Here it is. Tha newest original poem and video from yours truly. Let me know what ya think.

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Tha next Underground Poetry Spot Open Mic is June 17th at 7pm w/ your host, Mic Tha Poet….

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I met Lamar and Taalam Acey several months ago in Maplewood, NJ, at the HLS Juice Bar and Grill. I’ve had video of this poem up for sometime now, but i’ve recently been messin’ around with Sony Vegas Movie Studio software… I can’t find tha card w my NewBlue effects serial number, but its all good, there are a lot of additional components I could have….and hopefully will have! I really get into digital video editing… I def am gonna start making “music videos” for each of my poems. So stay tuned, we are a work in progress over here at micthapoet.com,

…and that is a lifetime commitment, you have my promise…

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So a handful of tha Underground regulars have been gettin silly over on facebook…you know Ms. “Yaya” keeps us on our toes w/ those cyphers…!! Here’s how i went in… it was s’posed to be a rap, tha theme…

“Money Neva Sleeps”…

But I’m callin’ my piece “As Tha Moment Approaches”

Time to get my Bruce Willis on die hard or live free ticallion stallion
like C. Bale I’m a method machine hot off the press dawg read it and weep
Fat like Joe fow like Jay Z number one top shotta new beast from tha east
self serving salvation you are what you eat supplying hot knowledge
call me Chef Boyardee
nobody knows any better than me tha riddlers requests or tha poets beliefs
aquatic enigma i’m deep like tha sea with a lion’s strength there’s no feeble
in thee one and only new king of tha jungle – though – i’ve too much pride
to be packing heat
even though these hunters and thieves
in our streets of concrete try to throw dirt on youth
before they even see tha patterns that potentially will kill you and me…

Read the rest by clicking here.

Let me know what ya think by droppin a comment below or just hittin me w/ some knowledge of your own!

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*photo by KHALL Photography*

(thats me in DC last week…i was there celebrating national poetry month and celebrating life-long friendships…)

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY !!!

I’m not really that late, i mean, it is still Mother’s Day….

So this poem has been hanging on my parent’s wall for several years, but i’ve only begun sharing it very recently… it is far and away my Mother’s favorite, as it is indeed, a Mother’s Day Poem. Well, actually, I call it a short play

For a mother, loving a child is not just something you do,
it becomes the only thing that matters and all that is true;
Thus, if truth be beauty, as the young poet once said
then let a crown of roses be placed upon this Mother’s head

MOTHER: Oh, son my child, please come up to bed
there will be plenty of time tomorrow to fill up your head
Now is time for sleeping, and dreams will come soon
a boy needs to rest by the soft light of the moon

BOY: But I’m not ready for bed, I’m still pretending to be
a famous artist – look – I drew a picture for thee!

The boy showed his drawing, and to his mother exclaimed

BOY: One day I’ll be famous, one and all will know my name!

MOTHER: Oh, so now you want to be an artist?
I thought you wanted to teach?

BOY: I also want to be a lawyer, Mom
I’ve given thought to each…

With a smile, the Mother assured her child that she would be there, all the while…

MOTHER: No matter what it is you choose to do
Know that i will always be here for you…

Read the rest of “Happy Mother’s Day” here.

Love ya, Mom…happy Mother’s Day 2010 !!!
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