Why do I settle for less...When all this pain daily you give me settles in my chest...Every time ...

"Death the stalker" Strange things happen, The moment one is lost, Another is found. We know lif...

Walk in light, love in your skin.

Equal to the stars at night;

In the sun, our beautiful Bl...

Uprooted, abandoned and displaced;

scattered about in their own homeland—

Irrespect...

Ripples In Time…

Chipped off

the rock of the time

a human pebble pierces

Rocked to sleep by buzz words...

Fake News Fake News & Transparency mind numb to it

Mass media ...

Our Lives That Can Be Seen With The Naked Eye Is Just A Blur, Life Is To Short Is The Reason, No ...

The world is against me

So I close my eyes

And run away

The world is against me

I...

He who has plucked away the light of day

has sent the healing moon to ease the pain

night b...

In the consuming time of day

the water of the no longer frozen pond

is again home t...

The winter of our discontent is over,

the Merciful God of the oppressed

has se...

Pervaded mounded
jeweled ground
gunmetal sky
incessantly
pelted and
did pound,
asper
stacc...

Body electric
zappedlower gastro
intestinal tract
wracked with
wretchedness
pitted, rocked,
...

Sorry if it appears I'm Standoff-ish

Just cautious

I'm sizing you up

Your smile...

Yo...

We as a black people living in the good ol' U.S. of A.
Has lost the meaning of our blackness way...

I guess

This is it.

I guess

The fire has begun to fade.

I guess

I can turn the pag...

You dibble

And dabble,

Challenge streams

Without a paddle

Then,

Look to me

As y...

The Emperor has no clothes

Butt a#ss naked

Naked aggression

Naked capitalism

Naked po...

US of A once a country of morals respect compassion

has now turned to b a country of racial divi...

Lets go and begin taking care of this cold...The cold that is in your heart you never been told.....

Each and every attribute of her are the stars that make up my galaxy,

so, in fear of going bli...

Saw your headlights

In my rearview mirror.

You got so close

That my soul began to quiver...

What happpens when the heart has been shattered...A mirror has revealed true lies no matter the c...

Experience
bubbles.
We live
in a
bubble.
All that
we experience
forms our
views.
Our
vi...

Never leave home attract what

you want from wherever you roam

Keep it in minds eye constantly

Hello there. Can I have a moment with you?
You know Real Love Hurts when it's tried and true
Ju...

I must look in the eyes of the oppressor

I must stand tall, as my skin becomes my deepest ...

They know his name.....

tHose corners.....

gUns, drugs, people....

aGgression, vio...

Phones A Major Hang Up For Me-Bye

Unspoken Wisdom Speaks

A newfound and more profitable Bondage after slavery (Peonage)As it turns...

Naked and afraid

In the jungle for 21days

Wishing Off and Raid was being sprayed

Dreams ...

“In the meadows of the sunset is where I find peace

in the quiet hours when no one’s watching ...

Ignorance, like a dreaded wind,

Waits in ambush for our ripening youth;

Waiting to ...

Her vibe was like Rum I took a sip then indulged.

Not a feeling of drunk but more like a high ...

Sun cast black silhouettes standing proud on cement auction blocks

Sweltering heat make dark s...

Bruises to match the ones on my heart.

Bruises to cover what’s tearing us apart.

Bruises...

I woke up in the future a relic of the past

Ordered a coffee but they refused to accept my cas...

She woke up different.

She woke up with God.

Although the life she had lived was bitter sweet a...

WITH EYES AND EARS ON THE GRIEVED LANDS OF AFRICA

Listen, Africa, our Mother, is calling…S...

You were always Dope

My latest greatest high vibe

My personal drug

I know

You’re somewhere

Sober.

Meanwhile

For me,

It’s over.

I’ve never been

To be a poet

Void of passion death sentence

Feelings penned lifeforce

RonnieL

WAKE UP ,STAND UP ,HAND UP

DEMANDS UP,SOCIETY DOWN

THE MANS UP, WE DOWN,YOU DOWN?

I'M UP...

LOVE ME TODAY

HATE ME TOMMOROW

PAIN CAUSED BY DEATH

JOY CAUSED BY SORRROW

DEEDS DONE ...

A world
beyond.
Dreamland
unbounded.
A vision of
grander
vistas.
Vistas
unshackled by
th...

Begging on sidewalks…

Plants growing in cement holes…

Life’s complexities…

Tell me brother

How do you feel

when the pretty little girl over there

aint tor real

Tell me ...

Workout, stretch, sweat, lift, and run

Muscle, hustle, train, success never done

Witness fi...

What we did

Is done

But,

There is still a Sun.

There is still room

To shine

One...

Rakim god MC

KRS 1 the teacher

Tupac brave speaker

1. Knock-Knock I know he in there/yep I'm at your door in my Main Chick Valentine's Day underwear...

Three forehead kisses

chewing panties like sweet gum

Breast tasted like grapes

A true Black Panther

Born to put fist in the Air

Shield for my people

Qadar Dwon'

I'm a mystery

You thought you really knew me

Such a Divine man

Qadar Dwon'

Because of the truth

I know how to treat a Queen

Just widen her smile

Qadar Dwon'

Streaked mascara running down faces

We cried

400 tears in the making

The final act of as...

Wide awake

sleep depravity

Starving for cotton candydreams

Begging for sub conscious sup...

Every once and a while, I find a need

to pull into one of my mind’s rest stops;

and...

An Elder Griot’s Hip-Hop Rap…

(Edited and Revised)

Sessions of revelation

Generate ...

EARTH SONG

Sing a song to Earth…

Archetypical Mother…

Our feeding bosom….

oh fair maiden

where do you reside

oh to whom

does your heart belong

for a bounty

Early In The Morning

Across the cling to do
paralyzed beneath ther eyes of sullen but sudden ...

To be honest
You've always felt like home to me.
All of the familiar feelings that
rush when I...

Time, it
moves.
It
moves into
nothing.
Nothing
at all.
Tomorrow is
nothing.
Can’t
touch...

Conflict bears messages

to be discerned;

revelation lies in the spirit.

The ...

I became a road warrior. I left everything I have known for what I could have been. I was drownin...

Not a comic but watch this impression

My life sliced nice like a delicatessen

42, set, hut,...

Ever listen to the conversations of privileged folks?

It’s like they enjoy omelettes without e...

Love to do this move called a dance...No matter who is near me in any circumstance...When I get u...

1. Met you in a crowd.

Could have sworn

It was only you and I.

The music was loud

B...

May I lay with a special lady tonight

After I say my prayers

I promise to hold you tight

I...

How many times do I have to say I miss you

For you to know

That you've been on my mind

I was sick
Very sick
Barley healing from thisillness

The nurses told me my WBC was low

Wo...

For A Wood-shed Child, I Know

There is no defeat

like self-defeat;

no lack of love

Our forever

Came and went.

It was the best time

I’ve ever spent.

It was the best sea

Black balloon bellies…

Sunken red orbs peering out:

Visions of hunger…

T...

TO A TEASE OF NATURE

Winter seems frozen in time;

Its coldness veiled in stillness.

Where once upon a time the sound of birds

you heard singing at the dawning

of Spring

Whatever ...

Friends for over 10 years...

We seen each other at our worst and shed tears.

We been throug...