I think I learned some of the secrets to this whole thing, you have to be consistent and avoid the hard pops. One pop, two pops, and three pops drop. You can just as easily fade into oblivion. Or you can be the consistent hurricane that is always ...

Ala Goofus and Gallant
highlights my diametrically
divergent alter egos

always the reserved
obedient docile boy

afeared to stray outside narrow

circumscribed comfort zone

figuratively tethered
extremely short leash

choked me lik...

tell tale sign where

winter storm Demi left her mark.

Beautiful and bountiful visual scene

(seldom seen around

tri-state geographic area

for quite a few years,
where temperate global warming
spelled unseasonably warm winters)

and ratchet up global warming

like bubbling vegetable stew

with tsk... tsk... heard

courtesy Greta Thunberg,

who would utter "how dare you..."

I bundle with layers to stave off cold

energy efficiency drilled courtesy

me la...

because I am black
and a writer of poems
my semi-automatic pen should be loaded with fatal words trained at temples
blonde-haired
blue-eyed
those made of glass and stone

I am to blindly follow those whom I never voted for
and shout
“righ...

but much to my relief, said mandatory inquisition (rather inspection) will take place sixty nine days later (due the math and inform me of any error if applicable), which date will be March 28, 2025.

My entire body electric went into system o...

Traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall

still extant scads of decades since
complex edifice erected to force tall
permanently leaving me unmoored,
marooned, and furloughed ready for pall
bearers to spill soil upon my
then em...

No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed,
and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025
even converted from skeptic to orthodox Judaism,
and strictly followed the Torah,
Talmud, and traditional Jewish laws,
and made good on the gamut
o...

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

.