’s why my pants sag
and my Blue Rag hangs low
I’m all that’s negative
bet believe
If I didn’t make myself that way
they would have
wit their lies and alibis
targeting
A great wrong was done to
you my Black children
A great wrong was done to you
my Black child
A suspicion has been casted upon you
it’s called revenge
Revenge
for the wrong done to you
Revenge
for the wrong done
by hands pure as the white of snow
They just don’t know
when you will recomeuppance
You’re under suspicion
My children
My child
Just look into their eyes and you’ll see
Dis is why me brudda
Dis is why mee sistah
Dis is why mee children
you’re under suspicion
What y’all brewing in da kitchen?
We know it gots to be a special stew
full of wicked concoctions
each with our signed I.O.U.
CAUSE YOUR God is dat Voodoo
so we know He’s stirring dat stew
so we don’t want nothing from you Black America
cause we know you’re itchin
to get us in your kitchen
to serve us this brew
and watch it see
do what it do
So Black man whoa
So Black woman whoa
and that’s why you’re always remain
a threat
Da Black man or woman, with self-respect
So Black man whoa
So Black woman whoa
and that’s why you’re always remain
a threat
Da Black man or woman with self-respect
Editor’s Note: To For more epic poems by this poet, check out: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF OUR AMERICAN CIVILIZATION (This Is Not A Manifesto)
STRADIVARIUS: Play Her Like
It Must End! (BLACK FEMALE BOYCOTTS AGAINST BLACK MEN IN THE PEN)
Here are audio links:
The Criminalization of our American Civilization (This Is Not A Manifesto)
STRADIVARIUS: Play Her Like
It Must End!: BLACK FEMALE BOYCOTTS AGAINST BLACK MEN IN THE PEN
The Ebony Mystique
Not borne
from fake hair
and fake tits
It’s dark hue
is as true
as make-up
is fake
All the ladies
want to be you
You can’t see that?
Golden knights
in tight
mini skirts
Like psychic menstruals
untold
unfold
the true story
Ebony Eyes
Like true lies
a confession
obsession
a miss
a curse
enough is enough
positive
a negative
a brush of God
a gush of Lust
a gris
a cuss
a muss
unearth
the tantalizing view
of you
darkly hued
rich
in Ebony glow
let it flow
the skin you in
a cue
a curse
a burst
of Spring
that radiates from you
nobody gets to view
that that is true
the Ebony hue
in you
by C-Note
Copyright 2018 Donald “C-Note” Hooker
Model: Mirembe Priscilla
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