The Blood of My Poetry: Legend's Tale

This is a journey of one man born in Brooklyn, New York. This is his tale of heartache, joy, pain and love in an urban jungle. This is the story of the greatest street poet and how he came to be recognized as such.

His name is Legend and in the year 1980 he was born in Brooklyn, New York. This is his story from birth and the experiences that make him the greatest street poet to ever touch a microphone. Raised amid the backdrop of the crack eighties and nineties. This is how he overcame tragedy and avoided becoming one of the many statistics of that era. With Hip Hop being a vital part in his life, he does the only thing that he is naturally good at – He writes. He writes with the hope that this art form called poetry can give him wings to fly out of the hood. This is how he became his namesake – A Legend!

Eric Bonner was born March 28th 1980 in Brooklyn, New York. There he would like so many kids in the late eighties and early nineties would be involved in gang activity. The combination of losing his mother due to a stroke at 13 and the murder of his best friend at 15 pushed him to start writing poetry as a way to deal with the loss of the closest people in his life. He performed poetry slams throughout high school and never stopped writing even after graduating from college with a degree in Computer Technology. He still writes poetry for his poetry blog The truth's Poetry Booth. This book has been in the making for twenty years and is heavenly influenced by the thing he says saved his life. His love of Hip Hop music. He enjoys time vacations with his family. His wife Lateva, sons Christopher and Christian and daughter Aria. He also is a avid sports fan and video game enthusiast since first playing Colecovision. A system his parents bought for Christmas at the age of six years old. Eric is firm believer in a higher power and puts his faith in God because he says "If 2Pac believes in him, then I do too".