The entire city is in darkness
Yet the brightness shines through you
People left to get away, i...

I just wish people would leave me alone
And stop asking me what happened to my phone
I had my p...

I want to share with you what each letter in the word STAND means to me.

S.T.A.N.D -

The S ...

Should I leave or should I stay?
Stay for who? Stay for what?
Leave to go where? Leave to do wh...

Spoken words are what I hear
That sinks into the depth of my ear
What's reflected and brought u...

Who am I that I can choose
To pick from my closet different types of shoes
Who am I that my fee...

One night Hurt and I decided to have a Pity Party and
everybody brought somebody

Hurt brought...

Throwback is a person like oh so whack
They do something for you, then they throw it right back
...

He exposed me to the hurt and lies, the brokenness, pain and distrust
The selfishness, the cheat...

How do I love after the hurt
When my heart was shattered into pieces in the dirt
How do I begin...

Ever since I was a child and throughout my growing up

All I kept saying was, Enough Mom, Enoug...

Is it the West Wing is not the Best Wing?

Is it the White House is not the Right House?

Is ...

Thanks for making us tough, ever so rough, Black in the Day, Black in today.

They still do us ha...

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Colette Dright

Colette Dright

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The caterpillar she crawls around and around
Wondering when he'll come home to lay his head down...

The movement of life goes on each day

But frozen in time is where you stay

When the thought...

you make me crazy while driving me sane. by helping to connect the scatters from the shatters the...

Life,

it gabs

you.

Pulls

you into

this place.

Throws

you

into the

deep...

Thoughts
swimming
in my
mind.
Swimming
side to side.
Swimming
up and
down.
Swirling
all...

Blood extinguish fire

Blue flame heat

Anger glows orange

Rage leaves third degree burns ...

Tick tock

Time laid out

A Sunday suit on the end of the bed.

Measure thecircumference of...

i admit

you are all

i ever wanted

and some…

i wish i could be

all you ...

Skunks are making love…

The winter will soon be over;

Spring is in the air...

Towering barked skeletons

stoically bend, bowing

towards the majestic huge moon

The air that I breathe is you
My husband indeed
Mesmerized by your presence
Paralyzed by your ...

I must have dropped out before matriculation

My intention was to be attentive to needs needing...

Ironic how sums in form, turn to looting on a norm, quite dastardly

Preying on God given right...

Love bond cut rapidly I fall lost

Your touch no more I ache without you

Warm filled smiles ...

Somebody done lied, either side, there is room to hide

The truth is the middle, precarious is ...

Surrounded by multi colored flowers in the f...

You provoke my thoughts

Influencing my intellect

Manipulate my creativity

You conjure my speec...

Silence takes over

When there is a desperate

Need of being heard

Here we are again

Fussing and fighting

You're throwing things

While I'm sitting here crying

It is not

a foregone conclusion,

but a reality;

even porcupines

know love—

Where you are, I am;

Where you go, I will be there:

Love’s an epitaph.

Out of the darkness of night

crept the dawn.

Steaming with thirst,

the dry mouth...

Praising His Gifts

Another day—God’s blessings—

compounded twelve months: 7x11:

deat...

Unspoken wisdom speaks

Oh the sacrifice of being an outspoken Negro, can often be viewed as not ...

Do you yearn to praise me in the crest of my temple ...do you crave and want to savor my... femin...

A hustlas prayer. now I lay me down to sleep one eye open, the four five I must keep. Man stopper...

i

Deliver the word by my favorite group War check you tube gettin more and more aggrivating to p...

I can't ever go back

Backtracking a lifetime of

Mistakes

Heartbreaks

Missed opportunities

Her love cries out

An old song

Sentimental lyric

I listened with my heart

Breath taki...

I need to veiw it all from the top

So I apologize but I just can't stop

I must continue to cl...

I tried it my way

Everytime I run into dismay

What can I do to make you stay

When you're absol...

Our story will fade with sorrowing time

if we continue to allow it to become a

a si...

Every time I think about you
My heart smiles.
You’re so beautiful to me
My soul blushes
Whene...

If these walls could speak;

It would tell the secrets that it keep.

It would tell how your love...

We came into each other's life

when we both were vulnerable.

Battling our demons that kept us s...

Gazing out
into space,
into infinity.
I wander,
my
mind wanders.
I see vistas.
New, differ...

Poets…Word Griots

Writing…Imaging Rhythms,

The Blessings We Share

New beginnings
with no end
a story to tell
when our children grow older
Ironic, how a rose
c...

What these bullets want from atrigga?

Always thought I’d own a gat when I was bigger

Ended ...

Black History Month is every February;

excited, I paid a visit to the local librar...

I be

I, be

I be in motion

muscles move unda my skin

I be watchin

Minstrels mimic

So this is a story to you that I relate of a little black boy named Jiggaboo with the big red l...

She came and she went

Moving with no direction

In search of purpose

Memories of me

Is what I leave

When I'm long gone

Away from it all

When I'm not in reach

I...

I tell you no lie

Everywhere I go

Inspiration meets me

It speaks to me mentally

It paints a...

My light

Vivid and bright

Illuminating

Everything it touches

It reveals the path ahead

Pre...

Your essence is like the sun

The way it warms my heart

The way it makes my smile bright

When...

Do you wanna love me

Do you really wanna love me

Do you wanna kiss me

Cause lately

I've bee...

She is the devil's best friend

Her job is to manipulate

Peer pressure persuades her

Uses her...

Can you take me away

To another time

And another place

Away from these trials

And tribulati...

I write what I feel…

So what, if so many words:

God gave them to me!

Specs of dust dance in the light

Of colored sunbeams cast from church stained glass windows

Hey! Save the children!

It’s all about the children—

Heirs are what we were.

Society Lost

Entitlement blinds vision

Color of skin threatens

One day,

eyes open.

Open

to

see what

is.

Look around.

Look to see,

see wh...

Of Truth and Consequences

They lied,

trying to kill the truth—

unaware

God had ma...

Sitting down here

with a stick,

scribbling in the sand,

I looked up

into a space ...

Hatred of my skin

Character within flawless

Ignorance pierce heart

i

From Negro History week

to Black History Month,

has been a perilous ...

Time can be our friend

It can be our worst enemy

Time only moves forward

But we often beg for ...

I can't get enough

But obviously neither can you

I love the things you bring out of me

But thi...

Can I go with you

On this imaginary ride

Where our pens glide

And our words collide

I'm rea...

Mosaic in your touch

a craven for it so much

Mosaic diamond sparkles in

your eyes

brightness ...

Why do you make me cry

Words of acid you spit

Your actions are always slick

And I'm sorry b...

In complete silence

I hear the clock tick

The wind blow

As tears flow from my eyes

Like raind...

When they said the world was ours

I grabbed the baton and sprintedtoward Mars

I was aiming ...

How could you

Hold me so intensely

Cherish me so immensely

Love me so tremendously

Then lea...

I STEPPED INTO THE ROOM UNAWARE

OF THE FACT THAT I WOULD FIND

A CHOCOLATE COATED

WAITIN...

Can I *** you?

Can I *** you here?

I promise I’ll make you feel as if you’ve been refreshed...

I feel his presence at the rise of the moon feels like a restricted lagoon

At the tip of his l...

If I said it I meant it

No apologies will be made……

I want u to truly believe this is what ...

I’m not trying to sex you this time

I want to liberate your mind

I’m so Petrified

peelin...

Through back alleyways
Where after dark no one stays
A shallow river flows through,
Coming fro...

Now Im craving your body

is this for real

temperature rising dont wanna

feel

Im in the wrong ...

Mind had this Idea I am top

dog round here I call the shots

this was the mind mind had in m...

Always wanna lay

with me

but never sleep

with me

All I want is just

some a lil bit...

In the eve of destruction

My sisters they hate me

Busy tearing each other down

The envy over...

I'm smiling brightly because he knows just what to say to bring a smile to my face

There's no ...