Because joy is your birthright ........Dr. Ni's NewsDecember 18th, 2009THE SECOND SET OF POEMSTuesday, November 24, 2009 12:58 AMYou've woken me up Nana, You've woken me up Niama.All the way across the sea you have woken up Baba.I was out in the fields grazing my thoughts.Then I heard a voice and felt your embrace.Your words swarmed all over me.And I knew she was looking for the way home.I am waiting Nana. I am waiting Niama.I am waiting to show you the way home.Come Nana, Come, Nana.I have felt your touch I have seen your embrace.Bring them all home to where I am grazing.Bring your words closer Nana.I need to hear you well.Bring your ear close to mine.Bring your mouth close to my ear.Come Nana, I will tell you about mountains and valleys.I will tell you about the wind and the stars.Come Nana I will tell you about the moon and the sun.Come Nana I will tell you in one go about the cattle and the goats.Come Nana, come closer, bring your ear closer.Bring it where my mouth can touch it.Come closer Nana, bring your heart where my words can feel it.Come closer, I want to tell you about huts and tall buildings.Come Nana, Come Niama, I tell you there are tall buildings.Yes Nana, there is success but failure lurks around too.Yes Niama, the land has its owners and some don't and some do not.Come closer, Nana, bring your thoughts closer home.I can touch you Nana, I feel your embrace and I am warm.Oh Nana, Baba hears your love. He hears your heartbeat.Say hello to your cousin for me Niama, say hello and bite her ear for me.Bite her ear the way I am biting yours, make sure you are gentle Nana.Bite her gently.Speak to me again Nana, tell me about your home.Tell me about the comforts and love that you have.Tell me whether it is a good home.You've woken me Nana. You've woken me up.Keep me awake Nana, Keep me awake Niama.Bring your ear where I can kiss it with my words.Listen to me well Nana, attend to my needs.I am hungry Nana, I am hungry for your heart.Heal my hunger give me your touch of love.Light me up now that I am awake.I have heard you Nana, have you felt me awake.I am awake Nana calling your heart to come closer.I heard you long ago Nana, long long ago I heard you.Baba heard your soothing comfort from afar.I am waiting to caress your thoughts.Baba is waiting to soothe your heart.Come closer, I want to know whether it's you I have heard.Bring your heart closer to mine.I want to know whether it's yours I have felt.You've woken me Niama, you've woken me up Nana.Thank you for calling Baba.Baba has ears for the heart that calls.Shout louder again, leave an imprint in my mind.Tell me how long you have been calling and I will tell you how long your beloved has been listening.Bring me into your embrace.Take me home now that I am awake.Show me the way up and down the mountains and across the valleys your way.I will tell you I have been grazing in the fields, now I want to bring the cattle home.Come closer Kiss my ear with your words again. Tell me that is love I am hearing. Come closer with your soothing comfort. Engulf me and embrace me.You woke me up long ago Nana, take me and my cattle to graze the fields. Graze my fields I will graze yours.Love.MY RESPONSEFALSE HEARTNiama Leslie Williams, Ph.D.Copyright November 2009for robertBeloved, beloved, I have spoken with false heartAnd aggrieved the way home.You bring me the path to who I wasWho I was to the tribeNight watcherGuarder during the hours of sleepOf restOf moon dance and star cavortAnd with my night visionAll of these centuries laterI have screwed upI have discerned the vision homewith false heartI have awakened the great BabaBut I cannot love himMy heart belongeth to anotherHe is my right mateA Biblical pair we areHe Gomer, me HoseaI the virgin who marries the whoreHe the old man but I the one who waitedWho soughtWho found without lookingA great loveMy heart wants no otherGod has wound us around each otherAnd placed our hearts in towWe can look elsewhereFor naught but find repeatedlyEach otherI have awakened the great BabaWith false heartWith heart screamingNot for embraceOf lust of comingOf nighttime danceBut with heart seeking homeSeeking stories ofThat place from whence I comethYet do not recognizeExcept by spirit, by soul,By consciousness.I have awakened the great BabaWith my longing for homeFor path of righteousnessTo lead me backTo where I beganTo my original purposeTo my understandingThat rain is eroticA blessing upon my headRain calls meWith good tidingsIt saysBaba will forgiveBaba understandsBaba knows children who have been away from homeDangerously long.###AboutYes, we creative types do get bored and seek to change the look of our habitual publications from time to time.Hope you enjoy the new look of the masthead for Dr. Ni's News after a brief respite with Just for Entrepreneurs.Dr. Ni's News is a publication of Blowing Up Barriers Enterprises and does not accept unsolicited submissions.Dr. Ni lives to help writers and seekers achieve their utmost potential and invites all to peruse her offerings at the company website.Be well, be blessed, be happy--it's a CHOICE.THE RADIO SHOW"Poetry & Prose & Anything Goes with Dr. Ni" is still encountering scheduling difficulties, but Dr. Ni plans to try a brief broadcast between Friday and Sunday, midnight to 6 a.m. featuring the prose and poetry from that Friday's newsletter.However, Monday, December 14th, 2009, will be a special broadcast featuring author Aaron Lazar and his newest novel, Mazurka. This will be Dr. Ni's first "traditional" interview in quite a long while. Prepare to enjoy!!!CODDLED CLIENTS CREATE CASH -- Tara ColquittTHE WHALE BRINGS BOATLOADS -- Orca CommunicationsTHIS WOMAN, A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES -- Rhonda WhiteTHE HARDEST WORKING PR FIRM -- Shaquilla SmithFinal words: As Ms. Marshall says, "God loves you, and so do I!" Have a great weekend. :-){!contact_address}
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