CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE BOOK REVIEW

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi; Picture by Sarafina Robi.

Mariam Makeba’s song “Hapo Zamani” is in the air in my little living room as I sit up to try and explain the magic I have lived for about two months now…

…We read books for different reasons.

At times it’s to experience the magic we imagine in different realms. To let our spirits wonder in different places so that we can lose ourselves only to be embraced and birthed in a glorious embrace.

If you have never experienced magic run through your bones as your wildest imaginations come live, then this is the book to read, “Children of Blood and Bones by Tomi Adeyemi”

It’s an epic! Intricate read about a girl called Zellie. A black girl with long flowing white locks  and magic in her whole being who is on a quest to bring back magic to her people.

The atrocities experienced are so chilling and disturbing at one point you stop to cry and take in the pain of the people.

It’s also interwoven witty characters and some sort of forbidden love that you keep hoping it comes to light before the book ends.

Adeyemi, the author has not only increased how far anyone can dream but also expanded how much we can imagine! To the little children reading this I can only imagine how they feel!

Apparently the author first got the idea when she was in a gift shop in Brazil and came across pictures of black gods and goddesses, but until 8 months later while going through Pinterest and she met a character with green hair that looked so magical that she actually begun materializing it!

Even to me this is a Cake with asparagus!

A BEAUTY!

 

 

 

PIRATES

PIRATES

Being one I would like

To sail the vast seas and oceans

To let my heart beat to the rhythm of the waves 

and my lungs be filled with the ocean air.

Be a free spirit of the oceans

meet the queen of the oceans

and the king,prince and princes of the oceans

and with the undersea drum rolls I will bow and smile.

When night falls

and the world is engulfed in darkness

I will lay on my back, and stare at the stars

watch the moon travel across the sky

and sing the night creatures a song of the living beings.

S.Robi

A SONG I LIKE.

EMELI SANDÉ LYRICS

"Read All About It (Pt. III)"

You've got the words to change a nation
But you're biting your tongue
You've spent a life time stuck in silence
Afraid you'll say something wrong
If no one ever hears it how we gonna learn your song?

So come on, come on
Come on, come on

You've got a heart as loud as lions
So why let your voice be tamed?
Maybe we're a little different
There's no need to be ashamed
You've got the light to fight the shadows
So stop hiding it away

Come on, come on

I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it, oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh

At night we're waking up the neighbours
While we sing away the blues
Making sure that we're remembered, yeah
Cause we all matter too
If the truth has been forbidden
Then we're breaking all the rules

So come on, come on
Come on, come on,

Let's get the TV and the radio
To play our tune again
It's 'bout time we got some airplay of our version of events
There's no need to be afraid
I will sing with you my friend

Come on, come on

I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it, oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh

Yeah, we're all wonderful, wonderful people
So when did we all get so fearful?
Now we're finally finding our voices
So take a chance, come help me sing this
Yeah, we're all wonderful, wonderful people
So when did we all get so fearful?
And now we're finally finding our voices
Just take a chance, come help me sing this

I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it, oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh

I wanna sing, I wanna shout
I wanna scream 'til the words dry out
So put it in all of the papers,
I'm not afraid
They can read all about it
Read all about it, oh

MY REINCARNATION

If I had a reincarnation

I would be a bird...

 I would spend most of my time

In the oceans and skies

Flying and dancing with the waves

I would soar

Up in the clouds

with grace, 

My plumage I will let spread

 and let the cool air sooth my soul.

If I were to choose my breed

I would a Falcon

A gyrfalcon to be precise

S.R

1 OF MY FAV POEMS...

A STRANGER

There is a love I reminisce

like a seed

I've never sown.

Of lips that I'm yet to kiss

and eyes not met

my own

 Hands that wrap around my wrists,

and arms 
that feel like home.

I wonder how it is I miss

these things

I've never known.

  

 -Lang Leav

SHE'S YOUR MAMA

Experienced Pain, torture, fear, sacrifice, been to the brink of death for you-while bringing you to earth, worried too much-when your temperatures changed when you were little, had sleepless nights-when you cried your lungs out throughout the night, cried with you as she sang you songs to lull you, some even stopped pursuing their dreams so that yours could succeed, some tolerate abuse so that you could have a perfect family of dad and mom, the list goes on and on.

That’s a mother.

They have been to the depths of oceans for you, but they always have it all together, even when everything seems to fall apart.

Why?

 Because they can feel your pain when you cry, they worry a lot about you than you even worry about yourself. They don’t want you to be the element that they are, they try to formulate a mixture with better qualities than theirs. The devil hoots in hell and they don’t bow, whoever comes there way is just but a non-issue to them.

Intuition, one of the superpowers mothers have.

I can guarantee you that your mom senses when you’re in trouble even when you are miles away. I remember a friend of mine, while in third year, had gone for a road trip during one of the festivities and bad luck has it that they got involved in an accident on their return journey, whereby their car overturned. Safety belts and air bags saved them since they got no bruises, but what surprised this friend of mine is that as she was being dragged out of the car, very scared as she had seen death flash in front her face, her phone rang and on picking it was her mom. Yes, her mom called, and the surprising part is when she asked her if she was all right, my friend of course said she was but asked her mom why she sounded so concerned, the mother said she had gotten a sharp pain in her chest and her stomach turned, as though something bad had happened to her since that’s what crossed her mind and so that’s why she called!

Even though the umbilical cord is physically cut when your mom gives birth to you, the mother-child cord is never cut.

You are always a part of her, wherever you go. She thinks about your life more than she thinks about her own life. She gets a hunch when you are in trouble.

That’s why even when you haul insults at her, it hurts her a lot, but she still forgives you, because the thought of not forgiving you hurts her more. I remember a story of a little girl, one day her mom said something that she didn’t like. So she went silent on her. The next day she went and bought her some very cute shoes she had always wanted. She knew she was trying to make her talk, it hurt her so much. She thanked her, went to her room, cried and asked the Big guy up in heaven to forgive her and never make her hurt her mom again. Thereafter she treasured her more than her life.

 Moms are a treasure, a gift, and gold mine in our lives, while they are still with us, lets show them the love they show us. Instead of just posting stuff on Facebook, twitter and all social media platforms about how we love them, how about you just tell them on their faces. Even if she won’t say anything, deep down, you give her eternal joy. The happiness a mother always wants. She’s your mama. ADIOS!

LOVE...

 Love is such a confusing thing. I’ve tried understanding it

But unfortunately,

The more I try the more I get lost.

In slow west, jay thinks love is universal like death

My friends think I’ve lost hope in love, which at a certain point I think I’m almost.

At certain points, I question God, why He’ll let me get into something if He knows it’s going to hurt me in the end.

Some of my friends think I’m a mash mellow at heart, and call me “A hopeless romantic”

Because I get touched at heart by very little things, and tear very easily.

I’ll also say, successfully seduce my brain and you’ll have my body, but find my soul and you’ll have me forever.

With this I’ve mastered the art of  building shields, to shelter my heart

Now I fall in love with weird things of nature,

Like, how the waves dance gracefully in the ocean, 
 How the stars shine and twinkle as though in harmony with the moon,

How clouds drift away and close to each other, and the list goes on and on

Why, because this things will never hurt me

They never give me sleepless nights

They never make me sleep with tears in my eyes

Instead, they calm my spirit

They make me feel like a 9 year old held by her parents while asleep

They make feel safe and loved

They take me to a whole different world

Where I sleep with the biggest smile on my face

With a surety of the next day being better and happier

And In them my spirit finds refuge.

If I were Maya’ caged bird, I’ll love my cage being in the highest peak,

There I’ll watch all I love, and my lungs would be filled with fresh air

And I’ll be a free and happy spirit.

CHEERS!