The night the morning rise,

fashion show, runway Sunday

hips at a slow roll, makes me want to sell my soul

inflicted pain, the shame, triflling father

won't ever know a name, why bother

or whoever h...

head in my lap, no turning back

it's a rap now, I threw up my right hand with a vow

unfamil...

this current life, these restless nights

these dreams to fufill, this present standstill

if...

hear me out,i understand who im ***ing with

what is your name,

because i try to put it toge...

have you ever sat at bar

wanting a drink coz something

happened that made you think

that...

reaching Jekyll Island from Africa

hated us but probably sipped on Arabica

still continue to sh...

stretched in the hammock cloud

feel the blood flow of my pen

my thoughts have been aroused

Dear Daughter, I don't ask much of you

I just ask that you love yourself for who you are no ma...

take the boards off the community

no holds barred bring back unity

sanity in the shanty mor...

way too elevated

bars intoxicated

even mars is persuaded

I don't belong on earth

I evacuated ...

wrestling in word baths

my other half interrupting my rough draft

stuffed from the buffet earli...

a prodigal past

in pursuit of methodical fasts

day to day

I've lost my way again, I'm kneeling...

Stress on my mind like clock works the time break me free bust the locks like the bullets in my g...

Catch me… because I am falling.

Hold me as I brake down my walls and reveal the softer side of...

I am feeling your hand slide down the center of my back.

Gentle kisses...sultry moan echoes in...

Why you hatin? is it the things i do..Why you hatin? cause im always makin moves...Why you hatin?...

Im goin out of my mind in time.In the state of grind and shine i cant control these demons inside...

Time is not on our side.

Now is the time to do right.

Seconds keep on ticking.

It's past...

My milk swirls interlinking on his milky way,

I had you for many then lost you for plenty,

Weakness will never run in my DNA,

Drank from natures poison iv(s) where I found malenourishment for the fluidity of a rotten soul

Your gentle touch brings tears to my eyes;

but I don't want to cry.

The way you touch me se...

What does a woman want from a man?

He doesn't think that she understands,

when in fact, she...

Life was handed out on this rock

Beaming in purpose, not easily seen

Amber binds me and all...

my heart stopped I turned and stopped

jump a turnstile followed you a mile

you turned aroun...

I often ponder about the correspondence of the like-minded. Like-minds that readily embraces the ...

Martin Wright was lonely and it had him quite depressed, he knew that cigarettes killed folks but...

I never felt sicker like I was cancer it's self,

There's this man that I know

and I'm craving him mentally

those sweet nothings that he's al...

live the life

before you go into

the white light

into your final goodnight

live the l...

over the hill and through

the depths of the valley

the mountains are calling

what is lef...

Don't tell me how to please you

Imstead, I'll just tease you

Touch you in certain places, k...

You wasn't perfect

And I still sometimes question God why you couldn't just get a happy ending...

I got a tattoo
grandma called it taboo
she's into voodoo
so she's a sinner too
mama don't loo...

everything is not always
peaches and cream
red roses and things
tailor made dreams
I'm a poet...

a body was found in a minivan
parked in a alley on 5th and Grand
I seen him before on Rosecrans...

Shout out for mothers

Love’s eternal manifestation

Maternal love, making nations

Beauty...

This kingdom is cold without you

I've spent hours barefoot on marbled floors searching for your ...

beneath our feet

the rhythmic tides

swept salty sands to and fro

as we walked together

where does the wind go---chasing;

breezing time through the annuals

of our lives?

wh...

what strange webs they weave---

woven like black widows lacing

silk dreams of ecstasy

In the desiccated vineyards of peace

ebony hued ‘grapes of wrath’

cooled their souring soul...

Hope is a starving hunger seeking to be fed;

Faith awaits the reality of visions of the dead.

At he entrance of evening,

The melting sun slowly dips

Behind the tree tops---reflecting

The raga muffin invisibly stood there;

lone tears wrapping themselves

around his heart. Blu...

BLACK MADONNA(S)…

They have labored

In blood and pain:

Birth.

T...

I tend to always recollect your intellect, because it caught me off guard as I was just crossing ...

Leo Curtis knew that he had f*¢ked up big this time, and that this one mistake was gonna end h...

A broken heart I thought time would heal...

Afraid to be a father and state how I feel or felt...

Beneath the cold gray skies---proudly

she stood.

Stripped bare, naked to the world,

arms...

Being the seeds of the seeds

of the fruits of our beginnings---

Yours is the destiny to...

Your first nourishment for life, the first heartbeat you heard

The first tears you ever felt w...

As the sharp rays

of sunlight slowly sliced

through the tarring tinted clouds,

I wiped a...

I woke up this morning
With a smile on my face

Winds change directions, from whispers to gusts

Edges are but peaks explored in thrust and th...

My dreams got me shining,

Like high beams blinding

Resigning my taste of reality

Flossin...

I don't want to go ~ where they stood in packs ~ black to black ~cross burned yards ~ white sheet...

Sunlit clouds settle on the horizon
Reaching across the sky as far as
The eyes can see
Looking...

Caught in these feelings
distracted from the root of the problem
superficial connection to this...

come---

a river of love

flows within my bleeding heart---

deep and wide

waiting for y...

Liars, Liars all are liars;
Walking, talking and deceiving criers;
Outsiders and insiders con...

the window...

here

looking out

looking in

through

my

self:

a transparent orb...

Possessions we seek,
Prison which creates,
Limiting ourself to
Decisions to make.

- Aly

My uncles were strong men

with strong hands; hands

fathering children they never had.

Confusion clouds my mind, when I am awaken to these thoughts
Last night I closed my eyes, insi...

Pain I then felt it a thousand times what's new pain it comes and goes along with smiles at times...

Wherever we go we take mental notes –

survey our surroundings like recon missions.

Most ade...

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...