Let’s all bow our heads,

Its time to pray,

To thank god,

For all my blessings,

there's caucuses in Arizona deserts
their talking bout African dust in Texas
presidential tweet...

got me a habit I have to break
got to have it I need to pray
if I did what would I say
broken ...

I will give you a ticket
If only you can keep a secret
I will give you a ticket
If only, you p...

Courtesy of AskJeeves,
and special
acknowledgement
to Google search
algorithm, this
anachron...

For the king
hath arisen
nsync with
royal couture
decked out
and bedizened
to the nines
re...

One of many hit songs I say a lil prayer

for you by the one and only Queen of Soul

Aretha frank...

Sitting here

Feeling sorrow

Feeling pain

Trying to find a positive

From the knowledge I have ...

When the tides get rough
remember the waves will subside
intimated by the ocean
feeling all th...

One must swerve from the path of reason

To keep ones presence of mind

And self possession

The Essence of You
When your not around me
Makes me quiver
As I want you beside me
The though...

There is no end
As with us
Its forever lasting
Its ETERNITY
This euphoria of love
Feelings o...

Onto a new year
leaving the past in the past
filled with goals, ambitions
love and laughter
a...

LOOK DEEP

You accuse me of cheating

Cant you see my heart bleeding?

The sound of sil...

Poetry….

A place where I get to be me

Release my inhibitions

Letting the pen guide me

With every day that goes by

I say to myself…

You are truly the love of my life

Hoping to...

Trials and Tribulations

What a creation

Looks can deceive

What you see on the surface

Is not ...

Concerns that turn
the world on its side
concerns that turn
a fire that burns
brightly with l...

to bask
in offline
and/or
online friendship
like quaffing
from flask
with no
deliberate
i...

　

I wonder how it would be to take a walk through heaven

And to feel the Lord's ...

More'n' $500.00
For Car Repair!

Hence mine
plaintive
strut forward
doleful
poetically lam...

Yikes, aside
from mental
health re:
psychotherapy,
which haint
the worse
cyst phase
of bei...

Honesty in a lie

Truthfully there is honesty in a lie
I honesty have to lie to
spare your fe...

(alternately titled:
this stoned temple
pilot ready for Styx)

I hate tubby
a nuisance
boot...

its like satin knows my souls at steak
and hes fighting his hardest to enslave me
his whole exi...

WE LOVIN US

We Lovin Us!

No longer can we undermined our own significance

We need t...

the devil is out on a course of destruction and ruin
do you all remember what you've been do...

Love is fleeting, blowing in the wind...

I miss you,

Out here,

I’m the one,

Who has a desire,

Seeing you smile,

From th...

STANDING ON THE ROCK

The bones of ancestors are rattling…shaking—

Itching from infecti...

when someone leaves
it is so loud
so personal
so silent

a deafening emptiness
that has a m...

when someone leaves
it is so loud
so personal
so silent

a deafening emptiness
that has a m...

An Indigenous Sonnet

To An Indigenous Beloved Mother

To breathe each day is cha...

If the world stopped would you finally be able to breathe

If your eyes sunk deep into your sou...

pierced hearts come to fruition
upon the weight of the day
cold hearts in derision along li...

Girl you take me for a joke.

But I’m really serious.

I told you that i needed you, why you ...

Black Is Beautiful
Rich
distinct, alluring
glow
our fortitude
passion and endurance
that ex...

THE BRIDGE AND THE FOX

(An Allegory)

Quietly spanning the space

over the banks sepa...

I have headaches, its like the world is trying to grow in my brain. I guess its opposing forces t...

In Quiet Tranquility…

Here I sit

in the womb of room…

gazing out into the sunlit sce...

G

Tonight is the night of consummation

Another step in our relation......ship His m...

A fly dropped

into my soup—drowning.

Down the drain

I poured—watching an old lad...

awakened

by the saltiness

i felt wet memories

flowing down my cheeks

kissing ...

The way you make me feel inside

Making my body quiver

As I sit here

Thinking of how you ...

Loving you from a far
No matter where you are
No matter what you are
I will always be
Loving ...

Dont know where our endeavors will take us
Dont know what the outcome will be
Riding on faith.....

Oh, How I’ve longed for Mr. Right

To come rescue me

From the arms

Of this

Screwed up ...

Its a quarter past ten

Lets go for a drive

Meet me at seven

lets ride into the clouds of...

Found my way back on the keys

As I came to find the previous poem

Was a bit disorganized

Being the only black(at work) sitting in a cubical in the back, allows one to hear

What Caucas...

Her Words are walking and her thoughts are talking, proverbs from the Black beautiful Nubian wo...

Of late, imust stipulate,

my observation be in wonder,

some strait 'women of color' desire

to ...

i wasnt sleep
i was in slumber
tumbling deep down a tunnel
instead of walking
i was stumbling...

from the suffering and pain that is piped into veins

by the organ-less Master who relentlessly...

There is little left her

for ole death to lay claim:

swollen bellies…parched skins…...

TO MEN OF SOUL

That Achebe should herald us men of soul—

repositories of the spirits of...

You Said The Black Woman

You say the black wombman is God
You say the black wombman is Queen
...

I over reacted,

I know,

In a way,

I may be wrong,

I was just trying to communicat...

She runs the streets
The need for every social scene
She has to be there
She has to be seen
...

Selling that hard
Say you won't be a slave
You won't work for the white man
So the streets you...

The fear of the black son
Someone has to save them
Especially if dad is locked up
With only ma...

So many of you everywhere
Driving in big cars with small dogs without a care
At the airport, St...

Lost cost timerhyme,
Blind truth believe grieve,
Facts melt wax lies die,
Focus hopeless quest...

I’m my ancestors’ wildest dream

by any means

a sweet blessing

down from heaven

We c...

Trapped, hot, and nauseous eight weeks at sea

Naked and chained with unbearable shame no longer ...

Don't touch me

Only *** me

Dont love me

Make love to me

Give me the physicals

Put ...

Papito chulito como te esplico

mi amor tu eres mi corazon

papito escucha cuando te digo

tu ere...

Black as the night

my sable soul sings songs

of Nubian ancestors

sleeping behind...

We march for civil rights and the movement
Wondering where the endangerment of black panthers
H...

I'm an X-man

Not a klan (clownsman cloned man)

I am a different brand

My superpowers are my spiri...

I AM
First

But I will not be the Last
I AM
The Healing salve

From horrid horrific

his...

Remember I love you…
Love every hue of you
In fact
From Caramel
Cocoa
Red Bone
Chocolate
C...

search within

forget without

learn to arrive

a bitter spout

clinge to your wallet

look deep
stand still & repeat
we got dancing feet
I time to meet & greet
the underscore ...

FOR THE MOTHERLAND

CRYING OUT TO HER CHILDREN

Sprawled out on the stage of life

Her ...

Bloated ballooned belies

Mock pregnancies

Only hunger could achieve;

Once lu...

Once again our humanity is taxonomically mocked—

No longer three-fourths Homo sapiens—...

With the ever burning candle flame

Of faith, we cuddle reeds of hope

And contin...

Time cannot be controlled—

Comprised…neither shortened…

Nor lengthened—never held i...

An anchored statue can no longer be a metaphor

For liberty—like-wise, neither can unba...

as we greet

the day’s advent,

we still face

the same old weary events;

it...