Talking Poems

She's authentic, she's talented, mesmerizing and a
breath of fresh air. Gha'il's magic with words are life
transforming and mind expanding.......

Les Brown author and speaker

Gha'il Rhodes Benjamin is a true artist. She writes and
performs poems and stories that spring from the soul of
her own experience, which she conveys with passion,
conviction, and a musical sense of the language.

-- T.J. English, author and screenwriter

The stage beckons this innovative poet...

--Amsterdam News

WHEN A POEM COME DOWN

I don't know where
My poems
Come from......
But when somethin' say "move"
I move
I pick up my pencil
And I sit
While energy infuses me...
Hypnotized I write
Big caramel colored fingers slidin' cross da' pages
Fragmented thoughts on rhythm come
Pourin' down
Pourin' down
Pourin' down
Like love....through my crown
I sit hypnotized....
Pieces of poetry float through my dreams
(still readable even after the spin cycle)
Inside my jeans
I even seen a poem
Dancin' on a hamhock in my collard greens
To a James Brown tune
Talkin' about "I got the feelin',
Good God I got the feelin'"
I heard a poem
Whisper in my ear
Slid in on a teardrop that landed there
When I was feelin'........the blues
I seen a poem on a chubby girl's stomach
While she was jumpin' double dutch/double time/double dare
I seen a poem in your eye
And when somethin' say "move"... I couldn't....
Cause...you...started turnin' into a big ol' poem
A funky masculine hunk of vanilla/chocolate
Heart beat stoppin'/lip smackin'
Poetry....ain't just a notion
Baby you is
Baby you is
Baby you is
My
Favorite
Poem