My 100th Blog Post!! There should be an award for this!
100th Post!!
I’ve been dying to post the 100th entry to my blog but I’ve been so busy that my creativity has taken a leave of absence. Sometimes things don’t happen as you plan but that doesn’t mean that things aren’t happening exactly as they’re meant to happen. Where there’s a will there’s a way so please enjoy the attached video of one of my spoken word performances in celebration of my 100th post. Whoo-hoo!
The Revolution Ain’t on Blu-Ray is one of the first pieces I ever wrote and performed. I was afraid that my knees would wobble and my voice would crack under the pressure. But alas, I embraced the spotlight shining in my face and I haven’t looked back. When I listen to this piece it reminds me of why I even started this journey in the first place. There is still work to do, changes to make, and goals to achieve. Don’t be fooled by what you see or by what you’ve been conditioned to believe and accept. Dig deeper!
Poets Rock!!
Thanks for reading!
ChUC
Please click on the link below to view the video on my YouTube Channel (meko1908)…
The Movement: Poetry
We must stretch out our hands to help one another...
Hello All! I haven’t posted anything in a while, been crazy busy! I also haven’t posted any poetry in a long time but when inspiration hits a poet will pay $100 for a pen just to write out our thoughts or we’ll explode from the burden of our emotions. But instead of just writing I decided to use my webcam for the first time and record what I was feeling. Please click on the link below to view the piece. I hope it touches your heart because it definitely came from the heart. Be blessed friends, today and forever!
ChUC
Respect the Sacrifice…
Hello All! It’s February, the month of love and pro-blackness! 🙂 For me black history month is a time to reflect on the sacrifices made, both willing and unwilling, so we could have the freedom we currently enjoy. The freedom to love, the freedom to learn, the freedom to prosper, the freedom to express thoughts openly, and the freedom to be black and beautiful were neither automatic nor expected. Our ancestors took the thorns from their backside and used them to build bridges so we could walk over into greatness. For that, I am eternally grateful.
The poem “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall has always touched my soul, maybe because it speaks to the mother in me. It also has a way of slapping me out of my complacent and content moments. It reminds me that there is still work to be done because those who paid the ultimate price with their lives deserve much more from me, from you, from all of us.
Until our minds are as free as our bodies, we have not arrived. Keep fighting for the change you seek!
ChUC
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Ballad of Birmingham
Mother dear, may I go downtown
Instead of out to play,
And march the streets of Birmingham
In a Freedom March today?”
“No, baby, no, you may not go,
For the dogs are fierce and wild,
And clubs and hoses, guns and jails
Aren’t good for a little child.”
“But, mother, I won’t be alone.
Other children will go with me,
And march the streets of Birmingham
To make our country free.”
“No, baby, no, you may not go,
For I fear those guns will fire.
But you may go to church instead
And sing in the children’s choir.”
She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair,
And bathed rose petal sweet,
And drawn white gloves on her small brown hands,
And white shoes on her feet.
The mother smiled to know that her child
Was in the sacred place,
But that smile was the last smile
To come upon her face.
For when she heard the explosion,
Her eyes grew wet and wild.
She raced through the streets of Birmingham
Calling for her child.
She clawed through bits of glass and brick,
Then lifted out a shoe.
“O, here’s the shoe my baby wore,
But, baby, where are you?”
2011 in review for Chick Under Construction
Ok, the blog didn’t do great in numbers but I guess it really didn’t do bad either. Gotta step it up for 2012! Thanks to all the faithful ChUC followers and commenters. I appreciate you immensely!!
Kimeko, aka ChUC
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.
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