Meditations (Mental Relaxation) In the midst of your meditation expect revelation, when you finish contemplation know self– realisation, Visualise yourself and your kids as the Hip Hop Nation…. Patience leads to gravitation of making new relations, Hold that feeling sacred, the memory is never wasted; Your thoughts are where you placed it, with concentration. Elevation [...]
Eighteen year old Dillon Leet — an exciting new voice, spins us crazy with her words. In this poem based on the theme of ‘society’ she’s got us hooked on her lines. She is a Barbican Young Poet, and she has just started performing her words. Stay tuned and look out, more to come from [...]
Belinda Zhawi is definitely the poet to see perform. This is her poem ‘Temple’. Very recently she has been on Channel 4 ‘Random Acts’. Temple I was once a shut door. Heavy, darkened oak. My body did not belong to me, like I thought it did. My legs, concrete pillars – feet anchored into the ground. A red brick [...]
You can listen to Warsan Shire’s (UK’s Young Poet Laureate) poem here: http://www.theguardian.com/society/video/2014/feb/14/girls-warsan-shire-fgm-video I Am Hip Hop are featuring Barbican Young Poet Amaal Said. She has written and recorded a very powerful poem on this subject I hold three fingers towards her. I ask my mother: when they cut you did they take a little, [...]