Slater Hayes Podcast
The Slater Hayes Podcast is designed to highlight the everyday occurrences of life via poetry, prose, and social commentary. They are poignant, insightful pieces that address all facets of the black experience with the desired outcome of evoking memories, provoking thought, and conversation. Each piece directly or indirectly addresses various topics as experienced through the unique perspective of blacks. New or widely listened to/requested repeat episodes are published each Sunday at 1:00est. https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1666015.rss
Episodes
"Vision"
I envision us sojourning ...TOGETHER...beneath and within the GLORIOUS SPLENDOR of GOD!
OUR SPIRIT...LIVES!
PEACE!
"I Witness"
When the revelation received opens one's eyes to the fact the we are oftentimes our biggest obstacle to what we seek to achieve.
Don't allow the coaster to force you to overlook what is oftentimes abundantly obvious.
OUR SPIRIT...LIVES!
PEACE!
Oh, how thankful I am that God saw fit to remove from the roller coaster of life and establish a place of solid ground for me.
HE moved in a way that enlightened me to the fact that what I attributed to the spirit in me WAS NOT a spirit at all-IT WAS SOULFUL FLESH!
I am eternally grateful that the SPIRIT that HE imparted to me was and is willing to move so that I could transcribe things that are often a my...
Growing into that space that the facade has for so many years protected-that facade is now being torn down-much to the dismay of those who had an integral part in creating it.
There is no intent to diminish the personally held thoughts of others. There is no intent to create personal chaos within myself nor for others.
Jagged Edge
was composed when I sat and held a very nice conversation with a cousin that I trul...
LET GO of that wheel and allow HIM to captain your ship.
All we have to do is learn to say...
"AYE, AYE"
OUR SPIRIT...LIVES!
PEACE!
We cast off...pray away...those things that seek to work their nefarious deeds within our lives.
Those...
"Trappings"
that present themselves as something that we cannot do without. Those things that oftentimes present in a glistening fashion that leave us awestruck.
Let me tell you...and I tell you with a certainty that was learned from true first-hand experience..."ALL THAT GLITTERS AIN"T GOLD"
Thing is, we have to be ...
Some are in Disbelief
Some are Saddened...
Some are Amazed...
Some are simply OVERJOYED...
All these various emotions by what is now occurring in this amerikkka!
There is utter confusion by many as to how they should respond and behave based on what is occurring.
White folk afraid to show their true beliefs to their inner-circles for fear of being ostracized.
Black folk who thought they had arrived and secured their place ...
We oftentimes give short shrift to those things that for a lifetime we consider inconsequential.
Until, as we age, we recognize they were of great consequence.
I have been doing quite a bit of reminiscing lately. And I have become more and more aware that MY GOD considers every interaction that we have with another of HIS creations are of the utmost importance to HIM and that HE truly wants us to get it right...each a...
I dug into past episodes this morning with the sole intent of locating this piece.
WHY? Deuteronomy 4:9-10
Take a moment and study it. After you have done so, have a listen to...
"When Wondering What to Tell Them"
Make NO MISTAKE... it is up to US to ensure that...
WE INDEED TELL THEM...
OUR SPIRIT...LIVES!
PEACE
I KNOW that every word that I write-every new discovery and EVERY bit of technology that I engage- is designed for me to convey that which the Spirit has imparted to me.
I also know that this is MY WALK but that GOD has laid out this specific path for me so that I can reach that SOMEONE who is in need of it.
"MY PATH"
is a piece that illuminates what's inside me and the things that I have endured so that th...
This piece....reworked and re-published at this time for two SPECIAL PEOPLE in the lives of myself and my wife, Marjorie.
I have but one request ...LISTEN CAREFULLY.
Its' words may apply to you or someone that holds a special place in your heart.
"HanoJ"
OUR SPIRIT...LIVES!
PEACE!
Call it out...CONFRONT IT.
There is a concerted attempt to ERASE ALL of our past
"America...The Troubled"
Is a piece I wrote back in February of this year when there was active discussion about eliminating Black History Month and those activities that celebrate the achievements of an entire group of people.
Regrettably, that movement remains alive and well.
Even more regrettable is the fact that there are those am...
Once again, I hear the electrical currents running behind/within the walls...
I DO NOT know about you'll, but my dreams are as vivid as the time I spend during what we consider as awake.
I am aware that throughout the past five years I have broached the subject of dancing colors, hearing the sound of electricity running through the walls, and many other things that may be considered as weird.
However, this episode...
"E...
This piece, or the completion of this piece, occurred this morning. I started it several months ago while walking along the wooded path that I normally travel.
Admittedly, I have not been doing much walking lately. Nor have I been doing much writing.
However, that all changed on Friday, July 31 while lying in bed.
I HEARD the electricity running again-behind the walls.
I immediately jumped up and went straight to ...
There are mothers who are condemned to needlessly cry throughout the land.
This time the focus is on the mother of Nolan Xavier Wells!
Say his name.
"Mama...It's Still Circling"
is a piece that seeks to illuminate the deaths of our young men and women whose lives are "snuffed out" without adequate explanation.
Whether the cause is alleged suicide or being seemingly abandoned on an island-no investigation or cursory...
If you truly listen.,..
Along this journey we are often caught juggling numerous those things we want to hold to while seeking to determine the importance of each.
"Trifecta"
...again, a piece that called for me to revisit.
Because it addresses the quandary created by the vicissitudes of life and those things we ALLOW to rent, lease, and own that SPECIAL SPACE- within our minds.
As stated about many pieces I have p...
If one did not believe that they would be impacted by...
"The Real"
...it certainly now should be abundantly clear by the rulings handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States on yesterday-June 25,2026 that there decisions are PURPOSELY INTENDED to impact ALL PERSONS of color, the marginalized, and the disproportionally affected.
This ruling, and the as yet unannounced ruling on birthright citizenship, is...
And still....
We all have memories and stories that we can talk about our father's. The stories I have are not based on long eloquent conversations that we had- that was not Snow!
My life lessons were derived from observing- the good and bad -of this man of action.
"Pops"
...encapsulates the essence of the man that had "many" mouths to feed and went about those things to ensure we had "s...
"Perspective is Relative"
Even as one reads those words, the thoughts that begin to formulate in one's mind may differ tremendously from what was intended by the author.
It takes some growing up to actually arrive at the point of "becoming grown" and realizing and accepting that as we traverse along this journey- that perhaps everything is working out as it's supposed to.
The piece I was led to publish today spea...
Oftentimes, that for which we find ourselves desperately searching is right there within our hands or contained within that which we willingly discard.
This entire piece, music and all, is intended to be disconcerting-an example of what we find ourselves doing within our lives.
Over complicating things when there is no need and casting away those things that are/were designed to simplify the entire journey.
"Hold...
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