haiku

senryu

say less

beef

chicken

all talk

the beat

the plot

dead opp

family reunion

3 bowls of potato salad

let's get ready to rumble

group chat

umpteen messages

good morning

the funeral

the repass

not again

sent a text

received a call

do not disturb

fish bowl

belly up

do not feed

diabolical

a word

please stop

a lady sings the blues

about the reds

a timeless piece

injustice

the verdict

next case

sum total

deep sigh

swipe

time hides in ordinary days

memories count the steps of passing time

only the clock knows e...

my grandmother had a little white poodle with a black purse in its mouth every time I touched it ...

I was there but I didn't have the paperwork

I lived the story before I read the first page

Mond...

News flash, but before reading it

I know it’s concerning a mother,

a father, or even a young ...

She can be as absent as the sun at 1am,

loves her space like the stars then,

like the south vyi...

its all been biscuits and gravy, choking on life and have it slide down nice and easy. I was dete...

Come close to me,

chin over my shoulder,

and listen as I water you,

over and then over.

Feel ...

Rock, King

Provider, Listener, Protector

Comfort, Lead, Safe Space, Loyal

Respect...

What a cut up event it has been

smile from ear to ear

turn to grin to grin

Name of the game wa...

Reality is owning your truth,

feeling the heat of your fires,

the mandarin hues to electric blu...

yeah

I often wondered why
you and I
never touched the sky
why we never stopped along the wa...

When I look in the mirror, who do I see? I see them; I see us, and I see me. If there was ever an...

In the midnight hour as I cross your mind

The je ne sais quoi behind my seductive rhythms

In be...

Dance unto my heart with such sweet tender words

Take my mind, my body, the gentle yearning for ...

Give me divinity’s purpose or give me earthly rest

Like Spring that flies home to the bosom of...

Her miraculous womb expatriating the world within the palm of her hands

Poignant to the masculin...

I witnessed pure devotion

the second my eyes mirrored

her atop my masculinity victorious,

Articulating the intimacy,

face to face with my eyes drawn,

her taboo is pulsing heavily,

ain't paying for no subscription I got bills I don't mean dollars I'm counting cents trying to ma...

it's gonna take a reader to find me I don't mean a medium more like wikipedia I try to be good bu...

What up dog? It is what it always has been and we are moving forward in the light of the divine. ...

My distorted sense of right and wrong does not belong, but still feels right at home in this civi...

where genres meet in a dim afterhours bar somewhere beyond time jazz was already there laughing ...

creepy people everywhere one standing on the stairs one laughing in underwear one shoe not a pair...

I gotta train to catch

I hear it coming

Sitting on a rusty bench in Natchez Mississppi

Waiting...

white snow falling on black streets
you, on my mind

the arrival of spring
awakens the earth ...

the pastor not my pastor but probably your pastor wants you to give them money the pastor who has...

Wealth and longevity are built into our skin. We're valued more than most can comprehend. Going a...

standing in the checkout line screaming in my mind a stick figure drawn on my t shirt holds up a ...

the peep's next door know my wifi name but not my middle name we share walls thinner than paper a...

Eye reign supreme inside this empty sell, Where u can sea the tales I cannot tail. B4 the kni...

EAch day as Ive grown older

never know whats comin my

way for that day

Makin plans that ...

lust
seduced me into a moment of unfaithfulness
it drew in my wandering gaze
as your fingers w...

Omar and Maya begin this story in two different worlds.
He’s a man trying to rebuild after cho...

Manhatten, New York

Friday Evening

I had my Goddaughter with me for the entire weekend. Her par...

To the man of the moonlight by the stars unto the sands of time
Reveal your hidden identity to m...

I harken to the murmurs of the virile man who has stolen my breaths
The core of my temple blendi...

Touch me in the morning

Remnants of pleasure softy melting into the essence of my sweetest ambro...

I have committed no errors. I am not committed to them. I am constantly moving forward so it is h...

I promised no one in particular
besides me
that I would sit myself down
flip the light switch
...

A poem spoken in the voice of men who carried a burden the nation never claimed

The war that s...

SC right now in process of redistrcting the maps taking the only Black Democratic Congressman Jam...

She sat pretty in the corner of the room

Clear eyesight, smooth sway

Never seen anything so...

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

The shadow that carried my n...

Lessons from the smokehouse

ain’t gentle.

They come at you hot,

sting your eyes,

make...

Where the men don’t cry out loud,

the hurt learns to move different;

quiet as a shadow,

I was gonna sit this one out

sit in the back row
while other poets dip their big toes into
i...

The last chord burning is the one you didn’t mean to play the note that slipped out when your gua...

When the night learns your name,

it doesn’t whisper it soft,

it drags the syllables slow,

Is it something that can take away from me? I won the skin color lottery. The reason I am winning...

I think about
things

great and small
short and tall
how much it will cost
the interest on ...

My rhymes are weapons so lethal

One day they might justchange people

Sow seeds so potent, t...

Dont write much bout my experiences in Vietnam

but this one piicture stays in my mind all the ...

Got the trump infused name callin

try to shame folks

this racist administration a phony

joke a...

That time of year when

butterfly U R here

Colorful silky delicate

bobbin dippin like Smo...

I love olives, the green kind. Not the black one that are locked in the cans. At least with the g...

I was walking around my room the other day and every I turned I stubbed my toe. Like God was tryi...

I detest the taste of it

it's unpleasant aromaset before me
wanting to turn away and ask for ...

My dreaded season not that

far away

mattter of fact starting to

feel its effect more and...

Everything in his power to degrade the Black

voting rights trying his best to supress our vote

I am trying to be civil

Sensible

As you say civilized

I am a creation of your civilization

I ...

Its already bedtime and I am putting all rumours to rest. Im well rested and the world has tested...

Sharks are 50 to 100 million years older than trees!

Guess which came first, dogs or fleas?

Still.

Enough?

"Mother" a sacred word revered and worth its weight in gold children learn to bow their head and ...

Silence walked in like it knew my name told me chill everything don’t need to be explained as i...

I saw a deacon picking up trash around our church’s parking lot

So I grabbed a broom to sweep ...

Cue the music

Strike up the band

Manufacture the tears

Manufacture the cheers

Sanctified in s...

Big momma hands stilled

The kitchen forgot its hymns

Mercy missed supper

was once a poet

then survived the rinse cycle

writer of poems

does healing look like progress a quiet home inside voices children who do not flinch when their ...

loose strands growing side by side twisting into one tangled vine strengthen by time grows to...

Given a spark of madness is the madness of insisting that all is, when all are miserable.

Diff...

Christians praise a trinity but are monotheistic

Media is fiction we worship because its unrea...

Burning down the Wickerman

holds like setting fire

to myself, I built to survive.

Every ...

when I say "please" am I asking or begging am I being respectful or begging for a chance to be he...

These are my damn words

not softened,

not sanded down,

not dressed up

to make anyone ...

don’t get the wrong idea
when you read the words I write
and listen with attentive ears
to the...