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I know you are hurting I can see your pain
The loss of a loved one is heartbreaking
But he ...
Praises to the father
What happened to the mother
They said in his blood
But it was her blood ...
Hung beaten and ridiculed
Took out of homes
Not allowed to be schooled
Washing the floors on m...
How can you love yourmother
And hate your own brother
Same blood flowing
Divided against one a...
Are we living
No, we're dying
Drug popping and pistol buying
What kind of seeds are bein...
I’m hot,
Wayyyy to hot,
I’m starting to get dizzy,
Someone get me some water,
...Life stinks,
When you don’t have anyone to
share it with,
I keep day dreaming,
...Being sober sucks,
I’m realizing why I smoke,
My mind is loud,
Weed shuts me up,
...Plight of the Black Woman
Like a solider, we march on..
Proudly holding down the front line..
...
If They Only Knew
How many times would our Ancestors turn in their graves?
How many tears would...
SunKissed
Carbon Melaninated prototype
Bearer of the light
Nations procreated from my DNA
In ...
Being Black in America (no Privilege) some just can’t stand it
Change doesn’t happen until we ...
Argh re
solution between
self and eldest
dear daughter
more remote,
now then locat...
When you see me
Hold me
Touch me
Feel me
You picked me and wanted me
You invested ...
we are living in uncertain times
a fair weather friend a nursery rhyme
eye taunt to the fab...
gone are the days with Sid & Nancy
nothing to fancy
to smile among the leaves
 
...gone are the days with Sid & Nancy
nothing to fancy
to smile among the leaves
 
...gone are the days with Sid & Nancy
nothing to fancy
to smile among the leaves
 
...there she sat
with woven hat
in cadence to her swell
through a living hell
with words...
faint laughter
in the lulabye
a pull of my heart
with cadence to scent
 
on...
fought back those sullen tears
brow to big
to get ahead of the plan
the wandering hand
...At dawn, your skin speaks to me through my skin like a drum beat
Tawny creatures of fur and fe...
Though thine
two grown
former babes
in crib age,
now lead
checkered lives,
no l...
ANNIVERSARY
(Apropos A Sable King & Ebony Queen)
Perpendicular...a score and ten...
...I, (and the missus)
pleased as
punch residing
at this Schwenksville,
Pennsylvania loc...
1797 the town of Griswold, London
in back of the banks lived a wizard who wanted the world bette...
Power concedes nothing without demand
Success comes from conflict, the mind, heart, and hand
We...
As long
term aspiring
gurgling (stream
of consciousness)
paperback writer,
there d...
Gun
 
 
 
It was the year 1856 stayed at the summer styx
the ...
I'm sorry if it seems like I'm playing with your emotions.
I've never felt this way about any...
If you tell me to chill then Imma fall back
But when I hang up this phone, please don’t call b...
When fake became real
It was just a con of a deal
Gods to crypto currency, figments of some...
Sitting in a new barbershop on a Saturday
Don’t have an appointment but it won’t matter anyway...
While meditating
earlier today,
a flashback leapt
clear for
me to assay,
those eve...
I want to live
I wanna live like no one is watching
like I'mrunning through thefinish lineb...
Find someone who keeps you grounded, calms your soul, and provides you with inner peace.
Someo...
Malignant gangrenous
political cancer
corrupts, festers,
and poisons
United States,
Secrets kept
Of tears silently wept
During endless dreams
Of you while I slept.
Searching m...
 
He sat there gazing at the magnolia painting
Above my fireplace where it was h...
 
I am so foolish and naive...I must have
forgotten...shattered glass does hurt....
Laying there at the shore,
My aloe ebony sheen body
Basking beneathpalm shaded skie...
Sitting here
in igneous space
wrestling with naked thoughts
finds me face to fac...
I took a journey deep in reverie. I found myself at the corner of Chance and Destiny in front of ...
Dictionary in
hand Bobbies
manned state
of the
spy craft created
strategic
peri...
for going against the father
its a must that the evil should die
nothing personal
its just rev...
there came up from the projects a Brooklyn youth
holding anger in his eyes he came at a big su...
This Totally
Tubular Thinker
Touts Taylor Swift
(distilled from
the playlist crucible
quite ...
God is a single parent
Distracted, all or nothing, aberrant
All powerful in the since that a Da...
Top notch
legal scholar
Erin Go Braw
(less concerned
about being
fair versus
ab...
I ask myself politely
what resistance flowers here
against love treaded lightly
or losing lovi...
i yawn at the devils speech
you lie and accuse falsely
you must of been born with severe brain ...
Today the Sunday
special brief
iCloud online
worship session,
I did attend
(via re...
Released these demons into your paradise
So our spawn can con its way thru to the afterlife
...It’s possible to admire and sympathize atthe same time
Athletes got money and fame but when th...
I was on the EL riding to a Cub’s game
There was this young brother talking some crazy yang
He ...
In the nexus of my birth (Chicago)
On a business trip so the visit was terse
I don’t know w...
“Give me your tired…your poor”… children.
They can stay, but you must go or die
Try...
cue words:
motions
to ebony tuned
rhythms
slicing stolen space
with sa...
Withdrawing fear,
I deposited strength:
Investing in the struggle—
Blood debt to...
Trails leading once to survival hunting grounds
Have now become urban streets of survi...
Echoes of lies resound endlessly
throughout his-story: “we hold these truths
to be ...
I was high this morning, drug free and my thoughts were potent. I had wisdom in my cleavage and p...
Im rich b*tch, or more to the point, Im rich, b*tch but you could move that comma one more time a...
Far moost
o' me
three score
minus one year
tethered upon
terra firmae where
pla...
Prevaricated Forth
Write Declaration!
As most every
girl and boy
taught back
in the day,
...
Destruction
She fell in love with his attitude
fearless nature
hunger for blood
He was a ...
WOMAN UP!
Her heart exploded into shame
how could she settle into shame
the pain
the game
...
Kamikaze
 
ough, two the window two to shore
rrgh..hey penny one penny tri penny ...
a call for renewal
to be the perfect jewel
a time of testing to most
like a lost seagull...
lets just leave it all in the past
and thank the lord for his kindness
i never thought that we'...
I stare at the rain drops on my window, the simplicity of them and the delicate patterns they mak...
None of this is real, nothing is simple, nobody is in charge
The place where you want to be is j...
Look up the Black Codes to better understand American history
When you read them you’ll be pisse...
(as imagined
by this
lumpenproletariat)
When no bigger
then innocuous,
ho hum, happy
go l...
in a sense
its no way you could ever
take away my innocence
the first time that i tasted sin
...
I cannot cry for the children
of others—
the deaths of my own have drained dry
t...
Deception has always been
a strategy and ally of injustice—
veiling its ruthless de...
There was nothing that I could do but reach out for you
I tried to wrap my mind around the tho...
Today I sit on the pinnacle of trust knowing that my poems will reach the masses
I look past all...
I am a woman with my own mind and head space
that independent S W A G
running this
Saved...
I have the pen
but God you are the writer
I work the pen stroke by stroke
but God you are the ...
Upon (die) re rhea
ding previous poem
All In The Name
Of "Progress" zen
a glaring, leering,
The door opens
no words are spoken
kissing sucking touching caressing undressing furniture ...
Let me tell you a story about the greatest head I’ve ever had
This sister was bad
She stood...
We all ask the question is there more to this
the conclusion is
a result of the choices mad...
Can I touch you?
Where?
Perhaps where you’d like to be touched most
That secret place th...
I want to be your poet
Pray that my words put you in the moment
Elevate your soul when you’...