Usayd Networks http://www.usayd.com Peace, Justice and Freedom in Words they Flow Mon, 11 May 2009 01:00:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 CRAZY CYCLE AND SKYDIVE! http://www.usayd.com/2009/04/11/crazy-cycle-and-skydive/ http://www.usayd.com/2009/04/11/crazy-cycle-and-skydive/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:03:11 +0000 Usayd http://www.usayd.com/?p=696 Peace be with you!

Families Relief had to postpone the crazy cycle to Brighton, it will now be taking place this Saturday God Willing.

It has been hinted to me that apparently this isn’t good enough! Suggestions have included doing the cycle blindfolded, with a tricycle or backwards. Hmm…instead, I’ve decided to do 70 MILES to Brighton, AND a few thousand feet SKYDIVE! Unfortunately they won’t let me jump out of the plane with my bicycle, but hopefully this has raised the bar high enough for you to sponsor me!

For those that already have, please pray that I live through the craziness :)

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Please Sponsor me now!


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]]> http://www.usayd.com/2009/04/11/crazy-cycle-and-skydive/feed/ black rose http://www.usayd.com/2009/03/10/black-rose/ http://www.usayd.com/2009/03/10/black-rose/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:16:53 +0000 Usayd http://www.usayd.com/?p=693 You’re like the beauty in the dark

Sunlight stops the black rose rise

Inhale

For that must be the art

Held breath before released sigh

The cloak is transparent

Glazed glass they called the eye

The beauty is apparent:

A black rose that cannot die.

]]> http://www.usayd.com/2009/03/10/black-rose/feed/ overthrown http://www.usayd.com/2009/03/10/overthrown/ http://www.usayd.com/2009/03/10/overthrown/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:16:10 +0000 Usayd http://www.usayd.com/?p=691 You hate the sound of my voice
And my presence will frighten you
I loose the want of choice
Inside my head - a coup
Conscience overthrown
The science of conning who?
My mind is now unknown
as my heart keeps falling through
I can’t find where to start
now the pain is more acute
old ways they must depart
for that blade bleeds red and blue.

]]> http://www.usayd.com/2009/03/10/overthrown/feed/ Usayd’s Crazy Cycle: Part 2! http://www.usayd.com/2009/02/18/usayds-crazy-cycle-part-2/ http://www.usayd.com/2009/02/18/usayds-crazy-cycle-part-2/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:30:29 +0000 Usayd http://www.usayd.com/?p=688 Peace be with you!

The Crazy Cyclist is back!

Armed only with a racing bike and a pair of legs, I will be taking on the 55 miles of road from London to Brighton this March 14th iA.

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Please sponsor generously! :)
Note: If suffering from credit crunch anxieties. get on yer bike (to work, uni, etc)!

Sponsor now:
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]]> http://www.usayd.com/2009/02/18/usayds-crazy-cycle-part-2/feed/ para tu http://www.usayd.com/2009/02/12/para-tu/ http://www.usayd.com/2009/02/12/para-tu/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:10:55 +0000 Usayd http://www.usayd.com/?p=686 This is for you.

You gaze into the distance
wonder who you are
Those eyes tell me victim
looking to a land afar

Running is not the answer
you decide to stay
A heart that has no master
also has no way

These trials will truly end
last for but a day
And so you turn from men
fall to your knees
and pray

]]> http://www.usayd.com/2009/02/12/para-tu/feed/ innocence slain http://www.usayd.com/2008/11/24/innocence-slain/ http://www.usayd.com/2008/11/24/innocence-slain/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:32:50 +0000 Usayd http://www.usayd.com/?p=684 my eyes are wide as i stare into space
wondering how i will ever save face
always thought the worst had come
searching now for the edge to jump

it is slippery, that’s why you fell
6 feet deep into a wooden hell
or concrete cell, chained iron bars
branded spear pierced my heart

etched are words of love and hate
wondering if they were real or fake
upon hearing your name
once pride now shame
questioning why humanity was slain

i didn’t lose my innocence, you killed it
blood needn’t be shed, you spilled it
tearless eye, you filled it
once untouched,
left wounded.

]]> http://www.usayd.com/2008/11/24/innocence-slain/feed/ Blurry Vision http://www.usayd.com/2008/10/24/blurry-vision/ http://www.usayd.com/2008/10/24/blurry-vision/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:04:24 +0000 Usayd http://www.usayd.com/?p=683 Shudder. I gaze into your eyes
Transfixed. I’m taken by surprise
path to the soul or a black hole
Saw something that made me fold
Glance away from the pale face
feeling your pain is not my place.

Olive green
Bright yet mean
Light blue
Can almost see through
Dark brown
Commonly sound
Pitch black
You’re under attack

Spectrum of sight doesn’t exist
Wide eyes with clenched fist
Peering into shallow or deep
Take light steps with cautious feet
Love at first what? I think not
All I’m doing is looking at a dot.

]]> http://www.usayd.com/2008/10/24/blurry-vision/feed/ Written http://www.usayd.com/2008/10/21/written/ http://www.usayd.com/2008/10/21/written/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:15:47 +0000 Usayd http://www.usayd.com/2008/10/21/written/ Haven’t written in such a long time
Almost forgotten these words are mine
Made the move to which I was longing
Yet life gives little sense of belonging
Actually, I don’t want to be a part
The norm is far from the place to start.

Lonely on this side of the fence
No this poem is not a lament
More a reflection of what is missing
Disconnected inside – I do miss Him
Time goes quicker than the mind thinks
My thoughts and actions are out of sync.

I always knew this test would be hard
Indefinitely left the evidence in scars
Your pain and others are not the same
Different measures those deeds in vain
I left to get closer to the man that I am
Now I wonder if really I can.

]]> http://www.usayd.com/2008/10/21/written/feed/ Protected: A wandering path http://www.usayd.com/2008/10/04/a-wandering-path/ http://www.usayd.com/2008/10/04/a-wandering-path/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:53:14 +0000 Usayd http://www.usayd.com/?p=680

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]]> http://www.usayd.com/2008/10/04/a-wandering-path/feed/ The Roots - Hurricane http://www.usayd.com/2008/09/15/the-roots-hurricane/ http://www.usayd.com/2008/09/15/the-roots-hurricane/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:43:03 +0000 Usayd http://www.usayd.com/?p=679 Listen to this here:

“Yes, I am the inescapable, the irresistible,
The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who dat?]
I am time
I scroll in measurements, control the elements,
I hold the evidence, I tell the story [say what?]
I am time
I know no prejudice, I bare no sentiments
For wealth or settlement, I move forward [who you?]
I am time
You can’t recover me, conceal or smuggle me,
Retreat or run from me, crawl up or under me,
You can’t do much for me besides serve
Me well and have good dividends returned to you
Or attempt to kill me off and have me murder you
Many have wasted me but now they are facing me,
Treated me unfaithfully and now endure me painfully
Plaintively, I wait to see what history will shape to be,
Who’s hearts will never die inside the sake of me
Angel’s scribe the page for me,
Keep a full account of all the names for me
And make a special mark for Hurricane who waited patiently” - Mos Def

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