Cold as the stone flint

Struck to create the spark

Which, when teased with kindling

Gives ...

Young black kid, head down, remain silent.

Friends lie cold in the street.

Hearts in consta...

When a lioness is resting,

Does one dare to disturb her peace?

Even when she's calm,

Tak...

In the beginning was darkness.

Then came the light,

That formed the beauty of blackness.

I liken bullets to pages and guns to titles,

shoot up the audience,

make the remaining surviv...

Why do you stay put?

When You know he ain't right Queen;

Pain is your future!

Now we know; freedom in America

is a false-positive. Disparity for us—

the oppressed...

Now we know; freedom in America

is a false-positive. Disparity for us—

the oppresse...

Never regret a passing of opportunity

A passing of energy

Life has a way of recycling possibi...

I CRAWL OUT FROM BEHIND THE BUSH

AND FIND MYSELF INTO THE CITY STREET,

VERY SOON I HEAR ANC...

Neva Let the Past Of ur Family Determine The Future Of ur Childen All Will Be okay If u Just Beli...

What is won’t be

Expect rewards and change do we?

Whenever one remains the same

S/he get...

A pen to the paper

Keeps me sane

When I’m going insane

No matter

If I’m wrong or righ...

Riptides, divides

Despite incite

I invite

You to my kingdom

With wisdom

As a commu...

A young black pioneer

paved his way

like cement trucks,

solidifying his road ahead.

...

In a span of 24 hours, I'll pick you every flower in the world,

if a fictitious Santa can del...

Love awaits us all

But it is never too late

Ultimate respect

~King Qadar Dwon'

World of emojis

Poetry will not be replaced

God gave us poetry

~King Qadar Dwo...

Cosigned crimes purview,

Food lines’ thru extended wait times

Bodylines dropping them, in d...

Without salvation or divineintervention

We overcame fears of whips and lynching

Jim Crow no...

Damocles sword fallin

We still ballin on a box of uncle bens

bend over prepare for the injectio...

Catching your water falls,

embodying Niagara...

Hard rocks turned soft,

Unbodied viagra...

Push...

Through the pain, boredom, and shame

Attitude really is everything!

Failure and ...

If this sudden outbreak Has us locked down If we suddenly breakout Can we lock it down?

2020 ...

Naked yet 2b still left warm,

Requiem to the forlorn…..

Felled by caring for too long

Go...

Home resides in my fight or flight reflex

Four rooms inside

Four walls

Walls contain the...

No one is perfect,

But we are children of God;

His ...

Ask and be given…

He does not deny seekers;

Knock…hope’s door opens…

Our lives are varied,

But death knows no distin...

Many try to microscope life;

What’s magnified still ...

Death’s shadow passed by,

Waving its slack-hand syndrome;

God...

THERMOSTAT…

In the silence of its tomb,

The stalwart mind goes to labor

as bloati...

L-lovable at all times. When your hurt and deepened with sadness. When a smile can’t break throug...

6:33pm....I’m home and you’re at work. I was thinking about how you would passionately eat my pux...

Where have you been?
How are you doing?
I hope you're doing fine.

Memories of you
kept me...

I'm good with words I'm good
with manipulation but I could
never persuade you to love me
as mu...

there's an estate in
Los Angeles on a
street called Arlington
I always say when I die
when I ...

learned how to climb mountains
practicing on hills couldn't get
questions answered immediately
...

I don't keep company
my company keeps me
alive and awake
watches over me
when I sleep
I don'...

when you dismantle something
you didn't build you can't
put it back together again
unless you ...

we believe what we're told
until we begin to believe
differently then we search
our soul for t...

A Portal to another dimension

go there for relief from these

earthly tensions

The body stays b...

II started on the Vibe with training wheels. I got fire rims and poppin' wheelies. "Whee" I was a...

live in each moment

got to sort of throw up

helps to keep your chin rub

love in the atmo...

What a world we live in
Full of grimy people 

A grimy world we live in
I’m sorry...

Story of my life
A lot of people don’t get me
A lot of people don’t understand me
So lis...

Staring out the window

Reflecting on my life

Happiness

Confusion

Hopes of being a wife

Tho...

think I fixed it when I mixed it
come taste it if you don't
like it don't waste it
down the dr...

you left me long before I decided to go
I stuck around in tears learning how to sew
it took tim...

this house is full of pain
no furniture remains
nowhere to sit but on
he floor back against
t...

Have to give it to the reaper.
This the life I live so he better keep up.
Stay cultured and pea...

I thought about you today.
With those faces you used to make.
Yes, I thought about you today.
...

Living so complex its such a mess
got a feelings like what comes next?
Is it the money? The pow...

I called you you didn't answer So I went away I heard your cry so I called you again you didn't...

somewhere in the bedroom
somewhere written in a note
somewhere in the abode
somewhere in a box...

there's a Poet inside of me
one who likes wrestling
the struggle changed my name
leaving a mar...

it feels as if the world stopped
turning sitting on a full tank no
where to go except to store
...

You can take everything Still there's one thing That remains you can't Take that from me It's som...

I know you're a Poet I see the line of fire you've drawn I am a Poet too One addicted to rhyme Gi...

love so tender

romance doth smile

after cut the River Nile

shade of a whisper inside the...

Lost In L.A.

light up a lucky
kneel to discovery
wanting to deliver
don't call me late for ...

I said I might not vote you would
have thought I farted or something
everyone looked at me craz...

what do you do when there's
fire inside of you it would be
crazyquite asinine to add fuel
it w...

on a natural high listening to a song

sung my The Essential Bloodstone

I realize how essential ...

When faithfulness, obedience, trust, and patience

is put on the back burner, and not in the fo...

I am artistically profound
up for listening right now?
with these words I spit I reverse this c...

I bleed for you as you bleed for me, live for you as you live for me. Understand we are we and yo...

Can you see it in my eyes?
Just a lover in disguise.
Take the time to break my pride.

This a...

if there was no God
if there was no Angel
if there was no Muse
if there was god's
if there wa...

if walls talked they would say
get over it
if stairs talk they would say
I'm sick of your ups ...

I will

jeopardise my breaths

flatlining without a fight to

stay vital amongst

your love

-Jg

don't know if I miss

the money or the job

maybe I miss them both

still it feels as thoug...

Trump…1 syllable—

Devil has 2 syllables;

Both…666…

The oppressor to the oppressed

Reminded them that denial of freedom

Causes ...

I hate rejection

I hate abandonment

I hate loneliness

when I am alone

I hate my fathe...

block out sound to hear myself think

look over at the bottles but can't

take a drink of tox...

got so much on my mind to say
hope the words don't escape
feeling like if I don't say it my hea...

thought I was gone but this storms

lasting too long like every one else

I'm still at home i...

I feel like I'm in the twilight
of my life in a zone I'm gone
places never been before
they sa...

As the time flies by
All I could think about is you
So I wrote this Haiku.

-@nicole_thepoet

As we stand before the altar

of the simplicity of the soul,

eating the bread of kno...

Green grass,

blooming tall trees;

creatures having a blast

running around in the...

My buzz is the words I feel on an empty night

Getting drunk off letters

What a stupid sight...

Shawty Soul searching

her soul thirsty

birthing souls,

call it soul earthing

she's soul pe...

I need you to know!

I close my eyes

then write my future

in pasttense.

Sanity is

average,

X...

A lot of people meet someone new,

and the first thing they do

is play 21 questions.

Howe...

Agony, despair, misery and pain

All eventually find healing; even if

It is death. But those...

Of Present And Past Tribulations

For many of us, social distancing

is nothing new; neit...

Head

The Jerk led off a perk
lead through the comfort of the home all alone
my inside phras...

You stole everything from me

I have bee mentally, physically, emotionally abused

Wondering ...

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