THE VENT 2.0 Bleeding Heart Good looking out, brotha. I received my copy of THE VENT and I'm impressed by the outcome. I give a big heads up to everybody's contributions. Y'all did good, brotha, real good. Perfectly titled, THE VENT.
As I read it, my mind was elevated and I was allowed to enter everybody's personal space. I felt what they felt, I saw what they saw. THE VENT reads like an experience, a moving experience, and for that reason, I'm compelled to thank you for allowing me to be a part of such an experience.
I just turned my peoples onto the addressed blog site. I don't know much about blogging, but nevertheless, I've turned my peoples onto it. Get some more eyes and ears paying attention to the situation.
The different styles of communication showed major creativity; "TALK INTO THE BULLET HOLE", metaphorically speaking, spoke volumes to the efforts mentioned. The back and forth dialogue raised my eyebrows. "PRESS SEND" took me back to moments when I would be nurturing my loved ones on the streets by way of written word (texting) instead of a verbal convo or talking on the phone, taking advantage of being able to say all that you feel. You need to, in order to stress your point of view, press send.
And with "THE ROOT OF THE MATTER" and the expression of "ISMS" to the tree of life, I was able to co-relate that with my own metaphors for the tree of life or even my family tree.
But I think the most poignant for me personally was "NARMIR'S LETTER" (Raw). The way the brotha expressed how his thoughts "evil, white, and plain" from the loss of his niece, that hit me because I'm one of those brothas who pray a lot as well, and the expression of the inability to prostrate because of this new void growing in his spirit, moved me.
I was equally moved by the response of "SPEARS & SHIELDS" to a fellow struggling brotha, in terms of dealing with tragedy. Invaluable experiences. You know, for us, this is commonplace. We have parallels in these experiences of tragedy. Death and destruction feast upon our breed. But for the world outside, to crack open our chest plates and expose the power source to our misinterpreted emotions, is an experience worth the price of admission.
As I turned the pages, I could hear the bending and breaking, the snapping and cracking of each man's inner will, erect itself to a height that overshadows our circumstances with a depth of substance by way of raw emotion and creative genes.
Vent - to give vigorous or emotional expression to an opportunity, or way of escape, or passage, or relief of pressure, to cause fresh air to circulate so as to replace foul air.
Welcome to the second installment of THE VENT with operation systems powered up at 2.0. THE VENT is a subterranean medium in prisoner zine format. This is a WRITE OR DIE ZINE PRODUCTION written, produced, and now distributed by a new generation of California death row population, known as The Papyrus Collective.
With controversial rap lyrics, spoken word works, and introspective reviews, THE VENT provides the intentional use of dialect and slang, which solidification the transformative power to engage the freedom of speech and artistic freedom of expression without compromising urban culture thought to be exposed to a diluted, forbidden translation.
They say that there is power in words, so we power up this issue by challenging everybody who enters THE VENT to create a catharsis tonight by including words "GOD" and/or "SATAN" in their contribution to this cipher.
In the last election, California voters voted to speed up the execution process, a recent court ruling on behalf of the voters, and Prop 66 became law in the state. The irony is that death row's population is growing younger and younger, and with the rise of inner city youth being executed on the streets by militarized police officers, we became interested in questioning the concept of God inside of THE VENT from the perspective of condemned youth, a few honorable California prison mailine inmates, and a few O.G.E.
Dear Ojore, as the proud owner of both books I recommend to everybody who reads your blog, to order a copy by all means! Your poetry is amazing and guides the reader into any kind of emotion. I cried, felt anger and despair. Some of your poems made me smile and especially the poems dedicated to your mother and daughter are very touching and heartwarming!
I worked on the transcription for your post. I'm sorry for your loss. I think it's beautiful that you are reminiscing on the good memories you had of your little brother though.
Hello Milo Well, here we are on your blog and it seems that correspondence between us has a very similar vein to others and I'm just going to sit with that for a while. Love and light H
Daniel..over 20 years..i still remember the promises i never kept..the time has come to make them honored...yea, my timely fashion..i have a snail mail letter headed your way.. mailed today...i look forward to your response...if any. ildi..kathy...patricia..wow the times we laughed.. its time again. do u still post on this..or r letters better? i hope u r well and will do my best to help u .
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THE VENT 2.0 Bleeding Heart
Good looking out, brotha. I received my copy of THE VENT and I'm impressed by the outcome. I give a big heads up to everybody's contributions. Y'all did good, brotha, real good. Perfectly titled, THE VENT.
As I read it, my mind was elevated and I was allowed to enter everybody's personal space. I felt what they felt, I saw what they saw. THE VENT reads like an experience, a moving experience, and for that reason, I'm compelled to thank you for allowing me to be a part of such an experience.
I just turned my peoples onto the addressed blog site. I don't know much about blogging, but nevertheless, I've turned my peoples onto it. Get some more eyes and ears paying attention to the situation.
The different styles of communication showed major creativity; "TALK INTO THE BULLET HOLE", metaphorically speaking, spoke volumes to the efforts mentioned. The back and forth dialogue raised my eyebrows. "PRESS SEND" took me back to moments when I would be nurturing my loved ones on the streets by way of written word (texting) instead of a verbal convo or talking on the phone, taking advantage of being able to say all that you feel. You need to, in order to stress your point of view, press send.
And with "THE ROOT OF THE MATTER" and the expression of "ISMS" to the tree of life, I was able to co-relate that with my own metaphors for the tree of life or even my family tree.
But I think the most poignant for me personally was "NARMIR'S LETTER" (Raw). The way the brotha expressed how his thoughts "evil, white, and plain" from the loss of his niece, that hit me because I'm one of those brothas who pray a lot as well, and the expression of the inability to prostrate because of this new void growing in his spirit, moved me.
I was equally moved by the response of "SPEARS & SHIELDS" to a fellow struggling brotha, in terms of dealing with tragedy. Invaluable experiences. You know, for us, this is commonplace. We have parallels in these experiences of tragedy. Death and destruction feast upon our breed. But for the world outside, to crack open our chest plates and expose the power source to our misinterpreted emotions, is an experience worth the price of admission.
As I turned the pages, I could hear the bending and breaking, the snapping and cracking of each man's inner will, erect itself to a height that overshadows our circumstances with a depth of substance by way of raw emotion and creative genes.
Vent - to give vigorous or emotional expression to an opportunity, or way of escape, or passage, or relief of pressure, to cause fresh air to circulate so as to replace foul air.
Welcome to the second installment of THE VENT with operation systems powered up at 2.0. THE VENT is a subterranean medium in prisoner zine format. This is a WRITE OR DIE ZINE PRODUCTION written, produced, and now distributed by a new generation of California death row population, known as The Papyrus Collective.
With controversial rap lyrics, spoken word works, and introspective reviews, THE VENT provides the intentional use of dialect and slang, which solidification the transformative power to engage the freedom of speech and artistic freedom of expression without compromising urban culture thought to be exposed to a diluted, forbidden translation.
They say that there is power in words, so we power up this issue by challenging everybody who enters THE VENT to create a catharsis tonight by including words "GOD" and/or "SATAN" in their contribution to this cipher.
In the last election, California voters voted to speed up the execution process, a recent court ruling on behalf of the voters, and Prop 66 became law in the state. The irony is that death row's population is growing younger and younger, and with the rise of inner city youth being executed on the streets by militarized police officers, we became interested in questioning the concept of God inside of THE VENT from the perspective of condemned youth, a few honorable California prison mailine inmates, and a few O.G.E.
Welcome to THE VENT 2.0.
as the proud owner of both books I recommend to everybody who reads your blog, to order a copy by all means!
Your poetry is amazing and guides the reader into any kind of emotion. I cried, felt anger and despair. Some of your poems made me smile and especially the poems dedicated to your mother and daughter are very touching and heartwarming!
Hugs from Germany
Melly
Well, here we are on your blog and it seems that correspondence between us has a very similar vein to others and I'm just going to sit with that for a while.
Love and light
H
richard