Sunday, July 1, 2018

RENEE’ DRUMMOND-BROWN



RENEE’ DRUMMOND-BROWN

THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU?

“When you hear about slavery for 400 years…For 400 years? That sounds like a choice” (Kanye West). “NO IT DON’T; IT SOUNDS LIKE SIN” (Renee Drummond-Brown).

The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
designer irons used for our neck, minds’, hands, and our feet;
anchor ring, ankle rack, belly chains, bending fiber, blindfolds and body chains.
Think I’ll go with the anchor ring?
SWEET!


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose which Atlantic Slave Trans we’d ride
when sailing the soft raging seas;
La Amistad’ or Lord Ligonier (either-one, don’t matter) would certainly be
suitable for my ancestors
and me!


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose to leave WEST Africa in 1619,
an’ settle in Virginia’s extravagant
HGTV’s plantation colonies.


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
those wonderful auction blocks to be sold away from
our natural families.


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
stunning surnames and become “made in the USA’s” private property.
Brown suits my family’s name just fine (by me).


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
gods’
which stripped us away from our spirituality
and separate us from the true God of Israel
who was meant to be.


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
losing our unusable mother tongue;
to speak Ebonics so eloquently.


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
being handsomely raped
EVER so “freely.”


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
picking snuggly-cotton sun-up to sun-down;
wage-free.


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
straightening combs, jheri curls, weaves and perms
I’ll stick to B.D.’s invented braids for sure. No; maybe, swag me
some, blondes have more fun, twisty’s.



The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
giving our sweet chocolate milk away
to ANY and EVERYBODY’S babies!
What a willing wet-nurse treat???


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
“our Studs”
to produce more babies
for fiscal slavery.


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
improper foods
for our privileged families.


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
no hats, coats, gloves or Cam-shoes
for our pampered spa-polished feet



The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
which whips, we prefer be-used,
WHILE being beat.


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
allowed us to choose
which garden of Eden trees
we’d wanted to swing!


The Home of the brave and land of the Free
by all means,
allowed us to choose
400 years of tormented pleas.


IF,
the Home of the brave and land of their Free
truly allowed us a choice
to be or not to be
enslaved…
Betta by golly wow; without, a shadow of a doubt,
we’d certainly choose 400 more years of delightful “evil-plagued” slavery
while giving it “our” finest praise and shout!
2 THUMBS UP!
SLAVERY “WAS NOT” A CHOICE Kanye,
without a shadow of a slaves doubt.


ACCORDING TO Google.com, (https://www.google.com/search?q=define+choice&oq=define+choice&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4261j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

Choice

CHois

noun
1.      1.
an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.
"the choice between good and evil"
synonyms:     option, alternative, possible course of action
"you have no other choice"

Dedicated to:
Shake it to the east; shake it to the “WEST”;
our choice will be slavery Kanye, which we truly love the best!





PLAN B IN ‘DA HOUSE!

Union measures, such as
Confiscation Acts and Emancipation Proclamation
in 1863, WAR; WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? ‘Everythang!
It ended slavery.
Removing those visible chains from one’s neck, hands and copper-toned feet.

Party ‘ov’r here! Party ‘ov’r there!
While ‘you’ze ‘laughin and ‘jokin…
The invisible PLAN B APPEARED!
The new improved slavery. Well let’s JUST say;
for the sake of ‘sayin…its ‘SMOKIN!

AKA: DOPE!
Cloud 9
SUCCESSFULLY impairs one’s judgment and ‘mindS,
learning, freedom and memory. Addicting one, to loss realms of hope.
Forgetting to forget plan B effectively enslaves one, mentally.
Thus, hampering the user’s ability
to think themselves as ‘ev’r becoming free.

The dope certainly took us for broke.
Arresting the ‘mindS
to plantation grinds as we so willingly smoke.

Now 400 years later…
We’re back to Genesis.
Turning into our own traitors!
The new improved slavery has no color…
It’s our mother’s, father’s, sisters and brothers
and perilous to say, Kanye, it’s a choice, one to another.

SLAVERY WAS NO JOKE!

Dedicated to:
The ‘Ol effective back-up plan UNTIL we’re back in visible chains again.





WHAT GOD JOINS TOGETHER…
LET’S US ALL “TEAR” ASUNDER

Preacher-man.
“What therefore God hath joined together,
let not man put asunder.” (Mark 10:9 KJV)
Who cares bout that…
We gone break this mess up
like no other!


Everyone plays his part in wedding-bliss downfalls’.
Minister’s marrying ‘em at the gate;
no counseling in sight;
nor telling ‘em WHY they should wait. AT-ALL!


Preacher-man ain’t even with his own wife…
Therefore, he’s-of no position
to teach what is wrong? After-all, what IS right?
So,
he happily pronounces any an’ everybody
Man and wife.
I Do. I Do too.
AND IT’S BROKE UP ‘FO THE INK DRIES (that night)!
Preacher-man.


Husbandman.
Flirting at the wedding
with the Matron of Honor, and
Maid of Honor and
her Bridesmaids. And
any other woman he thinks he can.
Did you forget already bout YOUR complementarian-woman;
who IS your helpmate selected by Him? And
remember what the word of God said:
“And Adam said,
This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh”
(Genesis 2:23-24).


Do the math man
You gotta “LEAVE” Momma and your family alone
 and care for your own home.
YOUR WIFE IS #ONE.
“JUST” in case you didn’t know…
Cannon-Law says so (PERIOD).
IF equally yoked;
two are one. So, when they do your wife in…
They’ve offended you my friend.
Do the math and wipe your feet of them.
ALL OF THEM!
But no. Not you;
you keep ‘em round ‘til the marriage ends
Husbandman.


Woman.
“And the LORD God said,
It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him an help meet for him” (Genesis 2:18 KJV).
The word did not say
that you’re to run to girlfriends
and Ma and Pa when problems
come your way.
You’re a complementarian-woman
who is to STAND by your man, STAY, dream, hope and OBEY God’s law,
come what may.
The storm clouds will rise.
And the strong winds will blow.
But you woman, hold-on to everybody but your man
forsaking the commands of the I AM that I AM.
And Lord knows, He’s the only counselor of counselors
with a sound Biblical doctrine plan.
But over your man…you choose family foe and fake-friends
Woman.


Family and friends
MIND. YOUR. BUSINESS.
Get your own man and/or woman.
Then you can concentrate on your own messy
state of affairs. Listen…
“Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath”
(James 1:19 KJV).
Oh, but not you…You’re ‘gonna make SURE this marriage
gets broken up!
Cause you can’t stand their happiness
whatsoever, all because your life’s
in one big mess!
So, you’re quick to gossip,
run your mouth and carry that bone.
Putting their marriage to the test. Running their business through them streets;
which gives you great pleasure adding insult to injury in their happy home.
And you don’t stop until misery moves in
and those divorce proceedings begin.
And then; only then…
your greatest joy comes when their marriage IS done in
family and friends.


I do. I do too, vow to BREAK THEM UP
in the name of love.
Dedicated to: I do. I do too, BREAK THEM UP!
A RocDeeRay Production

RENEE DRUMMOND-BROWN

RENEE’DRUMMOND-BROWN, is an accomplished poetess with experience in creative writing. She is a graduate of Geneva College of Western Pennsylvania. Renee’ is still in pursuit of excellence towards her mark for higher education. She is working on her sixth book and has numerous works published globally which can be seen in cubm.org/news, KWEE Magazine, Leaves of Ink, Raven Cage Poetry and Prose Ezine, Realistic Poetry International, Scarlet Leaf Publishing House, SickLit Magazine, The Metro Gazette Publishing Company, Inc., Tuck, and Whispers Magazine just to name a few. Civil Rights Activist, Ms. Rutha Mae Harris, Original Freedom Singer of the Civil Rights Movement, was responsible for having Drummond-Brown’s very first poem published in the Metro Gazette Publishing Company, Inc., in Albany, GA. Renee’ also has poetry published in several anthologies and honorable mentions to her credit in variouswriting outlets. Renee’ won and/or placed in several poetry contests globally and her books are eligible for nomination for a Black Book award in Southampton County Virginia. She was Poet of the Month 2017, Winner in the Our Poetry Archives and prestigious Potpourri Poets/Artists Writing Community in the past year. She has even graced the cover of KWEE Magazine in the month of May, 2016. Her love for creative writing is undoubtedly displayed through her very unique style and her work solidifies her as a force to be reckoned with in the literary world of poetry. Renee’ is inspired by non-other than Dr. Maya Angelou, because of her, Renee’ posits “StillIwrite, I write, and I’ll write!”



1 comment :

  1. Thank you all for taking the time to read my published work. Pittsburgh author Renee' Drummond-Brown (Renee's Poems with Wings are Words in Flight).

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