She sat pretty in the corner of the room

Clear eyesight, smooth sway

Never seen anything so beautiful

The way that blue light outlined her body

Made me feel like a lil boy waitin to open a package on Christmas day

Golden brown skin,...

A descent into the myth, the weight, the haunting song of old....

The shadow that carried my name

didn’t follow me;

it claimed me,

rising from the ground like smoke

from the fire I never lit

but still burned for.

It walked ahe...

Lessons from the smokehouse

ain’t gentle.

They come at you hot,

sting your eyes,

make your throat burn

before you even know

you’re learning something.

In there, the air is thick

with sweat and oak and old men

who don’t w...

Where the men don’t cry out loud,

the hurt learns to move different;

quiet as a shadow,

faithful as a scar,

following them from room to room

like a name they never asked for.

In that place,

grief wears work boots

and a str...

I was gonna sit this one out

sit in the back row
while other poets dip their big toes into
imaginary
deep crystal blue waters
a phantom
glistening reflection of ourselves
a warning
that we’ve been down this dusty road
too many times bef...

The last chord burning is the one you didn’t mean to play the note that slipped out when your guard was down, when your hands remembered what your mouth refused to say.

It hangs in the air, a thin line of smoke curling toward the ceiling, carry...

When the night learns your name,

it doesn’t whisper it soft,

it drags the syllables slow,

like a thumb across a bruise

you stopped admitting still hurts.

It comes wearing the scent

of old rain and old memory,

sits beside you l...

Is it something that can take away from me? I won the skin color lottery. The reason I am winning it because I base my opinion of people not on their skin color, but the content of God in their character. The question is not that I get to live but...

I think about
things

great and small
short and tall
how much it will cost
the interest on monthly payments
and can I fit it in my budget

I think about
things

right and wrong
short and long
the impact it will have on me
will it be...

My rhymes are weapons so lethal

One day they might justchange people

Sow seeds so potent, they might eventhwart evil!

We tried in vain to 'just all get along'

We was singing the same hymn, but they got all the words wrong!

Actin’ sc...

Dont write much bout my experiences in Vietnam

but this one piicture stays in my mind all the time I

was an Infantry company clerk and also work for intelligence out in the boonies undrground bunker on a 1 sq mile LZ what stays in my mind th...

Got the trump infused name callin

try to shame folks

this racist administration a phony

joke a dirty hoax

The whole judicial political system

a very disrespectful joke

trump calls the Demoocrats the dumbocrats wellI shall coin the phrase re...

That time of year when

butterfly U R here

Colorful silky delicate

bobbin dippin like Smokin

Joe Frazier

dancin dancin flutter flutter

like the great Ali as U hover

and manevur

Magnifficent delicate specimen

colors of the...

I love olives, the green kind. Not the black one that are locked in the cans. At least with the green ones, they put them in glass and there is a hope of something out there. I am reading too much into it. There is hope everywhere, you really just...

I was walking around my room the other day and every I turned I stubbed my toe. Like God was trying to tell me something. I was not paying attention to something that I should have been paying attention to and the Universe kept sending me reminder...

I detest the taste of it

it's unpleasant aromaset before me
wanting to turn away and ask for a replacement
reheat it to a more golden brown crust
or
just up and demand a refund
walking away
with the intent on providing the most adverse re...

My dreaded season not that

far away

mattter of fact starting to

feel its effect more and more

each day

I have a very good reason for

starting my countdown on this

already here summer season

I start my countdown begin

of ...

Everything in his power to degrade the Black

voting rights trying his best to supress our vote

but young black voters know the lick they got ways

to defeat this lame duck trick Black folks goin into their bag of tricks

case folks dont know we ...

I am trying to be civil

Sensible

As you say civilized

I am a creation of your civilization

I am the negro you need

The nigg*r when you don't

Moral whiplash last longer than the birth of a nation

I am a creation of your civilization

How man...

Its already bedtime and I am putting all rumours to rest. Im well rested and the world has tested me, I passed. Passed on a lot of the bullsh*t and saw the beauty of everything that there every was, even the beauty in you. I am a hurricane and I m...