My heart hurts as my thoughts breaks into a purple river of tears
My veins can no longer breathe...

We never quite know
what the future may hold but,
an idea is near

By Street Cries

Rhyme with finesse like diamonds around neck they verbally digress

Pressure on ...

I've been told I be reaching That may be but how else Am I going to touch a star No matter how h...

24 years ago it was raining I was walking down the street holding an umbrella When lightening s...

Create Creative Creator Cannot be spelled with out the word (eat) in the center Our gift Our tale...

As the matter feels worse ~

I live within the means of knowing better,

Even when the worst ...

Joshua saw a man

With a sword in his hand

Asked if he was friend or foe?

‘Neither,’ the ...

If you been on the lookout for famous black poets, im one of them. I have been doing this from th...

If you even believed that there was a word as LIMIT, you already started losing this race. People...

This last sea we have travelled

towards a journey’s end, has been

perilously treach...

It has become clear to me that

nothing is clear

i am blinded by my heart

whichspeaks for...

PRESENCE OF YOU

I feel you
your presence
apart of my waking
conscious
has slipped its way ...

A Wink and a Smile

Driving East
I see the clouds in the distance
I hurry in anticipation to ...

the one who comes to save the day will be the one who will give us nightmares don't fall for the...

are you ever going to forgive me

for whatI done I been guilty for so long

I admit I was wrong I...

I can't say more people are dying than ever before

because I don't know how many people died b...

te he he, ha ha ha,

LOL, ROFL, LMAO

I could use a good laugh

even if it's meant to be

only the hood dies young is not a song unsung it's a national anthem and actual truth it's absolu...

I love to watch Gervonta Davis swing his way out of poverty and lack that boys from the city of B...

picture this you're outside standing on a ledge on the edge the phone rings you turn around to go...

looking around

Having no clue

Flowing through

Bit**es after bit**es

Hoping one of them

G...

Went for a Monday morning stroll

three weeks ago today

Nature filled this lake to its natur...

It is a bird of disdain

Flying just overhead,

Feeding the rarefied,

Smelling salts for p...

The spirit of a WOMAN
it soars touching everyone
reaching no one
never to be contained
Like t...

I HAVE BEEN IN A FETAL POSITION

FOR A WHILE

I BURY ME HEAD UNDER THE BLANKET

TO KEEP MY ...

END TABLE

IN MY LIVING ROOM
THERE ARE TWO BOXES
UNDER THE END TABLE
A BOX OF “WHATS THIS”
...

I have swam through the darkest of waters
waters reflecting the darkness of moonlight
echoing m...

IT WAS A LIE

A LIE I TOLD MYSELF TO SHIELD MY WORDS

TO SAVE FACE

TO COVER THEM WITH NICE...

She Said,

"The Lack of Communication Between Us

Brings Me Pause"

As if, Her Statement Should...

the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth history is not the whole story freedom does ...

it's like a earth quake get out the bed and feel earth shake wishing I was sleep walking and coul...

I love grits even more I like to cook 'em it takes time and patience to get 'em right otherwise y...

it's just thoughts on paper it's just heart on paper it just tear flow it's just pain on paper h...

a taste a smell a sneeze a cough a laugh a smile a a door bell ring a touch of unforgettable fee...

I call these times of bliss time we spent together and never missed always early and never late e...

I never thought change would turn my angels into drunken bastards the devil wouldn't even claim

He asked me if I was scared of change as he held a fainted white heart in his hand

Said if I g...

can you feel it too

its in the cool autumn air

vibrating through your hair

radiating in ...

centuries living and walking amongst creatures
reminded to accept our different eclectic feature...

You say, you have so much anger and rage within you.

When you learn ways to reverse your ang...

Change is my name

Cause I stay the same

When I divide, I multiply

When I add, I subtract

I am...

you terrified I'm about to write a tell all you got secrets you wanna keep I got time I wanna spe...

you taught me to be aggressive you told me I was too weak but you quick to shut me down when I sp...

The mountains are moving The spirit is stirring It's something in the oven It smells like it's...

my pockets "Changed" all I have to do is look instead of counting "Change" to see all I got in m...

it’s your soul that has layers.

beautifully pealed to reveal

the most stunning light in you...

Hello everybody!

I hope y’all are having a good day.

I just want to chat with y’all for a b...

Voting rights have changed;

Changes require you voting—

Votes bring about change…

At the end as in the beginning,

No one criticizes us

More than we do to ourselves;

I have seen the changing of the tides

and the tides of change;

have walked the side...

it seems like

the spring

I’ve waited for

has betrayed me…

the verisimilitudes...

True faith knows

No fear

Neither does the love

That God

Has proclaimed;

Th...

Today is just a day.

We used to celebrate.

But now it’s just a day. that I ***ing hate.

Siren howling with the horn of a voice playing deflty in right ear

The squeel of the pedal to ...

everyone says to go vote
a heavy weight we all tote
forced to choose
does it even matter who w...

time travel trips, microchips
rocketships, ego trip
spaceships dip
satellites orbiting
spywar...

debt

we’ve gotdebts to pay—

got to honor dead workers;

please go cast your vote

all whites aren’t racist…

however, most racists are—

save, some syndrome souls…

For you,

I’ll move the moon

to alter the course of the monsoons

that wreak havoc on your...

…

Another politician…

Looking down …into the wishing well…

Drawn into… making the connec...

You say you want love, but I find it hard to believe.

You tell yourself lies and allow your emot...

I’ve been imprisoned for a thousand years;

Trapped inside of purgatory’s prison.

I’ve been ...

Armadas…

Since the start time of the campaign

When the sailors of the great fleet

Last k...

You have no face to me

and

I will never remember your name

Sabrina Williams

...

The freshness that sweeps away the night and brings in a sweet tender mild..
it is almost gentle...

debit your account,

saved votes earn no interest—

spend your death earned vote

here, racism rules—

it’s america’s version

of heavenly hell

Awakened by

Urological pressure,

For some reason

I peeked through the blinds

Little Sheep, Little Sheep

Why did your shepherd leave you with my reaper?

Why do you stand bef...

Let me introduce myself.

I’m known by many names, but you may call me Lucifer Morningstar.

it’s time to get real,

compared to what* has gone down—

get out and go vote

Destined to never

have the evolution

of another Othello-like

burden, you wove a ...

“what are you saying”,

he said—“I’m not a racist—

niggras are crazy”

Fallow times, are pre-arranged emphatically

Hallow grounds of thought once fertile, promises n...

I've Realized That A Majority Of People In The World Earn 5 DigitsPer Year But Are Worth More

Li...

Hail griots, may you eyes hear—

The children—through the pen

Of agirlandhertypewrit...

Man and woman finds greatness by smell(Curiosity)

Man and woman finds peace by taste(Satisfact...

Remember the days they ran

Into the woods to be at one with nature.

They NAVIGATED their wa...

poetic memes
day dreams &
pipe dreams
going down
down
down
the rabbit hole
show me the mon...

The problem was not in the fact that you needed to find yourself... and that the idea of love had...

He gives me blueberry kisses

Soft puckered mocha lips

Can't take his eyes off my hips

He...

Stroke on my keys just like a piano

Listen to me hit different notes in your ear from baritone...

Tears To Many

Standing here
on the shoreline
of my life
tears dried out
by the rays of the...

REPETITION

I’VE DECIDED TO GATHER
A COLLECTION OF MEMORIES
THOSE THAT STAYED WITH ME
AND PU...

You Were A Warrior

You were a warrior
you always stood your ground
the battles you fought
y...

My Personal loneliness

To much of my personality to contendwith
The sum of me splattered ...

to vote shows power,

choosing not to—powerless;

freedom is the choice

freedo...

I like to sit by the window sometime I open it sometime I close it depending on how much air I w...

I live in a jungle like place among animal like people look alikes but not quite equal in skill s...

caged birds sing the blues

while watching flopping freed fish

from a broken bowl

I'm a poet 2 some

Heartbeat like

African drums

Express wrath of words

When I feel...

hell is not far I been there hell it's just around the corner sometimes across the street or the ...

I get headaches, my sister had COVID, and I cherish every minute of her and my life. She means th...

all I really want this season is to wake up out of this dream dive head first into a bowl of ice ...

i still haven't voted yet

i'm truly torn

all the candidates have pessimistic past

but th...