Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Monday, March 23, 2020
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Fly: Selected Poetry (My Book)
"Steve fly Pratt provokes the reader into a notorious intellectual ghetto, conspiracy theory. His methodology is susceptible to number of pitfalls. It is a daring genre. It is based on risks, like poetry or Bebop."--Christian Greer. The language of poetry requires a careful balance between spontaneous thought and various charging techniques, to pull down thought into alphabet and not stray too far from the laws. These words are shored from contaminated streams of consciousness, and deployed as snapshots. Brief excursions. Good poetry aims to charge language to a higher degree of meaning and i have no lesser aim to, power-up. Selected from writings started in America, Britain and for the most part, the Netherlands. These poems criss-cross between light hearted rhyming slang and exaggerated hyperbolic rap. Glossing everything from brexit to terrorism, facebook to John Coltrane, economics, psychedelics, anarchism, music and death. Sometimes hilarious, often cryptic and always rolling with rhyme, these scrawls bridge a decade or from the unique perspective of DJ, drummer and writer.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1978105096/#
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1978105096/#
Product details: File Size: 252 KB Print Length: 134 pages Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited Publication Date: October 8, 2017 Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC Language: English ASIN: B076BG7V2J www.deepscratch.net www.patreon.com/stevefly |
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Thursday, December 25, 2014
the wars
...a large bloody palm to your nose
oversized traffic sign edged with burgundy
dustbin lid sized pillar box red button
a bayonet with a melted pink marshmallow
buzzing blue electric fence
child crossing
state of the art a.b.s breaking system
woh pull on the reigns bro
concorde air brakes
cease and desist from the company
ten hoover dams
a couch sized door wedge
road block from gauntlet
exclamation mark!
hault your horses
cancel the countdown to launch
abandon ship
end the violence
stop the wars
--steve fly
oversized traffic sign edged with burgundy
dustbin lid sized pillar box red button
a bayonet with a melted pink marshmallow
buzzing blue electric fence
child crossing
state of the art a.b.s breaking system
woh pull on the reigns bro
concorde air brakes
cease and desist from the company
ten hoover dams
a couch sized door wedge
road block from gauntlet
exclamation mark!
hault your horses
cancel the countdown to launch
abandon ship
end the violence
stop the wars
--steve fly
Friday, January 10, 2014
The greatest poem of the 21st Century: Somebody Blew Up America
Amiri Baraka R.I.P
In my estimation, Baraka was the greatest poet of the 21st century, and a he contender for the later half of the 20th.
His poem 'Somebody Blew Up America' stands as a testament to the power of poetry and had a deep effect on me when i first heard it. Then and now, i rate it as the single most informative investigation into the events of 9/11. Full of questions, contradictions, street slang, horror, truth and so a special beauty, the feeling of the unstoppable forces of language, gathered around the poet, Baraka, oozing out into the shared world through his fine tuned poetic being.
What a great American. And somebody i was fortunate to meet once in New York, handing his latest publication to Ravi Coltrane right in front of my eyes. I will cherish this chance encounter for all my days.
--Steve Fly
His poem 'Somebody Blew Up America' stands as a testament to the power of poetry and had a deep effect on me when i first heard it. Then and now, i rate it as the single most informative investigation into the events of 9/11. Full of questions, contradictions, street slang, horror, truth and so a special beauty, the feeling of the unstoppable forces of language, gathered around the poet, Baraka, oozing out into the shared world through his fine tuned poetic being.
What a great American. And somebody i was fortunate to meet once in New York, handing his latest publication to Ravi Coltrane right in front of my eyes. I will cherish this chance encounter for all my days.
--Steve Fly
Friday, December 6, 2013
who do you truss' by Steve Fly
who do you truss'
where
do you get your
information.
who do you share
it with
why so selective
eh?
paranoid
what you thought
what you doodled last night
that book
those songs
what made you do it
who do
you think
that you are
publishing
like that
without our permission
from the law
makers
american beef
men
global intel &
fast food and fast
bullets
mafia or gov.
who to truss'
--Steve Fly
where
do you get your
information.
who do you share
it with
why so selective
eh?
paranoid
what you thought
what you doodled last night
that book
those songs
what made you do it
who do
you think
that you are
publishing
like that
without our permission
from the law
makers
american beef
men
global intel &
fast food and fast
bullets
mafia or gov.
who to truss'
--Steve Fly
Hard Talk with Glenn Greenwald
My opinion, in a nutshell:
Green world
snow'd on
pine trees
ice glaze
stinging tea tree
of truth
hard talk gone
brittle
cracked
to pieces
--Steve Fly
Green world
snow'd on
pine trees
ice glaze
stinging tea tree
of truth
hard talk gone
brittle
cracked
to pieces
--Steve Fly
"Thanks to Edward Snowden's leaking of American intelligence secrets, the whole world now knows the extent of US-UK surveillance of global phone and internet traffic. Have the revelations flagged up a corrosive infringement of individual liberty, or undermined efforts to protect the world from terrorism? HARDtalk speaks to journalist Glenn Greenwald - he broke the Snowden story. His mission, he says, is to hold power to account. Is this a journalistic crusade that has gone too far?
Credits
Interviewed Guest - Glenn Greenwald
Presenter - Stephen Sackur
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mtv5t
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