I was listening to some old school R&B and wrote this just now
Listening to old school
slow jams
Slowly transports me back
when melodies were sang to subliminally woo the panties off the ladies
when love pumped through the speakers, making you sway back and forth and wanna grab the one you loved
Even if it wasn't the one you loved, it was the one you loved for that moment
When the familiar song plays and grabs attention like an elephant in the room. It starts to play
everyone throws up their hands yelling,"Heyyyyy!"
Music has a way of bringing everyone together like that
Freddie, Luther, Aretha, Anita
Responsible for baby booms, which were never recorded in history books
Old school R&B responsible for the joys of undersexed, over worked wives cleaning their homes forgetting for a moment that they are unwanted.
Old school, classics, works of artistic love wind, flowing through the air of the love starved and optimism ears of people
R&B never really gets old
Monday, April 21, 2014
Social responsibility
MY THOUGHTS ON ART, ARTISTS, AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Art is subjective, it can be interpreted differently from person to person. There are no rules, guidelines, or format to how an artist chooses to express him/her selves or methods used in doing so.
Social responsibility is an ethical theory that an entity, be it an organization or individual has an obligation to act to benefit society at large.
Every expression of art CANNOT BE POSITIVE. Being that most of the time an artists draws from His/her own experiences or knowledge of. This world is not a pretty place and negative things do happen.
To say an artists has to censor his/her methods of express because of negative content will be contamination to the art form in which that person uses. It will not be his/her truth.
So, if someone curses in a poem, shows nudity in a drawing, or show war like devastation in a photograph, it is still ART even in a negative light.
So I said all that to say this it is NOT the responsibility of the artists to sugarcoat things as such to where his/her art form is not true to the person creating it.
No I do not believe in censorship, I do believe in the power for people to determine for themselves what is or isn't right for them. What is right or isn't right for their children and families.
instead of censoring stuff...monitor what you kids intake through their gate ways(eyes, ears,nose, mouth) teach them, what is real and what isn't. Fact from fantasy. Allow stuff which is age appropriate at the right stages of their lives.
Allowing your child to only view positive things is only doing them a disservice and functioning in life as they find out the evils of the world too late will only do more harm than good.
So do I think artists should be made to be responsible their reception of the art they see...my answer is, "No"
Art is subjective, it can be interpreted differently from person to person. There are no rules, guidelines, or format to how an artist chooses to express him/her selves or methods used in doing so.
Social responsibility is an ethical theory that an entity, be it an organization or individual has an obligation to act to benefit society at large.
Every expression of art CANNOT BE POSITIVE. Being that most of the time an artists draws from His/her own experiences or knowledge of. This world is not a pretty place and negative things do happen.
To say an artists has to censor his/her methods of express because of negative content will be contamination to the art form in which that person uses. It will not be his/her truth.
So, if someone curses in a poem, shows nudity in a drawing, or show war like devastation in a photograph, it is still ART even in a negative light.
So I said all that to say this it is NOT the responsibility of the artists to sugarcoat things as such to where his/her art form is not true to the person creating it.
No I do not believe in censorship, I do believe in the power for people to determine for themselves what is or isn't right for them. What is right or isn't right for their children and families.
instead of censoring stuff...monitor what you kids intake through their gate ways(eyes, ears,nose, mouth) teach them, what is real and what isn't. Fact from fantasy. Allow stuff which is age appropriate at the right stages of their lives.
Allowing your child to only view positive things is only doing them a disservice and functioning in life as they find out the evils of the world too late will only do more harm than good.
So do I think artists should be made to be responsible their reception of the art they see...my answer is, "No"
thoughts
My soul is attached to his smile, which warms my heart. Significant thoughts. - Written By Luchetta (Cookee) Manus 2014
Poem title: Forbidden Written by: Luchetta (Cookee) Manus © 2014
I willingly allow him to imprison my body
His aura taunts me
All my thoughts
are enslaved
held captive by him
Me not wanting that man
Next to slim
My heart doesn't care
its wrong
My mind wants to do right
His hands on my body
Wins the fight
These four walls are
Forbidden to speak
what is done
Above the sheets
A vow of silence
Rendezvous and
times spent
Drastic measures
taken to create
Exotic pleasures
Lust, sweating
Bodies getting wet and
Precipitation
Calling for rain
In the forcast
Our love making drains me
Only behind closed doors
Can he yell my name
pain
"I never loved you, and I never wanted you." He said it once, but I heard it over and over and over again. The anger in his face made tears form in my eyes flooding like dams breaking, crushing my soul into fragments, too small to ever be whole again
Once words leave lips and travel to the ears, its no turning back. In my head I envisioned all the times I told him I loved him and meant it from my heart. All the times I pledged myself to his many causes thinking I proved my love and loyalty to him time, and time again.
Then I held my head to the sky as if to plea to my creator for relief of the pain I felt in my chest, I was almost sure it would kill me. "Lord, I just wanna die this is too much."
I thought about how I fought to keep him with me. How I pleaded for his attention, and constantly craved his affection which with everyday passing became less and less.
Then the realization came to me that...
He was right! He never loved me and he didn't want me.I was just to blinded by my own desires for him.
That day a little more of what made me Luchetta died. I never was the same.
Written by: Luchetta (Cookee)Manus
© 2013
Once words leave lips and travel to the ears, its no turning back. In my head I envisioned all the times I told him I loved him and meant it from my heart. All the times I pledged myself to his many causes thinking I proved my love and loyalty to him time, and time again.
Then I held my head to the sky as if to plea to my creator for relief of the pain I felt in my chest, I was almost sure it would kill me. "Lord, I just wanna die this is too much."
I thought about how I fought to keep him with me. How I pleaded for his attention, and constantly craved his affection which with everyday passing became less and less.
Then the realization came to me that...
He was right! He never loved me and he didn't want me.I was just to blinded by my own desires for him.
That day a little more of what made me Luchetta died. I never was the same.
Written by: Luchetta (Cookee)Manus
© 2013
Sunday, February 16, 2014
The Human Condition It is Easy to Call a Poor Man Lazy Written by: Luchetta (Cookee) Manus © 2014
I could never be judgmental of other people. I can say that coming from my own life experiences of people judging me, by what they think they see, not by the full picture, my story. Pastor Darren T. Peoples would have this saying, “I may have done what they say I did, but I am not who they say I am.” This saying has always been powerful to me. Sometimes being human in this world we neglect the spiritual and completely operate in the physical.
When you label people by observation sometimes this could be deceiving. This comes about when using the physical eyes to see things and place a label on it saying, “This is so.” While labeling maybe useful, we need to be very careful how we place labels on people. My favorite example to use is how scientist labels animals in the animal kingdom. Scientist label animals using several categories.
Kingdom
Pylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
They do so to eliminate confusion. When they see an animal that may appear to have similarities with another animal, they will know by digging deeper that although they look similar, they are not the same and are made up of different properties. This goes beyond what appears on the surface. Taking a look at a Koala Bear, Koalas are usually called, “Koala Bears.” At some point in time they received that label because they had some similarities to a bear, however they are not bears, and not even closely related to bears. They share some of the same class levels until they branch off into different areas that make them different. We are not scientists, but need to dig deeper to gain an understanding of one another as human beings. If we can give much thought to breaking an animal down so that you can see each animals’ individualities, why can’t we do the same for people? Why can’t we put that much energy in walking in another person’s shoes? Why don’t we try to figure out the whys? Maybe, because it is much easier to label and mislabel people than to get to know then and find out whom they really are.
Every poor person isn’t lazy and don’t want to work.
Everyone who has AIDS wasn’t being loose with their sex life
Not everyone who has cancer has it because they have smoked
Not everyone who has bad things happen to them done something to deserve it
We are so prone to be judgmental that we fail to see people as complete beings; Body, mind, and spirit. We are all connected. There isn’t a way we can escape sharing this Earthly space together and time with others. We should have the understanding that there is more to be seen than what is seen with the eyes. Everyone is deserving of a deeper look. We must get past mislabeling people. We must be patient and loving, because everyone struggles with something. No one is without fault. No one is flawless. Instead of tearing down each other, we should be building each other up., understanding our human conditions.
When you label people by observation sometimes this could be deceiving. This comes about when using the physical eyes to see things and place a label on it saying, “This is so.” While labeling maybe useful, we need to be very careful how we place labels on people. My favorite example to use is how scientist labels animals in the animal kingdom. Scientist label animals using several categories.
Kingdom
Pylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
They do so to eliminate confusion. When they see an animal that may appear to have similarities with another animal, they will know by digging deeper that although they look similar, they are not the same and are made up of different properties. This goes beyond what appears on the surface. Taking a look at a Koala Bear, Koalas are usually called, “Koala Bears.” At some point in time they received that label because they had some similarities to a bear, however they are not bears, and not even closely related to bears. They share some of the same class levels until they branch off into different areas that make them different. We are not scientists, but need to dig deeper to gain an understanding of one another as human beings. If we can give much thought to breaking an animal down so that you can see each animals’ individualities, why can’t we do the same for people? Why can’t we put that much energy in walking in another person’s shoes? Why don’t we try to figure out the whys? Maybe, because it is much easier to label and mislabel people than to get to know then and find out whom they really are.
Every poor person isn’t lazy and don’t want to work.
Everyone who has AIDS wasn’t being loose with their sex life
Not everyone who has cancer has it because they have smoked
Not everyone who has bad things happen to them done something to deserve it
We are so prone to be judgmental that we fail to see people as complete beings; Body, mind, and spirit. We are all connected. There isn’t a way we can escape sharing this Earthly space together and time with others. We should have the understanding that there is more to be seen than what is seen with the eyes. Everyone is deserving of a deeper look. We must get past mislabeling people. We must be patient and loving, because everyone struggles with something. No one is without fault. No one is flawless. Instead of tearing down each other, we should be building each other up., understanding our human conditions.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
CHANGE
"Change is what is left over after what is spent." - Luchetta (Cookee) Manus © 2013
This. Is one of my sayings and it means when you have exhausted yourself purchasing things. In life (exhausting yourself physically and emotionally going through things in life, which you learn lessons from)
All that is left is for you to Change!
Of repeat the same things not learning from them
So mu quote,"Change is what is left over after what is spent."
This. Is one of my sayings and it means when you have exhausted yourself purchasing things. In life (exhausting yourself physically and emotionally going through things in life, which you learn lessons from)
All that is left is for you to Change!
Of repeat the same things not learning from them
So mu quote,"Change is what is left over after what is spent."
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