Give freedom or death!

The oppressors heard the cry:-

Issued both in one…

Fighting for freedom,

Many died in the process:-

Yet—all became free….

I watched every Sunday in awe
Every Sunday morning I saw her hit the piano keys
And sing to the...

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

I wish for the snow to fall
anytime
summer days as well as now

emotions
frozen like icicles...

how can I ever forget your face

when I never forgot your smile

if I keep you captive in my ...

if you don't set boundaries

people are bound to take the line they constantly cross

wrap it...

The face you see in front of you is far from the true face that lies beneath the surface of what ...

stopped along the way
looking up at both your names
still parenting me

Thoughts in my mind roam around like stray cats under street lamps... Purring their way into my m...

I would have met you sooner
Shaken your hand
Invited you to hang with me among my innermost cir...

When the love song of me and you

Has died

Outside in the open

My heart cries

With...

Blacks murdered each day;

Shadowed chaos in darkness:-

Injustice lives on…

F...

Sometimes in your sleep you tend to ‘whisper dream’

Sharing details of your hopes, secrets, an...

You stroke me unintentionally from time to time,

You feel so damn good,

You become my delight, ...

Placing all calculations
Into the proper equations
All fit perfectly
In all mathematical
Soci...

Nature aping American jurisprudence;

Stoic fall teasing the rule of cold winter:

Fl...

Lambs of God we are—

But we are lion-hearted ones:-

Grazing freedom’s grass…

if I take time to listen to your story it means I'm interested in your saga and the roads you tra...

fall fast and quickly get up emerge from the lowest level and make the highest mark fall in a he...

Why you be trying to put on this facade,like you

" THAT B**** "

make it make sense,

How every...

Beneath the quiet cerulean sky

spotted with flat puffy white clouds

I cruised the l...

OUT OF SELF RESPECT
I HAD TO INSURRECT MY TETE
'CAUSE MY DEBT WAS DEATH
LIFE IS SPIRIT WHICH I...

Times where you find yourself in absolute stillness... In an empty room minding your own business...

I saw an old man today, walking in the rain

Struggling with an umbrella, some grocery bags, and ...

Delta has passed on—

Omicron is on the scene:-

Omega looks on...

No to new Jim Crow—

We are not going back to that:-

Dam your variant!

Like a tree trunk

we are rooted here

anchored in the soil

of the struggle of l...

Today has been nice…

Tomorrow promises much:-

Survived yesterday…

Moon kisse...

Its lovely weather for a season full of hope and dreaming

Kids look forward to the day, and gr...

All in my feels.

Hardly know what to say.

You’re right next to me

Yet,

So far away.

They divide and separate us... racial ignorance
Saying Black skin is not the right skin
But som...

The Warning

Good morning mom/dad
I will see you later
I am on my way to school
In the cafet...

Some are left towonder when the misery will leave

They fill up with tears and dont know the reas...

I

Listen, my children! “Stony the road we trod…”

Listen, my children! “…with a...

They tried turning us back

But they failed to do so.

We’re not peop...

Ancestral footprints—

Their blood mapping-out the way:-

There’s no going back…

Pandemic

As I stand here unfamiliar to some relatable to most

I’m introduced by preconceive...

EX-LOVER

Heart pounding out my chest, I’m heart broken, eyes pouring T-shirt soaking

I'm f...

everytime
I think of you
there I am staring into space
my mind just wonders off
and there I a...

Thinking

Lately just been
thinking about you,
closely sitting next to you, pulling up sexy ...

Penned allegory—

Imaging reality:-

Those haiku moments…

We gone—

No going back:-

We free!

spending little time

haiku allegorizes

the truths long story

Promised I would never fess up
That I would never write about that day
You and I
Went to oppos...

I need that pep that zip that pazzaz that zing that light that flare that sparkle that excitement...

The pregnancy of peace and love

Can never be aborted—can never

Be a miscarriage—jo...

Can’t abort or block

The pregnant poetic mind

The seeded word must

Have its time...

Being afraid does not necessarily make

You’re a coward;

Being not afraid to right a...

go above and beyond the limit to succeed beyond expectations to overcome and rise above exceed ex...

when the wait is over

when the weight lifts off my shoulders

I'll be light as a feather

Sea billows roll with my hurt

Sores breathe upon my sorrows

I’m desperate and alone

I fi...

Safety is a secret place of Love

It’s the security of peace and lasting happiness

It’s joy ...

Rear views are now clear views in looking

Once mirrors impose what is now and forever 2b

Bl...

In late evening

Jet streaks paint the skies

In the distance

The sun

Mother of...

Love is a feeling you want to have

A feeling you would love to taste

Each moment spins a bottle...

I can tell rain from snow a donut from a bagel cabbage from lettuce collar greens from kale a emo...

how you gone be jealous of me when you ate dinner I had nothing to eat how you gone be jealous of...

if a beautiful lady invited me over for tea I wonder would it be hot or cold bitter or sweet in a...

write your poetry

plant your seeds on fertile ground

truth be always told

you woke "yeah Im woke" I'm also woke to woke folks who say I'm woke but sleep on a lot of sh*...

I’ve never been so free orhad so much power

My time well spent by the hour

Constantly being...

You conjure dreams
of absent time
and solid streams.

Where rampant minds
submit to hearts o...

some time I feel like I'm Batman in a room at the Gotham City Hotel with the Riddler in the room ...

two wino's fought over a bottle one bust the other in the head I would say he bled but the wine w...