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    Excerpts From My Soul...Read Without Prejudice
    Excerpts From My Soul...Read Without Prejudice
    Excerpts From My Soul...Read Without Prejudice
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    Excerpts From My Soul...Read Without Prejudice

    By Nathan Jones

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    Excerpts From My Soul...Read Without Prejudice stretches the boundaries of literature by taking a look at the world through the use of compelling prose poetry, vignettes, and comical introspections about the world's complexities.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNathan Jones
    Release dateSep 1, 2010
    ISBN9781452408170
    Excerpts From My Soul...Read Without Prejudice
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    Nathan Jones

    Nathan Anthony Jones hails from the Jazz capital a.k.a., The Big Easy. He exited his mother’s womb making waves the year Jimi freaked Woodstock 4 decades ago. He is a 7th Ward Bayou Bourbon Street Boogieing Baby born bubbly and bouncing to the African spiritual beats of the bamboulas and banzas of the Congo Square in New Orleans. His poetry is cayenne pepper; spicy and feisty, political and social, reflective and eclectic, and fulfilling like a hot bowl of gumbo and rice and a jar of homemade lemonade on a humid Southern summer afternoon. Raised in Oakland, he is a poet, teacher, publisher and author of several books: Revolutionary Erotica, Black Man In Europe and Excerpts From My Soul: Read Without Prejudice.

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      Excerpts From My Soul...Read Without Prejudice - Nathan Jones

      EXCERPTS FROM MY SOUL...READ WITHOUT PREJUDICE

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      PUBLISHED BY:

      SajeTanira Publishing Group & Nathan Jones on Smashwords

      Excerpts From My Soul...Read Without Prejudice

      Copyright ©2010 by Nathan Jones

      Edited by Charlotte Y. Williams

      ISBN: 978-0-9800747-3-4

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners.

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

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      Giving thanks to the Creator for His Blessing of another project completed. This book is dedicated to my family, friends and to those who have had patience, love, and faith in my dream. You know who you are. God Bless and continue to read!

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      Contents

      Excerpt I: Afrocentric Actualizations

      An Afrikan Speaks of Home

      Elmina - Ghana

      Reincarnation

      Preamble - Reassembled

      Lily In The Valley

      I’m Still Here

      Out From The Dark We Ascend

      Running

      What Izz Being Black?

      Condensory

      Hazel Scott

      African in America

      Distant Beat

      Black (Man’s) Beauty

      The Smell of Racism

      Nigga, You Still Around?

      Why I Vote?

      The Day After A Black Man Became President

      Excerpt II: Roots and Branches

      Coda: Black Man, Who Are You?

      Son Of The South

      Born/Change/Transformation

      Gun Shot

      New Orleans Living – The Beginning

      His Image

      Experiential Education

      Black Pride…

      Inside My Skin

      A Ritual Is Met…

      Pushin’ A Pen…And Receiving No Dividends

      Looking Out The Window

      Let Go

      Memory of Impression

      To Mourn A Ritual

      A Poet Unknown

      Deconstructing Masculinity

      Brothas Be

      How I Kick Linguistics In The Game

      The Hot Shit

      A Promise

      Excerpt III: Truth Disclosed

      Revolutionary Erotica

      Shining

      A Moment In The Port

      Life Is A Series of Sound Bytes

      Darkness

      The Souls of the Streets

      Walking

      Time to Chill; Enjoy Life…

      Wrath of a Woman

      Language Change

      Cinematic Inhibition/The Window: A Collaboration

      We Communicated

      Skin I’m In

      6. Arr. Rue Monsieur Le Prince

      6. Arrt Place Saint-Germain Des Pres

      Alvin Ailey in Berkeley and Paris

      Negro Identity

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      EXCERPT I

      AFROCENTRIC ACTUALIZATIONS

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      An Afrikan Speaks of Home

      You are an abyss in my heart, Afrika

      My face is full of your blood

      These hands God gave me work to come home

      I, an Afrikan speaks of the rivers in the Congo

      I daydream of the warm summer nights, under

      Your heaven

      I once sat on a throne, drinking the finest nectars

      My kingdom was a dominion of prosperity,

      My children played freely in our Garden of Eden

      Oh! Afrika, how I long to kiss the soil of your beauty

      This continent many called dark holds the keys to the Universe

      To life, civilization, and many lands of forgotten nations.

      Afrika, my face is full of your blood,

      Oh, how I long to return home

      To the shores of your warmth and beauty

      Afrika, I cannot forget you

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      Elmina - Ghana

      shackled in dungeons, quartered by gender space limited

      caught in matrix prism of darkness

      cacophonies sirens the air, dark despair horrific

      overseer’s eyes watch broken spirits rest on brick beds, peeking

      concrete pillows unwind minds, using excrement as linen’s comfort

      bodies stacked upon bodies, alive & dead

      bodies stacked upon bodies, dead & alive

      putrid, the stench, penetrating my nasal cavity

      my DNA is remembering, inhumane traumas altering my center

      resistance! powerless! denigrated! branded! broken! boxed!

      alive/ alive/ alive/

      stolen from homeland(s), torn from families

      centuries later, my center is pushing & unfolding

      seared in biblical lamentation, I pray this history never repeats

      amazing Grace, how horrible the sound, not to save a wretch?

      a wretch i am not?

      i am grandma’s cayenne pepper

      a hot plate of red beans and rice

      the sweet savory sweat of sugarcane

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      Reincarnation

      i’ve ambled through the ages

      in shoes well worn

      an ancient orphan

      many times born

      i carry with me

      buried deep inside

      the memory of an almost

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