Chosen By God's
Poetry Time
Poet, Gospel Rap artist
& Modivational speaker
Chosen By God is a Out-standing young poet from Tacoma WA. He Has many other talents.some of his poetry highlights are as follows:

1)  Two time 1st place winner in the South Sound         Slam Competition 2002.
  2) 1st place in CAPS poetry comp 2002
  3) two time 2nd place winner South Sound Slam          Comp 2002.
  4) Tacoma Art Museum Nov 8th 2002
  5)  Peirce College 2002
  6)  Evergreen State college Tacoma Campus 2002
   7) Nerrows View Intermediate U-place 1/10/03
   8) Curtis JR. High Universty place WA.

  And much more! At all Events listed above my poetry was deliverd by way of spoken word.
Photograph by Erica J Robinson of
G1 Magazine (which is coming outsoon)
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On Nov. 8th 2002 I was blessed to be one of three poets who shared the honor of paying tribute to a great poet, writer, photogapher, & composer name Godon Parks. This poem  is the one I wrote.  This poem was featurd at Tacome Art Museum Tacoma WA.its call "Who Is This Man"  Hope you injoy it.
Who Is This Man? by CBG
Through many danger toils and snares
Through hate and racism a path prepared
Who would have guest God would grant such drive?
To succeed and survive This child born dead yet today alive
Why was this child permitted to live in a world full of poverty, racism, discrimination, and bigotry?
These are the vary things he couldn't stand to see!
So he "Fights Back" with pictures and words of poetry
Like the last man  taking his last stand! Or many hoped it would be
So came his first indicting image "American Gothic" in Washinton DC
This photo of Ella Watson a federal employee
"Charwoman" she was called, cleaning person that is
The tragedy had to be that she had been working there for 25ys
Yet past up for promotion like the rest of her peers I'm sure a story like that brought this man to tears
But who is this man?
This man is you! staring back from a mirror of poverty & despair, of revolt & freedom
Look at him and know that to destroy him is to destry yourself!
Who is this man?
A photographer, or a storyteller, a poet,or a composer
He's all this and more
But how could this man born in "Kansas Land" stand In the mist of confusion and contoversy
Thay say a pictures worth a thousand words, His pictures worth ten-thousand!
Forcing some to look at what they'd rather not see, & others a chance to see poverty's realty
His poetry pants a picture itself which can not be disguised
Thay take you past the lies to the lives. Pastthe unheard cries of the people despised
To a world seen by though his eyes
Can you feel what he has felt? Can you see what he has seen?
I mean the truth that lies in the American Dream.
I too am America. America is me. It gave me the only life I know--So I must share in its survival
This man is Gordon Parks. Writer of Shaft, Photographer of  both life & death
And a prayer to the creator
But the one thing that I remember most about this man
is the piercing end to th the poem "Kansas Land" Imagen his feelings as he writes this by hand
Yes, all this I would miss along with the fear, hatred, and violence
we blacks had suffered upon this beatiful land.
WHO WAS THIS MAN?
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