I was a child I had no sin but every week for some reason unbeknownst to me I had to go in the bo...

I am not here to listen to yet another relatable response

Don’t care to hear that you are sorr...

we used to shoot the sh*t about this and that now we sit quietly no chit no chat ironically we ma...

talking in my sleep secrets that I keep kicking off the sheet wrapped around my feet like a noose...

There's a point to be had
You're quite mad at the way the globe is currently turning
And the so...

A New Adventure

Trying something new

Scares the Willies out of Me

Feet don't Fail me No...

As the world turns one of the stories my mom

watched for years I know as kids every year we

had...

Once
before time...

primitive minds, declined

to continue the practice
of stealing the ...

It’s really hard to live an equilateral life

In a land infested with pandemic inequality.

We must not allow ourselves to be as Impala-Victims

Of wild dogs, nor let War to be fo...

Rain’s moisture welcomed—

Hungry worms leave holes to feast;

Starved ducks quack with j...

Look Deep Within Our World In These Times

Compared To The Years Prior

Things Are Indeliby Chang...

I like to drive love to

hit the highway

Ride one of my

favorite hobbies

This gas pric...

Deep in
like a heart submerged in trust
concluding in better rest

Unseen depths
still felt ...

THEY SAY BLACK LIVES MATTER BUT TELL ME HOW THAT IS.

WHEN OUR WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE BEAT AND RAP...

What legacy you profess

adventure(greatness)

was supposed to be

spreading hope ...

Pushed out into a world of love

which had expectations so clear,

fought it like climbing do...

Been hunting you for weeks,

although I knew it’s a sin.

Sighted you few times

every now ...

All this time…

the good seeds planted, within

our fertile minds…

Race, aroun...

When I think of release

I think of a caged bird

being tossed in the air

spread its wings...

Mastermind of my kind

Letting words drip off these lips

Like liquid bullets

Water takes form a...

They will all read this aloud
The gun sounds
Repeating rounds
The mass bolting from the starti...

Misfired visions

stewed all sense of reason

skewed my thoughts

made me lose all track
o...

Ordinary
Nothing

extravagant,

no extraordinary efforts to achieve…

what you might belie...

Open your Eyes
take time, to

Look up through the haze in the clouds,
A staircase leading u...

There were 44 million people living in Ukraine, at the start of the 2022 war

About thesame as Bl...

There's Nothing In The World Like A Mother's Love

A Love That Carries On

The Sacrifices She...

there is no time

there's only space to

create time to create

space to create

if I fumble do not hold it over my head for the rest of my life just because I fumbled that one t...

Today…Mothers’ Day. The wingless angels of God. Our navel makers.

Let us celebrate. Mothers ar...

We

who are
the clockwork

of wondrous
dreams

Despite our insistence
on straying ...

Just because

you wish, for something
Does not always make it true

When someone’s else’...

Early in the AM

and here I am

another them no get

a sleep nite

so just sitting up in ...

Many PeopleWorking Or Retired AreLiving Check To Check,

Hanging On To Everything That Could Disa...

Way downnnn... in the soil deep!

With the potatoes, rutabagas and other beets!

I enrich with ca...

Instead of watching life, you should just hit the download button. Soak it all up, it was meant f...

Im practicing mind control, that thing got away from me for a little bit. I really looked for and...

I have an apple a day and she is the apple of my eye. I die so that she can live. I take so that ...

It all looks like chaos but its really how I roll. You ever seem a wheel with 4 corners, thats me...

Starving artist over here, forget about it. You might want to remember this. This could be life o...

Just remember that the current time is never going to change, its always "right now." Whatever dr...

I remember the first time I experience black love, she would wake me up in the morning to get me ...

I am still tooting my own horn. Great black poets of the world unite and stand in this fight with...

Well, you asked for me and here I am. I am on the Forbes list for Best African American Poets and...

I live a life that was meant for black poetry books. I am writing the book now as we speak. You a...

You ever walk through life and you are just tired, well maybe you are not tired but your mind is....

Creatively expressed

images suggesting such things

as teddy bears and diamond rings

a co...

Sculptress

that you are

Bending the alabaster

to your will

You call the morning mists

Taking a break, after a long walk

Reconstructing history in my mind…
laid back, sitting down
...

Order is all about us

The best way to do things, without a fuss

The planets orbit the sun i...

I don't have many more steps to go to reach the goal I set so I stop to pause and reflect on the ...

in silence
in the cool of the evening breeze
I gazed at you with insatiable intent
emotions ig...

I am quite sure I know
exactly
what you're looking for
as I closely study the billboard signse...

It is early in the morning before the stars have left the skies
she rises from her slumber and w...

She laughed
Stretched out across the beige carpet of our apartment
My clumsiness always did tha...

you know how you know
something works but you
don't know how it works
you know how you want to...

The Rising Moon, The Setting Sun

The Day is over and the Nights begun

The Sun was Shinning O...

Thank God for the Beautiful Sunrise

Which Enables Me to Open My Eyes

A Beautiful Light that ...

Caress me, lay down the ache within my soul

Rivulets of your spring reach fold under my armpit...

Being believed in is what I believe in. Believing in you as much as I believe in me. No matter wh...

I just want SOMEONE to do right by me

I Ceily

poor, black and ugly

At least that’s h...

Some More Haiku Poems

The Beach

A Stroll on the Beach

As I watch the setting Sun

In the ...

Beginning,
of the End
for
Dreams,
arriving
fast forward
from the distant past

Captain, ...

Continue the Journey

My poetic journey continues

To communicate, spiritually, andinspirationa...

Physically U no longer

earth bound

no worries for me cause

your spirit still around

a...

Because I am so Blessed to

Enlighten you with

Lyrical words of Wisdom my

Intellectual Mind i...

Birthed
with dust exiting my lungs like Los Angeles rush hour traffic
coughed and sneezing at t...

When On Your Journey To The Next Level Of Success

Negativity Will Come, Foes Will Try To Inter...

So I'm Learning about Haiku!! This would be my first one. Be Honest!! How did I do? Share wit...

I WAS A NOBODY UNTIL SOMEBODY TOLD ME THAT ANYBODY CAN INSPIRE EVERYBODY.

SEE SOMEBODY OR ANYBOD...

In this crazy world
far too often, we drift off

All thru our lives
with wild imagining...

Take a Deep breath and

then blow it out.

Count backwards from Ten but

Don't Scream and Shout...

You’re a beast between the sheets

I call to you from far away in the trees outside

You make...

If I were a Shooting Star I would be Free

Grant People wishes and Let it Be

You could Watch m...

Mysterious mysterio, mystifying material.

Mr Miyagi, karate, wax on, wax off.

Krane kicks to ...

Losing ground
Helpless to continue

PTSD has got me…
Despite the money spent

C...

Imagine something, that will challenge something you know.

Because all you want to know, is wha...

Conceit is something sometimes needed to be fly.

Confidence to set a precedence others can't de...

Half a lifetime ago, I climbed Mt. Fuji, but I didn’t make it all the way to the top
Thinking ba...

On and within the fullness

of this beautiful sunshine day,

I peacefully sit here po...

Yes, you can always be

What you always wanted to be,

When you always just know

W...

Out of the darkness of night,

The horizon had its dawning;

Soon…all glowed in reali...

Here we are…alone…

Sheltered together in peace—

Masked in healing grace…

Pilate washed his hands…

Jesus chose to wash our feet:-

Choose well...

Content that b me

enjoyin life despite

all the difficulties

Relaxed to the max

have r...

Bombs are not biased—

They will kill anybody;

Even little babes:-

Baby bombs...

Wheel of fortune spins—

No problem…never 3 blacks:-

Jeopardy remains…

Wheel’...

Dont wanna here no bickering

about them Oscars

That type of stuff never been

my thing

I FOUND MYSELF DRUNK, ON A INTOXICATED LOVE CALLED A REFILL.

I KEPT DRINKING UNTIL I PASSED OU...

watch out, baby!

be sure to lock your doors and draw your curtains
when you see us strut down...

son, one plus one equals three
but daddy, I respectfully disagree
don't talk back, boy! what I ...

I hid myself in the far corner of the room
as they gathered around the cauldron to strip those a...

DEEP WAS IN MY HEART AND DEEP WAS ON MY MIND.

YOU MESSED OVER SOMETHING GOOD TO MANY TIMES.

DEE...

LATLEY I BEEN DIFFERENT I JUST AIN'T BEEN THE SAME.

ALOT IS ON MY HEART BUT THE PRESSURES ON MY ...