Somewhere between rebellion and obedience, I’m flying down a highway to an unknown future. With my lord’s name thundering in my heart and bringing my always angry eyes to tears… all the while I’m jamming out to my favorite tune on the radio with my shades on… and this is how I’ll get there… as me… and no one else! Miskwa-Miigwan 50/50
I am a walking contradiction of traditions some say. An African American and Native American Muslim poet with a personal life history as violently turbulent as a Storm. A visionary from the bottom of life’s social barrel striving to share the hope found in the light of faith through sometimes dark but real poetry. I’m a former member of the Bloods street gang, former serial bank robber, and both federal/state prison convict. I live on my mother’s tribal reservation of the Leech Lake band of Ojibwe in Minnesota. View more posts
