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...

Damn
This was an easy poem to write

Just looking into your eyes
Seeing sparkling
Dancing
Coo...

Time...

Is working on us'

although, it's really

...not the

Enemy

While each of...

At Home Alone In Room One Night Moved By Faint Voices And Whispering Sounds Outside Of My Bedroom...

Let me *** ya mental

Without hands...No rules

Can I part ya sea...

Eyes closed, will you still...

Yeah

I often wondered why
you and I
never touched the sky

why we never stopped along the wa...

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

If You Opened Your Eyes This Morning To See The Sun

A New Day Has Begun

Beyond Your Circumstanc...

We All Are Getting Older And There's NoTurning Back

Quite A Few Tend To Find Ways To Put A Halt ...

THIS MATRIX MAKES HASTE
OF SATANS VAGRANTS
THAT SPAKE SO BLATANT
OF THEIR HATRED
OF THE SAC...

Crispy White sheets,

visualize me

The whistling wind through the window slit

Chills ,

kissed ...

Today I release fear

Today I release doubts

Today I am turning my thoughts around

Today I take...

Imagine them telling you

You'd never be free

Your life will be a world of slavery

When y...

I gave you my peace

I gave you my time

I gave you my heart

You infected my mind

I tho...

As A Child; If You Were Abandon By Family, Grew Up In The Hood, Born In The Projects, Freed From ...

Inquiring The Taste Of Spirits Is Ultimately How He Settles Each Day

He's A Functioning Alcoho...

They say “I'm apretty black girl”, a quote heard too many times.

“Black girls ain’t my type”, ...

a silent audience
eyes transfixed upon stage lights of multi-colored hue
awaiting the commencem...

Before the fabrication of racism, religion,and debt

The world would change and long live to re...

pen in hand forgot what I had to say but wrote some stuff on paper anyway halfway through inexpli...

...and she waited
while those who still thought the earth to be flat
stood motionless on street...

she made love to me...

I couldn't help myself...

my will was weak
my spirit
vulnerable to...

peeking from behind closed doors
speaking in metaphors laced with symbolism
she's seen the desi...

as we know time cannot be spent like

money nor can it be saved for later

it would bein our ...

can't ride your wave don't surf can't hold your hand for you to pull me in don't follow me I'll l...

You...

Yes you..

The teaching was in the pudding, the cry

wasn't for me, it was the Emptiness ...

out of mind out of sight

was what you said last night

as the light was turned off

and I walked...

Rain of your Love, find me in pedals of grace. Teach me the inner communication of joy. Bathe me ...

The Black woman is God, I’ve lied with her

The rains of her sorrows hug my infidelities

I was once told, my self hate might

Incrementally increase my life stage fright

So one late nig...

Sunshine in my heart, joy in my bones. Gladness all around, I have an enduring hope. Everlasting ...