Something about you created a player in me

Blew your whistle, kicked it off, like you ready fo...

Alone in my mind, I try to find

The station to imagination

A little something to overcome t...

What is love but a mere idea?

Making sense of misunderstood hate

Unexplained reason for war...

Physical pain

Does not remain

Emotional pain

Sustains

It hammers

Driving in

A p...

I grabbed ahold of the sunshine

But I couldn't feel the heat.

I shouted out to life

But ...

Playgrounds and honeycombs,

when beauty calls,

I'm buzzing home,

She spreading wings,

I'm ...

I'm Black, I'm melanated,

and I'm proud,

Sometimes I'm silent, sometimes I'm humble,

and s...

Sitting here in my truck just thinking bout her

wonderingwhy I love her so much...

Yesterda...

Coffee black , no sugar , no creamer

awakened thoughts from a tasteless dreamer

Nightmares,...

Never came through a door without a window of hope...

Two sides to a story, what's told is nev...

Paper or plastic? Good question… cause I want neither

Suffocating my ego, your eco won’t give ...

Can I use my words to disable your defenses/

Can i film a movie with my pen and entice all of ...

I can never really get a chance to talk to you and I mean really talk to you. You like a busy fre...

Today i saw a picture of you and almost fainted/

i stopped everything and curled up in my blan...

Let me be your artist
Painting pictures in your mind
Reminding you just how I feel
When ever I...

Prepare your pupils/
It’s the pensive poet/
Propagating petulance to the proper from the poor/
...

Arguments, no one wins,
Feelings brused,
Words thrown like rocks,
Pelt her, tears fall,
Walk ...

Ms. Blanton loves to stand on her head

even though it flushes her face so red.

A dog lover who ...

How impressive are those under the sun.

The growing minds that see me as a great one.

I may...

Oh sister of my furthest sun.

War cries proclaiming our love scream out my chest.

I am as a...

Have you ever thought of our senses?

Four of five we have no control

Our eyes see the beaut...

Have you ever thought of the eight PLANETS?

Earth is the Third that depends on the SUN

Their or...

Stories/

conceptualized,/

in my mind,/

give glory/

to the Guy/

in the sky./

I s...

WhenI look to God

I look to win,

Because many a time in my life

I looked to sin.

No o...

so you say

we all look alike

Is that what you really see

take a closer look at me

you can dis...

my hold back is me

If I look up

then I can see

no margins or boundaries

why be conten...

My fist slams casually against concrete

I’ve tried to run away

Yet the heartbreak repea...

If never confronted

There would be less wanting

Less insistence

There is no resistan...

I thought about the days of yore

Yes, I thought about the times before.

I thought about the...

People of color

Don't speak for me

I'm taking back my

Individuality

Reality steadily

In her palm she held her destiny,

but in her mind she held an inevitable fate. The premonitions ...

He keeps a flute in his boot.

Plays it for strangers, listens for little crashes of loot.

S...

When the bees go extinct, Due to the chemicals in our vegetables and meat, Our present way of lif...

who I am

Is who I be

Including the ebony

not easily broken

bearing the sins

of my ...

I find refuge between your thighs.

Kisses in trail formation from your toes leading to your pr...

HANDS UP I put my palms in the air They took me to ground His boot on my neck They said I was d...

she thought she'd try to be an actress

went to stars' parties, masquerades,

dressed as chap...

Sights like olives

Her antennas to the universe drape the earth like veiny tree roots

Cresc...

It's scary now to think that I came so close to loving you..
After I drove mile after mile, spen...

im gorilla
im ape
least thats what they think
im a neanderthal
cause im shoving leaves in m...

Natural hair.
Natural....hair.
Thick, brownstrands that twist and turn..kink and coil..in a dir...

heart bound to the
rhythm of sickness
A parasite roaming in paradise
consuming my soul
ey...

broken hearts break

Into pieces for reasons

bruised and beaten

reoccurring episodes

b...

New clothes, fresh fade, flyshoes,
Shopping bags and sales tags,
Old friends in a new class,
H...

do you understand me

do you know my truth

did you know that my favorite bible story

was ...

THERE IS SO MUCH CRYING IN THE HOOD

I WISH I COULD STOP IT, WISH I COULD

BABIES CRYING, THE...

Those who say

They have no choice

Neglect to hear the voice

Telling them to

Select th...

Born into religion aiding me to make my decisions

Sorry mama, I chose not to follow

Found a...

Hear the eee eee eee and the eee eee eeep!

black sheep gathered on a curbside street

to blow pi...

Lord, you woke me up early one morning

And upon arising I began stretching and yawning.

Jus...

Im a hurricane and watch me make it wind and rain. I broke land, broke homes, and broke the Inter...

I want to be different

But I did the same thing today that I did yesterday. Why not? Im good a...

it's morning

and we both have

no where else to go

free to move in this bed

free to co...

my emotional recorder

goes deeper than memory ever will

it has drank the poison

all whil...

When Michael Sokolski invented the Scantron back in 1972,
He had good intentions, but never real...

I Quit!
F@*k this $#!+!
All y'all can eat a d!×k!
I'm out dis B!+€#!
Tried to play me like a ...

Roses are red
Cash is bread
Rhymes are jive
The living die
Love ain't blind
Free your mind
...

I want joy...

The sun feel warm..

When you look at it with closed eyes

That orange warm ...

My diary with the Dazed Peach,

My community prejudice for my urban meanings,

Cause you are ...

Was it the caps U cuss that led me to this sickness,

Or the blacks U sought that U found wicke...

if in your heart

the questions that arrive - arrives with answers

and beats - the beats

what if your deeds

came back to you

what if you were forced to feel

what you put me through

NotOnlyWords

(NOT ONE WORD WENT UNNOTICED)

You gave a mighty good speech

No staggeri...

silence is not my consent

i'm not quiet because I have nothing to say

it's the way I th...

Searching for the Light

How much longer I'm I to wander in the dark

Knowing the way out...

Whenever this veteran spit,
The better I get,
Set trip like I just got gas,
87 octane, so when...

She said she wanted some D,
So I obliged,
Front and back seats of my Jeep, in our garage,
Fond...

That's right,
You and me,
All alone, woman let me see,
What you got,
Please lay, don't sit,
...

I prayed to god for strength

The little I did have you snatched from me

All the ignoring my...

You know it's just a joke

You don't get high on coke

See, all you're trying to do is choke

Heard this beat,
In my sleep,
On the edge,
Of Mom and Dad's bed,
Passed out from the summer h...

Excuse that teacher
The so called leader-
Thought you'd lead her-
in the right direction
This...

How can you shine so bright
In a room of darkness
But treat yourself as a
Moving target
This ...

Steady keeping the struggle
Under control
Collected and calm
On the outside-
But inside

I'...

Never gave myself a chance to be sad

The loneliness was lost before

I ever let it consu...

There is a small reflection reflected by her silhouette

The intense light burns her true c...

The unexplainable

So difficult to cope with

Sudden change in people

Like metamorphos...

Let me caress your mind

Feed your thoughts with appetizers

I will makes sense of any confusio...

I use to claim there was no girl for me
Determined to remain the queen
Of infidelity
Always bo...

This deprived mind
Casually dines
Alongside the dawn
With each card and sappy love song
T...

With you it's like pulling teeth

With no effort you plant your feet
into concrete
Exposing you...

Played out in a senseless warfare
Reconstructed structuresof
manufactured tears-
Raging agains...

On white wings flying straight up to Heaven!

The gates are opened and the other angels are wai...

Somebody so polite set to be free,

Absolutely thousands live in this breed,

Aside from deci...

don't judge me

I had to teach myself to learn

I became a open book

begin to turn the pages ins...

I do not speak out of anger

I speak out of danger

Harm is always in the way of

Those who oppos...

I have sown a lot of seed into Hip Hop

Constantly tending to my crops

It's a lifestyle, loved i...

Let us get back to our roots

So we can get to the root of our

Problems so, we can collectiv...

Instantly I became the best me, I could be

The moment fear leapt up and left me

Death is no...

Now I am a man

with hopes, dreams, and many plans.

I know I can achieve someday

the goals I se...