it used to be my student desk
paper
typewriter and pen
this was when words were newly put together
jigsaw puzzle pieces on a cardboard plate
they spoke to me late in the night amidst black velvet posters
my black light illumination
sounds o...

Please tell me you are reading this because you absolutely love black poetry sites. I did a complete deep dive on Poetry Vibe and I am providing my perspective on it.

If you are reading this for the first time, I wanted to personally welcome to...

Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.

The late reverend American minister and activist,
now and forever more immortalized in the promised land
despite his work among the living left incomplet...

then
we wore afros and dashikis
and took to the streets with poetic words for our women
militant words for our people
revolutionary words for the establishment

incarcerations and interments would soon follow
as sure as Willie’s dice would ...

By gravity said law
linkedin with physics
stating that a body at rest
will remain thus unless otherwise
acted upon by an external force,

hence I cannot wrest motion
from inert human matter

regarding nearly lifeless entity

concern...

for Mutualism among Homo sapiens
long thought to be a pipe dream
case in point sited by a couple of recent
purportedly natural events possibly
exacerbated courtesy global warming
namely present conflagrations
include veritable towering infer...

All the roses
have turned grey

the dandelions
have withered away

g r e e n e r . .

is not the grass
on the other side

weeds grow
in the cracks of walls
like dissent


t u m b l e w e e d

roam the streets
...

blizzard in DC
but don't look for accumulating flakes of snow and ice
not sure today what the actual temperature might be
just know for sure
that there will be a
blizzard in DC
could be Jack Frost nipping at noses
or the sun providing a Jan...

A Sober Man’s Heart

“The triangular theory of love holds that love can be understood in terms of three components that together can be viewed as forming the vertices of a triangle. The triangle is used as a metaphor rather than as a strict geom...

(alternately titled: unrelenting flatulence)

initially crafted the eleventh day of October
two thousand and nineteen.

After reading this
tears of laughter ye may weep
withal manner of phlegm spurting from nostrils
unable to succumb to dr...

after implementing long overdue criminal justice reforms,
especially affecting marginalized groups of people.

I vote for more lenient, progressive and tolerant treatment
towards undocumented immigrants, plus implementing
a humane win/win sys...

Shrouded in darkness

When the sun don’t shine

The light within

The strength to find

The bright side

In the truth

That in your days

Doesn’t shine so bright

.

when I came into being who I am Sam Cooke was telling the world he was born by the river in a little tent Stevie Wonder was 13 tickling keys with his Fingertips Martin Luther King was giving his most famous "I HAVE A DREAM" speech Nina Simone comp...

I am here hoping you exceed all of your limitations. We were all meant for something greater and the truth of the matter is that you have accomplished everything you have set out for.

Now you need to set out for something more, something that i...

A part of me died that day,

Not with a scream, but reading a text.

A heavy sigh of regret

Leaving silence where hope once lived freely.

Why did I give my roots?

I didn’t mourn it ..not at first.

Grief came in fragments,

Shards...

primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking Glycopyrrolate
2 MG Tablet three times daily.

Aforementioned physiological malady
the bane worse than death
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of ...

while channeling the energy of Google
exemplified by cute and cuddly moogle.

I awoke from mid-day siesta
exuding peaceful easy feeling
total all encompassing bliss
suffused body electric of mine.

Ecstasy resonated within these lovely b...

How in the world did we get here, to the point where we see ourselves as floating images of things we could have been, the acts we could have done and the myriad of other things that just seem to escape us. We are a positive force in this world an...

Who (on a lark) doth
spur my distant soul
fully bellowed ahoy
quickly hastening
ye to catfish
as a way to avoid
this beastie boy
wherein America playfulness
of generic gull versus buoy
ought tubby coy,

where thee
(latter days haint)
...

Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the titan of fire beside himself with misery,
though no fault of his own
the raging bullish conflagration
a taste of inescapable hell
synonymous with t...