Over 1,000 years ago

An Ethiopian farmer named Kaldi

Found his goats dancing and acting ver...

Dedicated to Outstanding Womenof Achievement. Thankfully, theynever left a Room the way they foun...

Sometimes It Takes For A Person To Isolate, Look Deep Within Themselves, And Focus On Making The ...

Charred little bodies—

Bombed schools—Children’s hospitals:

Deemed foes of the war:...

Tears of blood drown hope—

Mangled bodies testing faith:-

Hate challenging love...

Woke this morning to the golden hue of the horizon’s

spreading line.

Red breasted b...

So much sorrow, wallowing in misery.

Squirming with thoughts of despair.

Unable to interact, ...

Russian war bombs flow…

Cascading life into naught:-

Remember Sodom.

Babylon...

In unawareness, old winter decided to just lay back

last night.

Little ...

Chaos chemistry

In dreamy eyes

Only true love exists

The rest lies

Lies told

Lies that b...

We’re not birthed this way.. There’s no “bull, creep or *** off” gene that fuels our hearts and m...

They Say that parting is such Sweet Sorrow

You Could be here today and gone Tomorrow

Just o...

“Help Me!” “For I am Trapped”

I feel like I am trapped between the

Beginning and the End,

I write to express my views on life.

Some you might like, some you might not.

Regardless, pen...

Fresh out of sleep,

Restlessness returns

Recognition unconcerned

Maybe just another turn...

New To This

FROM ROACHES TO FLIES

UNTRUTHS WE CALL LIES

AILIBI'S LOST HERE COMES

Light of my life.

My love 4 U burns eternal

like flicker of flame dancing

in midnight air.

U ...

I Will come to your Aide in a Heartbeat

I will Never Leave your Side

I will be your Shoulder to...

Bullets erupt piercing

black skin, as angel tears

soak in fabric of broken

hearts.

Sa...

God is light and we are his reflections—shinning

wherever we be—

Mirror...

OF…[HUED]…WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

Harriet laid the tracks to the Underground Rai...

Children and their families become the war’s collateral damage.

Referees of color suff...

Angry skies opened;

Bombs came falling like the rain:

Children drenched in bloo...

1.

Like crocodile birds—

African Ukrainians:

Jawed in racism…

2...

Wars cannot be fought in the name of peace; for where it

is, war can’t be.

Wars...

you came in and stayed too long you were not invited inside you stayed until breakfast no one ...

I recall drinking water out the kitchen and bathroom faucet never knew water came in a bottle th...

spending time taking a broom to cobweb corners of the room swatting a pesky fly on the wall did ...

standing by a fax machine

looking at a widescreen

chewing on some wintergreen

thinking about c...

we accept it

we endure it

we tolerate it

we allow it

we take it

we bear it

we swallow it

w...

how many times must I apologize
in order for it to stick like a label to a jar
sick and tired o...

One Love

One heart

One mind

One soul that is completely made whole

By Love.

Species Rhyme Animal, not a rapper, rather a poet

The line is so fine, that I often choose to to...

Each morning you are vertical to the earth, give God

the praises due;

And in your p...

This is the lesson you learn the hard way. If they feign weakness, their teeth is their understan...

His pen still burns afire from across the bridges of yesterday
Flames
Seen from the mountaintop...

Sex, money, more lies

Before blink of a third eye

Daze in reprisals

Must be piped dreams,

It would seem, 2b gleaned

While I whistle themes of Mayberry,

I like the name 'cause it sounds nice, Im not chasing happiness anymore. You can chose to like or...

Often, you need not

say so much

as choice words

will convey all—

re...

The reason for the anger and rage was pointless but the knife in my hand definitely had a point t...

Never thought how easy writing could be, ‘til I heard God’...

Slight notice has been paid to lack of social

climatic changes.

Like lack of notice...

Celebrating the ancestral journey, let us go on

in glory;

God did not brin...

In quiet night graveyard silence—save ringing ears—I

contemplate grace;

Albeit wani...

(Apropos Of Loving Dee)

Always be yourself;

No matter what, be yourself:

Can’t b...

Faith: nourished belief;

Hope and love fuel the spirit:-

The mind merges all.

On...

My ex lover called

said she was

at the shopping mall

Wearing wanting panties

and a br...

Got to the White House

As many got evicted:-

Where is our VP?

Saved Afghanistan—...

The divorced man who lives across the street

Is never home

His le...

Agony, despair, misery, and pain

All will eventually find healing; even

When dying,...

Percolating, who we, I’m just relating

Relaying the conveying of alarming apex

Son’s gettin...

It's because I want to. It's because I need to. It's because I have to. It's because of who I am....

that's life

whatever will be

will be

oh well

such is life

that's reality

at the forefront of

everthing is a time

and a clime to be

here and now and

first and foremost...

let's not talk about tomorrow

let us only speak of today

let's not speak on yeaterday

le...

I eat poetry for breakfast

I eat poetry for lunch

I eat poetry for dinner

it make a great snac...

I'm adding a littlewater

to make this condense

moment last a little longer

pouring itint...

if only I could make this
good time last I'd
shatter the glass if I
thought it would help
I w...

Im parched n*gga, my shirt is stached n*gga. I am ready for the world even if its not ready for m...

Who are we to question,that…

which seems destinedvia the cause effects

As the dreams...

A BROADWAY NATURE NIGHT

Full moon sits smiling at twinkling constellations teasing

her ...

Woeful we may be;

Yet, we have steel-like backbones:-

We and faith don’t crack.

Upright, perpendicular to the timing ground, we

Stand on the steel-like shoulders of a...

I was programmed at a certain level, I exceeded that level whispering things into existence that ...

spent ex amount of time wasting a great deal of valuable time making allowances in hopes of some ...

Passover

Chain lightning plays across the skies

An eerie glowing arc comes forth

Followe...

Dreams

Sometimes our only rest from reality

The only place we can be carefree

Somewhere ...

1.

Sleep stole me last night—

No idea where it took me:-

Risen sun found me

In his-story, it was said, if China had not adopted communism

when it did, this count...

On the battlefieldsof space/time
where fortunes shift

...like mud suspended
in a slow moving...

when approach with a question I cannot answer I never forget to say "I don't know" is it for me t...

Caught up on a few winks, seeming lovely

In just what is 2b profound, instantaneous blink of a...

HE WHOM COMPOSES MORE THAN RAINBOWS & ROSES

IS WELL AWARE OF SNARES AND KNOWS THIS

IS MERGING A...

I want to be the flame on
a matchstick that sets fire
to your mattress and burn
you out of bed...

"The get back” is a scorching feeling deep within your soul that you seek to obtain once again. A...

a kiss is to live for a kiss is to die for

a kiss is to make up a kiss is to make love

Opened palms and arms

Allows the greatest blessing

To enter the heart.

2/19/22 LP45

On a goodnight

As the stars shine bright

The sun has set

Faded Twilight

Every...

Despite the clouds

And all the rain

The strength of our bond

Forever remains.

And if ...

Let not the weight of your trials

Compromise your strength.

Because over time even the stro...

I hope today finds you more at ease
Amidst the sting of sorrow’s breeze
These words of comfort ...

Sunrise:
Warming beams of light
Shining through onto my face
Making me smile.

Welcome, ...

When you feel like you’re all that
you have, keep strong faith and hold on.
No matter how much ...

Front row VIP

His music spoke to me

As his fingers caressed

The fret of my father’s

V...

A few hours away from my abode

By way of an invite to

My friend’s recording session,

Tur...

No visitors wanted

I need time to myself

Turning down all offers

I learned how to tell t...

So what
If I think it is the all that and a bag of black and white keys on a piano board
In my ...

if Itellyou

I'm gone kill you

with my own words

I incriminate myself

it's us and it's them
if we can't be civilize
it's us against us

if you fail to succeed at it
success is a guarantee
if you keep working at it
something will b...

if I were not black
I would probably be white
would I be a racist
would I hate black people
w...