My Lifesong

You are music in sweet melodies and stones of love poured as fragrance overthe ear...

who the hell is they

I don't know they

who are they

how do they look

where do they li...

buildings rise up as if the worlds not coming down, we grab a few laughs, trying to get the joke ...

what is a gift if, it is not to make one feel gifted

by the gifter who gave the gift to the gi...

I thought about you for a short time today
Requesting to make contact with you
Didn't go withou...

This is by far the hardest poem I've ever written. It took me 3 days and 12 sheets of paper to wr...

I prey

Then

I pray

Centuries slave

Unemployed

Sought for hire

Generational se...

Your face lingers in my mind

Your taste still on my tongue

Your embrace I can not escape

Things gets interesting when that nicotine hit my head

Stopped counting times, my heart falls and brakes

Even question...

There’s no better moment than now

I’m in it I vow effortlessly reach my destiny

The dream b...

On this morning, I rediscovered three of my best friends, the oldest is named "Strength". She's n...

If you are water and I am fire

How is it possible we could be together?

We both change like...

A cultist of artist

A hidden culture

Underground

By way of the people

Doing it for th...

doing it for the ones

not the twos

not the fours

doing it for the ones

the knockers

I give MC's gas faces,
Win fast like 50 yard dash races,
My freestyle sentences'disappoint thes...

I'm so far ahead of you I'm behind you - NASCAR,
Devouring Blood Marys in the abyss with bliss -...

we are walking this world
with our hands up
and our fingers crossed
hoping and praying
nothin...

I'm cursed and I'm blessed (x2)
Things that do and don't work, life's success and regret,
Had I...

I can't sleep,
It’s pointless counting sheep,
I have no imagination,
So I'll shoot some hoops ...

It was I

Yes I, who absorbed your fear and terror.

You would shout at the world

proclaiming yo...

Once instilled can't take it out if you tried

Let it go just...

Cassius Clay

the great, great, great

courageous man

spoke his mind

all the time mostl...

I saw the American flag laid out on the floor like a rag

I said to myself, “that looks bad”

Speak your mind, give us a taste

You know, it’s been said

Amind is a terrible thing to wast...

This pill is too big to swallow

Feels like I’ve swallowed the bottle

Hit the bottom trying ...

I must be in hell
give me some water
I'm out of touch
this world is out of order
hamburger, f...

I need an answer but allI hear isechoing

My own voice repeating what I am saying

It’s like ...

Psychedelic prints
Diplomatic hints
Rewind to the late 60s early 70s
A change is gonna come
N...

With NONHLANHLA my sweet rose.

I look at her lips and the big blue eyes.

I take her hand ge...

My baby

My lover

My better half

Baby didn't you know with you, I stay with the laughs

We figh...

Just had to acknowledge honor respect admiration for someone who was influential in my life from ...

Growing kicking moving to see you ball up was a thrill,finally I have my own family seemed unreal...

I'm stressed out and pissed off,
My s#!t hard and my d!@k soft,
Pulled over by a white cop,
Pa...

He was very witty, a talent most gallant.

He made you laugh and feel important.

Especially the ...

To A Prodigal Awakening

They said the grass was greener

On the other side;

so you st...

I walkedpast a homeless man,
Bought an extra meal, came back and said can Ijoin you fam?
Thanks...

Clapboard off white domiciles squat over cinder blocks. Straining spine roof, curses prayers and ...

(my age)
1. Michael Jackson thriller - 12/2/1983 (7) Everyone in America watched it - at school ...

50 lies and the can I's of the next man. She looks at the floor as we pass in a long hallway. Lie...

When you're my age the world will be a better place,

Men and women will work together to win the...

I watch you like CBS,

A person of interest,

I must confess,

Like Steven Colbert,

I'm better t...

I replied...

I can understand y'all pain,

I can see those flames,

lost in the game,

no...

Shades of a Colored Man

The signs use to read:

“For whites only”—

“Colored fountain”...

Nightingale Insomnia

The leaves are quite tonight

the winds have gone to lazy rest;

I rest my case

This system

They claim is law

And just

Spreads justice

For some

And is blind...

In a rare one whif

Accept that lone wolf

Then yes back to south

Guess ...

Father To Son: Part II

(Apropos The Visit—Part II)

When you left

soaring free

the...

To the tree that once grew
Who's seed was planted within the dirt's womb
You were, born into si...

You really should not start her down the path unless you plan to take her all the way, she has wa...

There’s A New World Coming

I shall not allow the grip of grief to defeat me;

I remember how it used to be
when nothing else mattered but you and me
Music, laughs, convo...

Greatest rapper dead or alive psych,
My album in the source probably get one mic,
When I blow f...

Schooled in spiritual principles

Depiction is pedestal for adherence

Primary purpose is...

Dead broke

I spoke

Prayers to Invoke

Days past

As I live to outlast

Wishes ba...

Peace and Love to You

Like the blazing rays of sunshine

Following the torrid rains,

Over the Middle Passage of Time

(Apropos of Trials and Triumphs)

In the...

Speakill of man for it brings death. Slither does the serpent as it seeks to poison morals of hum...

I've spent my life thinkingwhere the hell have I been?

Watching days drag on by as I'm stu...

WORD

You may slay the messenger

but not the message;

even etched erased words

once ut...

Of Wars, Eagles and Doves

Chilling hailing raindrops fall viciously

Into f...

Words wash,
Words work,
Words laugh,
Words give,
Words take,
Words love,
Words hurt,
Words...

I found heaven beneath your feet, nirvana in your aura and passion in your every syllable. I can ...

We’re all the same, just a bunch of mutts,
Economics divides us, 5% live in mansions, 95%...

Traffic stopped, rush hour waiting for movement,
A reminder to write congress for some pavement ...

Heatedpassion between the twoas desires flare into sublime bliss .Lovers exploring their fantasie...

Sit in silence and wonder

How can love and lust turn to thunder

Cloudy days and rain with haz...

Just For The Record

Suspected slain sable souls’

bodies lay lead loaded

in the stre...

A Sonnet to a Sable Poet’s Pen

(Apropos Disrespected, Suspected, Neglected and Rejected)

I ...

Turn on your computer!

Log on to what interests you!

This is a 21stcentury digital way to c...

In life we have the choice be good or be great
Be legendary or settle for average, I guess at th...

I can feel it my chest pounding, the pressures to succeed compounding
Trying to surpass survival...

Step outta the present for second to see what my past was seeing, so I can recalculate the route ...

Can anybody really hear me.....
Drunk off emotions, searching for a gateway to escape from the p...

I've been deeply scarred, hardened by night
I must admit, yeah, she brought me the light....

Do you see my eyes flash with strength, determination, and hope?

Are my eyes filled with tears...

He’s rich, running like Forest Gump

His last name rhymes with chump

He has a way of gett...

Stains on the sofa looks like fruit punch

Right, good hunch truth is, I seen blood

In my fa...

I guess you were the air I breathed

When you left I started to wheeze

I felt my heart palpi...

Who is the devil

Who is he really?

Is the devil in all enemies

The devil can be seen in

there’s a hole in the wall

the walls about to fall

who’s going to make that call

who’s g...

Can’t wait for me to flop

You ain’t ever heard cream rises to the top

Can’t dull this like