SACRED BAG

Posted bySynnika Alek-Chizoba LoftonPosted incommunity, PoemsTags:, , , , ,

In my sacred bag
serving God
and the people
and the struggle
to liberate
and smile
            The machine needs
            my participation
            my blood
            my contribution
for this strange paradigm
contains violence and
the DNA
to Beautiful Deaths
This thing is a gamble
This thing is risky
Human lives should
not have to endure
in this deadly paradise
where the angels
wear tarnished haloes
roll dice on steps
and pay attention
to changing winds
I stay in my place
This sacred bag
adapts to the terrain
like jazz
finding inspiration
inside
of
chaos

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Published by Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton

"Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton is an award winning poet, the president and CEO of Guerrilla Ignition LLC, host of a Nationally Syndicated radio show, and an educator, teaching literature at Chesapeake Bay Academy and English courses at Norfolk State University. Lofton has recorded more than one hundred and fifty CDs, albums, CD-singles, and mixtapes of poetry, including his highly praised debut, The New Breed. He is the author of twelve books and the founder of Riot Speech, a musical genre combining performance poetry with traditional musical forms, such as Rock, Jazz, and Hip Hop. His poems have been published in Experience Reality Magazine, Quay: A Journal of the Arts, UpStreet: A Literary Magazine, and, in 2014, Lofton has been featured in Blind Sided Magazine. He is a regular on Virginian television programs such as The Hampton Roads Show and Chesapeake’s Thinking Out Loud on WCTV. He teaches World Literature, British Literature, and Composition, while touring the country, performing at literary festivals, musical festivals, poetry readings, open mics, concerts, high schools, and colleges."

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