Got a little online workshop for everyone. In our weekly sessions, we once did a competition of writing about something but not using the actual word. So we described our 'thing' as creativly as possible and we'd guess what this was, for example, one poet wrote about an 'Ice Cube' without using the words Ice or Cube or Ice Cube.
"Boys N' the hood, still slipping out our hands,
hope to gain higher learning
but hope melts into water
when there's no higher earning.
Cold, Arctic, used and abused
like the remnants of my soul"
Did you guess right?
'Boys N' the hood' and 'Higher Learning' are two films, Ice Cube the rapper acted in, whilst the rest of the poem describes an Ice Cube.
Hope you get it?
Now for the competition
The first part is to guess what I'm describing in my OWN version below, the second part of the competition is to write your own version and send it to me so I can put it on the blog. Please leave your name and age, and email to: mohamedzaind@googlemail.com
The winner gets two tickets to the première of Words Apart's Film: Mother Britain on November the 11th 2011.
The poem can be about anything and doesn't have to have a meaning... Remember to guess what I'm describing in the poem below too!
"Flying into the cosmic stratosphere, beings of untold magnitude, unknown size.
Unfortunately incorporating lies.
A cataclysmic sonic boom tapping the periphery of your ear drums
often leaving you in a beautifying abnormal abyss
ignorance leaving most of us in short term hedonistic bliss
cells, phones and emails, chats and messages and shouts from your window
a soliloquy of madness
"I'm sorry Maam, he was found dead," turning the wife into the widow
An outburst of sadness
They penetrate, persuade and can permanently alter man's state
Twisting fate, a techni-coloured diversity , spreading truth, Joseph.
Though the spectrum can turn darkly grim, Goebbels."
By Zain
@Zainthepoet
Showing posts with label change the world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label change the world. Show all posts
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Monday, 4 July 2011
Words Apart Film Project: Get involved!
Ladies and gentleman...
Stand by for take off For...
Stand by for take off For...
A great opportunity for young poets based in London to work with Words Apart first film project 'Twisted Tongues.'
Just a little reminder first... a couple months ago we won a grant to make a short film about young people in Barnet. It would interact with local services and shopkeepers and attempt to understand the problems and issues facing us in this age. In the application we spoke of different cultures, ages and heritages coming together to explain how hard it is for minorities in this 21 st century.
SO now the time has come for us to raise our game up and take WORDS APART POETRY to a higher plain. We will have music and sound added by Goldielock sand two young people from Rithmik Youth Centre. This project will also bring in the local parkour people into the mix.
So now we come to dates.
THE PROJECT WILL OCCUR IN THE WEEK OF THE 18th JULY. AND THE WEEK WILL BE SPLIT BETWEEN CANADA VILLA AND THE NOBLE SAGE ART GALLERY.
Two Days planning and two and a half days shooting. We have a professional film maker in charge of the shooting and an editor who'll knock it out within two weeks of the final shoot.
The earlier session will be a two hour meeting and planning session ...
that is 14TH of JULY 6-8 at CANADA VILLA YOUTH CENTRE IN MILL HILL.
For more details or to get involved please email the following details to this address:
mohamedzaind@googlemail.com
Please outline: Your name and age
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
The Quest to Peace
This poem was inspired by a book called: Purification of the Heart translated by Hamza Yusuf. The book is based on a poem called purification of the hearts translated from Arabic by Imam Mawlud from Mauritania in West Africa.
'If you want to change the world, do not begin by rectifying the outward, instead, change the condition of the inward.' Hamza Yusuf
The Quest to Peace
On a quest to peace,
Wearing a superficial fleece screaming: ‘free my people!’
But who are my people again?
I’m trying to change the world before I change myself
I’m trying to change the world before I change myself
How’s that gonna work?
I told science I’ve seen a black hole
Bigotry is contaminating the soul
Arrogance and ignorance going
Hand in hand forming something called an ego, ready to expand
Socially conditioned like moths hitting the same flame,
Rust on our minds like a broken bike chain.
The path to truth will get me that peace
Fire missiles with wordplay I’m acting in self-defence
No sense, your two cents is not appreciated Regev
Trying to maim verbally a political Rumi
Leaking like a WikiLeak or a spiritual Sufi
He Put a knife to my throat and said ‘gimme your inner gold.’ I said I just have a blackberry, and its not even the bold
Trying to steal my soul and hold my heart hostage
Trying to steal my soul and hold my heart hostage
Language spoken in the dialect of hate not love
crimes of war and humanity influenced by envy, anger and greed
as politicians plant the neo-colonialist seed
Tyrants say its for your own good
they say: War is peace and slavery is freedom
They say: there is truth behind the lies and lies behind the truth,
They say: Shallowness is in, Modesty is a sin
and burqa bans are soooooooo 2010
and burqa bans are soooooooo 2010
Now days justice starts with a conjunction and its ‘in’
In ‘justice’ like a sickly cough tickling our throat, and the medicine is in our hearts.
Before I find my mirror I need to find myself
I’m trying to change myself before I change this world,
Im trying to change myself before I change this world.
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