14 October 2013

Featured Writer: Miyoko Azuma - Abused Disbelief

Sixty-four days and still loving you..
How can that be?
You’ve lied every time
You said you loved me.
“If I should leave, you’ll never see me again”
Words you once said.
Now you stick around
Just to play with my head.
Laughing, it’s so funny…
What a joke you must feel,
I wish you all the luck finding
Another, who’s real.
I can’t fix things now,
I’m already gone.
Like you said, I’m nineteen
Guess I’ve got to get on.
I’m hurt and lonely
Can’t hide my tears.
I’ll remember your scars
For so many years.
My first night completely alone,
I’d rather not think.
I keep looking down the street,
Just to take a peek.
You’re there all the time
With your thugged out friends
You never did come home,
Until your street day met its end.
You’d start to complain,
When I’d get upset.
Did you ever think of how
My day was spent?
I come home from work
Just to cook and clean
When you didn’t show for dinner
You’d wonder why I was mean.
I enslaved every day
I did it for what?
You only come home to
Play games & not give a fuck.
Now I’m hurt and sad
While you have fun, don’t feel bad
I’m a hell of a woman
I deserve a lot better
Rainy days just pass by
I need sunny weather.
In writing this poem,
I’ve concluded a lot.
Either love me or leave me
I’m worth the thought.

Miyoko Azuma
Written 7 September 1996


Christian Haiku

Purpose
Faith and hope
Lead a purpose driven life
Jesus is Lord
Amen


Kahala Lei
Blood Money Poets

copyright 2011

Second Glance

A SURFACE IS JUST THAT
BUT WHAT LIES BENEATH?
WHEN YOU ONLY SEE THE WATER
HOW DO YOU JUDGE CORAL REEF?
IF YOU'VE READ THE TITLE,
HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK?
WHAT APPEARS TO BE TRUE
MIGHT NOT BE WHAT IT LOOKS
SO WHEN YOU SEE ME
SEE ME FOR ME AND
GIVE ME A CHANCE
I'M WORTH A LOT MORE
THAN THAT THING IN MY PANTS
BEFORE YOU DISCOUNT ME AS A PERSON
TAKE A SECOND GLANCE.


JENNIFER CHRUPALYK

CIRCA 1999

Sukistardom's Freestyle Lyrics from Spring Battle 2002

Real is the deal, and
Deal with it real
I might flip yer lyrics, and
Cop half a mil
Get a house on a hill
Push a new set of wheels
No worries on tomorrow
Cause I got cash appeal.

Lyrical nightmares I bust
Talking shit, bitch?
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
From my point of view.
Your rhyme’s as good as rust
For all them hating ass nucks on the outside
This is real, no jive
I might take the mic, and
Eat your rhyme alive.
No one will survive
Because I’m bigger than you
And the other top five.
Sukistardom
Blood Money Poets

Written 23 January 2002

Heart's Desire

GENTLY KISSING
A HEART'S DESIRE
COULD UNLEASH A SPUR
OF PASSIONATE FIRE
BURNING LOVE
IN THE FIRST DEGREE
SUCH ONLY COULD EXIST
BETWEEN YOU AND ME

SOUL'S AFIRE
A HEART'S DESIRE
LASTING THROUGHOUT TIME
RHYTHMIS PLEASURE
TESTED- WELL MEASURED
AS TWO BODIES ARE BOUND
RAREST IN FROM
MOST HEARTS ARE ASCORN

KINDLED FLAMES ARE FOUND.

Cherry Blossoms

CHERRY BLOSSOMS




CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN THE WIND
A GENTLE SWAY UNFOLDS
INTRICATE AS LIFE
PETALS FALLING FROM THE SKY
STORIES YET UNTOLD
GONE FROM THE DAY OF INNOCENCE
THE PETAL WITHERED IN THE MIST
NEW GROWTH SPAWNS
A WHOLE NEW DAY
IT WASHES YESTERDAYS'
IMPURITIES AWAY


KAHALA LEI
CIRCA 2009





( RELEVANT PICTURE INVOLVING A CHERRY BLOSSOM )

Winter Love

AS THE WINTER SNOW
LAY STILL ON THE GROUND
NOT A SOUL OUTSIDE
A SOLID WHITE BLANKET ALL AROUND
SILENT CRYSTALS HANG
FROM ROOFTOPS ABOVE
CHIMING THE SONG
OF A WINTER'S LOVE


KAHALA LEI
CIRCA 2009




( BLACK N WHITE PHOTO OF UNDISTURBED SNOW )


08 October 2013

Give Me Freedom

Give me freedom
De-moc-racy
Give me freedom
Set my people free
Give me freedom
No more necrosis
How about freedom
And equality

Cut the genocide
When one faces Jah
There's no where to hide
No matter where you are

Iron Mountain
Underground City
Suffer people 
Its not fair to we
Jah no like it
Ugly society
So give me freedom
Set my people free.

Jah hears us cry
Children everyday
Everything dies off
When destruction mounts
Make decisions
Make it where it counts
Give me freedom


Kahala Lei & Lani Moe'ulane 
copyright 2013