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Continue to push forward my people
The fam needs you.
Keep it together like the thread through ...
(a poetic partial fiction
blended, diced, fricaseed,
marinated, mixed, pureed, sautéed,
stewed...
Sometimes to do something really great, you have to disappear. Just leave the world behind and fo...
I have been stuffed lately, literally full of sh*t. I've been doing too much talking and not enou...
Brainstorming yields casting
the following plumbline
netting genetic, italic, kinetic,
magneti...
Hostages; caged birds singing.
Hostages; fish jumping out of tanks
to be free.
Hosta...
Hostages; caged birds singing.
Hostages; fish jumping out of tanks
to be free.
Hosta...
Hostages; caged birds singing.
Hostages; fish jumping out of tanks
to be free.
Hosta...
five months ago to the day
Twas the cusp of tooth thousand
twenty three summer solstice...
Word-womb water breaks…
Divine guidance being born…
Wise navel screaming…
Life’s Floodings…*
Monitoring self,
nature makes her decisions;
disaster rains down....
IN EBONIC THANKSGIVING GRACE
Each day of our waning ebon lives
Let us in our beauti...
Here in the midst of waxing time
And the waning of life’s being,
It’s evident—in mind a...
Lord lead me in the pathway of your guidance
In every way engaged in labors of your lo...
Today, though the road ahead
To the mountaintop dream’s reality
And the attainment of...
They say that where there is a will, there is a way.
Ironically, throughout history, e...
Smiling winter waits,
Chilling cold snowflakes forming;
Freezing temps coming:-
30…yet sunny:-
The lake’s water…cold and still:-
Chilled ducks sit…watching:-
...Fall teasing winter…
Winter likewise teasing fall…
Juxtaposed teasing…
...When the lights are low*
As we travel life’s shady road,
Miles reminds us that we need ...
Rumors of wars are over;
Wounding wars everywhere:
A "rest in peace" irony—
Let us s...
Skys’ rainbows are aped;
Fall’s rainbow leaves revealing
Canvasing colors:-
...Skys’ rainbows are aped;
Fall’s rainbow leaves revealing
Canvasing colors:-
...Night’s darkness waning…
Glowing sunlight is waxing…
A new day birthing…
...You are young gifted and worthy of success;
A gifted child of a loving God who gave us...
The night was dark, brisk, and cold
The homeless were wrapped in their blankets
Sheltered by ca...
Strutting into theNew Year like
Goldie
Star studded
Arriving at the annual Players Ball
Full ...
Strutting into theNew Year like
Goldie
Star studded
Arriving at the annual Players Ball
Full ...
Taint holdin nothin back
get out there and vote
Let the clowns of Congress the World
know we a...
until the cowed chickens come home to roost!
Sunlight streaming thru window
body electric of ...
If You Think Lifes Over Becaused Of A Mistake
Believe Me It's All In Your Mind
You May Be A...
You Were Born With Feet Pointed In One Direction
To Walk Or Run Towards Your Goals
Your Wer...
“The Charming Fire”
Come warm up in the charming fire…
That fire that is within me…
...Why should I leave, I just got here. And it really doesnt matterhow much time I have been here, I...
Writing a book, and getting someone to buy and then read it…
Self published, so you must be a ...
The following anecdote baste
upon overactive imagination of mine
in sync with being married
an...
she wanted theman
she had to have the man
she wanted to possess the man
so she possessesed the...
I would notshake hands
with a puppet master
because thosehands
beenup a puppets a**
nothing ever said I have to
nothing ever said I should
nothing ever said I need to
but I did
...stop remembering the dismembering start remembering how to reassemble the disassembling become wh...
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot ou...
For Years I Have Done 200 Push Ups PerDay
My Goal Has Been Reached
45Lb Dumbells Were Used ...
Greed, Money, Power, Control
The Four Words That Causes War All Across The World
The Shameless ...
On a flight in a window seat
The sun shining through the clouds reminds me
Of those picture...
Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while able bodied...
Check 1
Check 2
Check 3
Check 123
Sending a shout out
Station to Station
Insert...
Sometimes I just
cant help it
my Spirit becomes
low
At times the tears begin
to fl...
They goin to take my babies
They all I got
DHS goin take my babies
They done called my cousins...
On today 11/9/23, I was shown from a young mans phone
How A.I. through asking a question can r...
In this life, Evil will try to persuade you with villainous words in different ways, on different...
Never come to me to speak in secrecy
No words secreted egregiously
Yet spoken as omens vehe...
Once labeled the intellectual gangster
From a squire like jester to regal prankster
Some ca...
Love is heavy
You cannot weigh it
Love hurts
But feels so good
You can't measure the ...
Sent my smooching life south,
whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie,
wh...
AS AN ODDITY ON HIS ODYSSEY
CREATING CALCULATIVE CAMARADERIE
I’VE GOT TO BE THE PROGENY
...It was a flawless victory, I was lawless when I did it and undeniable when it was done. I ran gam...
Poetic license I employ
to match inventive
wisdom and witticism
regarding (brother in law of m...
If seek to succeed in keeping within what's noones concern
For if fromthe tongue, one slip up ...
I was all in, black and booted up. I knew better and so I did better. I am an angel and I am abou...
Hope everyone will be enjoying the festiv holidays remember
the homeless remember our troops W...
discombobulated, harried, and lobotomized
state of body, mind, and spirit triage.
Onset of da...
We All
Have Lost
Someone We've Loved
Forever The Memories Are
In Our Mind And In Our Hearts
...You can’t grasp liberation
With butterfinger-hands;
Rather, you must grasp her
W...
Simon of Cyrene
Is mirrored in me each day
Helping me help you
With Simon’s ...
World wars are rising…
Bloody deaths are increasing:-
We’re praying for less.
...Halloween coming
Ghosts of war’s death rising
Treats of peace waiting
Scared...
I have met some real losers. I mean losing is one thing but a real loser is something you really ...
It's Halloween
The night is dark, calm,with no street lights on
Just porch lights on houses...
We was kickin' it
Like a Karate flick
Me and my Chick
A Geto Goddess
Fantastic Voyage...
A young man
A friend of mine
Back in the 80's
In the Lou
I wonder if he knew
That on that da...
Hard times can come and go like seasons yet still I stand.
Ten toes down I stand,
Rooted in my ...
NOW, I AM A BLACK POET
because I am black
and a writer of poems
my semi-automatic pen should...
We all have a story
A story that developed us to bewho are today
Some had it hardthan other...
With memories fading, vision tunneling. The bigger of life's meaning is mighty humbling.
My room...
We met in 7th grade by accident
You were sitting at the back of the class
Throwing crumbled...
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete...
Now,you know that if you do wrong onto others. cause pain, oranguish
Karma shall come before you...
Boo hoo, boo hoo, black sheep
Do you need a stool?
No sir, No sir,
I've had a gut full -
O...
Well, these days
It’s hard to believe
The elected are there to lead
Pushing misinformation...
Intrusive thoughts pulling me, closer, (to the edge.)
I need more than prayers,
and 10 Ha...
When born, each of us has an equal spirit
But through life, wherever raised, or whatever go thro...
Reap the whirlwind
The enemy of peace has let himself in
Mechanized murder let loose upon the m...
Albert was born in 1898
His father, William, was born in 1853, how do I relate?
My great gr...
Laughter is living
Giggles become guffaws
Gotdamm that was funny
Take the sting outta sa...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein ...
once one has come to
long the past drained of
fought effort exertion
once one has forked ove...
Basically I can't let go, of everything and more.
I've lost myself and soul, losing all self con...
It is
The voice of Phyllis Hyman
Or whoever you got on your Bluetooth playlist
while you buzz ...
Me, was thatguythe loved the street life
hanging with the wrong crowds, diddling around at night...
Sunshine is what can be seen when a lady smiles with beautiful teeth
You can definitely tell by ...
It's not wise to judge someone
Ifdifferent appreciate and consider learning from that person
...it takes life to feel
illness don't necessarily
lead to death disease
can be ahe...
What do I do with myself now that I'm unhappy?Been hating my life and the ways thatit has me, cau...
I AM HAPPY in my
own SKIN,
God made me
BLACK,
FAIR SKINNED
and BEAUTIFUL
I LOVE...
After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible n...
Thought I was drinking the holy elixir. Because without you I felt my heart grow sicker. Couldn't...
Over the years more and more have filled this place
This place, my town, my city, my state
Some...
to salvage flotsam and jetsam
of human wreckage
amidst a sea where triage
witnessed courtesy s...