Post by Hidden Poetress on Aug 1, 2008 2:34:19 GMT -5
The Nomadic Scroll
[/size][/b][/center]Volume XI~ August 1, 2008
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Greetings From the Administration
Peace Poets,
August is here! Welcome to ALL our newest members, Da Dead Poetess KBlaze Kiibaati and Orchid! Glad You All found your way to the Oasis! July was a HOTTT One, literally as well as literature-ly... Hope you all continue to blaze the sands. Our Thoughts and Prayers go out to Daswanja while she goes back on another tour in Iraq... Be safe and come home soon. Socrates Circle has been re categorized for you all to express your thoughts, so feel free... Congratulations is in order as BabyGirl is our newest Poet of the Month! It is a well deserved Honor! Well next month is our 1 Year Anniversary!!!
So look out for some new things from US! Thank You ALL For Making The Oasis just that... See You in The Sand Fam. 
August is here! Welcome to ALL our newest members, Da Dead Poetess KBlaze Kiibaati and Orchid! Glad You All found your way to the Oasis! July was a HOTTT One, literally as well as literature-ly... Hope you all continue to blaze the sands. Our Thoughts and Prayers go out to Daswanja while she goes back on another tour in Iraq... Be safe and come home soon. Socrates Circle has been re categorized for you all to express your thoughts, so feel free... Congratulations is in order as BabyGirl is our newest Poet of the Month! It is a well deserved Honor! Well next month is our 1 Year Anniversary!!!
So look out for some new things from US! Thank You ALL For Making The Oasis just that... See You in The Sand Fam. Peace and Blessings,
Hidden Poetress & WlkWlk3 (Administrators)
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[/size]Nomadic Poet of the Month
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Click BabyGirl's image to find out 'Why She Writes'!
[/size][/u][/center]Congratulations BabyGirl! Keep blessing us with your talents!
[/size][/center]Below is BabyGirl's favorite original poem. Enjoy Fam...
Reaching the (un)attainable
You're elusive, but obtrusive
creeping into the crevices
of my conscience
drowning me in
a pool of thoughts
constantly reminding me
you've slipped from my grasp
Yet...
I continue to stretch
beyond the stars
into heaven
to retrieve you
desperately longing for
familiarity of your caresses
security within embraces
sweet vibrations from echos
of your name touching my soul
persuading me
not to give up the fight for
LOVE
[/b][/font][/size][/color]creeping into the crevices
of my conscience
drowning me in
a pool of thoughts
constantly reminding me
you've slipped from my grasp
Yet...
I continue to stretch
beyond the stars
into heaven
to retrieve you
desperately longing for
familiarity of your caresses
security within embraces
sweet vibrations from echos
of your name touching my soul
persuading me
not to give up the fight for
LOVE
Hidden Poetress's Scribe of the Month:
[/font][/center][/u]Scribed by: Sexibrownskin
What Was I Saying?
[/size]Smooth plushness
cover the seats of my cerebellum
a pleasureful rest
like sitting on sex
tracks that lie peacefully
on a meandering membrane
coiling around the cortex
it always runs on schedule
keeping in time with the mind
they whisper secrets of synchronization
as the trip begins
daily
the usual route?
maybe
but detours are not uncommon
change in direction is typical
who knows…
frontal…parietal
perhaps the occipital
…but crusin constantly
as usual
all aboard
non-stop
ticket prices
equating to priceless
but lifeless
breathless
blood curdling screams
and ironic violent collision with the mounted support beams
brought a screeching halt
to my once effervescent conduction
and my train of thought was lost
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Congratulations to the Hungriest Lions in The Den!
1. DaSwanja 1-0
2. Spirit 8-8
3. Ol' Skool 5-5
4. WLK3 8-11
5. R.E.T.S. 2-4
1. DaSwanja 1-0
2. Spirit 8-8
3. Ol' Skool 5-5
4. WLK3 8-11
5. R.E.T.S. 2-4
Congratulations to Our Four-Play Champions!
1. Jerrico (Challenge 15: Lost)
2. DaBlackWidow (Challenge 16: Men)
[/font][/size]1. Jerrico (Challenge 15: Lost)
2. DaBlackWidow (Challenge 16: Men)
We had some prolific pen pushing last month fam! Let's keep it blazing!!
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[/size][/b][/center]The FreeStyle Cypher
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Have you been in FreeStyle? Have you been to FreeStyle lately? If not you are missing some hot freestyles from Lotus Lion, Orchid, Echo, and of course ..)v(.. So come check them out and many others, and maybe drop 1 of your own! Check Check 1-2, 1-2!!!
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Straight From the Headlines!!!
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CHICAGO - The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for "regretfully crude" comments he made about Barack Obama's speeches in black churches, during what he thought was a private conversation.
Fox News broadcast Jackson’s remarks on "The O’Reilly Factor" Wednesday night. Jackson, speaking to Reid Tuckson, an executive vice president at United Health Group, as both men were about to be interviewed on "Fox & Friends" on Sunday, criticized Obama and said, "I wanna cut his n--- off."
"He's talking down to black people," Jackson told Tuckson.
Hours before Fox aired Jackson's comments, Jackson told CNN they were in response to a question from a Fox News reporter about speeches on morality by Obama. He said Obama’s speeches “can come off as speaking down to black people” and that there were other important issues to be addressed in the black community, such as unemployment, the mortgage crisis and the number of blacks in prison.
“And then I said something I thought regretfully crude but it was very private and very much a sound bite and a live mic,” Jackson told CNN. He said he was not aware the microphone was still on.
Jackson told The Associated Press he didn't remember “exactly” what he said but that he was “very sorry.”
“For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize,” Jackson said in a written statement. “My support for Senator Obama’s campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal.”
Jackson said he called Obama’s campaign to apologize.
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton noted that the Illinois senator grew up without his father and has spoken and written at length about the issues of parental responsibility and fathers participating in their children’s lives, and of society’s obligation to provide “jobs, justice and opportunity for all.
“He will continue to speak out about our responsibilities to ourselves and each other, and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson’s apology,” Burton said.
Jackson criticized by his son
Though Jackson is supporting Obama, the two are not close.
Jackson even took heat from his own son, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., for writing a column last year questioning the commitment of Obama and other Democratic presidential candidates to the needs of black voters. Jackson Jr. wrote a response in The Chicago Sun-Times with the headline, "You're wrong on Obama, Dad."
He has also released his own statement regarding the elder Jackson's comments on Sunday.
"I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Rev. Jackson's reckless statements about Sen. Barack Obama," said the younger Jackson.
His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee — and I believe the next president of the United States — contradict his inspiring and courageous career."
What are your thoughts? Speak on it in Straight From The Headlines located in the Oasis Lounge.
Feedback & Questions
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Peace and Blessings,
Hidden Poetress~ (Administrator)
WlkWlk3~ (Administrator)
Babygirl~ (Global Moderator)
Ol' Skool~ (Global Moderator)
Poetic Rebellion~ (Global Moderator)
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