We Want Poetry With Flowers

Check out this link at Def Poetry Jam ... And then tell me whether or not you are a ready to be peacemaker. Look at every slide of film at this Poetry Fest on Def Poetry Jam and then TELL ME ARE YOU READY TO BE A PEACEMAKER? Don't stop until you've heard every rap, poem, essay on the things that go bump in the night, that are the things of nightmares at this site and then tell me if you are truly ready to be a peacemaker?

We want poetry with flowers

Sweet words of expression

and soft phrases that enthrall

We want to believe in a God that cares

and his children tip toeing through the tulips

with the ukele playing in the backgound

We want no conflict 'cuz peace is a utopian idea

and we want poetry that matters to the heart

Sweet, kind, wonderfully smooth, rhyming

and timing through our brains

'Cuz peace is a poem and we are its words

Are we?

The more I embrace the idea that I am

CALLED to be a peacemaker

The more I am faced with realities that hurt

Yes, there's the radio station that promotes

peace and then stabs you in the back

Yes, there are the peace organizations that

say that money matters most

And yes, I'm finding that they might like the message

But they don't always want--I say want--the messenger

'Cuz he or she might be that other being

Less blue-eyed, less light enough and

God forbid a Haitian or a Palestinian

Niggers for the New Millennium

People we can point a finger at and say

They ain't one of us

Yes, I want poetry with flowers, too

But I know that in order to have it

I gotta plant the flowers that will grow

and survive

I must live the poetry of my dreams

by facing the realities of my nightmares

And only then ...

Only then ...

Can I sleep peacefully

I AM A PEACEMAKER

By the way -- are you laughing now?