Friends

Jun 2003

Springfield, OH

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (current), Concordia College ('05 - '07: Moorhead, MN), One Ummah Consulting (Current - Minneapolis, MN) www.oneummahconsulting.com, Loras College ('03-'05: Dubuque, IA)

http://profiles.friendster.com/dawahpoet

Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication

Indiana University - Bloomington, Attended 2000 - 2003, Master's Degree, Anthropology, Black Studies
Miami University of Ohio, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of 2000, Bachelor's Degree, Anthropology, Black World Studies

Intercultural Diversity Consultant...Poet

Hip Hop Congress, One Ummah Consulting, teacher, student, guide, facilitator, speaker, listener, muslim, human

Travelling, Poetry, Spoken Word, Hip Hop culture, learning, growing, meditating, spirituality but not necessarily religion, teachings of Buddha, motivating and inspiring young people, Bringing common spirits together, meeting interesting beings, listening to music, learning about people and cultures, watching unique movies, chillin', roaming and being outside, oh yeah...did i mention i like to travel? Big priority for me

Autobiography of Malcom X, Toa of Physics, Everything by the Dalai Lama/Rumi/Kahlil Gibran, al-Qur'an, Baghvad Gita, Ishmael, The Souls of Black Folk, Caucasia, How to get Stupid White Men out of Office, Bomb the Suburbs, Invisible Man, Yellow, Race Matters

Baraka, Amandla!, Matrix, When We Were Kings, Malcolm X, Rize, Run Lola Run, Crash, Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme, Momento, Pilgrimage, American Chai, Scratch, Bowling for Columbine, Fight Club, Gandhi, Herald

Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Lyrics Born, Blackalicious, Alex Schein, IsWhat?, The Beduoin, K'naan, The Roots, Common, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Outkast, Damien Marley, Black Uhuru, Toots

Chappelle Show, Daily Show, Simpsons, Family Guy, In Living Colour (old school!!!), that's pretty much it...i don't find too much else on tv entertaining

Capricorn

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i'm just a brutha servin' the most high the best way i can every day. tryin' to learn and grow each day so that i can stay true to myself in order to give as much as i can to others...knowledge of self is key.

Poetry

i am a poet. i am a poet. i am a continuation of the same thing over and over again. i am a poet
For "I" is not "i". "I" is all things. And "I" is a poet

The expression of all possibilities reflecting the rhythmic beating of our heart
It is the undeniable rhythm that makes all poetry
At every level it is continuing on, unrecognized by our conscious mind

I is poetry

The rhythm continues as the chromosomes dance around together with the revolving double helix
The cosmos is aligning beyond our galaxy, revolving as part of the dance of the universe
We dance we sing, we laugh, we cry
The back and forth motions waving up and down, back and forth between light and dark
It is the syncopated harmony working in an unexplainable manner
Surreal notions of immaculate arrangement
How could it be?
It could only be one thing
The One that we must adore for its unending ocean of love given to us at a level that mesmerizes
My admiration is undying,
i must believe as we walk the infinite paths towards Mecca
The thought of alienation is too painful
It is the unending love that guides us within the One
And with our rhythm, we shall dance, sing and speak our way to the direction within it that we cause

i be a poet

I is a poet
by: i....amer ahmed

peaceful beings...people who make things happen