I See You Baby
2 February 2017
Ma’s cradle
Always in the shade
No needle
Neither blade
Only mama’s white Sunshade
Baby everglade
Baby’s lost
Running in graveyard
Mistaken
Green backyard
Hearts and guts are beating low
Lost in dusty flow
Inky glow
Uncovering deep
Maidens sleep
Do they weep
All you see is frightening teeth
Perhaps none beneath
Ma’s paddle
Tells you what to trade
The weasel
Says the grade
All love by which you’ll abade
Losing the parade
The soul’s cost
Trimming in billard
Forsaken
Green orchard
Stunts and brunts are beating brow
Death is costly blow
Pinch me slow
Awakening sleep
Husbands creep
From wells steep
Now they see the edge of heath
My life now bequeath
He crawled out
In tatters from thorns
His head bled
Bloody red
Mama Dove shows blue in me
I See You Baby
Reading of the poem:
City – Jain
Say my name – Jain
Makeba – Jain
Bad Day – Jain
You can Blame Me – Jain
All My Days – Jain
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This poem elicits some emotion from me. I loved the reading. Do you have other readings? I would love to do a Poets Speak of your work
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Thank you Rob. I have a lot of readings of poems but have yet to put them up on that medium (my mind just blanked out on it). Oh yes it just came back to me, soundcloud. Perhaps I should do that in the coming days. I did not read out all of my poems as I have almost 900 poems since 2010 but I made it a point to record starting only a couple of years ago.
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I would love to do a Poets Speak of you! 900 poems holy hell
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Isn’t that funny. Since when did Hell become Holy Rob? I actually counted and I think I have around 893 poems but still working on new ones. I was stalled with so many other things but might have a bit more time on my hands now (or not, you never know really how things work out)
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I can make a playlist right on soundcloud, you don’t have to do anything. Holy hell is a phrase I’ve been saying for years. And remember, Satan was an angel once…just sayin’ lol
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Once an Angel always an Angel. You cannot deny who you are when you know yourself 😉
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Well, what do you think of me using 3 of your poems for my Poets Speak series?
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I like the number three as it reminds me of Trinity. Which poems would you like to choose? I am in the process of perhaps uploading my spoken poetry onto soundcloud
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whichever three you would like. Just post those to soundcloud and give me your soundcloud name (or better yet, follow justruminating and I will find you)
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OK will do that soonest. Thanks for the offer
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A bit dark for me, this one. But I do like Miriam Makeba 🙂
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Thanks Derrick. I just love her style
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