Bongo Rhythms: Graffiti Fonts in Verse
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Bongo Rhythms is, especially as it relates to this work, a very multifaceted phrase.
Bongo is a Bantu word used here for its bi-referral meaning:
1. Brain, mind, or intellect
2. A class of drum types evolved from the talking drum
Rhythms refer to the diversity of accentuation, ebb, flow, styles, etc., of thought frequencies in the context of the poems in this anthology.
The Graffiti Fonts are the symbolic plays and displays of plain to sometimes deliberated hyperbole within the poems expected to yield transcended realization and feeling through revisualization, recontextualization, and rereading of the sense in each poem, line, etc.
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Bongo Rhythms - Longwe Simon Mutengu
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Contents
Dedication and Preview
Livication
Foreword
Introduction
1. BEAT UNLOCKER
Afro-Genetic Up-Growth
Wordsmith Rising!
Bongo Drum Verse
Timbuktu Times
Untitled
UNIQUE N’ ANTIQUE-29th July, 2012
Tall Terms
2. NURTURED WAVE~
Sweet Symbiosis
Fruity Loops
Crystal looking glass
Mystery Shores
Black Sister Chill
3. LYRICAL RESONANCE
Gongola chant (In Fact A Song 4 U)
Heartbeat Drumbeat
Grace’s golden ode
EASE UP Mi BIRD
Strangles
4. ACROSTICS
ODE LUNG SIGN
Cold Blood Just-Ice
Black
The Un-Erring Ne’er Wrote o’
5. MODUS COSMOS *(*
Ode to the Freestyle Rose
Interspace Aero Ticker
Inter I Intact
i wrote u Some Tok
BLACK DEN, BACK THEN
6. ROOTSY… PSALMS
Ocean Floor Huts
Different Days
Sweet Roots
Say Vain Heavens
Of Eden and de Big-Bang
7. #PUTTY#
Slingshot Affair
Anatomical Aesthetics
canines
PUSS pal
Deciduous poetree
Rhyme Shout Brother Nuff Respect…
8. ARTRIBUTES
To The Queens (IWD 2011)
Thought Fe She
Royal Souvenirs
Ghetto Girl
Elmina Castle
9. SUCK REED SCROLLS
An Ode 2 di Code
Parley Rite of Passage
REBEL most
GOlD MINE
COERCED!
10. DE VILLAGE GIG!
Welcome Aboard, the
(ZED ZION TRAIN July 18, 2012)
We Did It
intambi Shesu
The TreeZ
Stay Pan Guard, Zion Dawtah!
11. DRUM SKIN JEWELS
Love Angles
GOLDESS DIGGER
Book Girl
Go deep
Ode to EME
12. RUBRIC REPUBLIC
THE STATE
DO I O U O U O I
Barry yo!
cogitating Ukupishamo Pencil!
Sine 90© Decree Weeks
13. EXTRA EXTRACTS
hintro
Let De I
3railer 3riller!
Nuh Brag
Forever/sustain
Prolusion: The Versified Version
Select Glossary
About the Author
Dedication and Preview
To the memory of Dr. Selwyn Davis Poet, Architect and Tae Kwon Do 7th dan black belt master,—literature godfather who shared with me time beyond the horizon shadowed yester year threshold—RIP.
Livication
This book is livicated to my nine siblings; Malucha, Caurrider, Mbalinga, Winja, Pat, Vitanjiwa, Diana, Jonathan and Jacob, and to my wonderful parents, Mr. John Vincent Kasankha Longwe and Mrs. Meya Rodsey Longwe to whose love and support I affirm my firm blessed existence. Thank you all for the wisdom, love and motivation.
And my fountains of levitating love and sweet inspiration to Christine and Akhenaten.
Foreword
In writing his book of verse, Bongo Rhythms, Graffiti Fonts in Verse, Longwe Simon Mutengu excites interest and arouses curiosity. At first reading, and read without context, the verse does not seem to reveal much in the way of logical meaning. But that is as it should be. That is poetry.
The opening sequences of Fruity Loops for instance, humorously describe girls as flowers in order to depict their beauty, then pivots to examine the motives of men towards these beautiful creations, the rest of the poem brings together a selection of attractive sounding fruits with references to girls and plays out in the thought process of a male mind faced with selection of these delicious unique products of nature. The whole piece then comes together in a delightful observation at what perhaps men look for in women. This poem sets the style and reference of Simon’s poetry. As you read the verses in the book, Simon tugs at our minds, shouts, whispers and then suddenly calmly reflective, makes his point felt rather than known.
Longwe’s poetry is intriguing but tantalizingly obscure. His poetry illuminates a searching mind, at once questioning and at once playful. Simon’s verse moves