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Sathya McClain
Dawud
Dulce
Chocolate Lady
Jillian Burgie
Dr. Joseph Uphoff
"love is a verb that can be expressed in our dreams, desires, friends, and relationships; from our hearts and minds we express our love and passion for the spoken word on an open mic"
Sathya McClain has been performing on stage since age eleven. She participated in many concerts as a soloist, in ensembles, and with several choirs. She toured Japan with CSCC (Colorado Springs Community College) and sang with choirs from Japan, Russia and Czechoslovakia.
Sathya has done theatre both alone and with a cast. She was in CIVA's productions of 1940's Radio Hour, California Suite, and a one-person show she wrote about a young girl's unsettled emotional conflict with her father.
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The State of the Nation
Countless children in too many shelters are shedding silent tears
Masses entangled in mindless consumptions, while some people are being consumed
In the atmosphere grey stacks are emitting poisonous fumes
Our young are being born with sickness, we can’t even pronounce
Pharmaceuticals measure their profits by the ounce
Bridges falling down in the milieu of ten thousand lakes
And politicians sliver along on their bellies like snakes
The elderly sit alone boarded up in heat
Choosing between their medicine and food to eat
Schools are closed even when they are open
Real learning has stopped, education is only a token
Prison walls are bursting loose at the seams
Now tell me from this narrative: What do you glean?
It is the state of the nation, I say
Yes it is the state of the good old US of A
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Dulce
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Dawn aka the chocolate lady
Are we raising a nation of tramps and whores
Sending our daughters to the streets in scores
Dressing them cheaply, in immodest apparel
Bidding their innocence a fond farewell
Little girls dressing as if there's no one to care
Loose morals are seen in the clothes that they wear
Mothers approving and Fathers condoning
Teachers molesting
Hypocrites disowning
Look in the mirror before you walk out the door!
Are your parents aware their Angel's viewed as a whore
Or are we now our daughter's madams and pimps
Selling our babies to the high paying tricks
Are we raising a nation of psychotic thugs
Gang bangers, drug dealers and users of drugs
Part-time fathers yet full-time bums
Not giving their children the smallest of crumbs
Are you just a male or are you a Real Man
Male simply cuz of what hangs in your pants
Male simply cuz you urinate standing
Male simply cuz your kids whom you're stranding
Where are the men to teach our boys to be men
Our boys are left clueless with a need to pretend
Have we become so immoral and debased
Our actions make reality something not faced
Are we raising a nation of conscienceless killers
Psychopaths, Sociopaths, Sadistic thrill-seekers
Fools shooting up schools and blowing up buildings
Reporters making them famous
Is this the message we're sending
What happened to 'One Nation Under God'
What happened to 'In God We Trust'
What happened to the morals of our forefathers
What happened to doing right as a must
Instead of ski jackets we opt for kevlar and guns
Instead of values and ethics we give weapons to our sons
Instead of protecting, we defile our young
We have FAILED to raise a nation, yet we think we've won
Copyright © 2007 Dawn Daugherty All Rights Reserved
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Jillian Burgie
Sometimes I Dream of Dying
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Dr. Joseph Uphoff
The process of buying the book, reading the book, keeping it and reading it again
Is a means by which the mind can refresh the memory otherwise
Growing dim and , perhaps inexact
Just as one dancer can replace another dancer in a role
A memory can be transformed by the subtle twist of reiterated choreography
When a photograph is taken and a perspective is achieved
Balances on the edge of assumptions from the point of recognition
A kind of potential energy has been induced with regard to the emotional matrix of the society
A repetition of the subject by the various means of praise will create a degree of interest
That can be integrated with the respect to an empirical turning outward which is exploratory
But wariness is appropriate to distinguish between abstract retention and considerate inclusion
Copyright © 2003 Dr. Joseph Uphoff All Rights Reserved
