"Picture My Word" By Anthony Alden

PICTURE MY WORDS

Picture My Word is a collection of visual and poetic lyrics and a journey through my perspective on human issues. It is an intimate glimpse into who and what I am as a man, as a black man. I firmly believe that one man's thought is a gift to another man's knowledge. This book is a testament to that philosophy, a painted picture of my thoughts and emotions.

Silent Watching

I see America, but America doesn't see me. I listen to America, but America doesn't hear me.

I'm a Silent Watcher, I'm you, you are me, we are not so different as it might seem. I, like you, search for answers to the unconscious self in the hope of finding the divine being that lies dormant.

This standard search for knowledge and a better self enables me to reflect on my experiences.

So hear my message and picture my thoughts, for we are not so different.

DEGRADATION OF A BLACK MAN

A Black Man + No Education = No Job

A Black Man + No Job = No Money

A Black Man + Crime = Time

A Black Man x Time = Zero\

Low Self-esteem = Lost Hope

= Lost Faith

No Job + No Money + Crime x Time = 0

A degraded black man

is a man,

or what was once left

of a man.

Pieces of a man,

a child, a man-child.

I have nothing else to give

Thus, you have nothing

else to take.

The degradation of a black man

told by a black man.

PROBE

My mind/is set on living

My will/is struggling to survive

My conscious/is burdened with guilt

My smile/silence my cry

My soul/is on ice?

G U N

B a r r e l of D e a t h

triggered by hate

It aims to destroy life

propelled by the guilty at the

innocent

Standing in its path of destruction,

flesh exploding on impact.

loud noise C O N T A C T

GUN:

BARREL LOADED,

TRIGGER COCKED,

POINTED,

ITS

TARGET.....

L I F E ! !!

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ANTHONY ALDEN PHOTOGRAPHY "Live At Aretha Franklin Amphitheater"

ABOUT ANTHONY ALDEN

Photographer Anthony Alden as a child. Photo taken by father the late Clifton Vines. Anthony Alden Vines, pen name Anthony Alden" is the youngest of ten children, eight boys and two girls. He grew up in Toledo, Ohio a small Midwestern city located on the doorsteps of Detroit, MI. Anthony was blessed to have creative mentors all around him starting with his father the late photographer Clifton Vines. Anthony was also mentored by seven brothers. The late Marvin Vines a national acclaimed fine artist and brother documentary photographer the late Thomas Vines set a standard of excellence for Anthony to reach for. "Mason" photo by Anthony Alden Anthonys Grandmother Ethel Washington was a concert pianist and Great Grandfather Cornelius Edwards started Toledo, Ohio's first African American newspaper 1922 "The Toledo Observer." In that same tradition Anthony launched Urban Flava Mag...

BLACK THOUGHTS BY ANTHONY ALDEN "I was often told by people around me I would never change. I not only allowed those negative people to reside in my world but I allowed them to cast me into a picture of a man that I wasn't. They thought I wouldn't. They said I couldn't. They told me I shouldn't. So I did. Become all the man I could be."

"I have been journalizing my thoughts since my early teens. I don't think I would have survived if it wasn't for my camera, pen, and paper. I thank God every day of my life for giving me this most precious gift, the ability to look inside my inner self and share my soul." "Picture My Word" My Words, My Wisdom, My Life I dedicate to My Mom Elizabeth Vines RIP When we lose loved ones to death it can often leave us at a loss for words as we try to reconcile the past. What we should have said, didn’t say cut slowly into our guilt. The loss often takes us back to happy times when innocence carried our hearts far away from the actual pain we try to push aside. I learned the other day an ex- died a tragic self-inflicted death. The finality of death fills me with uncertainty about where my mortal soul will rest. The nature of death can accidentally catch us by surprise like a ticking clock next to an hourglass. When, where, and how d...

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