Awareness about behavior,
present since mine days of yore
an unswerving allie analogous
to pea...

Adherence regarding credo
to finish reading arbitrarily
self selected book beginning
to end si...

I stand able, eager, & ready to jump
impossible mission to swallow lump
muscles primed analogou...

you

in that hip-huggin’ black dress
just lookin’ for me to
lock my arms around your waist
a...

Castaway stranded on figurative
deserted island pitted with absolute
zero salvation, sole recou...

When alive colorful turns of phrases
uttered courtesy my father or mother
whose ability to desc...

to tickle your fancy dear reader rabbit,

perchance European G-man double agent

regarding th...

poem
tucked neatly discretely away underneath three upside down walnut shells
people
places
t...

If the world is pushing you, it may be time to push back. To take what is yours and declare self ...

in the words of the The Isley Brothers " I Got Work To Do" and my work to do ain't got nothing t...

I wish you knew the sacrifices you had to make to get here, you really step in and out of some sh...

Its Miami in January and I am dropping hints all winter. Cold weather and a cold demeanor wont ma...

as does yours truly,

whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing icela...

My heart is humming

My gaze upon you is running

My soul through

My skin

S...

she told me
she was only nineteen
maybe twentyish
simply having a quick Sunday afternoon soul ...

Haunted dreams and and daydreams

And echoes of the past

The sound was just a s...

I’m so apoplectic, I'm overcome with anger

With the last inauguration, my nation became a stra...

if your name is melancholy,

the scant tidbits I know of French.

perfect cold day to dow...

Most of the time you have to bring it to the world on-demand, they will try to bring tragedy to y...

I think I learned some of the secrets to this whole thing, you have to be consistent and avoid th...

Ala Goofus and Gallant
highlights my diametrically
divergent alter egos

always the reserved
...

tell tale sign where

winter storm Demi left her mark.

Beautiful and bountiful visual scen...

and ratchet up global warming

like bubbling vegetable stew

with tsk... tsk... heard

cour...

because I am black
and a writer of poems
my semi-automatic pen should be loaded with fatal word...

but much to my relief, said mandatory inquisition (rather inspection) will take place sixty nine ...

Traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall

still extant scads of decades since
co...

No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed,
and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025
e...

it used to be my student desk
paper
typewriter and pen
this was when words were newly put toge...

Please tell me you are reading this because you absolutely love black poetry sites. I did a compl...

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

The l...

then
we wore afros and dashikis
and took to the streets with poetic words for our women
milita...

By gravity said law
linkedin with physics
stating that a body at rest
will remain thus unless ...

for Mutualism among Homo sapiens
long thought to be a pipe dream
case in point sited by a coupl...

All the roses
have turned grey

the dandelions
have withered away

g r e e n e r . ....

blizzard in DC
but don't look for accumulating flakes of snow and ice
not sure today what the a...

A Sober Man’s Heart

“The triangular theory of love holds that love can be understood in terms ...

(alternately titled: unrelenting flatulence)

initially crafted the eleventh day of October
tw...

after implementing long overdue criminal justice reforms,
especially affecting marginalized grou...

Shrouded in darkness

When the sun don’t shine

The light within

T...

when I came into being who I am Sam Cooke was telling the world he was born by the river in a lit...

I am here hoping you exceed all of your limitations. We were all meant for something greater and ...

A part of me died that day,

Not with a scream, but reading a text.

A heavy sigh of regret

primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking Glycopyrrolate
2 MG Table...

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

I awoke from m...

How in the world did we get here, to the point where we see ourselves as floating images of thing...

Who (on a lark) doth
spur my distant soul
fully bellowed ahoy
quickly hastening
ye to catfish...

Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the t...

sick people will make you sick if you're not already sick if you're already sick you probably got...

Perchance yar juiced a young man or woman

maybe born, bread and raised
in the city that never...

Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress.

...

Her summery spirit and winterly blues

Seemingly Eternal and

Alive in the my...

A minuscule might each separate human, and even collectively
(the entire race of mankind) no mat...

as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky t...

there are those who came before you that came after you there are those who came after you who di...

The first hint of light

And the new day has begun

In the shadows of the sun...

Big and beautiful dreams

picture perfect reality

of the heart and mind

Alive...

(no matter extreme global

warming more dire,
then cursing me smoldering

infernal languishi...

a blizzard of blinding demoniacal
highly radioactive fueled banshees

(analogous to a bajillio...

something is broken and I can't fix it and I can't get in touch with those who can but I can't gi...

when I see stars in the sky I think about all the things that dominate the sky but those things h...

Feathers in the breeze

On the sea scene

The sea’s scene

By boardwalk painters se...

Snowed in

Natures house arrest

Warm cider

Picture perfect

Kind of day

Suns...

they told us what happened they showed us what happened now their trying to convince us it happen...

Lots of things a mystery

to all

In this present dimension is

all I know and can tell

sometimes I feel as though I'm heading in the wrong direction I could turn around but curious abo...

in nineteen eighty, twenty twenty five seemed to be far away now that I've arrived it seems like ...

we gotta stop blaming the devil for everything "the devil is not busy" I know the devil personall...

Steady rain swirled, pooled,
and eddied around rolled
up pant legs skinny ankles, which
immedi...

Absolute zero escape

velocity gutted dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full...

I comport myself with quiet pridefulness,
plus intellectual whimsy

aware that "FAKE" pretenti...

who did pötschke
and squander many an opportunity
to become a mensch
instead he became persona...

Start 25 off with thissun

A speck of dust I

stand in a barren land

just this speck of du...

Im on fire and still on fire for 2025. I came to write excellent poetry and your opinion really d...

finds me (a doggone muttering Homo sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (s...

Someone in the world is enjoying a drink out of a mug with our picture on it.

We didn’t last u...

who knows when no one's talking about what needs to be known who knows when no one knows what's g...

Haunted by the howling wind

Blinded by the moonlight

Broken

By and by withou...

whenever I needed to append the date to a document

Though the situation infrequently arose
fo...

Never let go of the lessons learned from yourlife experiences, the wrongpeople you've let in butf...