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Olu

About Me

I was born in the shadow of my mother's smile/ Raised under the watchful eye of my father, while/ I grew up trying to make sense out of things/ But I couldn't believe my eyes, -couldn't do the "senses" thing/ So I stepped out on faith and laid my foundation/ -Tried to face the world without a trace of frustration/ But I had been scarred by the times that I couldn't see the light/ I would have no direction if I stayed, So I left, to write.
[Marital Status]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/11/2005
Band Website: http://www.olumination.blogspot.com
Band Members: Olu Burrell aka Tony Stanza aka Brotha II tha Nite aka Richard Write
Influences: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Tupac Shakur, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Sarah Jones, Saul Williams.Also Maxwell, Lauryn Hill, Little Brother, Damien Rice, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, John Mayer, Sade, Luther Vandross, Donny Hathaway, Robin Thicke, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Raphael Saadiq, D'Angelo, Stevie Wonder.
Sounds Like: -Imagine Calloway and Wonder; Coltrane and Monk/ -Imagine Me'Shell and Maxwell D'Angelo; Van Hunt/ -Imagine if Gaye and Hathaway -and Davis were in/ -Then imagine instead of music, They took up the pen...
Record Label: Spoken IV Productions

My Blog

Sketches of (s)Pain

i've been trying to make sense out of senseless thingsunsuccessfullyive been keeping my hands in my pockets;-ignoring those outstretched to metrying to see past tidals waving in their wakei'm asleepde...
Posted by on Wed, 02 May 2007 14:10:00 GMT

Direction

There's that feeling of dread again -bottled up, yearning to be free Beneath a visage that's deadpan It's "worry" that's got beachfront property On the shores of fear It's a circle that's burdened by ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:12:00 GMT

Yesterday...

I long for the days when love, in its adolescence, allowed one to "crush" without breaking...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:16:00 GMT

Sob Story...

I feel more tethered than talented, honestly.  Fear sometimes engulfs me- to the point that Drowning in sorrow is impossible For at times it becomes the very air I breathe So I guess you could sa...
Posted by on Thu, 11 May 2006 10:02:00 GMT

Rorschach

There's a breath of foul air that greets me as I say goodbye to the one who has many times acted in reality out of the scope or frame of seconds, minutes, hours or other measurements by which I am fai...
Posted by on Thu, 11 May 2006 07:26:00 GMT

Woe

she used to renew me now she leaves me here feeling callous completely empty. -Woe
Posted by on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:51:00 GMT

Bittersweet Taboo

In this instance, it's silence which serves as the sound of regret; better it than breathing life into words which one may never forget... It pains me to feel this way.  It's quite unsettling, ac...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:48:00 GMT

Stranger(s) things have happened...

As I step aboard the metro train at Rhode Island Avenue Station, I observe people milling about engaged in their respective anti-social cocoons.  Upon entering and finding myself without a place ...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:31:00 GMT

Molting

there's something within me that is begging to come out- its clawing, scratching and building within me. i dont know if i am ignoring it out of fear or out of knowledge. maybe i know what it could ...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:52:00 GMT

Profundity: 1st attempt

What more is love, then? Than an audition for a place in the heart Where life competes for the starring role  -But more often than not, the die is cast...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:02:00 GMT