thank you for tuning in to the community issues group i'll be your host today brother benjamin and we have a very very very special guest today brother raven say it reads well thank you benjamin how you doing brother a good right you know you know really know what's in store for you today this brother is a powerful powerful man there writes poetry and does  how you got involved with poetry you know what sparked your interest to become a poet who well i guess i've always been interested in writing but it wasn't until i countered six centuries poet by the name of van char that i actually was inspired to write i mean to write more  my inspiration to another level because i felt more inspired in full of talent you know i didn't at first  those two together inspiration in talent these are a few of the poets their inspired my heart too may be going further with poetry th honey lace twirling in some way to saying to wary of some warm primal place from the upper chamber of her comely retreat the sugar sharing queen of honey divine turn this around a cheery tree now firmly planted in the warm queen of glad some hearts and show never retire but like the fragrance of who wild flowers come this is that honeycomb sanctuary wherein i wish my dreams to do well and here inside to warm glow of honey moonlight ornate chapel pill ours our honeyed curved then bright  and kissed me sweet my darling tonight we're glad some heart i love the crown and near unto her green guardian we inhale with the wonder and surprise lofty fragrances him an eighteen from beauteous world's eternal about this particular short story because i had the opportunity to take it to the african american academy here in seattle up on beacon avenue shear a few minutes of it not the entire story and then of course we can continue with the different type of romance it goes like this ladies and gentlemen boys and girls who once again through the window of time monkey the master of rhyme his mind it turns all of the time the little monkey everybody talks about will make you laugh and make you shallow if you know what i'm talking about and the little monkey has never done any one any wrong they just don't like him because he sold a little but his tail is so strong now the little monkey is going to tell a tale about a tiger that bit a lion's tail oh it was a terrible tiger burning bright in the jungle of the night i saw a couple of a monkey's pun a branch just laughing playing chattering in bright moonlight fire blazing in his tiger eyes he sees to one of the little monkeys by surprise that's right but the other little monkey ran away seared he'd remember what happened that fateful day a year and a day later pun the same branch who are a little monkey weren't saying  so the little monkey who said he'd get even some day now headed his way and go oh well into the jungle from the grasslands high he in a ran and nearly fell but what he saw filled him with the amazing man in awe and upside down tiger in the bright moonlight hanging from one back paw while a little monkey through and hit the tiger with everything he saw t down you are not a monkey or a clown but the lion that's right the lion is a mangy hound that tig would us noble heena have hunted down this is why the lion wears the tiger's majestic crown so very frightened from the lion you cannot hide unless i decide to save your spotted high grabbing the little monkey by the feet and with the laugh and i shout her the little monkey towards me upside down tiger w but could do nothing about the blackbird from the self so there are several pages to just story so i probably shouldn't do all of it right now john of the cross he wrote a poem called the ascent of mount carmel and i read it and it was very romantic and i said what i didn't know saints john of the cross use the words he used in that poem the ascent of mount carmel is the same word person would use to their spouse or their girlfriend and so anyway d beauteous queen crowned with gold surrounded by green at first to me she seemed to be in a distant galaxy so far away from me her with grace her golden chalice of honey moon light and from the glorious heights she gladly proclaimed oh heroes in all ok here a cheery tree is firmly planted in the primal sweet of a warm do a grass and is gently kissed your comely image of beauty and tire is what my inmost being happy always desired and as we gladly circle hot springs shall love you more than words could ever seeing without words primal dreams come like a fragrant kiss whisper heart to lips without out ears clearly we see and hear also mystery shared heart to ear when ever we dream left me share it's your comely voice i love to hear the leaving the petrified world of fanciful spoils came gallant to use my sweet royal ole sweet to twirling  queen bee and she puts out her call and all to be from all over come to the honeycomb well i feel it's the same thing with mt carmel there for some reason historically people have gone up to mt carmel i believe that from what i understand the st peter's first sermon was the songs of carmel was mentioned king solomon missions carmel as a beautiful woman well yes i mean you know there had to be something near dead track to everybody this music is telling us that we have about thirty seconds to read this law ok so we appreciate you bringing some of no one is your question would you want to do number part number two this year well sure i have a whole