I was taught to keep my head down, watch my mouth, stay close in the yard, watch the the house, l...

Long emotional eves

into a deep moody pink

lined in a milky coat

draped in tea leaves

F...

Blessed are his fingers that

Grace the strings of the

Acoustic guitar he gifted me.

I si...

Belief:

Know that most things sought
As we journey on through life
Can be ours in time.

Every time I look into your eyes,
I want to envision
The next 5 years of our lives;
Where we’l...

Looking for forever in a world of uncertainty.
A place where lost hopes
Find empty dreams of yo...

drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.

When e'er I summon fat chance

to empower me sel...

did you hear did you hear what I said don't think l can repeat it again should've had a pen to wr...

if art imitates life then the artist has a part to play what kind of art will you display if the ...

I am not even struggling with this back pain, I carry the weight of my children on it and an exam...

If you were looking from the outside in, you would think I was drawn to conflict or mediocrity. I...

Steppin through that sliding

door of time

Love ones friends they all

have done their tim...

In the still of the night, My thoughts burns like in the heat of the night to see what's right wh...

Lake mine previous

(stream of consciousness

imponderable) poetic efforts,
sans spiritus mu...

Effort

A word to mull over

a word that causes some

to cower

If one wants some form

In the trek this life demands,

let no devious stone

be unturned; least lies left

Black child be aware;

bullets are seeking you and

they are everywhere:-

As...

Back men

Daily shot down;

No matter where or when,

Justice seems not to be f...

Looking out and above the snowy ground

Into a branched tree with snow-sprinkled leaves...

If only, for that one time i hadnt listened to your voice. Perhaps, instead of wrapping my arms a...

Chances are...

we

are aware of our surroudings

we have received instruction

become ex...

Yours truly (an amazingly,

gracefully, and markedly modest

passively aging baby boomer -

Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery

or any other contemporary dwarf man

regarding countless ...

Shield me from harm’s ways,

always damaging my sail,

saturating my spirit in waves

leaving m...

You came back to me like the air that fill my lungs, I breathe the breath of life, Forgetting abo...

born February 7, 1812,

whose living descendents
I would be thrilled to befriend,

hence if ...

mental not so simple more like scribbles, dimensions I paint try to hide my pain canvases don’t s...

Tired of being—

the laugh of the joke,

the fun of the poke

with no hopes, what dream...

Even when iron not red hot,

I implement non customary quarks

regarding foreigner rather col...

Oh No I have some

REALLY BAD NEWS!!!!;

but as a Child growing

up in the 80's, I WAS DRUG...

Man, y'all need to tighten up and I brought the vice grips and back slaps. I'm disrespectful with...

HA, HA!!!!,

I Dodged Cupids arrows

once again!!!

I feel like a Champion,

a Hero;YEAH!...

Touch me

not with your hands

but with an open mind

to truly let me in

Begin w...

Bright sun is shining

but icicle winds blow on

this ghostly cold day:-

We can’t breathe; Mom…Mom…Mom…

Laiser and lead; my body they stole;

His, the victim...

Graveyard cold today;

quiet snow buries earth’s heat—

tombstoning her warmth:-

Awakened naturally—no need to go

to the bathroom—I peeked through

the blinds of the...

As I sit here in thanksgiving

Of another blessed day,

I now dip my penning mind

You called us weirdos—

Said God had made a mistake;

And errored with us:-

We...

In the pool with her,

hear, feel, and pen the sweet flow

of divine wisdom:-

Men aren't beautiful
Men aren't supposed to be beautiful
Men are supposed to value beauty
And ...

I am humble, I really dont know any other way to be. Im confident too but I dont know any other w...

Can you believe that all this life is is sand? And from sand, we are only an unknown number of de...

Twenty four years ago –
February 4th, 2023,
whose existence begat

by this dada and da mama a...

Ignorance points a gun,

an adolescent dies young,

taken away like a dandelion's petals

and...

Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably,

and unwittingly script vitality

and the prologue to ...

emotionally charged
tale of hardship
a daily dose of a tale of woe
tragedy told to a tunning ...

Summer's night had a sky blue,

I remember very clearly

being caught dead to rights,

but it w...

The date of the celebration
(the second day of February) coincides

with medieval feast of Can...

My perfect mother

Sometimes I use to dream about my perfect mother.

Not the one who gave me lif...

Childhood campy chimera curtain call

subsequently hinting (based on accuweather)

the approa...

The day fades away;

Night’s sky seems to be all still—

Except...the bright moon

In darkness of night,

Full moon reflecting sunlight;

The sea—the moonlight:-

It has been written that

One does not light a lamp

Or a candle and then hide it

I was treating life like a stack of pancakes and using the blessing as the syrup. I was slovenly,...

Mein kampf fraught re:

emotionally/psychologically challenged

impossible mission to cope
c...

and ruffling turkey feathers!

An innocent A1 miss steak kin kith
once, a former main lion r...

you are cordially invited to attend the grand ball

come
with your platforms high and shined
pl...

NOTE: There are some planets wouldn't want to visit, unless I know about the atmosphere, however ...

Who isKING ARTHUR

they say???

take heed and

gather around

if you may!!!

He was aKN...

MoreCHOCOLATE,

LessSTRESS,

TheSWEETtaste ofCOCOA

SWEETNESSat

itsBEST!!!!

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...