Name: Poetry Revolution
Duration: 2 min
Channel: UniverSouLove
Description: "Poetry Revolution" is a song by UniverSouLove. Get 'em poetry!!!

Poetry Revolution

UniverSouLove

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Get 'em poetry!!!

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UniverSouLove

A universal, conscious, love and peace-minded poet, spoken word artist and performer

UniverSouLove a.k.a. UniverSouL is a poet, spoken word artist, MC, songwriter, and author. UniverSouLove's poetry is fiery, creative, passionate and conscious. He has been sharing his gift for over twenty years now, starting at the age of nine.

Song Info

Genre

Hip-Hop • Spoken Word

Charts

#119,423 today Peak #841

#1,906 in subgenre Peak #15

Author

UniverSouLove

Rights

UniverSouLove

Uploaded

May 20, 2006

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MP3

MP3 2.3 MB • 128 kbps • 2:00

Story behind the song

Amiri Baraka's poem "Black Art" inspired UniverSouLove to write this poem. 

The revolutionary spirit of it and the positive and powerful message moved UniverSouLove to encourage other poets, spoken word artists to bring a revolution through poetry, spoken word.

Lyrics

Poetry that Gives Birth to Revolution

We need powerful empowering poetry
Poetry that promotes positivity
Poetry that encourages people to progress

Poetry that gives birth to revolution

We need poetry
that puts on black berets,
black dashikis, black pants, and black boots
Poetry that rises and raises its fist 
to run after the oppressor to oppose
its rendering racism
Poetry that beats the boys in blue
Poetry that kicks but while we sit back
and say, "Get 'em poetry!!"

Poetry that gives birth to revolution

Black folk need poetry 
that gangsters the grime in the ghetto
Poetry that gathers graceless women,
gutless men, and guiltless children
to guide them back to greatness
Poetry that disintegrates crack
and evaporates alcohol so that we don't
continue to fall into destruction

Poetry that gives birth to revolution

This  world needs poetry
that puts an end to poverty
to starvation
to homelessness
to A.I.D.S.
to dehumanization
to government regulation
to population control
to depletion of Earth's natural resources
to war
to worry
to suffering
to pain
to the Bush regime

Poetry that gives birth to revolution!

(c) Christopher Donshale Sims/UniverSouLove
All rights reserved
(Edited on September 7th, 2005)

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