About Me

My Photo
Kholi
[lots of random and well-contrived adjectives.] I also cook and love. Both are for hire. I read. I write. I observe and actively participate in the world around me. All are for free and for you.
View my complete profile

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Because ...

she's always been the smarter one.

bLaKtivist recommended this movie awhile ago and while perusing her page i found myself in love with it.

You all should watch and vote as well ... that's right. just this once. be a follower.

kholi.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Obama to OK Same Sex Health Benefits

So ... I was cruising CNN this morning ... and this is what I found ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama will sign a memorandum Wednesday granting health care and other benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees, two senior administration officials said.

President Obama has been criticized by gay rights activists for not doing more since taking office.

President Obama has been criticized by gay rights activists for not doing more since taking office.

The signing will take place in the Oval Office and follows sharp criticism of the president over a Justice Department motion filed last week in support of the Defense of Marriage Act -- which opposes same-sex marriage -- that used the government's interest in opposing incestuous marriages to support its position against same-sex marriage.

Gay and lesbian advocates have also faulted the Obama administration for not moving to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bars officials from asking about a service member's sexual orientation but also bars the service member from revealing it.

The president rankled gay advocates before his inauguration when he named megachurch pastor the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his swearing-in. Warren, in an interview with Belief.net, likened homosexuality to bestiality and incest. He also supported California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in that state.

During the Warren controversy, Obama -- who frequently spoke in favor of gay and lesbian rights during the campaign but has said he opposes same-sex marriage -- declared himself "a fierce advocate for gay and lesbian Americans."


Always feel free to read more at CNN. (source)



Sunday, June 14, 2009

Can Somebody Tell Her ...

That I'm tryin' to be her manager? I mean really.


Friday, June 12, 2009

Morning Musings #3 ... SUBTLETY

so ... T.A. Kamili (http://www.takamili.blogspot.com) sent the the word ... it was SUBTLETY ... and this is what we brought you ...


I will admit
My major flaw
Is that
I often watch you sleep.
Not because I need
Such near and open
Sights of beauty
But for the breaths
You take.
Slow. Heavy.
Hushed
just at the end.
For what I imagine them to mean.
So close to my face and neck.
In my back.
In this bed instead of another.
Your arm the only one to make my waist seem
Small when wrapped around it.
You never one to say
I love you.
Me too
Untrusting of my heart to admit
I feel
It I think with each rising
of your chest.

Each fall your response

to a million questions

My answer always different

always yes

to the silent changes in a face gone peaceful

i wonder

what would you say to me

wonder

does my slumber holds you captive

if ever i do sleep

I confess

the greater flaw

than beholding you

is praying

that you are sometimes captivated by me.



this makes me think of this ...



ok ... maybe the words and uhhh... not so much the black history images. whatevs.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Morning Musings #1.2

So ... T. A. Kamili has also fallen prey to my forced writing habits. lol. i mean once she understood what the rules were. this is our poem from the other day ... remember, SUPER and I did one on the same topic.

sometimes you wake

and find yourself

soil

loose

and falling

fast through fingers free

and not your own

unearthed

crashing down into you

meeting your

selves as

oceans expanding width-wise

then upwards

chasing moons

sometimes you stop

to seize

this moment

and even it has shifted

into itself

a distant dream

of sand

and salt

a tactile memory of what once was

and now seems

more out-of-body

than experience

a touch-and-go encounter

with the third shift gods

sometimes you pray

the second chance goes

a lot like the first

maybe faster

less structured

more bones to the milk

with sparkling cinders left at the edges

for guiding posts

and fence rails

for barbed wire

and jagged teeth

something sharp to hold you close

sometimes you wake

to find yourself falling

sometimes the falling

is the dream

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Morning Musings #2 ... FAME

So ... Camae and I will have at least a week's worth of poems. And no, I won't always tell you who wrote what ... but I thought this formatting was cute ... AND ... I was really interested in how differently fame manifests itself as an entity or idea within our lives. Clearly we know Camae as Super, meaning we know she's always on her grind. And you know AUTHENTIC keeps my hustle hard. I'm sure we both crave the infamy because ... well ... that's what "they" and "us," "we" and "i" have decided signifies success, correct? But maybe not ... maybe what's most important is the way the success makes us feel ... or not feel ... or maybe im just rambling. enjoy.


VIA the Book of Faces ...

Between Camae Dennis and You

Today at 12:06am
Go.
Today at 2:00am
(soo yeah no spell check on fb...)

For as long as i can remeber.
I've had worms.
Deep inside my intestines.
Gutting out my insides.
Its only a matter of time now.
before sweet hymms and
Grandmama's cries
make me
the Mos Def
in the room.
Bigger and Deffer
than ever
Today at 10:20am
More clever than you
and
or I ever imagined.
Growing out of myself
is this
excellence that eats.
Future gilded with fear and longing.
An inability to be appeased unless pleasing.

I like the power.

I can

Stargaze from a distance.
See myself
through you.
Smell your anticipation thick like
love.
Heavy as my own
guilt knowing or oft
feeling the more I owe.

Scream my name lover.
I've been long preparing for this screw.
I'm coming-
Pouring my dreams as offering
unto your feet-
leaking long after the vessel is empty.


muah! have a good day love ... meanwhile ... i think i sorta changed the tone of the poem.


soooo ... if u really need to read it uninterrupted .. go HERE: SUPER HELP!

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Morning Musings

so i've started forcing myself to write. i'm a morning muser. i have a friend ... well two ... who have agreed to be my partner in this forced writing process ... and as such ... i'm sharing it with you. not for you. just with you.


photo by sarah green

so Super of The Mighty Paradocs sent me a facebook message @ 12:01 am. it said: shapeshifters. this was my cue to rise and shine and write my lil heart away ... and so ... i did. ok ... welll eventually.

and then i sent it to her ... and she made a masterpiece of it ... do u know where my hand ends and hers begins ... orrrr vice versa? free entry to the next AUTHENTIC event if you get it right! :)

...

sometimes you wake
and find yourself
soil
loose
and falling
fast through fingers free
and not your own
unearthed
crashing down into you
meeting your
selves as
oceans expanding width-wise
then upwards
chasing moons
sometimes you stop
to seize
this moment
and even it has shifted
into itself
sparkling cinders left
as tactile memory of what once was
I was once myself.
rational.
studious.
centered.
until you.
and you
and you.
got together
and decided to pull my heart strings
bringin me closer.
to the bottom of myself.
sacral.
re rooting.
shapeshifting.