February 2012
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Friday
If you’re happy it’s Friday it probably means you need to really reconsider your Monday to Thursday. Anthony Anaxagorou
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Don't Ever Give Up
Every time you feel like giving up remember that the only reason you’re still here is because you managed to hold it together.
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Valentine's Day
When we as people need to create certain days in order to remind us that we must love, be empathetic and compassionate towards those precious few in our lives, then you know we’ve truly lost something.
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The Child Inside
Keep the child inside you alive; allow it to laugh, give it room to dance, grant it patience and never be afraid of its almighty power.
January 2012
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The Mind
The mind is the field in which you’ll have to fight all your life’s largest and most wearing battles, it’s also the quiet burial ground of your past and the perfect soil which will mother the proud flowers of all your life’s victories. Look after it.
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Words
I want words to shake me alive, to frighten me into a new skin, for if they fail in doing so then they are not words but mere mutterings.
Anthony Anaxagorou
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Every beautiful thing is secretly crying.
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Simplify
While the rest of the world are all busy building shacks on the outside, you stay building a palace on the inside.
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R.I.P Stephen Lawrence
Racism is learned behavior. The only thing sicker than a racist is the very system that teaches racism.
Anthony Anaxagorou
December 2011
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You can learn more about yourself from the way you deal with an insult than what you can from a compliment.
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I’ve erased more than I’ve written, I’ve hated more than I’ve loved and I’ve lost more than I’ve won but still I push forward. Anthony Anaxagorou
November 2011
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Book List 2011
Autobiography/Biography: Malcom X – The Autobiography of Malcom X Pablo Neruda – Memoirs Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka – The Autobiography Of Leroi Jones J. Kirshnamurti – Star In The East Haing S. Ngor - Survival in the Killing Fields Non-Fiction / Essays & Critical Writing: Ayi Kwei Armah – Remembering The Dismembered Continent James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time James Baldwin – Notes Of...
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Banks
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world.
Racism exists in all areas of our social spectrum its just working class white people are continuously used as scapegoats by the most supremely racist, those being politicians, historians, military personnel and the police.
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Dawn
That moment when daylight lends you its eyes and you see the world begin again.
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2.08am (Freewrite)
The silk hand of night
pulls secrets from the muted mouth
of the sleepless,
I stare full-faced at this moments moon,
how familiar I am with its maternal shape and radiance
its skin a line of magic performing
on my ticking silence
-pregnant with space-
these hours applause
as thunder consummating on desert leaves,
my troubles pine for a clearer season,
my head tilts faith towards its...
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As long as people are queuing up outside stores inorder to buy games that romanticize murder, fetishise killing and simulate death there will always be war.
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Why I Refused To Wear A Poppy
Recently a middle-aged man liberal in both dress and approach subtly probed into my refusal of wanting to display the ubiquitous poppy flower, one that finds itself proudly announced on the fabric-heart of British countrymen and women at this time of year. He insisted that the tribute stood as a mark of remembrance to the fallen servicemen and women who valiantly gave their life for the just cause...
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The Most Dangerous Soldier
The most dangerous soldier is one who is naturally endowed with the ability to love a foreign world. One who recognizes his own existence in the dilapidated life of those who suffer for his privilege. Whose weapons are gentle adorations beckoning to expose the cavities of horror every apparent hero lacks the courage to ever confront. Whose uniform constitutes the worn down earth drowning in ruined...
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Last Question
I watched from a safe place
the new herse pulling against its finality
as the faces all fixed
their desperate reflection
firm under its metallic arm.
Inside myself I ask him
‘So what’s it like old man
is it anything to write home about?’
The herse setting roll to that waiting end
at its own sad speed
thick fumes touching the God
in our shallow wounds
my question gone
to find its...
October 2011
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Poetry & Us
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people -Adrian Mitchell
I recently asked followers on both Twitter and Facebook what it is that puts them off reading poetry and to my astonishment I was flooded with a mixture of disparate but seemingly relative responses. Some claimed they felt alienated from the message contained within the poetry itself – the recurring word being...
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The other night after a show I was pulled up by two police officers. One asked if I was carrying anything dangerous to which I replied, ‘Yes officer, poetry.’
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Football Results
As a boy
my father took silence over talk
he would sit
deep inside his glasses just to admire their stillness
whilst I tried picking myself
out from inside a twisted draft
cigarette smoke made curtains
over Saturday afternoon’s football results
his thin fingers rummaging
through that tawny beard
as if searching
for the luck he lost
to the wild blow of the journey
absently
he...
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My Father's Walk
I shake your hand now
our fingers match
we hug
with men between us
speaking concisely
on politics
your silence
breaking the bones of my points
with eyes too similar to ever meet
your hurtling rage
floods forward to drown the water
I drank
hurling us back
our conversation
half spelt
inside the torn kitchen
I grew my first words in
when your face reminded me
of a...
Lose My Voice
I could lose my voice to you
in a crushing heartbeat
on a stale hospital bed with plastic veins
trembling inside those parts of me
that you would once sink into to try and find an unresolved part of yourself.
In a flurry of pale words I might sound like a prayer
being led to the end of the world’s last bible
only to find that those final few pages were missing
and that God was just a quiet...
See everything as art, hear everything as music, feel everything as love.
Anthony Anaxagorou
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Dust Free Poetry →
This Wednesday I’ll be performing with my band at the Gallery Cafe, Bethnal Green along with some other great poets plus there is also an open mic - please come join us!
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“As we remember the life of Steve Jobs, let us also think about the millions of...”
– Anthony Anaxagorou
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Affliction
Often I am wrong
to try and fathom fate’s course,
its hobbling foot and blistered speed.
My direction binds itself to the sliver art of spiders
turning with boiled wings
to collapse under the weight of a dead heaven
entrenched in a sadness only my laughter understands.
Hurt me tender on the lips of skin
so as I can feel you, unrest myself to you
as all I wanted to do is move
with the rhythm...
October Gig Dates
For those who have been wanting to catch a show in October here are my confirmed gig dates so far…
3rd – Chill Pill, Soho Theatre 7.30pm (with full band)8th/9th – Cheltenham Literature Festival 10th - ANIMA MUNDI, Cafe 1001, 91 Brick Lane E1 6QL (with full band) 11th – Performance at Royal Holloway University with Raymond AntrobusSimon Mole Porter and others. 15th – Performance at...
September 2011
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There Is Love Under The Masquerade Of Protest
There is love, for this I am sure. Sitting alone feeling the solitude of an old shadow I once used to acknowledge I meditate with time on the last true season. The indomitable dream of a prayer released from its doctrine, or of a promise born from outside a human mouth, or for want of a better image, the steeper side of a reality that allows one to sleep undisturbed inside the delicate tapestry of...
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WatchIf I Told You live at the Gallery Cafe
Who We Were
We were just a bunch of working class ethnic kids who got fed up of being told we were stupid, so we read and read to create a new kind of cool.
The other September 11
The other September 11: US backed coup in Chile, 1973. The other September 11: US backed coup in Nicaragua, 1981. The other September 11: US backed coup Venezuela 2002. The other September 11: US backed coup in the Congo 1961. The other September 11: US backed coup in Cyprus, 1974…and it goes on and on and on.
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WatchAnthony Anaxagorou @ The Gallery Cafe
Race is a social concept not a scientific one. Humankind has evolved progressively in the last 200,000 years from those first few tribes in Africa to dominate the world. We all share 99.99% of each others genetic material furthermore, a close study of DNA proves that many of us have more genetic similarities with people from outside of our race than we do with those of our own. In large we are the...
August 2011
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She told me she needed a healer but she didn’t have time. I replied with poetry.
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“What our lives require is a natural lead; a journey that can omit both time and...”
– Anthony Anaxagorou