National Poetry Awards 2nd year....

I had an opportunity to live a dream that birthed other dreams within my soul. I was honored to be allowed to co-host the National Poetry Awards with Michael Guinn (Dallas, TX). Troy Poet Lewis is the visionary behind the NPAs and has given all poet, authors, spoken word artist, and slammers a place to be recognized for all their hard work that they do throughout the year.

For me, there were personal victories, encounters with some amazing people, and an "awakening" within my own spirit...in the next coming weeks I will speak in more detail as to why this weekend was so profound and the continual effects it has on me. The one thing I will say is that I celebrate during a time I would have otherwise cried....August 22 is the anniversary of my grandmother's passing....This year marked the second year she has been gone....I know that she was in great spirits watching me do what it is I am suppose to do. Be poetry. I am so grateful to everyone who made my weekend a celebration rather than a memorial service...

Me and my grandmother both thank you

Peace & Love
~Blu

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Blu Life....the CD

I have been holding on to these tracks for over a year...waiting...for what I am not sure, but I am sure now is the time to release them. There are 8 tracks, symbolic of the new beginning that has occurred with me as of late. These tracks are about my life....they aren't theatrical...I don't use extensive word play....I just speak my words. These are the first tracks I ever recorded....not in a studio, but in a hotel room in a make shift "studio". I hope you enjoy this CD and thank you for your support.....

Go to http://xblurayne.bandcamp.com/ to check it out....thank you again.....

Peace & Love
~Blu

The real baby daddy

See I was doing my baby daddy

When he came to me asking for these goodies

I gave it up gladly

Never would I withhold my threshold

He comes around monthly and I fold

Give me everything I needed seemingly for free

All he wanted to do is have his way with me

In every room of the house the he provided for me and my seeds

Goes in my kitchen

Because he is the reason I can turn on my light switches

Fixes himself a sandwich in which he paid for

Has the key to my front door

Rear ends me until I get sore

And every month I was looking for more

More assistance

Because I thought without him I could not live with

I mean he gives me cash on the 5th

Food on the 18th,

If I left his what would people think?

They would think I was crazy

Housing partially paid for, day care covered

What did it matter that he wanted to get under my covers

Do me monthly like his does others

This nigga was so cold he was doing me and my mother

The crazy thing was when I realized he also does brothers

Becoming their monthly lover

When they don't want to do anything but live with their mother

Gives new meaning when you ask if brothers are under cover

And under my covers he came and we came

And I had come to realize that he had done me so good

That he wrote his name

On the foreheads of my unborn children

Guaranteeing that my seed

Would become his next bedmate

When I saw his name

EBT, Food Stamps, Unemployment, Section 8,

Medicaid, TANF, and Minimum wage

I knew it was time to leave his place

Knew it was time to erase his stains from my sheets

No longer did he have right to touch me

No longer would he be able to do me

Over

Have me bending over

Lying on my applications

About my current situations

No more fear here of getting better and losing him

Cause I rather have an honest struggle

Than a lie free and clear

I am grateful for the times he helped me when I had no dreams

Times he appealed to my needs and seemingly got me everything

Now I know that until I become everything to me

With all the things he can get me I still have nothing

And I am done with having nothing to show

Cause I won't grow

And I'm done tripping

Off chicks that are messing him too

Cause just as he has treated me

He will treat you 

So you can have him

With better I will make due

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My One Sheet

Today is your day

How did you wake this morning? Did you wake up with hope for a beautiful day or dread? You determine the flow of the day by what you think and what you say to yourself in the mirror. Speak life, love, and happiness to your spirit every morning.... remember that today is your day......make it how you see it to be....make it the best day you ever had...don't worry about tomorrow or be concerned over yesterday....look to today...smile....hug yourself....you are just that amazing....:-)

Peace & Love
~Blu