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Text Box: People of A Lesser God? The Restless Beast becomes Impatient. It snaps at any and all opposition, hindering the completion of its tasks to accomplish settlement in its chosen Lair. The Beast spits and shits on the innocents in frustrations, anger and arrogance. Who? A People of a Lesser God! Yet the Sands of Time drains away. The Harvest is near. While your seeds blossomed, you slumbered, induced by false Hegemony. Blood, the springs of your Garden. Will you not reap? If not, who shall reap? And yet you hope to avoid the consequences of your rebellion. The awaited Tide of Change is now with us. The birds are preparing for retirement and innocence gone to sleep. Death is given free reign, yet for a while. Fear abounds. The Inevitable takes Centre Place. Destiny Rules Supreme. Values twisted and laid at the wayside of misjudgement and disobedience. The dispossessed and outcasts rise to the surface of permanent change. Destiny fulfilled. Your Oracle warned! Did you not believe? Ba Afrika 21.07.06

Text Box: If We Must Die If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Claude McKay About the Poet

Meditation Of A Blackman

Spirit of the Universe

Eclectic and whole

Child of the Universe

One Breath and one Soul

Spirit of the Universe

So Loving and Warm

Child of the Universe

Like Sunrise at Dawn

Spirit of the Universe

Stamp Out your Cosmic Dance

Child of the Universe

It’s time, Now, to Advance

Spirit of the Universe

Born to be Free

Charged with a Yearning

And Longing to be

Child of the Universe

Mother of Eternity

Make Justice and Truth

Your Living Reality

Spirit of the Universe

So Precious and Strong

Child of the Universe

It Won’t Be Long

It Won’t Be Long !

SPIRIT OF THE UNIVERSE

Take Heart, Have Courage

We Will Sing

Our Victory Song ! !

D. Murray

26.6.97

Text Box: About the Poet Delroy Murray was born during the 1970s, in the City of Bristol, situated in the English county of Somerset, south west England. He is of African heritage and attended the local Bristol school, until age sixteen. Delroy’s father and mother came from Jamaica and settled in Bristol. During the time of his growing up, Delroy witnessed, and in some cases, at first hand, serious social unrests in Bristol, and across England, between Caribbean immigrant community and the local police, to the extent that there had been running battles, riots, on the Bristol streets, between Black youth and the local police, particularly in one of Bristol’s districts, called St. Paul's. That pattern was repeated in England's major cities, like London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, and the list goes on. Part of these cities were set on fire by Black youth, in protest against unjust treatment at the hands of the English police. Members of the Black community felt at the time, that the local magistrate courts invariably supported the police in their actions. Because there was no justice, there was no peace on the streets. This was partly due to the negative effects on black youth by the1824 Vagrancy Act and the provisions therein, which were colloquially called , the ’sus laws’, by members of the Black community. That law gave the police powers to stop and search members of the public. Members of the Black community felt that the police used the law unfairly against Black youth. Social unrests were intensified during Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, during the 1980s. The Vagrancy Act was subsequently amended by Parliament, and so to some extent, peace returned to English streets. Delroy’s writing is shaped by his early experiences. He subsequently left Bristol for London bright lights, where he continues to write.

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His LITTLE BIT the whole to own.”

From “The Kasidah of Hji Abu el-Yezdi”, as translated by Sir Richard F. Burton