today's lesson plan
the critical race theory
sharpen your pencils

emancipated slaves in one room shacks
a-b-c’s
1-2-3's
for all ages
shapes and sizes

"ebolu...

stange fruit still swinging
from sea to shining seashores
lady day still cries

what is a haiku?
a disciplnary write
aim for the bulls eye...

heard the hearsay I dare say a word of it as if I haven't heard of it It's difficult not to speak...

she bore fruit rotten

to the core she swore

to have no more

she gave birth to one more

some time we gotta walk away some time we gotta turn away some time we gotta run away some time w...

move out my way, sister,
'cause I gots ta move fast
and play these numbers with my dollar,
and...

although
you will no longer feel the touch of her soft hand in your own
and the sweat of her la...

No longer a poet
Have gone through the rinse cycle
A writer of poems

in a coin toss it's either this side or that side the beging or end of one thing to another to de...

Its hard to fight the world when you are focused inward, your energy flows and stops with you. Yo...

on Christ the solid rock they stood
while all around them
the shifting sands of changing times
...

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

I loved her

though she wasn't the cutest girl in the neighborhood
and couldn't afford to wear...

Poetic words speak;

Pensive eyes look and listen:

Minds become aware...

To fear God is love—

Where love abides, fear can’t be:-

True love is fearless…

To fear God is love—

Where love abides, fear can’t be:-

True love is fearless…

My mind spinning round—

My spirit soaring upward:-

My soul sits…waiting…

True love seeks nothing—

Fertile soul reaps what is sowed:-

The harvest is you...

Can something

given

be taken back…?

Only

if it’s not love…:-

If love…

i...

what if murder was art and artist were murderer's that would make Jack the Ripper a master crafts...

not yet I don't know when yet will be yet I know yet will come but as far as I can see so far pri...

I've gone as far as I could go to get there and realize I can't pass through now what I'm suppose...

There was a time when families stayed, prayed, and stuck together

Now it's like no one knows e...

How can the free fight to be free?
Why must I try to survive for just being Black me?
They ...

when I'm up I'm up don't bring me down when I'm done don't do nothing to change my mind when I'm ...

I touch what I want to feel what I feel touches me I won't touch what I don't want to feel touchi...

I wrote this back when Covid first started.

You know as I read the news and see so many people d...

pleasant dreams, my little ones
lay down your weary little heads
and nestle deeply in the blank...

I've had to wise up over the years...

there was a question I had rolling around inside of my h...

a woman of the eighties
the arts you used to take up
so sophisticated, you
spoiled your look w...

one day
when i was in a green mood
i sat myself down to write a green poem
with lots of green ...

Why, I ask?

Aren’t you wearing a mask?

You already have the vaccine?

And the booster too...

This colonoscopy literally

Got me seeing $#!+clearly!

At age 45 my…

Doctor recommended t...

How you know, how far a lies goes,

Don’t know, but it surely goes long, yet rarely up or down

I have been up all night
between the screams of fighting
and screams of violent lovemaking over...

I couldn't fool him...

although I would spend hours in front of his television set
watching eve...

How much am I willing to sacrifice?

How hard am I willing to go? To catch the flow

Mine is ...

Its been quite some time now,

conversing with a known stranger,

video calls, and text,

you ask...

at one time

black

was evil and satanic

then became

beautiful

whereas

it is now

don’t get the wrong idea
when you read the words I write
and listen with attentive ears
to the...

she loves the color blue
but ain't got 'em

ain't got the sympathy you think she should have
...

take this crown from me I'm tired of sitting on this throne take on the mantle I'm trying to pass...

life is living inside a dome nothing on earth will matter when the glass is shattered the sky wi...

don't make me feel special then use me for my special abilities then leave me in my humility don'...

do you know I thank God every day for your existence more than once in case God wasn't listening ...

Never saw your face—

My mind canvassed your beauty:-

My heart…your ...

then
we wore afros and dashikis
and took to the streets with poetic words for our women
milita...

In my roving path today, I met a precious angle

nestling in radiant, glorious delight;...

No matter how hard heated hatred

may try…

We’re permanent navels from stolen wombs

All that you mention, I have ya attention

simular assumptions when your use to

the familar ...

funny how life goes,

A couple spades,

1 heart, a few diamonds

rollin clovers ,

still sober

because I am black
and a writer of poems
my semi-automatic pen should be loaded with fatal word...

She laughed

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

I'm activated by voices that say "I can't" I spring into action and chug my way to the finish lin...

Can you really?

See ether represented

In fog obscured scenes?

it happened before my eyes all I wanted to do is tear up but I can't waste the energy pressure bu...

I grew up in a house with steal bars on the window I go back home it's still bars on the wind...

I get this strong vibe that strengthens me like rays of sun shine that helps me to get from under...

Full of myself
Thanksgiving writing poetic hangover
Gluttonous
Snatched the last glazed verb f...

white snow falling on black streets
you, on my mind...

the arrival of spring
awakens the ear...

what it is about you?
what is it that you do?
Louie Armstrong red
Charlie Parker blue

Thelo...

so
I wonder what would it be like
if I were a planet in your universe

what if I flew too nea...

yesterday all I wanted to do was play then today came I threw my toys away in the trash can then ...

Its easy to be mislead, its hard to hide from its pain

Im tired of me, making others see

the fr...

Sometimes if I happen to pass by
There’s a light in the living room window
And another car is p...

Sometimes looking in a glass is the face of your oppressor

Thoughts build much like a prison w...

A ONCE BAD HABIT HOBBIT
FROM AN UNCOMMON COTTAGE
THAT LIKES TO FROLIC WITH SONNETS
IS HOPPING...

We keep taking, but you still thrive

You’re never invited, but you still arrive

We keep kil...

it’s early in the morning before the stars have left the skies
she rises from her slumber and wi...

I met her today
watching as she pulled up in the driveway
pouring long legs from the drivers’...

Mesmerized by the essence of your divine soul

your true being.

How is it possible for a bein...

Enormoity of what you could do

Wonderings of will you?

Graps of breath walking up steps

take your sweettime loving me

I ain't in a rush to be in love
when one thing leads to another...

I know you heard this before I know you don't want to hear it no more I know it lost its shine I ...

"you made me love poetry" I wasn't reading books I wasn't writing stuff down I was at home giving...

you

in that hip-higgin’ black dress
just lookin’ for me to lock my arms around your waist
...

Let me

Let me be nasty

Let me be your freak

A freak unda my clothes

A secret between me and y...

Feel not guilty…child...

You’re not your ancestors:-

They…not you… stol...

I've learned from my Mama that no matter how much or how little a person may have you can still f...

It’s said that today

the sky’s blinds

will be opened wide

and that the sun

wi...