so fresh, so clean, bit a strut in my walk

a scoliosis lean with no talk

or no team

a gentle c...

and so I continue to try to compromise, rationalize lies

the backslide dived out of retirement

I dont even remember who I was. I know who I thought I was and what the world was. I hit a realit...

ABANDONED SNEAKERS

As we walked watchfully along the way,

A pair of sneakers lay s...

David Bell had been awake since quarter after three, he sighed out "it's ok"; well it was ...

​Why talk when there are no listeners?​
Why talk when you are in the audience of a...

My eyes and my mouth are closed, yet my ears and my heart are open...

I've closed my eyes beca...

They say that you are who you surround yourself with and I believe that it's true. Because If you...

Sickened by this hell still I ask heaven to wait...

The things on my mind I have no words to s...

Mesmeric pursuits consumed
all his energies:
leaving him only frustrations
to nourish his mang...

come---
a river of love
flows within my bleeding heart---
deep and wide
waiting for you to di...

Sitting up, the man dug deep into his matted hair to reach his itching scalp. This was no eas...

You pound as loud as the sound of human ears can with stand , every beat give way to a deep form ...

They have many stories
of life’s ups and downs:
these bedrooms of the world;
holding cold secr...

Oh how I wish my words could
sometimes be shields---
rather than the necessary poison tip
swor...

This just may be
the last poem from the last poet
among the poets of last
who first spoke the ...

I can no longer tell the difference between
prisoners and slaves
cause in your eyes you see us ...

gONE TO THE MOON AS I MIGHT BE
iN THE WIND THATS WHERE U FIND ME
BLOWING
HARDLY GOING
BECAU...

I know a girl who thinks she’s a hustler

I know a girl who’s A slave to a man who muscles her

Her name was Patience, She worked on Virtue,

A therapist who helped me with ongoing issues

trouble always finds me

when I’m trying to find peace

no matter where I go

no matter wha...

It's been a long time since the lyrics were written.
In the late 30's when it was normal for liv...

bloodstreams like melted ice cream

on the grounds of a crime scene

dope fiends having dope drea...

We gotover

because of the childless women

whko mothered and fathered us---

Bronzed, ...

Wearing her crown of pearly white hair,
Her sunken orbs glowed with a regal glare.
Her ebony hu...

Haiku A:

keeping hope alive---
strong stalwart sweet sable souls:
these are our mothers.

Like clock work, Sugar Man rang the door bell at exactly 8 AM. TiBow reluctantly pulled himself ...

I am handled with kid’s gloves

at the end of ten foot poles

as if I plot to stab your heart...

Every poem tells a story, every story tells a tale; A tale of a life, a life of living hell.
Why...

Every poem tells a story, every story tells a tale; A tale of a life, a life of living hell.
Why...

I’m sorry, but it is not for you, that I live
Hence the reason for this apology, I now give
The...

Excuse me sir,

Why must you weight me down?

With your lies, neglect,

and hand-me-down lo...

(Aright before anyone reads this please know that this is not about anyone at all, as much as I w...

If I closed my eyes and tried to comprehend what you were saying, I don’t believe that I would be...

I was great today because I woke up and believed I could be. I was powerful when yesterday I was ...

when I'm alone

with my thoughts

I dream of you

Different from them

Guys

that read ...

Acting violent to the cause won't do , and raising hands to the LAW only get us hit,so we get mor...

Faced with the unpredictability of possibilities that wild lilies can turn into red roses. And th...

So many fears beyond these tears we've cried. hidden beliefs in white lies. Told out of love, but...

Having hatred in my heart, faced with the dilemma to let it show
Still had love for her, what wa...

She told me, you're so sweet, there is no equal
This was the second time around, called it the s...

Swimming in a pool of love, my joy comes from up above;

Words without faces, and no limit to g...

They told me hate was over there

They said that we must fight it

They said no time for a de...

Can your mind go on even without time?

Do your words linger longer with each breath in life?

Last of a dying breed, greed, felt envy still this sh*t was born in me , 80s baby drove my momma ...

Responsible I have the ability to prevent the outcome, responsive I have the means to do and act ...

Why am I dying to live if I am living to die, grew up screwed up no one gave a f**k I was cued up...

All my dad gave me was life, left me with nothing but life, never complained that I might not get...

Ther is calm in the silence of lonesomeness a chance to let loose a chance to think, it's a time ...

Darkness intrigues, me it beckons me it believes me, it percieves me, it recieves me but never de...

The Krown is what you hold you are my Queen above all others as hard as it seems I am a King with...

Searching high and low trying to do better , reverting from what I know, dying to be better , got...

I'm fighting my demons
Trying not to let them
Get the best of me
But it ain't easy
When m...

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PROLOGUE

Sagifo, sitting there in his chair, found himself in deep contemplation. Burdened b...

GIANT STEPS: WALKING WITH TRANE…

Spirits of our ancestors
Gather in the midst of my mind
...

THE FLOOD…

And it shall come to past, when I shall bring
A cloud over the earth, th...

(Apropos Our Children)

Although they go forth weeping
carrying the se...

Stressing surprised no grey hairs, traveled a long way on pay fairs, and still this world don't p...

I feel comfort in these words don't ask me why out of my soul they fly hope they are all read bef...

Up and down, life and it's turn arounds, and disappointments, 1 step forward 2 steps back, stuck ...

You leaving wish I could go too, smartenedup wish I could know too, trapped myself on the way to ...

My regrets run deep like debnts I collect, I only reliv my darkest moments I can see no way, I ca...

Misplaced hate, directedtoward those not intended victims circumstanstial casulties, I am so infl...

The seasons, good and evil, the reasons, Gods plans, hands guiding me for all the teachers that l...

All I know is writing all I do is grind, I got to get it, gotta work if I wanna shine, hard hustl...

Why make it seem difficult, when it’s as simple as this
Can’t change a Ninja, caus...

Funny how when you look for love,you're usually looking in the wrong place
And when you really f...

A dancer in a show

a singer

A actress in a drama

a dream and a dreamer

Across the sta...

some are products of

adult passionate love making

some are products of

innocence taken

on t...

When you think of being in love

my face should pop inyour mind

Visions of happiness, should...

You used to love me.

You used to kiss my lips with so much passion…at times I thought that you...

Is this what you wanted?

Seeing me broken must have been your goal, your wish…more or less a d...

Long time, no see!

Why haven't you holla'd at me?

So you been busy.

Me?

Oh, I've been...

I want to know the you

that has not been introduced to anyone else.

I'm talking about the y...

Give me sunshine.

Don't give me rain.

Give me lovin'.

Don't give me pain.

I ain't no ...

You say you in love,

but you're really in lust.

Jaded by your past.

Still givin' out you...

You grow.

Secrets inside.

Let out hurt for the best.

For whom?

Your temple trusted in...

In mystic maze of dungeon,

life etches pain deep

in the womb of mind. Light

taunts the d...

To be black and asked to write
colorless verses,
is to bid the sable poet
to sing strange song...

I wonder why she loves me, why her love hugs me, not all that handsome but could be worth a ranso...

Cant get it and no one's able to tell me, got to live it, no one else knows and that;s why they f...

My love is King you crowned me with your heart the ruler of our love your soulsings my love is Ki...

Easy It comes to me telling you what's on my mind, your like my eyes without you I can't see I am...