June 2012
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Queen's Jubilee
Before we parade in jingoistic fashion take a moment to consider the regime Queen Elizabeth represents. She’s far more powerful than we think, think about archaic laws such as The Royal Prerogative where governments can go directly to the queen for the passing of laws/policies which they know won’t win public consent. Wars such as Iraq and the secret genocide in Diego Garcia were all...
Jun 1st
May 2012
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I Won't Deny
I won’t deny the fact that I’ve read/listened to poetry and cried tears at the end. Yep I’m male and I said it. I think you have to be a certain kind of individual to not connect spiritually with art that lives on such a tender frequency. It’s odd how the West equate emotion as a feminine trait and violence as a masculine one. Isn’t violence a total submission to...
May 31st
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May 20th
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Surgery
Dr. Ahmed said that he loathed poetry removing his surgical mask from a face that had been awake since 5am he said he didn’t see its purpose rinsing his hands under a warm tap so as to put on a fresh gown and do it all over again to make his way back into pain into the tumors, the diseases, the ailments that burn at the lives of hapless strangers: to lend his God to their...
May 14th
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May 12th
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The Science Borrowed From Stars
It began we began with centuries of fresh cut water, open sky, sun-light painting the wooden deck where our toes would be still to be loved; flowers, plenty flowers that sprayed the yellow room with a universe of low aromas, new days proposed to each other alive with insomnia delicate as birth leaping forward with high pitched ideas we rolled like bits from another earth growing in each others...
May 12th
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When the circus is full of clowns nobody stops to think about the lion. Anthony Anaxagorou
May 9th
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May 3rd
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April 2012
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Apr 24th
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People
People are like gamblers, they only ever tell you how much they’ve won but never how much they’ve lost.
Apr 16th
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It is our actions that make up the facts of our lives, our words merely stand as theories.
Apr 14th
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The Paradox Of Man: Every man’s a liberal the moment his privilege is threatened, a conservative when giving opinions on homosexuality and religion, a chauvinist when a woman tries to express her feelings, a capitalist when he has a new business idea, a philanthropist when he sees a starving African child and a revolutionary the moment his own nation or belief system comes under attack. ...
Apr 13th
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Empty Wind
The home is ready. Dainty ornaments stand supported by their quietude. Scattered books reveal their authors’ lonely secrets. The music of space surrendering to incandescent moments that flutter between each warm insect. My hands are clean. Tonight’s food perfumes the  body of each room. The sky lowers itself by night  and I await your return to praise all I made. To notice the...
Apr 13th
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Apr 11th
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The magic of life is in its discovery, in its accidents and miracles, for we can only live to learn more about the very wonder we exist in. With its panoply of people and exhilarating spectacles of nature we must see ourselves in the mirror of life in order to fully feel the rapture of its giant music.  
Apr 10th
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Apr 2nd
March 2012
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Mainstream Poetry
The main reason I shared Niall’s article is because I felt it contained sentiments that I find increasingly prevalent across the British poetry strata. As someone who began writing poems to be read rather than heard I was fully aware that my readers differed frantically to those I write for now (as in when I sit to write a spoken word piece). To say that those people who buy page poetry and those...
Mar 23rd
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Performance Dates For March/April 2012
March 2012 Saturday 10th March - Bath Literature Festival  Sunday 11th March - Bath Literature Festival Friday 16th March - Performance at Warner Bros Studio for Illegal Activity Movie  Sunday 18th March - Performance at S For Sunday, Lower Ground Floor, 56 Shoreditch High Street  Monday 19th March - Out-Spoken at Proud Camden with Godfly  Wednesday 21st March - BAFTA performance for...
Mar 9th
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Happy International Women’s Day. Without you there would be nothing but dust and waste.
Mar 8th
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Visible Children: We got trouble. →
visiblechildren: For those asking what you can do to help, please link to visiblechildren.tumblr.com wherever you see KONY 2012 posts. And tweet a link to this page to famous people on Twitter who are talking about KONY 2012! I do not doubt for a second that those involved in KONY 2012 have great intentions, nor…
Mar 7th
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Fist
You can’t breathe from inside a fist; wolves patrol wounds, the night launches itself into you, everything with a root begins to tremble opening itself honestly, a dreamless vista, a dead window, nothing speaks, or holds or loves, thoughts implode, clarity is a lonely stranger muttering mad hymns into the cyclic rope of suicide fortunate crowds move towards a foreign sign the...
Mar 6th
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Mar 5th
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February 2012
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Feb 29th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 23rd
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Lower your voice and strengthen your argument - Lebanese Proverb
Feb 20th
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Feb 17th
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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
Feb 17th
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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.
Feb 16th
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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.
Feb 14th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 1st
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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.
Feb 1st
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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.
Jan 30th
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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
Jan 29th
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Every beautiful thing is secretly crying.
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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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.
Jan 17th
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Jan 11th
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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
Jan 3rd
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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.
Dec 30th
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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
Dec 16th
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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...
Nov 30th
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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.
Nov 30th
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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.
Nov 28th
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Dawn
That moment when daylight lends you its eyes and you see the world begin again.
Nov 23rd
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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...
Nov 17th
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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.
Nov 9th
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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...
Nov 8th
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