Thanks and Ises to the Almighty I of Iration, Jah Rastafari InI Light and Solve-Nation, InI Perfect Isample King Alpha and Queen Omega, King Selassie and Queen Menen~
I have been reading this board and I truelly apprecialove all the positive reasonins! The Spread of the Word of what gwan is so Crucial.
Also even when there is difference of opinion it is still met with love and overstanding, Foward Movement for True. I would like to share with InI some poetry I recently sighted, some of the I's may have already sighted it, but I would like to foward it the same. It is by a poet from New Orleans, that is where InI live, InI was blessed with seeing this poetry from an I inquiring about putting some documentation of HIM Visit to New Orleans on his site http://www.nathanielturner.com/
as on InI site InI have apage Livicated to HIM Visit here.....Check the Site I posted above and scroll down for the Link To Selassie's Visit to NO featuring the story (which was put togather from local circulating papers and newspapers) also pics of HIM Visit and The IlaFull Poetry of which I will include in this Post..........
The Chicken Bone Family site Via the link above is full of Ilafull Writers, Poets and The Bibliography of the Life of Marcus Christian is well worth learning of.

Marcus Christian remembers Selassie I in verse.

Christian expresses what Selassie I meant

to Black People around the world, especially during the turbulent 1930s

The following poems were published in I AM NEW ORLEANS & OTHER POEMS by Marcus B. Christian (1999) edited by Rudolph Lewis and Amin Sharif

DRUMS OF MENELIK

By Marcus Bruce Christian

BEAT UPON THE DRUMS OF MENELIK

And tell black warriors to go out and win.

O Beat upon the drums of Menelik

O beat upon the drums of lion's skin

O let the giant drums be ever quick

In calling blackmen out to fight and win.

Take them to the highest mountain peak

Then let them thunder with a lion's roar

And the two million warriors these words speak:

"THE WHITE INVADER KNOCKS AT YOUR DOOR!"

Send out your war cry o'er each peak and vale

Cry out the story of your country's wrong,

Let every drum reverberate the tale

And in succession carry it along.

Black Drummers, scream defiance to the sky

As did Makonnen in Adowa's day!

O let the giant drums be ever quick

In calling black men out to fight and win.

Throb out, "This is our land and here we die

And thus with life defend it -- come what may!"

Black Drummers, scream defiance to the sky

As did Makonnen in Adowa's day!

SELASSIE AT GENEVA

by Marcus Bruce Christian

They could have stayed the iron hand of might

And fought for right down to the earth's last man,

But louder voices brayed into the night,

So jackals ended what the League began.

Now suave-voiced diplomats done on and on;

Geneva's air is rife with fear and hate,

While at the council-table fights alone

The fallen ruler of a member State.

Pile lies upon wrongs, bring the curtains down

Upon the closing scene of this last act;

The King of Kings now yields his ancient crown

To those who signed the Non-Aggression Pact,

As weaker nations vanish, one by one . . .

Blow, bugles! Armageddon has begun!

AN EX-KING SPEAKS

by Marcus Bruce Christian

Twenty years after the Battle of Verdun

I speak tonight from Verdun

Where the bones of dead horses lie;

Breaking the years of silence,

I give this warning cry.

I speak tonight from Verdun

And the wraiths of the radiant dead

Rise at the call of battle

And gather about my head.

I speak the shadows beckon,

And misery grows apace;

I cry for peace and safety

In terms of the human race.

I speak tonight from Verdun

That terrors of war may cease;

Let there be understanding

Harmony, love, and peace.

I speak . . . the shadows lengthen.

May the years of carnage and pain

Known on the plains of Verdun

May never know man again.

I speak -- an aging soldier --

That carnage and madness and pain

Met on the fields of Verdun

May never know man again.

Only the powers of evil

Will win in the war-to-be;

Chaos and anarchy only

Will taste of that victory.

May 8, 1939