Footsteps glide across plush
carpet. A striped sea of grays,
reds, and blues populate a quiet
climate, crawling along every
square inch of this wilderness—
cosmos meets interior design.
Muted laughs scale walls,
like Miles exhaling renaissance
in a small recording studio. I
burden my Muse for a phrase
or maybe just a few words
to create meaning from this
puzzle or peculiar moment.
Trying to stretch wings or sculpt
visions, like a DJ mixing classic
Soul records in the park.
"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." View more posts
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