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AHERSHEY'...

In theHalcyondays of being a young girl,

I was Happy and just coming of age.

I slowly start...

I promised
No one in particular besides me
That I would sit myself down
Flip the light switch
...

Ferociously and thought provokingly,

Taking a chance,
Stepping out on faith.
Longing for mor...

A prisoner in my own mind

shackled to the brain’s stem,

I keep conjuring that belief,

ca...

The irony of the clock

The ride has ended

The ship has docked

The cap...

.

The answer lies within a dream

At the end of the rainbow

Before it burns away

H...

Oh what a painful reality

For the likes of you and me;

One black dead by black lead.

For some it’s impossible

To be who they are

Due to struggling to be

The who they wan...

Equanimity—

Still reserved for whites only;

Blacks still to the back:-

There’s “Stockholm Syndrome”

and there’s “Oppressor Syndrome”;

blacks—victims of bo...

Today, my heart is in painful agony:-

In the swiftness of skewed justice

The Oppressor ...

Damn! It’s cold as hell!

What a juxtaposition!

Is there hot as ice?

We must
It is our divine calling
To remove the safety clips from our holsters
Hours in trainin...

(Apropos of A Triolet Of Tears)

Once againwe cry—

Againa nation apart.

If real is something that exists without being caused or affected
Feeling is the only real thing...

Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream an...

flourishes against United States citizens of color

going on three years

post George Floyd

Walked out

Onto the porch

And saw a dog and cat—

Both eagerly lapping

From the sa...

Sowing the word’s seeds

We cultivate its sweet fruits;

Sharing nourishment…

Sowing the word’s seeds

We cultivate its sweet fruits;

Sharing nourishment…

My jaw dropped from the time I saw her, she was everything and nothing. I knew nothing about her,...

ah jest wanna boomerang back into the womb

to escape unrelenting forbidding gloom.

perhaps ...

I was not really unfaithful
Or having a cheating moment
Relapse of the days
Or more like
Unev...

If Peter, Piper, Picked a peck of Picked peppers;

Then Quianna, Quincy, Quilted, Quilts Until ...

This morning, last night’s darkness

And despairs,

Were shattered by lightning-bolt ...

(A 5-7-5/HAIKU RENDERING)

So disunited…

So discombobulated—

So degraded…

(Apropos Of A Critical Thinking Exercise )*

We’re all born equal:_____

We all h...

Earth’s death tolls rising—

Neglect is justified for

Space exploration:-

Man...

Wow! remember when we were taught:

I cried because I had no shoes

Until I met a man...

(A Griot’s Tribute To Rappers)

Though I’ve enjoyed

The awareness it brings,

I my...

God made the platelets that coagulate

To get grown I couldn’t wait

To have my say

To fin...

I heard someone ask when is black poetry day and I was like aint today the day. I looked at it fr...

Hark….the herald angels sing, and twitter

for mass communication

mediums stop the presses
...

On your mark,

GET SET,

GO!!!

Don't get

left

behind

you're

moving too

slow.

Get in Pl...

Sit back, relax, and

enjoy this ride, and

hold on tight as

I groove and slide, now

Do...

Being VERY DIFFERENT isn't so bad,

People find you PECULIAR, but

don't feel sad,

When yo...

Be Successful, and

Be Thankful!!,

but Most definitely

ALWAYS

Be Grateful!!!;

Work ...

I want to Love you Secretly,

where no one has to know,

I secretly want to be with you, but

Do you want to be

BLOCKED,

UNFOLLOWED,

UNFRIENDED, or

GHOST!!

I'm sorry to TELL YA...

I wish you Would take a

VEIL OF SILENCE!!

PUT A CORK IN IT FOR ONCE,

cos of all your

Our House was white and

yellow, it was so very pretty.

We mainly lived on a street

that ...

Please don't take this with

a GRAIN OF SALT,

You are DEFINITELY not

what I had thought!!...

I feel so Torn inside,

Especially, When I see U.

I must be honest with myself,

I am Offi...

High Upon Stone

Ice cracked bones

Heart made of stone

The statue sits ...

I met a girl that was as sweet as a cookie but she didnt bake all the way through. She went from ...

a mothers will cannot defeat a mothers will. They are a strong bunch, built from an unbreakable c...

more apropos and alternately titled:

praise to thee people
of variegated melanin color,

wh...

break away from the noise and remember the sound of thunder on a sunny day when it felt like the ...

Here I am—threading the waters of life

in deep contemplation—pondering

My next stro...

Last down is now here;

We’ve chosen a scoring run—

Running with faith’s ball:-

With needle in hand incorporating love
in every single crochet stitch
that's my wife
tad more'...

Winter has its cold—

Faith, peace, and love have

their heat:-

Our spirits---on fire!...

Yes…I am burning—

My rising smoke releasing

My liberation…

if you don't want me in your house ask me to leave you don't have to put me out I'll leave quietl...

these are noticeable times much too salient to look away from like gazing out into the sky wonder...

I think we are a strong people, we are able to do all things through a higher power, we are a str...

Unsolicited, revered, and praised
potential literary fete,
(yes a bit hyperbolic),
sans mine p...

fish don’t complain

about being wet

because they don’t

know they’re wet

and it would ...

"Abort, Retry, Fail?"

(or "Abort, Retry, Ignore?")

essentially spells does not compute

i...

I remember what I learned from my love, it was something essential and I will never forget it. I ...

I may seem fried out…

But my seemed crispness is from

Fighting for freedom…

...

I am as a poetic Drum Major—

Rhythmically guiding the inspired

Word—

Slicing away wo...

Freedom-waves ashore—

Frothing sweet liberation

On time’s shackled sands:-

I’m sunrise upward;

Raised from night’s paralleling—

God still needs me here:-

Death passed by today

Waving and calling—

Come on;

I waved back

And smili...

Ah... tis nothing more heavenly

(to one borne again devout atheist)

then a spring like Janu...

Different strokes

moan everything but monotone

as they come together

,but leave differen...

I would like to think this is how things change, all of a sudden. Truth is that we are always wor...

Tell tale indelible woe y'all

privy to learn yours truly harbors

traces of the masterful
i...

Still in jeopardy;

Black wheel of misfortune spin—

Blacks never all three:-

The World Was Moved To Make Changes In The Honor Of Dr. Martin Luther Kings Dreams And Anointed S...

Our history holds misleading stories
printed, repeated, published, and sold.
Yet, our true hist...

A life of labors of love—

Reflector of Christ’s teaching:-

He too was sent from...

Born January fifteenth ninety twenty nine

if still alive seven years shy

attaining age of c...

Write Down Your Expectations On A Sheet Of Paper

Do Not Speak Of To Noone

Repeat What You've Wr...

After wishing upon a star
to garner a handsome windfall

as a positive fated birthday gift

Its wind may have gone,

But oppression is still here—

Freedom’s winds comin...

Night and day and night—

Juxtapositioning life’s

Circling journey…

As golden clouds fade,

Frogs and crickets start to play—

Lunar light shines bright…...

Slowly descending,

Setting sun leaves golden beams

Dusting western clouds…

...

We’re not scripture musers

Just sharing our spirituality

That divine wisdom and gui...

Tired hungry words

Have gone into

A deep sleep—

Their source feeder

Having sh...

Many of us

have seen

and experienced

timed spaced reality

of what a poet/est