They took my name and replace it with a number as the night falls on another summer, I have becam...

I just want what’s riotously mine
Because you can’t see it don’t mean I’m not on the grind
Done...

I just want what’s riotously mine
Because you can’t see it don’t mean I’m not on the grind
Done...

The following constitutes a rather
twisted as a pretzel SUBTITLE:

I dash with my jiggling...

Everyone keep saying it's over like throwing away leftovers and old collard greens, like bad cabb...

Don’t practice psychology,

Don’t got no colonoscopy,

But if I had a pai of balls

I’d sho...

Big Mama Thornton got ripped off by a low down dirty hound dog and we know who too he was wearing...

doing something repeatedly is practicing doing it effortlessly is mastery doing it with your eyes...

my brother asked me if we were together and got pulled over and he had some stuff in the car know...

While loneliness may mask

Fulfillment of outer self…

The inner self remains starving

(Dedicated To Some 3rd Graders I Know)

Thought my poetic cistern had run dry

(pooping putin)

Putin death-drone bombs;

Diarrhea-hate flowing down…

Children fl...

Paradoxical—

Putin’s drones drop hating death;

God’s drones dropping love:...

snatched the monster out from under the bed went upside that monsters head until the monster was ...

torn and tattered glass shattered laborer feet shod in worn out leather moving strategically dow...

The future fell down around my ankles

Concrete and seranades lay in ruins

Eat civilization with...

WhiteMen on Walls

Fathers of capitalism stare from hallowed portrait frames

Inventors of the gr...

Grisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht
totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches

global ...

Oh it’s cold

But my soul

Heats up

In the warming

Awareness

That nothing—

Inking Bleeding Thanks

From time immemorial, the sun

Has daily risen over and sat ben...

My heart is inditing a good

matter…my tongue is the

pe...

Stepping InSewardPark...

As I see people stepping inSewardParkIn the summertime,

It hearken...

The Disguise

You hid me well with intentions on burying me for good
Held me captive beh...

We played cops and robbers, mother and daddy and house, We are raised in the south off of word of...

The Forgotten

Today I danced in the rain
I jumped in puddles and washed away all the traces ...

Summer Portrait

I stared at the mirror analyzing my reflection
Saw all of the pieces.. the co...

I decided to practice patience persistently to be more proficient at maintaining equilibrium I fe...

I thought to myself if I could turn water to wine I would never run out of wine if I could walk o...

feelings what are they really how do we really feel can we feel any other way than how we really ...

Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of ni...

in the midst of the climb bear in mind should you falloff there's no net to catch you before you ...

Some Were Born Into Darknes

But Made Out To See The Light

Some Were Born In The Light

But Slip...

Unlike No Other

The Power Of GOD Is MorePowerful Than The Ocean And The GreaterWaves In The Se...

Watch What Words Leave Your Tongue

And Be Weary Of The ListeningEars Of Those Who May Wish Upon ...

I feel like I'm competing against a robot and the robot is cheating to win and I know the robot i...

first time I made him smile as if he was proud he thought I was saying da, da but I was chanting ...

black history month sounds like a time of year when we allowed to speak our truth "why thank you ...

after all the eulogies the time has come to release I can't let it go can't watch it float away h...

Inxs of recorded messages

transmitted automatically

to my telephone number

by automatic ...

Even in the month

that they are heralding us

we still kill ourselves:-

Indeed, it only takes a little

To lose a lot;

Today, another little black child...

It laid within the palms of my hands like precious jewels.

Allowing me to feel its weight, tem...

despite being prescribed glycopyrrolate.

Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted y...

There was a God
seed planted
set in place from her ancestors to her
fertile teenaged heart som...

(A Haiku Trilogy)

Black head…Black ashes

of burning tormentation

palming a new d...

I once stood behind the screen looking outside now I'm behind a screen looking inside and for the...

(a stout rendition of O Captain! My Captain!

Perfect rhythmic rhyme with tonic

when the dot...

your life is what you iswaht you speak into existance

your life can be what you want it to be

Others may say they know your pain, but is it reallyt the same

There are so much you can maint...

They plan was to never let us expand unless it was in a cotton field, our thoughts are kill with ...

"How can we win in this trash Ben, where they trash men and we trash our women?" The mask is spin...

Long ago summer evening
warm and still
taken amidst your sighs and cries
from your beloved lan...

The following fictitious poetic vignette attempts a feeble tale of one ordinary day in life of an...

Over the years

I’ve often mention

The Oppressor Syndrome

In many of my shares

Tod...

Bullets have been fired—

Another young black has died:-

Watch out as you drive.

My fellow African Americans,

This is not Stockholm and we are free;

Let’s not be victim...

Damn, for some reason

I thought I was sinking

Until I realized that

I was floating—

Somehow the blizzard show has eluded some of us

But not the cold and hazardous devasta...

Mistakes after mistakes got me locked in a cage like I'm mirroring my age, they mirroring my ways...

Mirrors

The world’s worst invention

We weren’t designed to see who we are

We weren’t des...

In These Days

Life's Like A World Wind Fastly SpinningAndVicariously DetouringLikeA Maze

Think ...

I am place in a cage upon a cage where they wage death against my age, burning ways of a slave ra...

In the blink of an eye vehicles turn into taxi cabs Then there"s everyday people that turn their ...

noticeably decreases in one direction.

I take lock, stock and barrel

to revisit good ol...

I had to rewrite history and make it all about everyone else. I was too worried about what people...

I have been living life in snow, a straight blizzard. Afraid to look out into the world because t...

I am hidden

Masking my truth behind water I carry in emotion

Wells to my nephew

Womb chi...

Theysaiditwouldn'tlast,

Butrapmusichashad a very long past,

Kurtis Blow, Sequence and the Sugar...

(nevertheless ex post facto still flattered

genuine heartfelt kinship mattered,

hence the r...

Back in the day mothers of Cabrini wouldn't allow you to leave the porch until you came of age,
...

Remember back in the day When rubbing alcohol Cleaned the scratches On LP's and 45's, And pla...

Just when you thought that you didn't need your parents anymore and that you were on the brink,...

As a child growing up in Chicago's notorious Cabrini Green I was told that if you go into the bat...

16 Shots! (Laquan McDonald) They get Sixteen Candles like Molly Ringwald We get 16 shots to the b...

I Will Never Be On Sue's Side (Suicide) (WORK IN PROGRESS) Mama, In gym class today we played ki...

I am a poet Not a court jester Therefore I think In rhymes Not in riddles I am a poet Not a music...

This poem goes out to those ofyouwho

have neverreally cared for me and would

ratherseeme ro...

This poem goes out to those ofyouwho

have neverreally cared for me and would

ratherseeme ro...

This poem goes out to those ofyouwho

have neverreally cared for me and would

ratherseeme ro...

What God Has For Me...Is For Me

When I feel like my position in life should be more advanced, I ...

My heart is heavy, as I watch news footage of you gliding across the stage and gyrating your pelv...