like a bird perched in a tree
a Poet is always listening
chirping things many do not
understan...

lost touch with every thing I used to feel

got a feeling I'll never touch the same again

I'...

They scream were Is right and yell out justice!

But they only do so to hide all of their injusti...

black is bold
black is gold
black is dark
black is a spark
black is calm
black is the bomb
...

Petri dish politics

continue

to soar to an apex

contradiction

where we’re...

Just another young tryna find his way

Doing all the things that’ll shorter my finer days

S...

Broken,

not an x-ray

nor color knew her bruise,

she was open for closure.

Lying by h...

i cried today

no tears came

my chest heaved in my head

i could feel all the emotions

i can deal when you are like this

i prefer you didnt drink

and

since you insist

im ok...

a root to every cause
a push to every fall
every invention with
intention to destroy
others w...

daydreaming

lost gazing in the magnificence of the sky

do I belong in this astral plane

Keep your hands inside the ride at all times

Taste famine while wolves feast

Welfare for bi...

“FOR whom the bell tolls…?

COVID death toll rises…

Bells can’t be unrung…

Pa...

Yes, we’ve scaled

the mountain top…

no longer the children

of Sisyphus….we’re ov...

Sitting here I felt as if I was drowning

until I realized that I was just sitting ther...

TENDERIZED FEAR…

It’s not that I am not afraid,

It’s just that I am not scared

We sh...

Love’s love is unique…

Broken hearts cry out in love;

Love hurts and love heals…

With all the seriousness going on with the Virus everyone watchin the news gettin the rightful Bl...

I will write Poetry untill

thesefingers fall off grab glue then

continue that's what Poet's...

if I had took your love
I wouldn't know what
to do with it where to
put it or where it goes
i...

this song I love it puts me in a place
where nothing happened it makes me
dance I always sing w...

I didn't get lost because I didn't
know the righteous way to go
I got lost because I went with
...

I broke your vase
you broke my heart
I didn't mean for it to fall
I ran to catch it but it was...

A man who is white is the same as a man who is black

The same features but character is someth...

She watches intently as we board the train,

A lot lust and emotional game,

A unspoken bond ...

She is the backbone, the spine, the nerves, my words,

She is the family every noun, pronoun, a...

I watch life in a timely fashion, but what does that mean,

Does it mean I watch time,is it rea...

Sometimes I wish I can stay sleep
Only to dream of things so beautiful that manifests in reality...

i see the good in everyone

even if no one feels any is left

by doing this i get put in the ...

Surrendered to sorrow

precious broken hearteds

Up throughout the glazed Autumn

tucked ...

Jesus loved us so much

He knew this was the only way

The final sacrifice

Jesus a sinless...

Did'nt mean no harm

By all the smooth talking and charm

Did'nt mean no harm

By the soun ...

What a woman

Simply said

Cant distance the thoughts in my head Wondering whats next

Got ...

Let's just keep this as a ***
Don't want to get my emotions involved
I just want some when I w...

I am not open to anymore bull and lies that only leave me teary eyed. That only leave me left pic...

Had the extreme pleasure of working with this talented Poet Mr. RBPoetry!

"Melody"

Let lips...

If I open my soul
And poured it all out
Laid it on a platter for all to see
Would anyone under...

The awkwardness about you
Is what drew me to you
Your boyish smile
Your knowledge of the world...

If I wrote everything thing I thought down
Social Media would be covered in words of
Pain and P...

She is everything she was not without him
He makes her complete
He compliments her
In ways tha...

Extreme pleasure writing Ink with this talented Man, Poet, Artist Mr. Jerome Bradley

"Happy An...

I been on a journey

I ran from a bush

it was burning

I fell in some holes

I was learn...

if I knew than what I know now

than I wouldn't have known how

than I wouldn't have known wh...

I had to go to the store for lettuce on that long walk home sweating bullets praying I didn't gra...

I’m not sure what to do

Besides buying toilet paper and food

What if the life we once knew

I carry your heart in my pocket

Only you can make it melt, like chocolate

Let's go away togethe...

To God Be The Glory…

(Apropos of Another Blessed Day)

In the clear

brightness of mor...

Dig deep

into the tree's child

with a sharp mind

revealing a craft.

Leave no pages ...

The darker-hued are well acquainted with being a social distant

urban minority;

Seg...

You like what you see,

my high for your love,

climbing my sugar hill

like a queen through her ...

Like polluted rivers cascading into the sea,

People are dying in their own secretions....

meet me in a special place
when this is over
meet me in a special place
when this is done

mee...

they say stay home

they don't say stay awake
they say stay home

they didn't say take a bre...

There is a Light that Dances on a Thousand Graces

Marred in Spaces

Reserved Specifically to Not...

Touch me,

feel my blood move,

flowing towards your basin

to fill its futility.

Let i...

What have you to lose...???

Nothing that can’t be replaced;

Only…this dear life…

Freedom, what a commodity to be remiss

Ignorance is truly a bliss

There are too many of us who ...

You got parents out here scared or to damn busy to discipline kids, but got the nerve to say this...

Damn

I'm lit

staggering trying to maintain my composure

Call me Stagger Lee

My brain ...

Between the sheets,

skin silk like fabric

coming over me

like an orgasm.

Muscle spas...

Have you ever had a silent cry

those are the worst kind

where you heave and never make a so...

Covid 19...

Came on the scene ...so suddenly...

You'd not have even noticed it...

Passenge...

too many goody two shoes acting like their feet don't stank quick to call you alcoholic coz they ...

Poverty stricken,

three days to vacate,

no place for a heart

homed in the dark.

Bench in th...

Angel of mine.

Angel of mine, Oh how I love your mind.

The way you speak to me in that deep b...

Eye am becoming

A precious jewel made from dirt, gravel and dust
Shining so brightly
As the su...

Aren’t you tired of settling?

Are you tired of meddling

With things

That don’t concern y...

Eye sleep in womb universe heartbeats
Alone eye stand
Forging own pathway, not following
commo...

are we dreaming or are we
still sleep we got to stay 6"
apart to keep from going
6" deep we ca...

I hope you stocked up on enough toilet paper, weed and beer
Since you won’t need them any...

As the nose in the center

of the face so is the inevitability

that the sun shall ri...

I love you my sweet lover always and forever, Hold my heart tight and never let my beats go, embr...

Eye write and

Build on...

Ink spill on...

Creativity

been on...

4 eye never

pro...

Counting …our blessings…

While the worldly …spin the dice…

Playing the ...

walk my way

but slow it down baby dont walk so fast

cause see you pass I want this monment ...

My lungs gave up on me,

they couldn't fight another minute.

The depths were unclear,

and t...

Embrace me with your mind,

for it is all that need hold me.

Forever remember the two of ...

THE KNOWING KNOT…..

Throes not, coloring righting blocks for naught

Thoughts fizz, like...

Time cops, passing periods, punctually reappearing

Fear monger or just in feelings, seeing numbe...

Woolly my hair is

Intimidating to some in its natural frizz

Why do we judge by the color of...

MOVING ON IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

Into the eye of the storm

We have gone,

and there’...

I feel like a sitting duck
in a pond don't know
what's going on
in the middle of
hunting seas...

Fallen

stars against the rain,

whimpered wishes

watched through the window's pain.

D...

To A Distant Loving…

Love has no boundaries

and can’t be quarantined.

No, love knows...

Social Distancing can also lead to social Dishonesty. If one is honest and truthful and acce...

A Sharing With You…

(Apropos of Non-Virtual Penning)

Sitting here quietly…contemplating...

A simple thank you
A worthy welcome,
Contemplating fantasies
I smile in admiration imagining
...

Havent felt it in a long time

Being in love

When i do it's usually for someone i know i can lov...

With each rising sun
So too does the beauty
Of God's handiwork.

4/1

How strange it is,

the psyche of humanity;

it seems that only

in the shadow of death

From the moment I stepped
Outside for another short
Trip to the dumpster,
I said to myself,
“...

Love is you
Love is me
Love is the feeling
That sets us free.
Free from our worries
Free fro...