The School Bell Rings: El Poet and Samo

How are you doing people? Its been long since I posted something huh? Well, The School Bell Rings is finally here. I hope it is worth the wait for everyone. This is a collaboration I did with my mentor, Samo & TheAlmighty based on Ambition that we all have. Riveting and purposeful posted just before Slam Africa this Friday, below is the Poster then after the piece. Enjoy these two worlds. 

(Verse 1- Samo And The Almighty)

...the school bell rings

St. Peter standing at the Pearly gates

I’ve made it just in time for the opening sequence of my life

I snuck into God’s pocket

Went to sleep in a dark knight, dreamt up inception, now the dark knight rises…

life is but a dream to me

cue the Black lights-..

I heard every teardrop is a waterfall

but this tear drop starts with a Massive Attack

that means I’m playing House, Gregory House

be a Wilson and get me my morphine drip

I'm at the Amen corner; they call it destiny’s door

my vision- a staircase to a hug with no hands

my eye- on the highway, I’ll be playing chicken soon

the poetry-my passion, the pen-my pain

my words -a dance floor, I touch souls

so enlightened, I’m glowing in the dark

took a roll in the Hay, I’m sharing thoughts with Yusef Komunyakaa

No circus in the sky, I danced with Ben Okri

find me in poetic nirvana, lost in Sade

she pulled the stars and lay them at my feet

My pyramids facing the sun, she readied me to be Pharaoh

a Soldier of Love, she kissed me with the curse of Sisyphus

Now I carry the World on my shoulders,  padded shoulders, 

So  enVogue, you could call me Mrs. Doubtfire

with a needle I thread Benjamin's button

with a needle I broke Benjamin

Like Benjamin  Little I broke my fingers, lost my hands

grew sleeves, rolled them up

now I’m pushing HEAVEN, God calls me Ambition

feel me bubbling bubbling bubbling

and yet I slowed down, just to smell the ‘lotus flowers’,

I’m walking through my garden of memories

I’m with the love of my life; she’s a ‘Radiohead’

And yes I have a business card, my name’s Charles the First

Her name’s Qalbi, her occupation- my heart

Her love my scripture, Quran meet Bible

We met in a 'Paper flying moment', love in 'M.I.A.'

she played saxophone

That David's secret chord, I played Goliath

Now she has me on tip-toe- the irony is she's the Black Swan

Our shadows crossed, I ‘hope’ to die

die Drunk, like Daniel in the lion’s cage

In a blaze of fire like Joan of Arc

or stoned to death, Amy Winehouse

Hallelujah

Can you see the Blue sky? 

"Common Sense" dictates the Lord is coming through

So my nightstand is a painting of open Bibles,

broken Buddha heads,  Blown out candle lanterns, 

and my ghost of lovers past slithering Lord Voldermorts in my ear

saying, "Beauty sleep is such a beast"

so I go to bed  Martin Luther King

-with bullet holes in my dream

and yet all I want is to find that Devil they call Faith

to find freedom, anyone have Dobby's sock?

to be the ringleader of my own circle, anyone know Google plus?

or just set this freaking World on fire

give me one prayer, I need to speak to one God

But Nas, God is a concept by which we measure pain

John Lennon.

So before Basquiat says 'Samo Is Dead'

How will they remember me? 

For 33, Coitus Interruptus or Dictator?

when my Russell Crowes Maximus:

The mob  screaming

“Spaniard, Spaniard, Spaniard”

and Poseidon s winning the fight,

dragging me off this Earth in the arms of the ocean

I swear to you it will be on both feet

Never knees in the dirt

Mr. Samo and The Almighty

Tell them

I’m Pocahontas, I’m Aladdin, I’m Peter Pan

I’m the beauty and I’m the beast

I’m Popeye,I’m super mario, i’m liu kang

I’m shoshana in French riviera, with a cigarette and a novel

I’m in the back of Havana playing Hova

I’m Che Guevara spit, I’m esco and i’m sosa

I’m Michelangelo, stark naked in his undies

I'm the Princess of China in an elephant costume

dreaming about para-para-paradise

I’m Mr. Feel Good Inc. 

Yes I’m going Gorillaz

AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THAT MEANS!

But tonight, I’m Charles The First 

A Basquiat

El Poet, remember- 'Most young Kings get their head cut off'

I'm done with this

It’s your turn to rule

Goodnight Qalbi

....The school bell rings...

(Verse 2- El Poet)

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

The school bell rings,

New assignment, due next week; Rule the World,

I rise above tears of the fallen slaves,

Waves, cycling to the calling caves,

Graves, hollow and scary, saves,

My throne,

Ruler of verity,

Bringer of serenity,

I am your king, CROWN ME.

They paint pictures with a thousand words,

But I give you a thousand words,

Get the picture????

I preach to you with a thousand verses,

Get the scriptures???

Dark clouds gather, Gotham sleeps, Metropolis trembles,

My empire state of mind rules, New York City assembles,

I write to calm fear but my words strike hate,

Taking me through curves and loops like the number 8,

So when Adele set fire to the rain and became so tense,

I stabbed the leprechaun, stole the gold and burnt down the rainbow to clear the evidence.

They call it ego, but I thrive in a dirty love triangle,

Me myself and I,

My heart is jail broken,

Steve Jobs, Rest in Peace,

It broke out of its prison; I call my rib cage,

Tore my lungs out to express its artistry,

Harry Houdini…

So when I die, only burry me six feet under,

Before you tell them I was down to earth,

Tell them I was a righteous man,

Tell them to praise my memories,

Remind them how this soul was hot, how it set fire on stage,

Tell them my existence was a possibility waiting to be birthed into the revolution,

My soul was Che Guevara and the bullet that tore off Malcom’s skin,

And if Spoken Word is the machine, I am the young king lost in controversy with a GPS device searching for redemption.

I am blood I am fear, I am the motivation behind Rosa Park’s vision,

I am the true essence of poverty,

Rich in the mind hopeless in the streets.

Born in the Nile, Raised by the Euphrates, commanded the seven seas, poisoned by Aristotle,

Passed, reincarnated in the future, transgressed to immortality, moulded to perfection, drenched with brutality.

They call me king of kings,

Ruler of all realms,

Conquered the son of Ned Stark, I am Ironman from the iron clad clan, call me Tony Stark.

A victor in this game of Thrones.

I am a master of the world, slave to destiny

REMIND THEM, Tell them…..

Tell them,

How I was a merciless leviathan

Attempting to row the mighty seas and internal thunder pleas,

I dream to conjure up these, so that my ambition breaks the violent thunder breeze,

I bow, Kanye, Power Clap,

I freeze, Snow White, Power Nap,

I pant, Forest Gump, Power Lap,

This poem is an epigram,

A villanelle,

And I the ruler,

So I soothe my subjects to make love to my predicates,

Hence my words wet,

Satisfaction, as I soothe her hyacinth hair, kiss her luring lips,

Softly caressing her tender hips, trips on it, grips on it,

Let her show later scars,

From my similes and metaphors,

I close my eyes, to reason in braille and I am a millennium flick, a blockbuster,

My soul exists in a world beyond our world,

What we fantasize it does,

It is a driven unflinching, calculating machine that takes what it wants and disappears,

It is Swordfish and I am a poet disguised as its frozen sweat.

I was then matched by an empress from the lands of the Halloween’s past,

Past the coliseum doors fast, cast upon Nicki Giovanni’s bust, busted!

But naked singing, I WILL SURVIVE

And as promised, she came with poise, beauty, power and royalty, for girls,

NEVER TRAVEL ALONE

NOW WATCH THE THRONE!

This piece is my Alchemy and she is my panacea…

Let us heal and Leave This World Behind.

You see spirits collide in the smoke that I breathe,

Molecules ignite in the thoughts that I freeze,

Burning up the bellies of the forgotten cities,

I am the “tupate uhuru” chants in the early sixties,

When people existed in the agony of the decomposed rocks,

When spirits hung free on the mau mau composed locks,

Now I rule over kids with Peter Pan dreams wearing skinny jeans to hinder their growth.

This is what the storm holds beneath its wings,

And if it is not over until the fat lady sings,

I’ll wait to hear what this beautiful melody has to bring,

To spin, into me so that I write in the darkest of nights, show my might in the mightiest of fights, let summer fall in this spring, and bounce to wipe the skies with salt and paper so that my seasoning will make life taste a little better,

But for now, remember I’m just a young king,

Who marked a smile with a razor on a joker’s face,

And asked him why so serious????

I am the hero to my story and the villain to my end,

This is my comic strip…

And like the hard footprints embedded on the soft crust of the legends that passed before me,

I will live to leave trail behind for those after me,

My reign will not end but last the eternity, for;

I am powerful, I am a warrior unleashed, I am Darius, I am Alexender,I am Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, I am a freedom fighter, I am a young King,

And I will rule my world until I am held to my throat bread bleeding by the blade of my Queen,

And if asked who I was, I will not whisper, nor mumble nonchalantly but I will tell them I was, HUMAN…

And even if they cut my arms and palms away, the world will still remember that I came in HANDY

The School Bell Rings

SLAM AFRICA - A NEW BEGINNING

I don't really know how I started off doing spoken word. I always thought my poetry performance would end at High School when I performed at the Music Festivals. I was more into writing because i did not know there were open mic events in Nairobi. This all changed when Nemesis, then, a featured poet at USIU Slam competition, (late 2010) saw my performance and asked me to come at Adelle's open mic and from then I just kept going to new events until I won Slam Africa March 2011 and I still love performing spoken word up to this very moment.

Last month, Yung Nnoiz, Wanjiku Mwaura and I joined the Slam Africa organization and we have this event for you. We want to take Slam Africa to a whole new level, to new realms and this event will offer the benchmark. If you have ever been to Slam, you obviously know the thrill that is attached to it...So this April 20th SLAM AFRICA IS REBORN:- WE BRING YOU...

SLAM AFRICA: A NEW BEGINNING

    Friday, April 20, 2012
    7:00pm until 11:00pm

   
Dass Ethiopian Restaurant Westlands
   
This platform created Kings and Queens,Rulers on the stage, Lyrical Gladiators, Mentors, it gave new breath to spoken word poetry.
This stage gave Nairobi Slam Champions like :_

Number 8,
Wanjiku Mwaurah,
Queen Moraa,
Pepe Haze,
The father of Spoken Word in Kenya, Kennet B amongst others like Tear Drops and Achieng.

This April, a new beginning awaits us all. Slam Africa is reborn. It will be bigger, better, and crazier.

Incentive: We have a special collaboration performance by Yung Nnoiz, El poet and Wanjiku Mwaurah that is well choreographed and will blow your minds.

Let us crown our new King or Queen with style and love. Let us build a dynasty.

A token of appreciation will be handed to our Slam King or Queen inclusive of a branded T-Shirt of him or her and other prizes in store for the runner ups.
We invite you all to breathe new life to Slam Africa with us. Crossing our fingers that soon, very soon, THIS REVOLUTION MIGHT JUST BE TELEVISED.

"WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE, SALUTE YOU"

To register for slam Email us at : ahmedakil57@gmail.com

The Gate Charge - 500/=

Advance tickets will be sold via Mpesa at 450/= to this account 0724917595

And of course I have to leave you with a piece I wrote sometime back:

Heart Break

I am an emotional retard,

And poetry is boring,

I am a writers bleeding soul,

A character of modern day pornography,

And life is wearing the rubber,

I am a poets last tear,

And a killers masked fear,

I am Akil, son to the sun, formed at the climax of perverted pleasures,

They say only after disaster can we be resurrected, awake,

So I chose to dub this piece,

HEARTBREAK!!

In the world I see-you are a bleeding elf irked by the tall trees of amazon forests,

In ruins,

You will climb, the wrist-thick pines towering above you, dripping a corrosive mixture of blood and sweat,

And when you look down, you will see your crazy ex girlfriend that lost her mind zipping and unzipping you, lonely,

Abandoned in an abandoned super-highway,

Waving the middle finger!!!

Emotionally drained, you will jump,

Letting it all go, the love, the sex, the first kiss,

You will fall fast, letting it all behind,

The pain, the arguments, the cigarette puff that formed a skull figure,

You will alas! Be free,

Free from the yin and the yang battles,

Of pain and pleasure,

For freedom is only found when all hope is lost,

And when your minds volume is raised and the whole world is put on mute,

You will hear a voice, quoting a favorite movie of yours,

"We have no great war, no great depression,

Our great war is a spiritual war,

Our great depression is our own lives,"

And your not your job, your not how much money you have in your account, your not your handsome or beautiful face, your the horny harmless tiny little fly stuck in a bee-hive hoping to get laid...

No matter how much you try to buzz your way to sexual pleasures,

It will always sting coz you will never be that bee,

Just like sticking feathers up your ass doesn't make you a chicken!!

I am the Queens boyfriend,

A predator disguised as a house-pet,

And she,

She is a millennium flick, a blockbuster,

She is a swordfish,

She exists in a world beyond our world,

What we only fantasize, she does,

She is a driven unflinching, calculating machine who takes what she wants when she wants and disappears,

She is heartbreak and I am a poet disguised as her cold sweat!!

He said, "we are done!!! Self improvement is masturbation and self destruction is celibacy,

So I'll let you do you, and you let me do me"

She looked at him, straight into his pale,life drained red eyes and replied,

"Wrong my love, you will watch the whole world do me, queuing for a piece of the diamond, for self improvement is realization of inner strength, and power and self destruction is realization you had all that in a mate and you let go, and love, your heart just fell victim to a classic saying, sometimes you have to break the eggs to make an omlette."

With a smirk on his face, he replied,

"listen little miss sunshine, emotion has always made you witty with words,

Evolve, let the chips fall where they may,

And in May, come what May, I may be the redundant statement found in in Oliver Twist's shrill voice,

Extra, Extra, Extra!! Read all about it!!

Front-page!!

Let not your pain lead you to your destruction,

Have you watched the movie Dark Knight?

I'm helping you die young before you live long enough to be the villain,"

"true," she replied, "emotion has always made me witty, as it is my first name, so you fell in love with my first name and not me, for if you did your research, less is my second name,

Emotion-less is this package,

And for once I will do what I should have done a long time ago, live my name, so I leave you to soak in misery of your own doings,I leave you to rot in your own decomposition, let the odour linger longer than my middle finger,

Adios, human cloned from hades sweat,

Yours truly Emotion Less"

I am pain,

A poets inflamed sense of rejection,

The grim ripper's kiss,

I am an emotional retard,

And poetry is boring,

I am a writers bleeding soul,

A character of modern day pornography,

And life is wearing the rubber,

I am a poets last tear,

And a killers masked fear,

I am Akil, son to the sun, formed at the climax of perverted pleasures,

Riddle me this, if she played her cards so well, with a poker-face,

And still won the lottery, then,

I am the darkness before dawn,

The pain before birth,

The struggle before success,

The freedom after love,

I am HEARTBREAK,

Embrace me!!