escape in the land beyond
fear to seek what lies beneath
the mystery
a hidden treasure
is...

Flint pastor broke into Trump's speech
It was deemed to be overreach
Her people aren't fodder
...

Flint pastor broke into Trump's speech
Words were deemed to be overreach
Her people aren't fodd...

Filled with Thoughts
I'm lost in a maze
wanting to get out
but I'm not free.
Bound by Pain an...

An old story but true of a fool

in love she soon used like a tool.

Vowed "always and foreve...

This is a country Blacks gotta take

Even if by force let's shake like an earthquake.

Non-violen...

In solitude of slumber I find…mind wandering down distant paths…and endless questioning…like…what...

North Carolina is the new South Africa
You would think it wasn't America
Fewer early vote ops
...

let's melt the ice
crack a few eggs
syrup on pancakes
a little butter for taste
time is like ...

doing it for the Vibe
14k likes
one of the best
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this is a different beast
this is a different East
use to be West
every ones fighting
to be t...

if I get lost in you
and you get lost
in me
how will we ever
find eachother again
love is a ...

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NYPD must surely be crazed
Eric Garner's killer got a raise
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on back of my hand

a ladybug takes the stage

and models fall reds

What's good PoertyVibe?
Yep, I'm still alive,
And I'm still writing,
My production is down, bu...

Checked into the hotel, read thru the amenities,
Turned on the TV WTF, no BET!
Plus the bathroo...

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Do you actually think you can just leave

Do you really think that I'm gone let you be

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We write our rhymes at night ×3
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some have seen the sun

never seen the horizon

felt teardrops

never tasted one

felt th...

You know the hardest thing about being strong

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Li'l Wayne says racism no longer stands
Please recall he's a tool of the man
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I’ll wait for you

As long as it takes

For you to see yourself

The way I see you

Until...

You love me

Like only you can

Especially different

To a rhythm all your own

A beat on...

I hold back tears

Afraid to let them flow

Let them gush down my checks

Like waterfalls

We two had stones
Ready to cast
Sharp tongues yearning
To reap flesh
Words eagerly anticipati...

Shadows
Accompanied
The silence
Voiceless
Terrified being
Shaking with fear
Cosmic sized ra...

trouncing fields of dreams

like locusts

swarming innocent crops

in their prime

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if it is not to get the attention
of someone else
what if you cry out
...

is it me or is the world going crazy
is it me or is everybody trying to kill their babies
is it...

need some gum
a stick of anger management
to hold back the flames of rage
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coming after every one
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hoping you would meet me
halfway somewhere in the middle
over the ra...

the highs up to 90
about to be 100
wanna know why it thunders
you better take a number
July 1...

a flower leaves all its pedals
where they fall
it does not reach down
pick them up and try to ...

been coming home
smelling like smoke
falling in love with fire
always smelling like soot
walk...

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didn't know not one of those people
sometimes life can...

outback by the railroad tracks
under a pile of stone
is where I hid my mothers favorite song
s...

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MLK let her...

I began to writesodesperately that I need to express it. I longed for the moment, the day, the ho...

If I could write

I would recite

Every poem from

Shakespeare, andPoe

Instead I’ll resor...

You woke upthis morning,
On the edge of a nightmare, at thebrink of today'sfears,
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in fearful astonishment

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with your ...

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From the start my heart got beat
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Each and every one of us have a stairway to heaven
Yes, we can't see the stairs on Earth, but we...

Each and every one of us have a stairway to heaven
Yes, we can't see the stairs on Earth, but we...

Jesus you raised me up from a boy to man from dirt
You watched my progress overflow
I often fai...

A woman of God don't keep an angry mind because acting mad gives you notice
An woman of God don'...

Without my permission, you stole my heart...

Said it didn't matter, as it was torn apart.....

Lateinthenighttime’sheatatthestreet'scornerawomanstands,

Watchingforafastsignalofanevenst...

Around twenty-five years ago

I lost all contact with life you know.

I'd sit on my pity-pots...

Lord God I wish I were blue

Like the skies and blend in near you.

But I'm not,I am black

The story of brother Quaku is a cautionary tale, Of what not to do, and how to fail, An internshi...

raindrops and mud

god cried today;

his tears fertilized

the womb

of mother earth—

The Waning of Tides of Love

Like the ebb

and flow

of tides

to thirsty shores,

when love stopped by…

unrepentantly

love

stopped by

today

to say hello

agai...

simple thoughts on true love…

true love

does not betray

the flesh

nor play with t...

reaching out...

the fair chance

of it all

raises fear

chasing hope

us

check...

Dawn Dream Awakening

The jasmine scented air

gently caressed

the night

as foam creste...

BLACK SWAN IN THE SPRING OF LOVE

There is an itching in my heart

I cannot scratch—

A...

a love supreme...

laboring through the trials

of day

and the weeping pains

of nig...

Love sonata

Oh how I would love

to write poems of flaming

love—singing songs stingi...

Love Is And Will Always Be: Look At You And Me!

Trying to stand still

In a moving world

The Showing

(Apropos an Exhibition of the Times)

The hand of time paints

Upon the ca...

Pushing Up Hope

Though we walk wearily

through the valley of death,

the roaring rede...

omg…

bombs—dark clouds

of death—once again

rain down blood

upon peace

wallowin...

Just Moseying Along...

In the fullness

of time

the empty scales

of justice

crave b...

in the cisterns of mud…

not indigenous

nor aboriginal

yet

a claimed national

r...

The Last Supper of Hope

Grief has exhausted itself

And pain has abandoned the heart;