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This white guy, runs up to me after one of my shows and says man, I wanna be just like you, I ask...
They think she's lazy they call her crazy but, really she just doesn't live like them, talk like ...
Get your act together
read the script, lines written verse.
Your audience is only that of o...
No matter what you keep telling yourself or what other people tell you, you deserve to have any...
I need a rally, a full out protest. Its you against the world and you are winning - remember that...
In The Realm of Truth and Light
Truth, that timely eternal wonder;
What it brings out o...
Live Streaming Oppression
Shadowed killings for 400+ years
Is now daily streamed watchi...
Seems like walking the line has become a daily
Routine;
It’s that over-charged birt...
Our hope cannot be
Aborted, nor can
The love that binds us
And the miscarriages
...(August 2016)
In the spirit of peace
Patrick Henry once cried:
“Give ...
Having origins
In the worst of circumstance
Making the best of the cond...
Get your act together
read the script, lines written verse.
Your audience is only that of o...
His Demon
Don’t play games with forces unseen
You take on more than
you know. For the...
Upon your entry
Into this abysmal astral plane
You sent my photo sensors into recalibration
Cr...
Somewhere, when …it all began…
From our distorted point of view…
(knee to the...
"Will your mind love me forever when I can’t seem to love you more or less? Will your soul burst ...
So many have been called upon
to curb or fix the dripping faucet.
And, yet, it continues daily ...
We've Sparked an entire revolution
The conscious light intrusion
Poetic cries offers the mass...
Ancient times …so long ago
That when the wind
Whispered to the water
in winter
It was i...
Dew drops as a signal 2b still no more forever is back again,
Good mourning, begins to end the...
Five score and five years ago hatred was embraced
Backed by fear and usurping common sense
...City grounds around dusk
Freshly grown protests to toil
Blades of people
Faces green, yellow, ...
Imagine being bought, sold, and traded
Killed, raped, and confiscated
More valuable that go...
disingenuous platitudes
from companies across the globe
Bandaid is justnow (in 2020) promot...
A few lines down in the comment section deep
Lie hundreds of Anonymous, racist, misogynist cre...
You are a man who carries his own wisdom and shares his courage through the minds and souls of ot...
You are my sexual fantasy bringing me to ecstasy.
Touching me in forbidden places, forgetting ...
Darkness engulfs me. The silence deafening. One side of my bed is cold. I need your body beside m...
When you first made a grab for my hand it felt natural as if it was meant to be. Hands fitting pe...
Strident voices ring with defiance
Strong minds stage the attack with mutual reliance
A change ...
Creative souls
… ultimate quest…
To initiate, each further step…
...when i was young i often thought that in my family my father was the good one. taaking time to gi...
Love this Powerful new Generation
that is emerging
with courage
To see the thousands and thous...
playing jump rope and hopsctch. dating boys without cars. seeing fhat wd are not all alike. compe...
for all my life warnings flew of the way we would be treated because of our skin 's hue. their an...
Another great song from Mr Curtis Mayfield from the CD Curtis this great prophet muscian poet son...
Going thirty years strong from you being with me, you never want to go, what do you see in me? ...
F**ked around and loved you.
and I didn’t love myself.
You seen all the flaws in me
and...
From the bleeding stolen womb of Africa to the dried navel of American,
Black man walk...
Where you been?
I saw you peeping around the corner
when you thought I couldn't win
...I can't breathe with your knee on my neck
While others stand by and watch, what the heck?
I...
It’s all been an issue for a while.
We’ve had to wipe with a tissue then issue a smile.
It’...
Have you ever been trapped in your own mind
Deep in your own thoughts
Plenty on your mind
...It seems current generations have false admiration. For self domination without revelation. Mater...
We been suffering
For a long long time Coming
For a while now
I been thinking
It could of bee...
I pledge allegiance to your flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it...
Rainy days, sunlights counselled by the warmth of the leaves, hidden treasures in the depth of ri...
Cuffing season
Although it’s cuffing season I watch people get cuffed on tv for no reason.
...I want peace and there is a heavy price to pay. I have to venture through the storm of dealing wi...
There have been times when Ive lost faith in myself but never in you.
Because you held on ...
Does your blood boil like mine, 100 degrees celsius, we turn into full fledge hulks, fire breathi...
“From the wicked that oppress me,
from my deadly enemies, who
compass me about…Aris...
Words are my only weapon
The metal detectors failed to discover my language
Entered the are...
WHY BLACK LIVES MATTER
Black cat, Black Bat, Black Friday.
Death , Supernatural, Devil, Negat...
1 thing I learned was that 2 people need love before making a baby. So instead of shooting the 3 ...
($$$$$$$BLACK$$$$$$$$)
It’s money that fuels capitalist
injustice.
Let’s prove t...
Fools create wars
From being captive to their own
Rage of depravities...
Please forbid m...
It was a driving rain and from his car he can see a silhouette of a famaliear frame moving in the...
A Live Sonnet To Walking In The Shadows
Of Death~ ~~~
Out of the day, weird and as dark...
Enough is enough.
The people are in the streets protesting for a better and brighter day. To b...
Strange fruits no longer hang from
trees;
Trees…with winds blowing their bloody
...WHEN THE SOLDIER SINGS by Shabazz
Screaming, the shouts of a thousand lion roars, like raindro...
Those
...who …identify…
As positive, progressive…
Resilient, co...
Just Listen to this passionate plea from a song recorded in 1968 its 2020 now you would think you...
With outstretched wings, I grasped the foundation of torso, fingers interlocked, head bowed, thin...
We did not tear up target to honor our dearly departed.
With all of our fist up how could you ...
Rain drops
strumming on the roof top,
her mood,
bare naked in tube socks.
Cold feet,...
Asz I watch the Moon I wonder What Wat you Are doing I shudnt But I do U ment so much to me to ha...
Vicarious trauma
From years of discrimination
As we die, defend and dread in the US nation
...No justice, no peace, no freedom
Emotions, restrictions unfair
My skin, features, and hair,...
What a time to be alive
In a time to kill, black lives
Stolen from gardens
faced down on conc...
<Black>
If I protested with caution
And bought my daughter to witness
And she accidental...
When will we get a definitive win?
Where Justice prevails and intolerance ends
If race and ...
The Red in your Blue kills Blacks.
The White in your Blue blinds your eyes.
The Blue in your Re...
QUIET ON THE SET!
NECK! KNEE! CAMERA ROLLING...!
REVOLUTION FILMED!
No! They said to us…
No revolution on film;
Is your TV on?
I'm not a devil slayah or a seuth sayah, maybe a liberatah but not for a prayah for a narrative, ...
STAGELESS REALITY: A POETIC ESSAY
Our Americais not a world stage,
And we the black opp...
Nobody said life is fair
No use n playin the
blame game
Gotta play the hand you
been delt
Le...
During this Virus thing and with all the protesting going on around the world (Rightly So)
I ret...
No! We are not all
in this together;
if we were, the curve
would not lie.
Whi...
IN GOD’S WORLD
Prologue: We can dock a ship n outer space
but on earth, can’t unite th...
Death torturing knee…
Law and order prevailing;
Oppression speaking…
One...
I travelled through time
Centuries through history via my bloodline
As different men, women...
Numb, broken, our nation’s soul is in utter despair
Coronavirus, record unemployment, and raci...