if I stuff em inside where there's no air if I held em captive if I didn't allow em to leave if I...

I’ve adopted it
Jamaica, land that I love
Pour me a Red Stripe

With everything that’s going on in the world,

I am so glad to have you by your side.

It fee...

I dont know it for sure but I am a part of something else. It feels like being part of the world ...

Picture of you
Exactly one hundred years
Dressed in wedding white
And that same night
Began t...

love
greets you at the airport with a limousine
complete with wet bar and cable television
bec...

It was in this year
The scales of innocence were
slowly removed from my eyes
And I began to se...

I never been a fan of celebrities and I'm sure none of em would follow me it's all idol worshipin...

you are so close to my heart
as each beat pounds metronomic rhythms of love
coinciding with my ...

you can't ask someone who hates you to love you and you can't expect them to you can feed them an...

I learned that people die I learned we don't stay alive I learned I'm gonna die I learned that wh...

active on a project I'm intending to complete up on it I can't sleep not even a wink I hardly bli...

the world is screaming bloody murder to the heavens up above I hear it's power in the blood but w...

it's too easy to fall it's harder to stand I can't hold out my hand and expect you to grasp what ...

on this first day of December I have a true love to remember written letters to send her I need h...

I know I'm a dreamer that's what makes me a believer in miracles happening through every song tha...

You can deny who I am
You even can deny me
But the root of every tree represents me
I know som...

You can't make him happy and
You can't make him stay
You are not happy with yourself anyway
Yo...

before the arrival of dawn
the line is already formed from the front gates of the palace door
a...

physical attraction is what started it all
a sudden glance from across the floor
smooth convers...

if y'all had only known
that the revolution y'all paid for
with your beautiful black bones
and...

when you misspell or mispronounce my name you misinterpret the meaning of what it stand for I can...

the only way to convince someone that magic is real is to create something astounding out of noth...

a bizzare is either strangely frightful or amusingly delightful depending on the eyeholes in the ...

it smacked me upside my head
stinging like a Muhammad Ali bee
and i turned around
about to ope...

yeah, man..
can you dig it?

some cat wuz talkin' bout how my thang is irrelevant
like my com...

an unusual situation
quite a situation for us to be
in transition
seated in the waiting area o...

once a problem is solved the writing can be easily erased then back to the drawing board to solve...

woke up this morning feeling poetic after dealing with a lot of stuff that was pathetic it gave m...

do we apologise if we do will we be forgiven if we're forgiven what that mean is the slate wipe c...

Mentally I'm drowned in confusion, the gripon reality I'm loosing, no control over my emotions , ...

We only know evil

Black on Black crime

Black on Black time

Strikes the minute hand midnight on...

limited extent

Brief allegory...

Haiku shortening the write:-

All is symbolized....

spending little time

haiku allegorizes

the truths long story

THE MIND OF A BLACK WOMAN IS TOO STRONG TO WITHHOLD. MOST MEN CANT TAKE WHAT THE MIND OF A BLACK ...

what to write today
not too inspired right now
the haiku brick wall

they are no longer dressed in
camouflage and steel-tipped army boots
when they come and invade ...

she's going to call tomorrow morning
and I will wait by the phone
preparing myself for just abo...

Standing buck naked—

But no need to feel ashamed

Trees teasing winter…

Hands supporting backs…

All check the state of affairs:-

STAIRS: A HAIKU

Crystal stairs…fragile---

Life’s like a winding...

NOURISHMENT: A HAIKU

Barely…alive—

Spiritually…hanging on;

Nourish both with...

WASHINGS: A HAIKU

Pilate’s guilt washedhands—

Footprints guide our true...

What more could I have wanted

What more could I need

The girl’s so precious

This is the day my savior

Has given unto me

Walking upright

Perpendicular

Thr...

I do not know if it was having to say good bye that brought about these feelings that I had. Or m...

Seasoning’s scatter

Shake what your mama gave you

Tasters’ choice palette

Im jealous of the way,

ya make-up brushes across ya skin

its closer than my hands havebeen....

When you cant tell your story without criminalizing others

and people wonder why beautful butt...

Mentally free, no longer caged, trying to persuade me with bread, no longer chasing money, you ...

A fool according to the standards of this world ...

I FLOW WITH PRIDE/TO HELP YOU GO INSIDE | TO CHECK IF WE COINCIDE

THE TRUTH IS SOMETHING/THAT YO...

Seemingly hanging in place

as the nightly world turns,

the smiling fingertip

cre...

Navigating uncharted territories

GPSs misplaced us like our streets signs didn’t fit their puz...

Pouring down
Like the Noah forty day downpour
Covering my earth
overflowing my seas
blackness...

Black is beautiful
Still is and always will be
My wishful thinking

Greetings I give to you
On the dawn of this new day
May the light of Allah's blessings
Illumin...

From the bottoms of my heart and aching bones

My love the misses

Her kisses

I mi...

Two things we are told and should always

recall: Our light should so shine that all

Sitting here in the belly

of the womb of mind—In deep

Contemplation—It’s soon reali...

You stand there looking—

Canvassing everything you see

As if I am a sketch you once...

Thanksgiving…Xmas—

And Easter eggs on their way:-

Merchants praising God…

I, being of solid mind and mostly grounded

Founded on a few feats and a whole lot of legend

A TRANSGENDERED HAIKU TRIO

(Apropos Of All Our Children)

GENDER PHOBIA

Hati...

winter is coming

and we are ready

as our hearts

are warm

and our spirits

b...

When law and order personnel

Can break into a Black woman’s house

And murder her fo...

Just lives don’t matter:-

Take them out with your free will—

Tried their politics:-

The wheel of time just rolled on—

Tick—ticking…backwards…

Pages of my life
Turning faster than October leaves
Falling
Chased around the backyard with a ...

last night
when my anger and frustration
overtook the lightly barricaded defenses of reasonable...

Nipples pressed against ya spine, exhale together , as we unwind

Whispers of sweet nothings an e...

Deep in the lifetime of another

I dreamt when I was a mother.

I was mine and mine was my ba...

If you want to get to know me
You have to verbally communicate
Not by clicks on glass keyboar...

Feelings of abandonment haunt her

Like nightmares in the daytime.

Everything is cold, barren an...

The last 5 months have proven to be
Nothing short of miraculous.
The ups and downs of the days
...

They Can Smile WithYou

They Can Laugh WithYou

They Can Lie WithYou

They Can Cry With You

They...

Their Was Once A Dog With A White Streak Across His Face

A Louisiana Gator Pitbull By Breed;Tall...

there are some people who do wrong and try to fix the wrong they done there are some people who d...

I allow my internal darkness to express itself as much as possible to be good all the time is imp...

my child your child their child our child still a child still in need of love and nurturing like ...

words are too valuable to be garbage when I speak I'm not talking trash I be spitting facts won't...

you know you around snakes you know you not safe what makes you stay do you believe you could cha...

If You Let People Run Over Your Life And Have Their Way

They Will Ultimately Become Your Master ...

I can pen clever letters
but they can't smile the way you do...

the pen I hold
is not the wa...

i have seen you
with precious fingers outstretched to the skies...

i have heard your soft sma...

fireworks... parades...
hot dogs and apple pies...
blonde haired babies
with starry blue eyes....

it took a six hour drive west on I-80
passing through the delaware water gap
pennsylvania pocon...

i always sat in the last row
in the last chair against the wall
and impatiently watched
as the...

When the music plays

Non-stop,

pulsating beats cascading symbols

Bongo beats strumming p...

got a black pair and a white pair to go with everything I wear to see clear I wear a pair of eye ...

the velvet tongue twisted linguistic lyricist rhythmically twirled limericks around rosy lipstick...

some people want to play the game but some people don't want to follow the rules some people want...

I sit in a room staring at a spot on the wall it's a red dot could be blood "nah" it's ketchup wh...