I got some mail from my cousin in the slammer so impressed with his good grammar he never rea...

We cannot know the ending until it is;
we are of now---having come from the beginning.
Let us c...

the birds were chirping---

butterflies played in the air;

then there was gunfire.

fires burned down our trees;

so we prayed for the rain to come:

mud stole our homes.

evaporating...

giving up water...daily,

the sea remains full.

day ends with sunset;

eventide brings on the night;

twilight steals the show.

winter takes her rest;

spring now ushers in the day.

birds tweet and build nests.

statues cannot live;

just be the sum of themselves:

motionless and dead

where love and peace are,

hate cannot find a place here;

neither can war be.

in this world of war,

flowers no longer grow here:

earth's peaceful womb cries.

deep in my mind's womb,

in the web of pregnant hope,

silent words linger.

Be aware Mandingo man---
Its open season---
The pack-hunting hyena like
Human predators are ro...

The flow is leak, the silence is long, the quiet is quiet, the heart is steady, the rumbling is s...

In this, the death prone winter of our discontent,
the world lay languishing from mitotic chao...

I must connect
to those whose fathers
disconnected mine from me

I must connect
with tho...

The lightening flashed and they heard the thunder;
Oh how the ancestors must have rejoiced.
Tha...

I

The whole world is a war and we are its

Victims; you and me…us;

Fading ...

In The Still Of Night
(Before The Break Of Dawn)

I
In the still of night we contempl...

The long hot summer has disappeared over the horizon,
Yielding to the arrival of the cooling F...

LIKE FALLEN LEAVES…

Here in the winter of my long lived life,
the leaves of my head now f...

When the tears come down my eyes

I’m strong

When I feel those butterflies

I’m strong

She a sight to leave the mind in a state of perplex where there is no similarity to her , she spe...

The grammar of silence
writes an oblivious epitaph
eroded with time.

The life hawkers roam d...

In the chilled twilight of morning,

Silicon tears flowed

Down the plowed valleys

Of ebon...

Treacherous trodding has been this rough rugged road;
The way over which we’ve come has not been...

I love you

There's not much more that I can say

You've changed me..cliche. in every way

Got me contemplating every decision i've ever made

every decision of every shade

Body ing n...

The thin ice of time

suspends a laundry list

of lingering realities

echoing a plethora

Sahara breeze blowsNubian melodies

serenading warm ebony loins.

Nile River ecstasy birth be...

The acid rains have come and gone

Leaving nuclear winters chasing

Puple autumns of our live...

Last night,
my soul shamelessly spilled
its reservoir,
cascading into a dry riverbed…
thirsti...

Act your age my darling little child;

Thake care not to go about in blind haste.

Enjoy this...

activated

active

activist

raised up militant

like Agela Davis

Huey and Boby's ...

I get tired of people telling me

that they can’t make it

I hear so much negativity

I ...

I keep on writen it’s like fightin

to stay afloat in the deep sea

without a boat or ...

all

the

time

we cheered

tarzen:

mr

...

Here

All alone

In the crowd

of my thoughts

My mind

Weaves through

The web o...

No eulogy can change the present or the past,

Neither charter the course of the future;
N...

It’s a long way
from the cotton field
to the White House---
like journeying to the moon
and s...

DRIED TEARS OF SABLE GENOCIDE…
(APROPOS THE MOTHER CONTINENT)

I cannot cry for the childr...

Her lips quivered with despair

as the frail hand struggled

with its self to position outstr...

We have been taught and told we’re the children
Of the bought and sold.
For ages, this his ...

Sitting on the muddy banks of faded realities,
Lingering in the spaces of time, lost souls
Stru...

Here in the psalms of our being,

hate plagues the world---

its spawn of players dispersed

Been said and is always true;
the truth knocked down
and crushed to the ground
will always ris...

Ravished womb drips
precious blood of incestuous rape;
the ghosts ofdaughters scream
from shar...

On the wings of tilme, we have soared---

from the canyons of history---to the horizon

of ne...

Moving on the floor with you the music lifts us up,

the people stop and stare at us but we don't...

I listen to sounds, melodies and whispers

Vapors are sent to me wafting off remnants

Left f...

Brown Pupils…..

Deeply intense, her brown eyes dancing in light

Igniting a rage, I casually...

do what you love

why would you do anything less

then what you dream of

whatever that may be

I should have listened to you..when you told me that I wasn't ready.

I just wanted to rebel

FALSE FRIENDS, FAKE FRIENDS, OR SOMEONE I KNOW
NO GOOD FRIEND, NO BAD FRIEND, IT WAS ALL FOR SHO...

As the sharp rays
of sunlight slowly sliced
through the tarrying tinted clouds,
I wiped away t...

Anger is an acceptable and normal emotion,
but I must not be;
such an emotion is only for the f...

FROM DREAMS OF DREAMS OF THE SEA AND ME
(FOR TONI M.)

Standing, staring seaward,
Sore eyes...

Sometimes
we put blank spaces
between our togetherness;
unaware of the created lonely
ness we...

That you
in your perpetual
slime
should question my rebuke:

to err is human;
to forgive is...

Now you want to descend
The rope that hung
And choked---
To walk in footprints
With me
To of...

What a holy sinner I see hidden behind my iceberg heart,

Happiness is a beautiful smiling word;
that soars the skies like a radiant black bird;
Culling ...

Listen little ones
And pay attention.
You need to know
That you are the embers
Rising from th...

PREFACE:
It was the dawn of a new day;
knowledge and truth sought and given.
As I gave, so was...

Been stomped, kick and beaten to the ground;
But don’t mourn me child; I’m not yet dead.
Comato...

A Monk’s Tale…
(For “Stank”)

The misunderstood banging
Of the ebony-ivory
Union
...

Water breaks to freedom,
Flows and seeks its own level:
Rebirth is as hard as crucible steel....

today God anointed
earth with his tears
and crowned her
with his rainbow
of love
unity and d...

The Coming…
(Mood Variations…)

I
The long hot summer yields to the arrival
of ...

Happiness is a beautiful smiling word,
That soars the skies like a radiant black bird;
Cull...

There's nothing left here for death to claim; even hunger

has abandoned the swollen bellies of...

I need not wear a rose colored hat of old;
Nor a darkened remnant of today.
The hue of my f...

AND ON THAT DAY…
(APROPOS MLK: PART 1)

And on that day we will rise
And raise the hued s...

AND ON THAT DAY…
(APROPOS MLK: PART 1)

And on that day we will rise
And raise the hued s...

FATHER TO SON…
(Apropos A Quadriplegic Son Who Lived And Died Beautifully)

In the s...

Time longer than rope, chokes hearts
dangling in the reality of struggle;
refuted victories...

“A man said to the universe,
Sir, I exist.”

You ripped ...

au teur…
(apropos spike)

stage two
act three
enters
you:
action g!

just dead b...

as God is our witness…

you told me you loved her
adored her
could see no beauty like her...

as the sharp rays
of sunlight
meticulously sliced
through lingering clouds
to sculpt away t...

There are things I want to tell you

That I couldn't previously say

Feelings I kept inside a...

Everything that was created for free, why is it that the world causes us to pay a fee?! Water was...

IT’S A CRYING SHAME…
By
Millard Lowe

Awakening from a restless night of sleep, Jay rolle...

Dear God,

In spite of all that's in my life I know You've got my back,

my faith (for lack of a ...

APROPOS THE WORD
(FOR MAYA ANGELOU, 2001)

There is something about the word
You giv...

Nubian chin, resting warmly in the talored cup,

Seals the union;

The smooth bow tenderly...