Go Hard Award Nominees
The Poetry Top Spot Nominees
Beyond opposable thumbs and our big brains
We are just story tellers and problem solvers!
F...
Come my love in the temple of my mind
Let yourself submerge in my indulgent current of time
Whe...
Let me steal your heart
like I was born for you,
and then hold on to that
reality for a life...
I’m impatient
being awake in the
day, dreaming us.
For the night can’t
fall quick enoug...
Lay there and don’t lift a
finger. This moment is for
you and you only as I too
need not...
Can I write you a love song
I’ll sing it softly in your ear all night long
Blow gently withou...
Sex with me is so amazing
Hey, I’m just Paraphrasing
However, I was listening to the artist, ...
Close your eyes
Sketch me on canvas with unseen sight
Allow your hands to roam as your guiding ...
(Dusted this old one from the 90's attic...")
you've got a face like an angel
built like a Nu...
Unidentified sins make it hard for souls to recover. Comparing sins as if one were less vile than...
Green pasture as thy comfort from a French Creole Envoi’s scepter, the divine orb of me
As you...
Poetess!, Poetess!, Wherefore art thou
Poetess!? My mind is barren of your
non-virgin words, s...
Tattered fruit,
black and blue,
abused,
rediculed
Tatter the fruit;
shame on you
for the ...
Let's drop everything
we had in mind today,
and go some place random
to kiss in front of stran...
one day I'm gonna need you to hold my hand one day I'm gonna need you to help me stand I'm gonna ...
Dinosaurs saliva, even the water that Jesus turned into wine
Has been recycled so often throug...
She’s mine, so she won’t have to
find him; she’s a sublime gift,
better than perfect if p...
You know when you rub him wrong,
but he still hugs you the same
You know when you argue...
Mm... to whoever the tender energy of my embracing words my touch
I feel the softest faint of yo...
To the one vibing with me,
I’d be your page,
and then another,and so onuntil
I’m authored ...
it is
the voice of Phyllis Hyman
or whoever you got on your Bluetooth playlist
while you buzz ...
Sugar Hill Estates
Upper East Side, New York
My Queen how does it feel to be legit
You kno...
Hell... I do not know what me and my Gee was getting into
All I know we were supposed to have me...
I find it sexy being a poet
having reached the depths
of so many words.
I call it a mental...
I like to sit and watch
ticket purchased in advance
always choosing the back row mezzanine
dar...
1.Love don't suppose to hurt. 2. If you wasn't so bad you wouldn't be so scary. 3.Show me your fr...
We had a Chevy Cavalierback when I was a kid
Each morning to get it started, this is what I di...
I seek shade,
Weatherme not,
I can't stand rain,
Uh, uh
It reminds me of it,
Her drenched ex...
he told me
the allure
the aphrodisiac
was all in the chase
the pursuit of the object
the pla...
A delectable sweetened treat
Naked essence where fused reality and dreams meet
Basking in the t...
Hindu style, my Chi centered
Resting upon the throne of Mother Nature’s gravity we call life
...
My soft caresses flip
through layers she never
knew she had available,
tucked in the shadows o...
I’m seeing how deep me
goes, digging to find if there
is a burrow beneath my whole.
To see...
To my ancestors, my mind has traveled as I look down on ancient segments from Egypt and the messi...
Have you ever closed your eyes and peeked through the gateway of time
The body here, suspended m...
A proleptic patience,
knowing she will soon
show while tracing my
mind with what I’d say nex...
My mind, heart, and Chi, softy I come as my loving invades your bed
A sight to behold when blind...
You always find my bed,
getting what you want
having your tantalizing way,
hunting me down lik...
You can return to
where you started
without being the
same person who left.
Sometimes you have to write down
your frustrations instead of
filling out a complaint form.
I can take a walk
through your soul
forever and still not care
whether my feet are sore.
Wh...
Before sinners began to turn away
We were moving, causing universal sway.
A prayer for the ...
Freedom seekers seek easy emancipation
Freedom riders rode on a wing and a prayer
Once written ...
She smells of grapes from the
vineyard, sweet and earthy
toned like her melanin pigment.
O...
Can I
Handsome one, can I lay upon your chest today
Read me words of surrendering poetry to tak...
Words gently spoken, the essence from a Muse’s gist
A kiss of scented Heaven’s mist
Can you...
The echoes of ignorance my mind always unfurls
Soaring to the skies like a Red Cardinal bird
I ...
I am a holder of your mystery
like Olokun,
a diver into your emotional
conglomerates like a P...
May I, Adun aye mi, start the day by
hugging you as if it were the last time?
I will use that a...
I’ll Find You Again
Inhaling the time of our origin
Under the tree of life, we vowed before t...
Reveal What Your Soul Asks Of Mine
A man shall never journey his path through life being lonely
...
My hands are tracing your
constellations from behind your
ears all the way down to your
French...
court order
signed
sealed
delivered
I'm no longer yours
eviction notice served
uniformed pe...
Most nights I couldn’t find peace,
I wondered if itwas the PTSD, or if
this Neptune had just ...
Black is beautiful but I think you already knew that. It still helps to state facts and our influ...
So Embarring!
Everyday this one finds more and more ways to embarr this country.
Baggage claim -
What are you bringing or have brought into your relationship?
Are you bringin...
It’s your birthday, it must be birthday cakes
Hooray, yay! Invitees lit like trick candles
To...
Begin
Nine months inside mothers love
Embryo to infant
Swimming in her amniotic ocean
...As a man, I’d rather use my own
dime to scratch my tickets,
better yet I’d rather just scra...
It’s getting harder and harder to breathe
Echoes turning, twisting, as the carnal urges of the...
Intellect have always been a friend, a sorceress of my mind
I would say I am a pre...
We celebrate generative images, generative video, and generative audio for the joy they bring to ...
Like a moth to a flame,
This is Love Can be contained
The desires that you feel will most
defi...
The Quiet Ones,
don't take my
silence for
weakness, we're
like ninjas,
we swiftly move
with...
Just September,
when autumn begins,
wishing old summer
will come to an end,
Please be over,
...My chest is racing, open your celestial
eyes after having closed them briefly.
Can you feel the...
You are sweet
like honey,
making the
clouds dissipate, and
bringing the Sunrays,
where it's ...
Daily I have to fight the right, my right
To live in a world full of drama, so my tinme is tight...
To whom hears me approaching
beforehand of the night’s prelude
As I near your window slide ...
Pickles Pub
520 Washington Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21230
Me and my bestie walked into this...
Touch you, touch the tip of your nose
Touching your lips when your mouth is closed
Tou...
And then he said,
I need that scuba diving
so deep I can’t see sex.
Sea legs under the
...Are you lonesome tonight
Do you crave the taste of my lips in the hour of twilight
The perfume ...
let it be me
Teddy on the turntable
calling out to you
to come hither and close the door behin...
Fold ourselves into compromising positions
Bending into downward facing dogs
Lying in wait
...Hmm, I was once told that I wouldn’t
be able to prevail because I think
too slow, but guess w...
Sometimes you have to take it back to the origin
Back to the sacred waters where Kings rise and ...
How far-fetched is it to think that my present hardship comes from some cruel act I've not done y...
I could
leap tall office buildings
in just a single bound
fight corruption
wherever it may be...
Lilith
There are words circulating in the dark underworld of your arrival my Angelic Queen
W...
Don’t be coy, you can make a mess
of myface like you forgot your table
manners, I won’t ex...
Who am I without a voice?
Never will I be him, him who seems
hoarse arguing back and forth of ...
I used to be the sweetest girl until I was turned sour. I used to be the sweetest girl until that...
here I am today
beach on the Caribbean
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