they say he asked for the
cup to pass
but I don't think he was
asking not to die
I think he held the future
in his hands
and wanted to remain
touchable by fear

we do the same in the
quiet mornings
staring into dark liquid
of another d...

I wouldn’t kiss you if you told me to,

while I’d prefer to look into your eyes

first.

I would rather be without you

sometimes to feel it in my heart how it

hurts.

I’ll die trying to love you perfectly,

cause denying it’s impossi...

Name me the time when we didn’t love

beyond this world’s margin to keep

yoursand my life from going into an

orbit.

Just name me the time when we needed

space to realize that alienation doesn’t

reconcile truths that we need to ref...

I remain in my mind for thoughts

to combine and make peace with me.

For on the outside I hurt with grief,

and it cuts when my flesh bleeds.

I try to make sense of things but can’t

stay out of the blade’s reach.

Right now they’re ...

Hold me close and easy,

for if you need me—need me.

Unclothe me nice and slow,

getting to know my every simile.

Feel the way my heart beats

when I breathe out, like the sea.

Skin silk like sand on its beach,

hiding treasures w...

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some people go away

some people move away

some people pass away

I sometimes drift away

I can be sitting right here nodding away
at everthing you're saying

and be a thousand miles away from this
chair listening to a different
conversation

when I'm in my notebook
I'm in my bag

pulling out stuff I forgot I had

a backward K and question mark
both been waiting in the dark

some were seeds I couln't sow
now they're things I finally know

some nights I write love poems
some nights three women sing
and my heart demands one

Ella sings about a room

a chair

in a house

that's not a home

Sarah sings about what it's like
to be strung out on love

Nina demand...

I says "I know me"
Me says "I don't know me"
Self says "I agree'

there was a school of
mastery

over the doorway hung a
sign that read

MONK

except the K was bacward

a student pointed it out to
the master teacher

"the K is backward"

the master teacher looked
at the sign and said
...

tick tock out of the box breaking the locks running the block you want speed I’ll give you speed no time to breathe no time to bleed no time for the things that we thought we’d need the city is a machine dumping coal in the fire higher and hi...

From the Founder & CEO of Another K Production, LLC
Kemymalia (K.)™

I want to share something respectfully regarding my experience here on PoetryVibe. All of the work I post on this platform, my poems and the copyrighted episodes I release alo...

ER CRITICAL CARE TRAUMA UNIT A
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11:34 am
08-29-18

Chaos of deafening screams
Reality has fled, left with only daydreams
Here I stand in mental confusion
Tears of disillusion
God help me please
Souls dropping toda...

You gave us the throne of the universe

Love and honor unto humanity as we daily converse

Standing around too long, arrested because too slow to disburse

The storms, the sun, the rains

Unnatraul western emollients to ease the discomfort of our ...

Sparkling diamonds, such a joy to see, wear
From the jewels embedded in my earlobes, adorned around my neck
To the crown of prominence resting atop my curly hair
Whose hands dipped into the Motherland to give me my illustrious shine
Sweltering...

Mmmm, let me AI you, my love

Let me fill you with the wonder of the skies above

Softly place my heart at the helm of your brass feet

A soft whisper in your ear when our intellects in the mist come to greet

Your throaty groans, my sultry moans ...

Yo, look at the sandbag Just look at the sandbag one single heavy sack of dirt sitting at the gate trying to play hero against a wall of rolling white fate but the water don’t care about your little burlap the water came to take it all in a sna...

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke.
The flood waters flooded the 9th ward and most of the city causing tremendous floodi...

You see me walking with a limp
I see me walking by faith
You see me working at a gas station
I see me aligned and in position
You see me driving a 20 year old car
I see another answered prayer

You see me as a single woman with 5 childre...