I wonder how it would be to take a walk through heaven

And to feel the Lord's ...

More'n' $500.00
For Car Repair!

Hence mine
plaintive
strut forward
doleful
poetically lam...

Yikes, aside
from mental
health re:
psychotherapy,
which haint
the worse
cyst phase
of bei...

Honesty in a lie

Truthfully there is honesty in a lie
I honesty have to lie to
spare your fe...

(alternately titled:
this stoned temple
pilot ready for Styx)

I hate tubby
a nuisance
boot...

its like satin knows my souls at steak
and hes fighting his hardest to enslave me
his whole exi...

WE LOVIN US

We Lovin Us!

No longer can we undermined our own significance

We need t...

the devil is out on a course of destruction and ruin
do you all remember what you've been do...

Love is fleeting, blowing in the wind...

I miss you,

Out here,

I’m the one,

Who has a desire,

Seeing you smile,

From th...

STANDING ON THE ROCK

The bones of ancestors are rattling…shaking—

Itching from infecti...

when someone leaves
it is so loud
so personal
so silent

a deafening emptiness
that has a m...

when someone leaves
it is so loud
so personal
so silent

a deafening emptiness
that has a m...

An Indigenous Sonnet

To An Indigenous Beloved Mother

To breathe each day is cha...

If the world stopped would you finally be able to breathe

If your eyes sunk deep into your sou...

pierced hearts come to fruition
upon the weight of the day
cold hearts in derision along li...

Girl you take me for a joke.

But I’m really serious.

I told you that i needed you, why you ...

Black Is Beautiful
Rich
distinct, alluring
glow
our fortitude
passion and endurance
that ex...

THE BRIDGE AND THE FOX

(An Allegory)

Quietly spanning the space

over the banks sepa...

I have headaches, its like the world is trying to grow in my brain. I guess its opposing forces t...

In Quiet Tranquility…

Here I sit

in the womb of room…

gazing out into the sunlit sce...

G

Tonight is the night of consummation

Another step in our relation......ship His m...

A fly dropped

into my soup—drowning.

Down the drain

I poured—watching an old lad...

awakened

by the saltiness

i felt wet memories

flowing down my cheeks

kissing ...

The way you make me feel inside

Making my body quiver

As I sit here

Thinking of how you ...

Loving you from a far
No matter where you are
No matter what you are
I will always be
Loving ...

Dont know where our endeavors will take us
Dont know what the outcome will be
Riding on faith.....

Oh, How I’ve longed for Mr. Right

To come rescue me

From the arms

Of this

Screwed up ...

Its a quarter past ten

Lets go for a drive

Meet me at seven

lets ride into the clouds of...

Found my way back on the keys

As I came to find the previous poem

Was a bit disorganized

Being the only black(at work) sitting in a cubical in the back, allows one to hear

What Caucas...

Her Words are walking and her thoughts are talking, proverbs from the Black beautiful Nubian wo...

Of late, imust stipulate,

my observation be in wonder,

some strait 'women of color' desire

to ...

i wasnt sleep
i was in slumber
tumbling deep down a tunnel
instead of walking
i was stumbling...

from the suffering and pain that is piped into veins

by the organ-less Master who relentlessly...

There is little left her

for ole death to lay claim:

swollen bellies…parched skins…...

TO MEN OF SOUL

That Achebe should herald us men of soul—

repositories of the spirits of...

You Said The Black Woman

You say the black wombman is God
You say the black wombman is Queen
...

I over reacted,

I know,

In a way,

I may be wrong,

I was just trying to communicat...

She runs the streets
The need for every social scene
She has to be there
She has to be seen
...

Selling that hard
Say you won't be a slave
You won't work for the white man
So the streets you...

The fear of the black son
Someone has to save them
Especially if dad is locked up
With only ma...

So many of you everywhere
Driving in big cars with small dogs without a care
At the airport, St...

Lost cost timerhyme,
Blind truth believe grieve,
Facts melt wax lies die,
Focus hopeless quest...

I’m my ancestors’ wildest dream

by any means

a sweet blessing

down from heaven

We c...

Trapped, hot, and nauseous eight weeks at sea

Naked and chained with unbearable shame no longer ...

Don't touch me

Only *** me

Dont love me

Make love to me

Give me the physicals

Put ...

Papito chulito como te esplico

mi amor tu eres mi corazon

papito escucha cuando te digo

tu ere...

Black as the night

my sable soul sings songs

of Nubian ancestors

sleeping behind...

We march for civil rights and the movement
Wondering where the endangerment of black panthers
H...

I'm an X-man

Not a klan (clownsman cloned man)

I am a different brand

My superpowers are my spiri...

I AM
First

But I will not be the Last
I AM
The Healing salve

From horrid horrific

his...

Remember I love you…
Love every hue of you
In fact
From Caramel
Cocoa
Red Bone
Chocolate
C...

search within

forget without

learn to arrive

a bitter spout

clinge to your wallet

look deep
stand still & repeat
we got dancing feet
I time to meet & greet
the underscore ...

FOR THE MOTHERLAND

CRYING OUT TO HER CHILDREN

Sprawled out on the stage of life

Her ...

Bloated ballooned belies

Mock pregnancies

Only hunger could achieve;

Once lu...

Once again our humanity is taxonomically mocked—

No longer three-fourths Homo sapiens—...

With the ever burning candle flame

Of faith, we cuddle reeds of hope

And contin...

Time cannot be controlled—

Comprised…neither shortened…

Nor lengthened—never held i...

An anchored statue can no longer be a metaphor

For liberty—like-wise, neither can unba...

as we greet

the day’s advent,

we still face

the same old weary events;

it...

If your eyes could talk
They'll probably scream
Your pupils speak languages
Preach non-fiction...

The city of lights is a paradigm of the inner lights of life where some chosen to go agaisnt huma...

As I watched the masculine gift of god,

the way he carried himself, from the temple of his min...

I Am A Queen

I am a Queen of the motherland, birthing a child as their sweet complexed skin rub ...

Dear Black Man, Do you know what it is that you do?

I can't figure out if it is the knowledge ...

I was always waiting to catch you if you fall...

he said, damn right!

I have fallen life ti...

Preface:
Adjust wanna zang
up ply yen
mull lil yang
see king wang
to wa er re:
ca jung than...

Must we continue to play,want you to show me you can take it

P***y mine for the taking, rub yo...

I think I've lost my way
I'm trying to find my way back
The things that are natural
have been ...

How can you love the mother
And hate your own brother
Same blood flowing
Divided against one a...

Cut the phallus off, for it is fruitful

Close the mind with the terror of the night

Good bo...

I know you don't care
But I can tell when you stare
I say to you I am not my hair
To say that ...

pull up a chair and let's talk

about some things we need

to talk about things we keep

go...

asked to recite one night stood up

with a tremble in my voice I was a

little nervous of cou...

Two objects on your face
So deep, dark,s and mysterious
I gaze into your eyes
Like George caus...

my muse has the the juice

I'm just a vessel to be used

hot like a whistling tea pot

mani...

if I go any farther

all that's left is the edge

if I jump off

all that's left is the gro...