Artist Statement

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Lie-ability

Lie-ability
© N Noël July 2010


Lie-ability is someone no one needs
Hiding, seeking, faking, taking
Always ready to feed
Rules don’t ever apply to you
Snatch and grab, steal a soul or two

Coveting things, time and people
Immediate gratification
That works for you
A bandit of the heart and psyche
No friendship to gain
Their job, plain sight battery
Inflicting acid rain

Picturesque in person
Yet tarnished skin deep
Usurping, never nourishing
With one eye open
While others sleep

Lie-ability airy diction
From a feathery tongue
Aftermath left behind
Venom, toxic from your stinger
Phonics all unsung

Slithering snake with suspicious eyes
Fixated from inception
On whom they will prey
Staying just long enough to get their pay
Lie-ability leaves nothing in their path
Just aftershock and destruction
Never looking back

Lie-ability bankrupt of personality
Bleeding others dry
Selfish, self-centered, obsessive
An embodiment of lies
Impoverishment is the trail of tears
You leave by the wayside
The going rate?
Cheapening someone’s pride

Weighted down contraband
Smuggling to achieve sound ties
Lie-ability empty handed
Until all is spent
Don’t be fooled by this convict
Disguised as an undercover friend


Monday, July 19, 2010

Little Big Girl
© N Noël July 2010



Little Big Girl
Young, sweet and succulent
Little Big Girl
Grown before her time
Running from youth
With an undeveloped mind

Boobs, butt, body all exposed
Thinking he “loves me”
When he takes off her clothes
Body can’t catch up with her mind
Little Big Girl
Growing up in body, spirit left behind

Little Big Girl
Lost in a mirror, switching her behind
On the corner where trouble lies
Full of make-up, short shorts, everything exposed
Touched by ogling hands, eyes and rampant minds

Little Big Girl
Where’re you rushing to?
Ain’t nothing out there that’s good for you
Little Big Girl
Take your time
Life’s not going anywhere
Relax be a child

Trouble will follow
If you don’t slow your roll
Little Big Girl
Don’t rush or throw away your life
Before you’re old
Little Big Girl
Slow it down
You’re special only if you could see
Little Big Girl
Don’t sell your worth and become empty

Life’s so precious if only you would wait and see
Little Big Girl
Nothing out there except bad company
Don’t end up a jump off or throw away
Little Big Girl
Don’t take much to waste your time
Destruction of your person
Is just like organized crime

Little Big Girl
Please hear my plea
Little Big Girl
Keep your Pride, Respect
Save your energy
Little Big Girl
I know your pain
You’re a Gem
Little Big Girl
Your Life is not in Vain




Wednesday, July 7, 2010

A Woman's Place

A Woman’s Place
© N Noël July 2010



A woman’s place is where she’s told
From her youth, teens and even getting old
Walk this way, talk this way, look like a LADY
While keeping a smiling “Pretty” face
Demure voice, skirts pressed neat
All femininity in place

Run the home, make the meals, suppress when you’re tired
No one cares how you feel that’s how you should be wired
Carry the children, tend to their needs
Cook and clean with diligent speed
Her wants and needs, not required
Placid grace, agreeable pace, contain self respect
Back of the line, walk slowing behind

Don’t question why, don’t make waves
Learn the ways of a “woman”, BEHAVE
Respect, well, don’t expect it that’s a game
If you speak out of turn or accuse
You shoulder the blame
No harm no foul, expect no less
A woman’s place takes so much courage to possess

Listen up closely here’s what you do
Pay attention to this list of “what to and not to do”
GET, an Education, use your mind
Stay longer than others at work and don’t fall behind
GET, married; follow his rules,
Even when his job is gone
Make ends met, make his meals and lay legs spread wide
Smile a foolish grin, don’t even cry
All the while suppress… your…. pride

A woman’s place is where she’s told from youth,
Teens and days of old
Knowing and claiming who she is what will save her soul
A place she must find in spite of what they see
Being the “perfect woman” has nothing to do with her, just Society

A woman’s place should be HER possession
No boundaries, limits or half ass suggestions
Don’t whisper if You want to Scream
Don’t laugh when You should Cry
Don’t be afraid to show that Beautiful Girl
Hidden deep inside
Don’t take a place that doesn’t fit
HAVE NO REGRETS

Don’t look back move steadily forward
Be who you are claim it be empowered
A Woman’s Place is the Grace of you doing YOU
Smile deeply, be focused, stay renewed

A woman’s place is one of true “INNER SELF”
Take possession of your worth
Be damned what they say
Keep all the fools, users, idiots and “so called” lovers
Far, Far, Far away
Hold fast to what’s important
That means YOU
The joy of knowing self, girl, nothing is better than LOVIN U

A woman’s place is first in line
To her and all who cares
Not buried in a well of reoccurring salty tears
It’s Your worth, Your respect, Your being
Your place to call your own
Take a Stand, Take Your Place
Make yourself FIRST

Saturday, July 3, 2010

I Am

I Am
© N Noël July 2010


I am me through and through
I am tired, weary, exhausted, confused in pain
I am disappointed by life’s frequent rain
I am hopeful, joyous, open to receive
I am frighten, dismayed by results I didn’t conceive

I am a friend, a lover, a child in need
I am a victim sometimes I must concede
I am worried, panicked, charging ahead
I am the voice to those who think it but words go unsaid

I am a victor, a warrior fighting each day
I am a body, a Soul, glad at play
I am a believer in things that are good
I am the keeper but mostly misunderstood

I am a shadow of a person, a broken vessel some days
I am a giver, a teacher in every way
I am misguided by some not genuine
I am tired, hurting, weary, with wasted time

I am who I am through and through
I am trying, working, playing, crying through the night
I am making waves, putting up this fight
I am constant, obsessive, fighting for my life
I am present, I am HERE that’s what counts

I am coping, not stopping, making strides
I am confident, I am PRIDE
I am who I am through and through
I am a gift like sunshine in June

I am ME everyday
I am breath, air, hope, joy and rain
I am love, wanting, pleasure, sweet pain
I am who I am through and through
I am Happiness within myself
I am TRUE