Gregory (gshaw57) Upshaw Biography
Vital Statistics: African-male, age 51, living in Washington State.
My view point on life: I feel my life is evolving each and everything day I awake. For this I am bless that my Savior allows me another opportunity to change my life. With this opportunity, I must strive to do everything with in my human spirit to make a difference both with my family and within my community.
My Interest: Social Advocate, Law, poetry, writing, reading and research
My Music: Gospel, Jazz, R & B and little classical. (But my involvement in Gospel is where I am at now)
My Favorite Books: JR Tolkien (the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings I, II, III) , Stephen King (Stand, It, Winter Storm) , Hamlet, West Side Story, Of Mice and Men, Peter Bacho (Entry's) , Alex Haley (Roots) etc...
Poetry: AI (Vice) , Langston Hughes, John Dunne, Maya Angelou, and Harriet Beecher Stowe etc...
Part I (Revelation)
This is what I see-
I see myself through you-
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Words flow like Ebonics
You know, you know
That beat popping
Rhythmic sound of the ghetto—
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There is a ribbon
That so eloquently draped her gravesite
She was a victim of violence—
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As I move motionlessly through the rubble-
The manifestation of buildings—destroy
I picture myself, my family engrossed within the rubble—
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