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Ngoma
Ngoma
is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter
and paradigm shifter, who for over 30 years has used culture
as a tool to raise sociopolitical and spiritual consciousness
through work that encourages critical thought. A former
member of "The Spirit House Movers & Players"w/Amiri
Baraka and the contemporary freedom song duo "Serious
Bizness," Ngoma weaves poetry and song that raises
contradictions and searches for solutions for a just and
peaceful world. Ngoma was the Prop Slam Winner of the 1997
National Poetry Slam Competition in Middletown, CT. And
was recently published in African Voices Magazine, Long
Shot Anthology,and the Underwood Review. Ngoma was featured
in the PBS spoken word documentary,"The Apro-poets"w/Allen
Ginsberg.Look for his work in the upcoming Random House
Publication" Def Poetry Jam Anthology." His latest
CD "Paradigm Shiftin' (ancient---> future) takes
spoken word and jazz/funk/fusion to the next level.- He
can be reached at Ngomazworld@aol.com
Systems
most of them that want to
change the system
just want to replace it with another system
but oppression is systemic from systems
and synonomous with systems
so systems cannot be the solution for overcoming the system
but whenever profit is the motivation for life
systems lull us to systemic sleep
we be dreaming bout profit
meanwhile, most of us be profit
stuck into a system
waiting to change into another system
when it be systems that's killing us in the first place
as we continue in the rat race
not realizng that the universe
is a non profit industry
so i write this poem in reverse
redefining order
cause order is what got us in this fix
to begin with
especially when order is based on who owns everything
considering mother nature left us here
owning only the air we breathe
now the tax man cometh with
air meters
pay up or they'll cut your shit off w/out notice
air by the kilometer
happiness is rent control in harlem
but the homeless have only
sunshine to celebrate
men of no property
or in the sudan
where people are property
so, perspective stands on the unemployment line
hand stuck out for discontinued welfare
as life or death goes on in this land of the free
where every thing's for sale
and mere existence is only
a commodity
systems
Ngoma
(Taken fom the CD NGOMA "Paradigm Shiftin'(ancient--->future)
Ash Wednesday
Christians
seal their 3rd eyes
w/crosses of burnt offerings
blocking visions of god
war planes surround iraq
as thou shalt not kill
is esponged from the ten commandments, inscriptions covered
in blood
war is such hypocrisy
in this age of aquarius
cause mother earth is pissed
only disneyland survives
as orlando rides the twister to oblivion
and california mudslides into a black hole
even stevie wonder can read the
writing on the wall
as icons fall like dominoes
2-25-98 a.d.
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