Next Man Up, Poetry in Motion

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Donavan LeDean 0:14
go. Here we go. Move it. Move it. Move it.

Donavan LeDean 0:22
Yeah. Next man up, damn, let's

Donavan LeDean 0:41
go. Hello World, peace and love and welcome to the show. I am your host, Donna Billy, Dave actor, author and inspirational rhythmic poet, you're now tuned in to next minute poetry in motion, where the mission is to promote good mental health for everyone. This poetry show will motivate, educate and inspire you with spoken word through cultural expression. This music poetry show has been brought to you by as je productions, as je productions.com for all your filming and photography needs, you can find a s je productions on Instagram, or you can call Stuart, J, l, Z, at 810-336-3926, that's 810-336-3926. The poets that'll be featured on our playlist today are Akua, lovelyn, Jonathan rice, Tariq Moore, Donovan, Lady Liz Prince, Gabby Moreno, Stefan Pettway, Michelle Marrero, Zachary, Gutierrez and Sheldon, Alex Sebastian. Now let's get on with the show. This is X Men up, poetry in motion. You

Donavan LeDean 2:09
no demands. Keep doing the best you can. We need a leader. You with vision. You're paramount to move the world impact the next generation of a young boy and a girl, terror is on a rise. Punish headlines throughout the land. We're in despair. Yet I want a peace mission, lending a helping hand on my nose and territory accompanied by corruption, life, peace, joy, taking at once, the great abduction I'm taking on a fight. Follow my lead and you lead the way. Boost humanity is on us for a brighter day. Thrive. Thrive.

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All right?

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Drive from other body

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land, keep doing the best you can.

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Never faced

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by no demands.

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Keep doing The best you can drive. Dave You

Donavan LeDean 4:17
next man up, black love,

Speaker 2 4:20
the kind of love that starts off by aching because we're terrified, terrified of showing our soul, laying down masks, having our triggers exposed. What kind of father did I have? So how do I see black men? What kind of mother did you have? So how do you see black women? Black love is under siege. It's being attacked, and sometimes it implodes from the inside out, because instead of holding each other up, we tear each other down. But what if? What if there was another way, a scarier one, but one that almost guarantees success, one that demands. Hands that we see each other, look right into our soul and breathe, cry, scream.

Speaker 3 5:07
But then what follows is peace, a love

Speaker 2 5:11
so strong it runs through generations and cultures, between Africans, African Americans and Caribbeans, between men and women that we're told they should hate each other. What happens on the other side of the conversation? It doesn't deny the truth. It doesn't deny the betrayal. It acknowledges it sits and stands in it, but then lets it go, moves on to a better tomorrow, starting with a possible today. Black love, the kind of love they said we could never have, brothers and sisters, not from another mother, but from the same father, the one above black love, the one that builds communities, Black Wall Streets like the ones we saw burned down, true love, like a man and a woman holding hands through trauma, healing together, walking the path that's narrow so that our children have a broader path reinvented love, the one that doesn't follow rules but follows values and standards, uplifts women and honors them, sees the Queen and treats her like one so she can hold up her king, let him come home to a safe space where she can hold his soul, cover his heart, and be the one to protect him. For once, do you believe in black love, the one that teaches our children how to love their hair, their foreheads and their noses, how to love their skin unapologetically, how to sing our songs and dance our dances and hold our traditions, at least the ones that serve us, the ones that remind us where we're from, the continent that holds the imprints of our identity. I believe in black love. So I'm waiting, waiting for my king to find me to recognize his queen amidst all the other women that claim they desire him, but I'm the only one who truly sees him. That's my kind of love. Black love.

Unknown Speaker 7:19
Black love.

Donavan LeDean 7:21
Next man up, Dave.

Speaker 4 7:24
The end. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I really need you all to gather around real quick, because I have some thoughts I want to share with you. I need you all to listen to my internal thoughts as I envision intertwine and define into my loss of innocence. I'm energized though I'm engaged and I'm in focus. I've engineered these thoughts and these injustices in motion inch closer and closer to raw emotions. I'm tapping in, in roasting, uploading. I'm interchanging this game, though I'm not playing. I'm checking the membrane. I think it's insane. Interject. I flex and stretch my arm strong, interwoven, in vogue. I'm in motion, interlock. I cannot stop. I'm nearly finished trying to break in, but I gotta pick the locks, but I'm losing strength, so I need some raindrops to put out this fire institutionalization, the individuals of indivisibles that are captured in the digital matrix and styles and codes written in pixels with permanent ink pencils. Unfortunately, this is incidental. These thoughts are incidental, and they remain instrumental, upsetting the direction of your life, because the redirection of life is inconsequential.

Donavan LeDean 8:54
Next man up.

Speaker 5 8:56
She stands alone. She stands behind a cast iron wall, drowning in self surrender, the loud quarreling from afar consumes her home and then vanishes like the wind.

Unknown Speaker 9:15
She anchors for another touch, but all the lights are out and

Speaker 5 9:23
there's no one home. She is lost. Find her now. Take that battle from her mouth. She has no friends. When will this end? And the family? Well, that's oblivion. She's crashing hard. Until the very end, she stands alone and she's no one's home, no one can hear her squeeze. Is she enough to save her life? She. Fights for living to be alive, but when she waits, she's torn into a pieces 1000 times

Unknown Speaker 10:10
this place dark for now, but it has to be better than where she came from.

Speaker 5 10:18
For the first time, she is taking in her own breath. She stands alone.

Donavan LeDean 10:30
Here we go. Here we go. Next man up,

Speaker 6 10:33
co existing in many realms of thought, a walk in prayer, meditation. I can't evade frequencies I can't explain speak to me in wisdom. Name I've been on that resonance before. They coined it. Schumann's Babylon. Can't control me. I broke out the show like I was Truman the human programmed analytics can't measure the spirit, thus they can't fully study us. At this point, it's apparent, know thyself, mental, physical and etheric lyrics. Tap into your central node, to the soul. You can feel it. Sit in the sun, download codes. I can hear them. There's a natural mystic flowing on Mother Nature's via rhythm. Get on beat. Connect with every single living organism like ancestors before these evil ways of the system walking the less traveled road I and I have seen many visions, many nights, sitting still, yet still I listen. Guidance enters a vessel with pure precision, a choice to make daily. Why do we wrestle right decisions, hustling with the test illusions, carrying us away from the way we already know what's best. Come back home, beloved, you no longer have to beat an eagle's chest. Perch inside like an eagle in its nest. Followers Cliff dive into the next trend since Are you always been taking heed to the riddles the elders were testing. Now I'm years ahead with good investments. Just bump my head a little less than nonetheless, an imperfect perfection, a walk in prayer, avid meditator rounds a dark between each I'm a mediator, a metaphor of sorts, seeing obstacles as sport I must master Slow and steady wins the race. I learned that in the beginning chapters of a book without middle or end, life goes on again and again. I write on and on, with my mind as my ink and my soul as my pen.

Donavan LeDean 12:52
Next man up.

Speaker 7 12:54
Motive on positive, mindset on pro long soul is on elevate. Sadness is so long as to say long gone. Hope it won't come back where I'm headed now I need a back pay pass this uncertainty of faith is so high without a parachute, but beyond Earth sky into the wilderness, onward and beyond. I hope you remember me because I'm so gone

Speaker 5 13:21
in the absence of the sun, I dream of hope, but my eyes tell stories of a wounded heart. Throughout my trials and tribulations, I have sought a better way to understand myself, to wrap my mind around this life and make it mine. I am in search of serenity gentle touch, but these karmic entanglements keep me chasing the darkness that lives within combat comes with the price tag, and I must give in to complete the mission. In the end, I win again, because nothing can hold me down. I am here with reason and purpose to encapsulate and translate the multi dimensional arrays of the human experience, the light will shine through Me guide my way back home.

Donavan LeDean 14:20
Next man up.

Donavan LeDean 14:26
Latre, I'm just trying to connect with you through storytelling. Don't stand by. Let's go. Damn

Unknown Speaker 14:40
Yes. Winner, right here be this fire.

Donavan LeDean 14:49
It's that you mil to change the routine that suits me. It's fundamental, but that's the routine that cultivates the cultivating the mind, the spirit of a path of damnation. It behooves me to. Walk the same path that leads to salvation, or maybe, maybe it's the corridor through today I'd rather take that chance than yield and lay. See if I lay death is one with thee. Each tip I take on up the slope may cleanse this disease until I walk, I'm rewarded with a cool breeze, rewarded me for taking a chance, a chance to be free. Up the hill I walk, it becomes true and psychological. Observing the colorful galaxies and Dallas and the dusky skies becomes philosophical. Up the hill I walk, the Galaxy brush, the morning blue the sun rise. See as it rises, the gate of the heavens opens. Are slowly revived. Up the hill I walk, the sun rises with warming grace. It becomes uplifting, a force that captures me with such grace. On top of the hill I now stand, I encounter the Almighty. He gives a few words that's encouraging. Will prepare me for all that might be. He introduced me to his soldiers, soldiers of the heavens as the army with the knowledge and power the equipment that mends on top of the hill, I am now strong, playful, agile at his best. Ready to take a little juggernaut downhill for a promise of tomorrow I shall not lay no rest. Yeah, that's it, right there, right back. Thank you for tuning in to next man up poetry motion. I am your host, Donovan Lee, Dave, before we dive into our second segment, I would like to propel you with the first power message. It's a message about courage. Stand 10 toes in on what you believe to achieve a favorable outcome that can strengthen support or save a life. Never allow others to stand in the way of what is true and what is right out of fear of what they may think say or do unto you, fear no evil, for honor and for righteousness. Here we go. Here we go. Next. Man up,

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yeah, let me chime in on this one right here. Man, the people mission, don't talk about

Donavan LeDean 17:02
it. Damn. Government's on, shut down. I gotta find new houses for right now. No building shakes, no support base center inflation is minimum wage. Hope I'm at Lenin. Don't force the bank to turn me down from a low to time to kind of profile, to get many resting for committing no crimes. More robbers on top, more problems. I don't know one. Solo missions trying to solve the Ritz dude can barely pay the cardinal on light bill. Stressed out. Y'all stand tall with my head high. I refuse to kneel on welfare, on food stamps, but food prices are sky high. In two weeks though, food stamps won't be enough to get by. Workers leave a job. Cause he own strike. Cause the pay is low. Inflation spikes got suicide, got benediction, got more debt with no remission, more problems the top more problems. Give it to us a human issue. I'm trying to solve more problems. It's a human issue. I'm trying to solve them. You

Donavan LeDean 18:09
next man up

Speaker 7 18:11
the parachute release, I returned to the land below with something new to give, but nothing new to see. It feels swell to return sturdy land in two feet, but it doesn't feel fine. What is wrong with me? I guess I'd rather spend time up high with the clouds in the sky than among the rest of us, where I'm from, which I came, where I went, where I've been, how it feels like better off? Is it wrong? If it is, prepare the ship. I'm going back.

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I'm going back

Donavan LeDean 18:45
next man uptail

Speaker 8 18:47
Palindrome, one at sea. Can I achieve hope all by myself when I'm far off, almost lost in causing waves and causing waves,

Unknown Speaker 19:03
almost lost, but I'm far off all by myself. Can I achieve

Donavan LeDean 19:17
power? Next man up

Speaker 5 19:21
inside me, I need to zone in on the world inside me. Make sense of the silence inside me, create peace with the thoughts inside me. Speak the truth of the words that live inside me, channel the voice inside me, hear the melody inside me, feel the beating heart inside me, nurture the child inside me, please the beast that resides inside me. Soothe. The soul inside me, relinquish the fears inside me, relax the breath inside me, release the energy inside me, extend the love inside me, listen to the soul inside of me. Focus on the vision inside me, open the eyes inside me, embrace the warmth inside me, express the aggression inside me, conquer the hesitation inside me, strengthen the core inside me, grateful for the power that I possess inside me, walk with dignity, because I know what's best for me.

Donavan LeDean 20:43
Here we go. Here we go. Next man up. This

Unknown Speaker 20:46
last one I want to read is called naked. I feel this one in my heart as I read it.

Speaker 9 20:55
Do I deserve to be loved. Sometimes I feel my heart drop. It goes so low, I feel empty. My chest feels light, my body feels heavy, my soul feels alone, not needed, not wanted, not loved, just alone. I've got love to give, yet there's no one to receive.

Unknown Speaker 21:15
Instead, I lay here naked with my heart on my sleeve. I've got love to give yet there's no one to receive. I lay here naked with my heart on my sleeve.

Donavan LeDean 21:33
Thank you so much. Next man up the new product.

Speaker 4 21:37
New product. I think, I think my heart done nearly turned cold. Do you know why? It's because I'm a product of the South. I used to hear about people selling products out their house, and even some people put the products in their arms or in their mouth, but not me, not me, not me at all, me. I decided to stay in the books and study, create a recipe that I could sell to the community, measuring the knowledge and adapting as I cooked up all the lessons, the culture, the products, the goods, the raised in the suburbs, but I had the hustle of the hood coursing through me. But don't confuse me, this is not a movie. You cannot move me until you actually move me. So I dare thee to corrupt this center of this jewelry heist and roll the dice. Snake Eyes, feel the bite uptight coursing through your veins, heart racing, racing, racing. Cannot outrun this game, not able to avoid the sunlight, but my product, my product is pure and it is defying gravity. I think secretly, this society might riot over its own hypocrisies. So take this drug at your own risk, but it's pure and good for the soul, like chicken soup or some grade a lobster bisque.

Donavan LeDean 23:05
Next man uptail echoes under the bridge.

Speaker 8 23:12
I've crossed bridges slow, low in the rain storms of age. Age is left gasping, rasping, with bitter thoughts gone. One can persist the past, pass it by with no thought. Ought you should do this now? Now when the puddles Splash, splash, the playful love your childhood over your head and shy. Why thunder leaves you frayed. Aid your hands warm and soft. Ah, you should smell the dew. Dew, don't rising. Love. Explore the tunnel. No to fear and worry. We will make courage found, found of the long travel fell, knocked the light away way went with timbre to see her escape taped in shadows,

Donavan LeDean 24:18
next man up

Speaker 7 24:20
When home doesn't feel the same as it was, Where shall I go to feel that old love? I need a new place for my soul to find ease, for my mind to find solace, for my heart to find peace. Another day is draining, another night the same. I can only hope tomorrow I can leave with what remains. Can leave with what remains?

Donavan LeDean 24:41
Here we go. Here we go. Next man up. This poem is titled wounded bird.

Speaker 10 24:48
I've been wounded, I've been cured, I've been healed, I've been hurt, I've been blessed, I've been cursed, I've been better, I've been worse. Life's a balance with verbs, putting my trust in the universe, even when the all. Are against me, I still come up first, let go of my ego and left it all to Mother Earth. I always had my faith. I didn't need a church. Even at my lowest, I knew eventually it would be my turn, not the most patient, but I'm always putting in the work. I always got pure intentions and keep my word. I sought help when my anxiety and grief collided, my trauma and pride tried fighting. This girl's journey is like deep diving, uncovering new depths to my soul, sometimes it feels tiring. So seeking is not for the faint of heart. It's facing your pain head on. Never been a victim. Been both Aladdin and Jafar. This journey has left me with scars. Without my art, I wouldn't have made it this far in order to protect my energy, because I got a big heart, let others deplete me in the past. Now I'm in charge. Now I keep myself on guard, stay sharp. Maybe I've been more in tune with the science. The other day, I looked into an injured bird's eyes. Could see its fear and resilience. It wasn't ready to die. Realized how many times I didn't give up the fight. Reminded me of how many times I've fallen, but took it as a lesson, how many times I've been betrayed. But it was a blessing, Mother Nature telling me great things are ahead, even though life's a challenge, this is my rebirth. We're about to witness the ascension of a savage

Donavan LeDean 26:08
next man up.

Speaker 11 26:18
Brakes. Nerve is hard. I'm trying to find a way trying to curb his acre and do it breaking down.

Donavan LeDean 26:44
Go in with a fresh mind and a pure heart. Mistakes were made. Go in with a fresh start. The emphasis is today. The uncertainty is tomorrow. I live another day that's success. Time is borrowed. Carnage is on a regular another family has seen grief. Mics were cut off still. The Tennessee three were able to speak from the crying girl and dying boy slain by soft styles too many bullets to a boy pray for as they attempt to fight for a law made for all, as they attempt to prevent another body to fall history, the mic, and yet, in the midst of infamy, they're setting aside politics for human safety, making enemies. Your vote can avoid the winning attempt. Your vote can avoid the may be and put ain't what it got to be unprecedented as we witness the headlines of an indictment, as the rich make more money on merch posing as victims, inciting another riots never quiet. The problem is online. More foreigners are crowding US borders like refugees after Roe v Wade reversed, more women are escaping rare things like refugees, more protest industries like help us please and dire need of open minds and clear views so that one day, universal healthcare making headlines on CNN news.

Donavan LeDean 27:54
Exhale, PRAY, WAIT for it. Peace never came. Now, beware our man force bound to take the Republic. God bless us, as we fight for peace on earth, as mankind kills one another to gain more turf, for drugs, for crops, for money, for crap, urgent mess. Human to human, heart to heart. Change your route for a fresh start. You

Unknown Speaker 28:20
brilliant. Let's

Donavan LeDean 28:23
get to it. Thank you for tuning in to next. Man of poetry in motion. I am your host, Donovan lady. Before we go, I would like to conclude with the final power message. It's a message about healthy debating. It's nothing wrong with disagreeing only when it leads to violent behavior because of one not accepting the other's perspective. We are all different, which leads to having different perspectives. So expect and embrace different opinions. You may actually benefit and learn something from the other's perspective. Open your mind for moral integrity. Thanks for tuning in to next man up. Poetry in motion. I am your host, Donovan lady. To see my inspirational and poetry reels, you can go to YouTube at donavilley day. Also, you can find my poetry books, children's books and coloring books on Amazon under my name, Donovan lady for actor or port bookings. You can contact me via email, DV media, one zero@gmail.com I am Donovan, leading actor, author and inspirational, rhythmic poet, until next time. Peace Day, thrive.

Unknown Speaker 29:30
Dave, you.

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