Doggone poet laureate

wannabe his index finger wags

nonverbally naysaying those,

who dou...

Whenever the missus irks me or complains...
I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch
bef...

Salutations! and then he just punched me in the face. Welcome to the party pal! but this aint die...

forever
penned in poetry and prose and Hallmark cards and letters
calls
texts from places wher...

At some point we all end up in the grave so we eventually bow down to the most high. We live with...

I think we reached the find out part of the phase where we told and now you just have to feel the...

Nothing beats the refreshing
blissful peaceful easy feeling
resulting from shut-eye after
feel...

I was burnt like bacon, even around the edges were black. I was walking through the world full we...

I remember there was a time I use to wear braids, I liked the way it made me feel and I was looki...

formerly an abandoned Amazon warehouse went to pot
with mold and magic mushrooms growing in ever...

at approximately

a painfully early o'clock in the morning

give or take an o'clock
found yo...

I’m not a poet
have gone through the rinse cycle
a writer of poems

so
I wonder what would it be like
if I were a planet in your universe

what if I flew too nea...

He kept staring at me, his eyes looked like blackened cranberries with a mental poverty swagger a...

I had a delayed response, life was throwing bullsh*t at me and for a while I just stood there and...

The Lord is my rest

And until I lay down the rest

I will not rest

until I see the rest o...

("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassina...

Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,

similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthr...

no longer land of the free home of the brave,
original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified,...

You are the master of your choices in life

Let the mirror that you see yourself through be the j...

I thought I was almost scared today, I was living a real life scary movie and had to come to a st...

I do not dream of yesterday
when all my troubles seemed so far away
but they are as near as my ...

Though negligible communication
now transpires between us
twenty seven years ago
come February...

Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unname...

I did not think I would be one of the people to save this but you need to stop being nice. Someti...

bending low to the ground
aluminum dustpan in hand
brushing the last remnants of who you
neatl...

though I yam Caucasian,

tis rightful to honor that most bitter

racist genocidal crime
none...

Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognostic...

Extant latent forcefields transcend
across avast panoply multitudinous biosphere

scads of div...

Just before logging off for the day,
and ready to boogie out of the joint
an email landed squar...

dry rosemary and regret
a shrine to what we swore

memories a sieve
echoes in an hourgl...

Imagine if ye will

earlier one blustery February sixteenth

two thousand twenty one,

your...

Despite being an amateur
paperback writer wannabe,
whose storied protagonist
stars colporteur ...

The scent of wreaths
permeate the air

a funeral
for truths never buried

petals ~
...

it may have been just a media ratings boost
when Malcolm said that thing about
chickens coming ...

(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these wor...

In this life, any expectation ofachieving anygoal that you may aquire will require you to be disc...

Awareness about behavior,
present since mine days of yore
an unswerving allie analogous
to pea...

Adherence regarding credo
to finish reading arbitrarily
self selected book beginning
to end si...

I stand able, eager, & ready to jump
impossible mission to swallow lump
muscles primed analogou...

you

in that hip-huggin’ black dress
just lookin’ for me to
lock my arms around your waist
a...

Castaway stranded on figurative
deserted island pitted with absolute
zero salvation, sole recou...

When alive colorful turns of phrases
uttered courtesy my father or mother
whose ability to desc...

to tickle your fancy dear reader rabbit,

perchance European G-man double agent

regarding th...

poem
tucked neatly discretely away underneath three upside down walnut shells
people
places
t...

If the world is pushing you, it may be time to push back. To take what is yours and declare self ...

in the words of the The Isley Brothers " I Got Work To Do" and my work to do ain't got nothing t...

I wish you knew the sacrifices you had to make to get here, you really step in and out of some sh...

Its Miami in January and I am dropping hints all winter. Cold weather and a cold demeanor wont ma...

as does yours truly,

whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing icela...

My heart is humming

My gaze upon you is running

My soul through

My skin

S...

she told me
she was only nineteen
maybe twentyish
simply having a quick Sunday afternoon soul ...

Haunted dreams and and daydreams

And echoes of the past

The sound was just a s...

I’m so apoplectic, I'm overcome with anger

With the last inauguration, my nation became a stra...

if your name is melancholy,

the scant tidbits I know of French.

perfect cold day to dow...

Most of the time you have to bring it to the world on-demand, they will try to bring tragedy to y...

I think I learned some of the secrets to this whole thing, you have to be consistent and avoid th...

Ala Goofus and Gallant
highlights my diametrically
divergent alter egos

always the reserved
...

tell tale sign where

winter storm Demi left her mark.

Beautiful and bountiful visual scen...

and ratchet up global warming

like bubbling vegetable stew

with tsk... tsk... heard

cour...

because I am black
and a writer of poems
my semi-automatic pen should be loaded with fatal word...

but much to my relief, said mandatory inquisition (rather inspection) will take place sixty nine ...

Traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall

still extant scads of decades since
co...

No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed,
and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025
e...

it used to be my student desk
paper
typewriter and pen
this was when words were newly put toge...

Please tell me you are reading this because you absolutely love black poetry sites. I did a compl...

Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.

The l...

then
we wore afros and dashikis
and took to the streets with poetic words for our women
milita...

By gravity said law
linkedin with physics
stating that a body at rest
will remain thus unless ...