Meditation

Posted bySynnika Chizoba LoftonPosted inmailbox weekly, Poems

A sage demonstrates
bending
toward
liberation,

            toward justice,
toward love,

toward
spicy words
and
raspy phrases,

twirling
into a
dimly lit room,

surfing on intellect’s
smoke,
dancing on ears,

            boogie boarding
on smiles.

I sink into
oblivion  
on 35th street,

pleasantly

falling
into the Muse’s
embrace,

like resting on
a riff by Dexter
Gordon

or Nina Simone’s
soulful
voice.

This is a form
of paradise,  

as I drown
in heavy
concepts and ideas,

hoping to sit,
with my legs
crossed,

at
the bottom
of this
meditation. 

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Published by Synnika 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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