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    Bongo Rhythms: Graffiti Fonts in Verse
    Bongo Rhythms: Graffiti Fonts in Verse
    Bongo Rhythms: Graffiti Fonts in Verse
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    Bongo Rhythms: Graffiti Fonts in Verse

    By Longwe Simon Mutengu

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    Poetry stands as one of, if not the oldest, forms of all literary art. In Africa, where oral culture is the water and people are the fish, the fish swim these waters in so many ways and in thousands of styles as attested by the rich diversity of African language and dialectic heritage.

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateMar 3, 2014
    ISBN9781481797368
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      Bongo Rhythms - Longwe Simon Mutengu

      AuthorHouse™ UK Ltd.

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403 USA

      www.authorhouse.co.uk

      Phone: 0800.197.4150

      © 2014 by Longwe Simon Mutengu. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 02/27/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-9735-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-9736-8 (e)

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      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

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