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Higgaion
06:34
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Wordless Knowledge, somewhere between
the Presented and Unpresented -
If being aligns with breathing
How can its unseen origin be known?
As the mist collects,
Tempting life to draw near -
All that lives and breathes,
Gathers to one another -
Forever turning, seeking, being, and breathing.
In the place where noise collapses, there is a
Wordless Knowledge
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Semper Fidelis
02:38
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Familiar persons are not the same as life partners
Soul mates are abundant
since we all be and breathe
Faithfulness is a trait that unites and separates
When two are joined
there must be agreement
Loyalty requires decided bravery
It can’t be forced, bought, or taught
It is to be learned and earned
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Mother Emanuel Church
03:37
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Conscious Natives are aware of the travesty,
9 lives were killed in this place -
Natives of the earth,
Not Native of the world
To be stolen, sold, robbed,
Mistreated and massacred -
Is Being, true, without Freedom?
When one is in danger,
Even in a safe place -
Where can one find refuge?
There is no building,
There is no human,
There is no worldly place-
But within our collective internal
There is a unity of Understanding
Will we ever use it habitually?
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Halftime
03:13
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Habitat where a woman resides,
She sees a man, love in her eyes -
Man saw a pain as old as time,
He decides to inflict the pain on her -
Abuser is at fault,
Leaving the abused -
Misery has no place in love,
Wanting and confused -
Abuse has no home in a clean heart,
For real Love is pure -
Affection should be unadulterated,
But often one chooses not to follow through -
Our choices define us,
We should choose pure love -
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Player's Table
02:52
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Sweet Tooth is what a man had
For women, from here and from there
What he didn’t know is that
without nutrition there is excess fat
Playing the field can build muscle
But to truly love is more than a hustle
So here and there man and woman wander
To play a game at a table - nobody wins.
Though it’s fun to gossip
To kiss and tell erases the intimate
Replacing it with shame.
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6. |
Judah
04:55
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Maurice is a man with a family.
To think of one’s descendants
before oneself; a noble goal -
With what values?
Don’t we all want survival?
How we define “life”
Is what truly differentiates.
Even that which does not look
Can be full of life.
What is a generation but the continuing?
In the continuing we approach the culminating
So why not?
Each one has a tribe,
Each tribe has a purpose.
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Khushboo
03:06
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Recovery, drugs, lust, destruction.
Compulsive living is a life of death.
Recovery, introspection, isolation
The past is all, the future is passing
Recovery, to be present, to seek
The wrong goals. The wrong process.
Recovery, I destroyed much.
I lost much.
We seek to do less of both. More of One
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Black Boy
05:02
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Reparations!
What do we tell our Black Boy while our Black Men
are shot in the streets, in their homes, in their cars?
We weep for them.
My people why do we kill ourselves?
My people why do we kill each other?
How is there pity mixed with fear?
This is not empathy, this is not feeling.
Profound reality with lackluster response
Is it the American cycle?
The diaspora looms as the defining principle.
There is unity in suffering,
suffering in freedom,
freedom in interdependence.
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Fire Needs Air
03:06
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Redemption, we all need it, only some choose it
Fire is a destructive refining element
Consuming all that can be eaten
How beautiful a canvas, air
Ready to be painted, ready to be consumed.
A pursuit of the wind is sure to be lost
A pursuit of the fire comes at a cost.
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A Life More Aqueous
03:17
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Revelations are plentiful,
In a more aqueous place -
All the elements reside within,
To be nourished, filled, molded -
The beauty of water.
It is a part of life,
A part of death -
Can distort and can perfect.
A life more aqueous,
Does not require time -
But time is forever aqueous.
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Earthen Vessel
03:01
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Mother Nature, some say -
Matter is forever,
Wherein materials continue.
An instrument as a tree
The tiny seed within, full of code,
Full of destiny
Ignorant, though, of choice
Choice is that which makes one human
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Night Sweats
03:04
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Them Changes, Mom said they would come,
Selfishness causes troubles.
No room for it in relationship.
How quickly a sickness can spread
A word can bring death
A kiss can bring death
The body will find a way to sweat
Or become encompassed in the night.
Truly look in the day
Or the night will overshadow
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Selfish Ambition
02:29
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No Condemnation for those who are in Christ
a lifestyle, outside of time
true life, real being, actual advancement
It is selfish to pursue misgiving
One sought ambition
It was not benevolent
Is it weak to seek?
Depends what one seeks
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Patterns
02:24
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Family & Fellowship, we all need to be healthy
Healthy patterns make for healthy continuation
Continuation for culmination.
All is patterns, every element, all earthly beings.
Thoughts, actions
Actions, habits
Habits, character
Geometric, fractal, synaptic, logical
Emotional, muscular, locked in time
Patterns in deed define
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Asia
03:09
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Promised all will die externally -
Some will die internally.
There is unseen decay
Destruction seeks grey.
The brain has many components -
one ends its tenure, the rest seek overtime.
Collective being, like ourselves,
constantly dies internally.
Unseen decay, abated by light.
The value of unseen development,
The unseen progression,
This does not decay.
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The Song of Deborah
03:52
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Departure from everything learned
Arrival to everything known -
Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Joy
A woman will receive commendation!
Look at the woman -
She is full of life,
Even before birth -
Cells of her descendants,
Reside within her,
Two Generations
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Montego Bay, a natural beauty -
Beauty ravaged by idealism,
Yet every person is equipped,
With a functional mind -
The frontal cortex -
That which ultimately differentiates
Beware!
Every synapse is formed and fired
as we observe -
As Patterns close,
What unseen progression appears?
Each pole, a petri of unseen progression,
What progress will remain to sustain?
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Shigionoth
03:12
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The End is soon
Does it bring comfort or anxiety?
Parent, Child, Grandparent,
Friend or Foe
Where do we go?
Unto the Truth,
Truth is a Person
Life, a destination
At which we arrive.
Death, a constant reality.
Where are they reconciled?
The elements, the internal?
The Noiseless?
The heavenly whisper.
The uniting Thread.
The Eternal Unseen.
The Victorious One.
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Nathan Foley Los Angeles, California
With an ideology steeped in Oneness, Funk in all of its gelatinous forms, and the energetic innards of Being, Nathan presses forth spreading a message of love. In both live and recorded musics, with a passion for integrating funky minutia into every step of the process. He is a member of the band Kat Milk Blu and is constantly collaborating and cowriting with artists of every genre. ... more
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