her empty eyes

stared at the belly

of the fullness of her womb

she

the child

hassles

i'm tired of coping

i just want explode

and be free

and be me

an...

A SONNET FOR BLOODY BUT UNBOWED HEADS

The hands of my children's raised arms

have becom...

DREAMING HOME...

In cosmic dreams,

I've waded the Nile

In golden nubian sunsets;

Let's pause for a second, cause I know I wasn't first
I won't call it a sprite but I obeyed my t...

This perception

The out of mind, body and soul experience of peace and harmony.

I lost myse...

I am 2.2 seconds

I did not need you I wanted you.

Living, breathing, surviving, providing…

To keep myself from falling,
I must write, I must release, this ugly
inner beast from choking t...

Will you take me from here?

take me to a place where love

does not equal fear?

Will you ...

you’re getting on my nerves

slurring your words

I think

you had too much to drink

I’m...

my grandmother, tweeted me from heaven

in my lucid dream telling me to wake up

when I was a...

After WW1 we were given the League of Nations as the solution, it failed so it evolved to retribu...

Earth in it's fourth dimension, thinking with our right brain is our feminine extension, the side...

Those black dayz which overwhelm my life's esteem, remain hard heartidly within my dreams, black ...

To all who are let down, thought I was renown to be great, what a fake I am, and you misjudge, se...

Contradictions of the mind, restrictions of the one divine, arguments inside my mind and soul som...

In the den of theives where there's no honor amongst men, worsening sets in, no need for amends, ...

Imagine a world with no wars and no need for money visualize no poor and no starvation in this co...

Picture us holding hands in distant lands, walking on a beach of jet black sand, me putting a dia...

You give me every reason, you give my emotions that spark, I know for a fact you'll follow me int...

You are at the top of my list, you have my heart no other love can exist, give me all your trust ...

My body leaning slightly back, constanly trying not to slack, my future is clear firm and straigh...

I had the world imbraced, I would'nt release deigned to proclaim to know them both I recognized a...

Mother of my earth, compatible one to my soul, mother of my worth, that watches that knows, contr...

My life is on hold, waiting to be set free, I am missing you more than you miss me, wanting to ho...

His work is never done, especially for a black man he is always on the run, running for something...

The life that God wants me to live is hard, even though they say the devil makes it this way, why...

It's hard to see pull the wool from over your eyes, the heart in me I give to you in disguise, re...

I bet that they dont know that I am way worser than before the devil he never leaves, the lord he...

The pride inside, entangles my stride, the weakest link that stays by my side, cant hide this fac...

What is southern heritage to me

Lynching, slavery and misery

Suppression of dignity and cit...

Inside a manifold, love is told

Bred 2b best, precious to hold

Crimson at rest, until expos...

Looking for me stare at the sun, the stars, I am the shadow to mars, I am the glow of the moon, a...

Curse them, every female and with longing, the ones I know double not one of them I know has not ...

What is success to me it is grand comfortability in knowing I dont want for sh*t, it's not having...

I woke up and I was excited today. I recognized my breath and then air intake and then lungs and ...

It seems that for forever and a day

I stay gripping the edge of my seat

contemplating you a...

My reputation was ruined when my dad left, the reasons dont matter to me or to my mother

We wo...

I Know A Girl Who Looks For Love In All The Wrong Places,
Every Guy She Meets Is The Same Demon ...

Born incarcerated, locked down by those of judgmental thoughts while trying to plan the perfect e...

is rendered

interpretations

of emotions

be they danced,

written down,

sketched out...

Images and words collaborating as the my mind form what my heart can''t resist .....verses and im...

I choose how I want you tonight,

I remember the dark days

and the thoughts relayed

Cats barking and the dogs meowing

the rats w...

Something is not right when poetry left me. I was stranded and had a tattoo on my forehead that r...

Excuse me but did you just try to play me. You made a statement, tried to play it off and tried t...

In my defense, I was insane. I had to do it. You should have seen the way I lunged at him and the...

I was on the warpath of a misguided belief and I bit it so hard, it was stuck in my teeth, baited...

You just got saltined so you need to wrap up that show and blow. I a-salted your rhyme, took your...

My heart wrote a song today. It had bars that broke knowledge and eventfully broke me down. The b...

I woke up in poetry and died in something else. I was reborn and fluid. I was here in this moment...

She line dances –

Sliding electrically,

guided by telepathy.

She moves along...

He was a dancer.Grace such as the letter "S".A master of his craft.
I watched him,
I gazed as h...

For those that don't know

I'ma let you read me flow.

If anyone try to hold me down,

I'll...

United states of belligerent hate

Misconstrued as red versus blue

In a few, astute insights...

I open my eyes

I cry inside

helpless to the viciousness ,I see before my eyes

Give Love ...

Eight caps released zoned in and seeking

That black back attracts ‘em like a homing beacon

Let me feel your fingers on my back for recognition for I have did a good deed, the wind from the...

Tell me I can live inside you and I will stay forever your hesrt is my treasure and my only shelt...

2 ears, 2 eyes, observe, 1 mouth, 1 nose, your words, look, listen, and learn, to discern false p...

The Matriarch

The matriarch, the torch carrier
The leader of the family
Who moves all barr...

Political units being running by woman

Consisting of mothers and children

Planning for futu...

“You lock a man/woman up in a cage and she/he gonna think they half animal; you put an animal in ...

All I know is I’ve been hurt like you,

Your friends talked about you

Mine backstabbed me to...

We know that roses are red and violets are blue but we don’t know how much time its go take befor...

I have a meeting with death, at some disputed time in my life's depth, when I will be less or mor...

A blind man, I am, but still take my time with days, not full realizing there is no timing that's...

I am a streeta well acquainted with the night, I have basked in the rain of glory without a stain...

My last endeavor I failed miserably, instead of red my heart felt dead and could've blead white l...

1 Come here O beloved your countenance is as pure as a dove and on your chest carries two sacre...

In these pages are my phases

of development

Places where the eloquent

insights of intelligence...

What If

I did get the chanceto do it again

Would I be what I thought I could be

What if

I cou...

It used to flow like butter

like the sun overpowering the night

Then my spirit hears

"co...

I was white today

I was driving with the top down smoking on the good we*d and my clothes were...

I been the victim of this, numerous times, When did I start breaking hearts? When did I start...

She said take care of this lil situation,

Absent from the wisdom of awareness

She and I have been strangers

Unaware of the long rest,...

Places of mediocrity

Levels of ordinary,

Commonness

Seems easy to resist

Its exceptio...

full moon shining bright

bringing to light

a demons delight

howling howling

a d...

It's time for a meeting of my pen and a pad
It's time to show myself what's the best to be had
...

I've grown a black hole in the middle of me

Not sure how far it goes cause it's too dark t...

This love I carry like a ladybug, prisoner in my cupped hands, of all the small things of the wor...

Life is a seris of moving stages, like turning pages in a book, moving seasons, bring death to li...

Dear Mother,

It’s been so long your unconditional love where I belong I didn’t listen I was wr...