Monday, August 4, 2014

A HUGH MASEKELA TRIBUTE AND MORE (part two )

I admit I am very partial to the trumpet sound whether it is jazz, soul, r & b, or symphony..
Louis Armstrong, Dizzie Gillesppie, Miles Davis, Donald Byrd and Hugh Masekela..
Hugh is special to me - His South African roots ... That mixture giving soul to the instrument..
So I am taking the summer off from politics and Just -- Want 2 -- Share...





HUGH MASEKELA TRIBUTE POEM

JUST A TASTE --- However the track that gives me soul chills is Hugh's ( B0 Masekela track )
---- My apologies I could find this track on Youtube ---- Check Amazon
and hold tight to your bones the trumpet soul is awesome....


~ HUGH TRIBUTE ~
( TO HUGH MASEKELA – THANK YOU FOR THE SOUL OF YOUR TRUMPET NOTES )
( POEM WRITTEN WHILE LISTENING TO MASEKELA’S TRACK – BO MASEKELA )

SOUL OF  SOUL
THE FLUGEL HORNEST – A TRUMPET NOTE PROPHET
~ GIVING AND BLENDING ~
HIS RIVER SOUL NOTES
FLOWING OVER OUR ACHES AND PAINS
THE HERALDS OF SOUTH AFRICAN STRUGGLE  ~ EMBERS AND FLAMES
NELSON MANDELA AND  STEPHEN BIKO
~ RISE ~
LIFE JEWELS ~ FREEDOM STILL CRY’S
ZULU, amaXHOSA, BHANTU
AFRICAN SUNRISES HARVESTING SUN BAKED SOUL BLOSSUMS

~ HUGH !!!~
~ STRUGGLE IS A GROOVE THANG ~
~ THE TOWNSHIPS AND THE SHANTY TOWNS OF SOUTH AFRICA ~
WHERE URBAN RENEWAL UNDER APARTHAID
WAS THE DUST BLOWN BY BREEZES OF SACRIFICE
~ONCE ~ TWICE ~ THRICE
THE TRINITY OF HUGH’S TRUMPET NOTES
RELEASING US FROM OUR PRISONS OF DESPAIR
~THEY STARE ~ WE DARE ~
TO LET OUR SOULS AND OUR ANCESTORS BONES
~ DANCE FREEDOM THIS NIGHT ~
RIVER, SEA, OCEAN, SKY ~ BIRTH IS WHEN I DIED
THIS VIBRATING GROOVE OF LIBERATION
 BLEEDING ITS DYNAMIC UNIVERSAL PRAYER
INTO THE RESURRECTION OF TRUE BREATHING
FISH AND BREAD ~ ANOTHER  MULTITUDE  FEED
MY MOMMA AND DADDY’S NIGHTS OF PRAYER
~THEIR GETHSEMANE’S TEARS POURED INTO ROCKS OF LIFE’S UNFAIRNESS~
GRANDMOMMA AND GRANDDADDY FORETOLD
‘ IF YOU ARE NOT BOLD IF ENOUGH TO BLEED COURAGE ’’
~ THEN HUSH CHILD ~
~ TOO MANY TOMBSTONES WEEP  FREEDOM SORROWS ~ 
~ SELMA AND BIRMINGHAM AND MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA ~
~ SOWETO, KINGSTOWN AND JOHANESBURG ~
~ AUSCHWITZ AND DACHAU ~
~ THE TRAIL OF TEARS AND WOUNDED KNEE ~
~ SOUL DEDICATED PLEAS ~
~ SACRIFICE  ILLUMINATING IN THE SKY EVERYNIGHT ~
AS A STAR LIT TRUMPET NOTE

HUGH MASEKELA ~ YOU BLACK ARCH-ANGEL TRUMPET SOUL KING ~
I~ LOVE ~ U ~

BY THOMAS N. CORBETT 3RD

TNC3

August 4, 2014

Monday, June 30, 2014

OUR MAGNIFICANT PLANET ((( HOME )))

GRAND AND MAGNIFICANT
SIGNIFICANT AND WONDERFULLY HONORING
THE FILM ((( HOME ))) NARRATED BY GLENN CLOSE
--- YOU MAY VIEW THE WHOLE FILE ON YOUTUBE--
KEY WORD -- HOMEPROJECT 2009 --
GOD BLESS THIS ENRICHMENT~~~ THOMAS


Sunday, June 29, 2014

WHERE ((( THE EXCLAMATION IN THE QUESTION )))

THERE ARE THOSE THAT GENUINELY DESIRE TO IMPROVE
OUR COUNTRIES ECONOMIC STABILITY... LIKE
((( THE BRING JOBS HOME ACT )))... BILL REJECTED IN THE HOUSE
THEN THERE ARE THOSE BP ENERGY COMPANY ADS AND KEYSTONE PIPELINE ADS SELLING US THEIR CUSTOM BALL PRISTINE IMAGES
OF A JOB HEALTHY CORPORATE PARTNER IN THE AMERICAN
ECONOMY... TECHNOLOGY JOBS ALONE WELL NOT LIFT
THE AMERICAN ECONOMY TO RESONABLE LEVELS OF EMPLOYMNET...
SIMPLY PUT ... WHERE (((( THE EXCLAMATION IN THE QUESTION )))
ARE THE GENUINE AND DUTIFUL CORPORATE AND POLITICAL
AUTHENTICATED GENUISES WHO WILL CHAMPION HONEST
SOLID PROGRESS FOR ALL WORKING CLASS PEOPLE...

WHERE!?


WHERE !?
ARE THE ENGINEERS
OF WHAT IS RIGHT

WHERE !?
ARE THE KEYMAKERS,
THE CENTURIONS,
THE MONARCHS
OF ALL THAT IS JUST
ALL THAT IS REASONABLE
ALL THAT IS OF COHERENT SANITY

BECAUSE IN THESE  NEW TIMES
WHILE THE METAMORPHOSIS OF  TECHNOLOGIES
 CONTINUOUS CLIMB
AND ONCE HONEST FOLKS COMMIT  LEGAL CRIMES
DRAPPED IN
 ~POLITICAL NONPROFIT AND TAX LOPHOLE DESIGNER WEAR~
AND 
THE STONES THROWN AS EVERLASTING GEMS
ARE JUST RIPPLES
IN A POLLUTED POND
WHILE
THE ARTWORK OF THE MANY VIBRATE LIVES
IS PAINTED OVER WITH DILUTED INTEGRITY’S
AND
THE NEW ACRYLLICS OF  ETHICAL RIGHTNESS
AND
THESE  ARTIST AND THEIR PATRONS
DRINK FROM LARGER AND LARGER JUGS OF WINES
~ THE GLORIOUSNESS OF THE PLENTIFUL DOLLAR SIGNS ~
AND
THOSE THAT ARE NOT STRUCK  BLIND
IN THE READING OF THE SIGNS
GO ABOUT SIFTING THROUGH THE BROKEN GLASS
OF OUR ORDINARY LIVES
WITH TEARS AND PRAYERS AND PLEADINGS
THEY LABOR TO REASSEMBLE AND CREATE
A SINCERE  RIGHTNESS

SO!!!
WHERE WAS I ?
WHERE WERE YOU ?
WHERE ARE WE ?

AS HUMANITY’S TREE OF HARMONY IS WEEPING

AND CALLING OUR NAMES !!!

BY THOMAS N. CORBETT 3RD
TNC3
JUNE 2014

Monday, April 28, 2014

CLIVEN BUNDY AND DONALD STERLING

THE LATEST NEWS OF UNRETRACTABLE  AND DEPLORABLE COMMENTS
SPOUTING TONES OF RACISM IS LIKE THE SODA BOTTLE BEING
SHOOK-UP FOR YEARS AND NOW THE TOP HAS BEEN REMOVED.
THE SPEWING CAN NOT BE CONTAINED. THE MOST OVERLOOKED
PART OF THE TAPES RELEASED ON DONALD STERLING IS THAT
MS. Stiviano SAYS ( I KNOW PEOPLE ARE CALLING YOU ABOUT ME
BEING WITH BLACK PEOPLE )....THERE IS THE CORE THAT OTHERS
ARE JUST AS DISAPPROVING OF HER PERSONAL INTERACTIONS...

STONE THROWERS

( CLIVEN BUNDY AND DONALD STERLING )


THE TERMITES OF CULTURAL DECAY

THE INSECTS OF RACISM

 HAVE CLAWED OUT OF THE SAWDUST OF PAST HISTORY

THE RESTLESS SECRET
IS THROUGH YAWNING AND RUBBING IT’S  EYES
 HAS BLOWN THE RALLYING TRUMPET TO RISE

AND THOSE THAT HAVE INCITED
THIS VILE MINDSET
SHALL BACK AWAY INTO THE SHADOWS
WHILE THROWING FLOWERS ON THEIR LIES

AND CERTAIN POLITICIANS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE
WILL COVERTLY PRESCIBE AND ADMINISTER MEDS
OF DENIALS AND FUTURE ACTIONS

PLANS AND STOIC SMILES
PLANS AND STOIC SMILES

THE MASQUERADERS IN LOW ENCRYPTED VOLUMES
ARE LAUGHING NATIONWIDE

BY THOMAS N. CORBETT 3RD
TNC3
April 28, 2014