When a rose refuses to grow & the sun fears to shine through each inch of darkness

there's som...

My eyes held low, in western sunsets

I've spied many a twilight, redeeming highlights

Sharp...

I redefined
my concept of time
to make sense of my life intellectually.
Now viewed
as a thing...

Hey lady I love your smile my heart hurts when I see you frown looking like a white dove that jus...

At an early age School Of Hardknocks came

knockin at my door

Jumped at the chance wanted to...

CURIOSITY BEFALLS US ALL

SHOULD I LOOK? OR
SHOULD I FALL?
OR MAYBE TOUCH? JUST A LITTLE KISS...

"You Better Whisper Not Another Mumbled Word, This A Torture Like You've Never Seen Or Heard. It'...

when I was young

I'm not a kid anymore

needeed permission to explore sex education

now it's im...

I can have who I want, but it's not what I need, I can pick certain flowers, but I can't leave ...

She asked me to pull out a bag of tricks, I pulled out a bag of wisdom, no time for games I'm t...

Your more then a image far greater then a desire , your the hidden mystery for which there is no ...

That bullsh%t, miss me with it. My life I'm going forward with it, no time for the negativity, st...

THERE IS SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS ABOUT HER

THE WAY SHE HANGS HER HEAD, HER FLOW OF HAIR.

CONFI...

A poem written to my younger self

Cry little girl cry
your heart is heavy
and you don't ...

She was a soldier looking through the window

watching this war pass her by

While deep insid...

I know times are hard.

But, lift up your chin proud man;

Above oppression.

Don't eve...

Waiting for breakfast, I was caught in a mental pan of reflection……

Members of time, w...

How deep is the sky I spy?

Staring down or looking upwards awhile

Fighting to stay kinetic...

black reality…

maimed and killed on video:

daily news tv.

injustice must go---

whatâ...

Maybe I can learn to love

With the true feeling from above

If love overcome the hatred that...

for hip spaced out revolutionaries…(circa, 1964)

remember---
when lone ranger, tarzan
an...

And while you're at, place your thoughtsin my mindso that we can intertwine and unravel the spa...

VISION What is VISION with no blindfold, In order to see clearly you have to start with your eye...

Love is precious
Love is pure
Love is the ultimate cure
Love is what you make it in the end

Your lips speak the words of truth
Your arms wrap tight around me
when I'm down
and blue but

I was told

If I ever wanted to be the man

I would have to stack white as tall as ten master...

Dream Weathering

The sun failed to warm
my aching soul---shivering
within my inner being---...

Oh My Darling where have you been all of my life?
I've been waiting for you to someday make me y...

As I lay and reminisce
on all of the promises you
made I begin to think of
the times we would ...

entrepreneurship and dreams

diligent hands

an endeavor to build a promise land

not talking tri...

My inner perception is my connection to the world that only shows the raw reality of what living ...

If we changed souls like we changed cloths.

Would the world be so cold?

If it rained go...

For some odd reason, It's like the youth has been infested, Infected, With such a mission, As so ...

My heart is sleep deprived afraid to see the image of your beauty in my dreams

I'm lost wantin...

STEP ON UP AND SEE US SHUCK AND JIVE, PUSH THAT WATAMELLON AND FRIED CHICKEN SO FAR DOWN OUR ...

If I could title this thing that we had, I would label this chaos the tragic story of a love that...

If I could title this thing that we had, I would label this chaos the tragic story of a love that...

I'm taking chances, I'm taking risk!

I want sleepless nights and morning bliss.

I want ...

She says I left her

She feels as if I just got my things, forgot about her and neglected her

Crucified and unverified love we share,

To know you is to love you... I read all of your secrets that wasn't sacred unto me, but unto t...

Natural Woman

Hey young men have you heard?

About the natural woman on the block

Her hip...

God, do you hear me?

Are you listening too?

Sometimes when I talk to you

I feel like a f...

Ducking cook outs and fish fryes

has become an art for me

The beautiful lovable people of t...

My paintbrush is ready

Ready to use colors and lines that are forbidden to go over

But the ...

if we were only blind to color

to solemnly love thy brother

we all bleed red

this constant blo...

Unlike ancestors,

with their coffles

chaining them to ships’

bellies and bowels---they

Talk a good game

Always have an alibi

Never thinking you got caught up in your lie

See I...

My Black is Bold and Beautiful

Your Black is Bold and Beautiful.

They say our black has all...

You see this problackness surrounding me like a bubble,

Rise and shine to Welcome Glory
Blinded by plight from Daze Overcast
Broadcast news match views...

sticky humid air

content to move to the beat

blind to our defeat

like the fallen lea...

Blind is a Leader

Following dark to Delight

Until Light Shines

Seeing is believing

Out over the alluring expanse

of the Big Water---

where the sky rest upon

the water’s ed...

today i saw a break in the clouds. all praises to the Most High. nothing changed...things may eve...

The heat from our love

Radiates like the sun

I am with you and you’re with me

We are eac...

Dear Minister Farakhan:

I greet you sir

As-Salaam Alaikum

Sir

I am

admitting to yo...

When I write I am free

Through the eyes of my pen I see

A vision with beauty no blemishes

flutter and flicker, free and full, finishing first place fast and fueled, leading few and follow...

can i be light and airy and filled with sunshine? i honestly don't know. yes i can put on a show ...

shake me shake me it must be a dream a nightmare filled with ghosts and goblins and utility bills...

It happened. It all happened. And I just went numb. Defense mechanisms that wouldn't let my emoti...

Now I lay him down to me, I prayed thee Lord his soul to keep, if I should die before he wakes, I...

Last week I fell love again,

Come here baby,

My stride reduced

to the slide

of my soul

to a drag

as slow as

an old hand dan...

…She asked, “Why?” so I lied.

I gripped her hand

a little tighter,

Slipped from my posit...

When I was younger

I had a hunger

for the sweets

of hard streets.

Spent countless hours

lear...

I reassure you that

I'm not a little boy anymore

I don't need you to hold my hand

I poss...

The weather feels fine

Leaves blowing in the wind like confetti

So many hues and tones

A...

We exchanged glances on a crowded street

Nearly an impossible feat but it happened

Your sta...