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A visit from my guitarist friend
Satisfactorily completed
A crisp Saturday evening.
Giving int...
one in twain yet marked on a blotted page clearly intact through the surface
crimes of passion...
Universal examples in order
Out to exist in profession of perfected unions
We be th...
Worksheet ink
Dark blue hue
Recall those sheets from elementary school?
The scent of the toner...
Paradoxically, slavery showed equanimity—
Its suffering displayed no discrimination;
...In the midst of struggle,
dogs bark and bite;
cats meow and scratch;
even buzzin...
Easter and Remembering King are both gone—
Today, another child is shot in the back.
...Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
(i admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general,
an...
Once upon this time
In a galaxy
Just off some city's Martin Luther King Blvd
There lived a not...
We danced
Our hips swayed
Our lips layed
We perfectly fair trade
This ain’t no robber...
Little Black Boy
Put your hands down during class
You don't know the right answer
Sag yo...
in the 8th year of King Tony's reign in Italy there was a summons for his fleet
villagers inqu...
It's the Mental electrocution
the Sapio revolution
mind traveling faster than the speed of li...
And finally ,
Reality has hit
You are not gonna be mine
I need to finally quit
Gotta ...
Another sunrise
Another resurrection
Another Calvary to conquer,
And though
...Woodpeckers don’t talk;
Yet,
Can run their mouths
All day:
Just ask a tree
...Love knows
no violence
neither does peace
truth and justice—
God’s equanimiti...
Here I sit in the womb of room
gazing out into the sunlit day
consuming its tranqui...
Lord ima do what the spirit tell me to do
Lord ima do what the spirit tell me to do
Lord im...
Alone on his mountaintop
Lookout Mountain Georgia
Martin could see for decades difficult da...
When I wrote this piece 6 years ago, never did I fathom the significance of what the 50th anniver...
They came with vicious dogs;
They came with clubs and ropes;
They came with guns an...
My bridge conqueror
Marched to a drumbeat bullet
Martin Luther King
The struggle of the black woman
By Diane L. Taylor
Black woman struggles to keep her ducks in l...
Oh I put my foot down in the ground
Like thunda make a booming sound
Fi Ya Ya
OhI shake ...
Partnering with death, poverty
of hunger and homelessness
seek the equality of all—...
Like commode water
Once cherished times
Were flushed from the mind,
Cherishe...
This poet decidedagainst
becoming a measly mincedmeatymorsel
undetected inauspicious augury...
Miracles are of angels—
even the fallen ones—remember
the idol elections;
Ye...
As soon as my eyes close
Even just to rest them
Or fall asleep
It then becom...
Your real power..
Yourchoice, your voice, your action..
Your real power..
When the mome...
Don’t care Why(lyrics)
I as salty the other day.. I had to walk it off in the rain
Im mo...
All that Ineeded you to be,youcould not be..
Until you were gone, in the arms of someone new.....
Boycotting table grapes like Caesar Chavez
Organized labor aggravates the rich and the Feds
Why...
As a seven year old, in the late of night
I woke up and went downstairs
To escape the August he...
Black struggle
Living outside the bubble
Ain’t got no truck, must take the bus
X said it best,...
You see I don’t mind if I offend.
Because too many pretend.
Like Black Panther wasn’t t...
Oh god here we go again
Waking up to another Breaking News on
CNN I turn my volume up
A little...
The lighter and more peaceful she became,
the darker his moods and actions reigned.
Love pa...
Roses are red,
The sky is blue,
I been glazing into the stars,
Because of you,
My...
Surging forward
Like an ocean’s swell,
a frog happily hopped
gingerly along its ...
though avast percentage
of Stone Temple Pilots, she push peep pulls
viz vernacular spea...
Her
Stressing She
Constantly
to be
all She can
be, She
plead..
Trust in
t...
She
In love with the game
not afraid to play hard.
Big Girl
is what She say,
its w...
She..
Not afraid to challenge you.
Her, unruly attitude, gotya gambling with your fate.
...Brazen(lyrics)
Too many timesyou looked me in the eyes
and told me barefaced lies..
Your den...
The silence is strong
when there’s so much to say..
Questions filled withso much pain..
...The feast of new beginnings
is called the last supper;
Pilate washed
his hands i...
Liquor just isn’t doing it for me anymore.
I’m not even enjoying my favorite songs.
Somethi...
 
got cool beats spining in my head drop the beats dead face full of lead
droppi...
Step and Fetch a gold statue
Inhabit the punchline the jokes on you
Happy marriage of Coons...
Hey sad eyes
A graphic novel in her pupils
Stronger than she knows
She knows plenty
H...
thy body electricexperiences
constant dry cough and wheeze'n
perhapsexplainable
viam...
I don't think people listen to what they say how they curse and hex their lives every day trying ...
(alternately titled: Zayda born April 9th, 1929)
e'er since his birth,
his daring do didst no...
as I take it a bit further I'm talking about another Young G murder
the streets are uneasy the...
Out of the careless caress of slumber
Restless returns to wonder
Minds search for m...
right now
its all about the way her body feels
shes got her mind made up
she wants it
and she...
How intimate the conversation becomes
Once you realize youre not the author in life
...no matter this dawg gone pup
took numerous one after another cat nap
his utterly fatigued
In the valley where
Life is lived as intended
Happiness is widespread
As far as any eye can se...
By some stretch of the mind, I think I deserved to be mistreated
Battle scars are there to remi...
this mwm™
sans simian with a smallish prickly
dimpled, cock eyed convoluted brain
with three ...
i can only imagine
the amount of power within me
that is still laying dormant
waiting to be ab...
Deep conversation . Deep connections .
Reasons our alliance contains pure love and affection.
...From the skyfell to the ground
Celestial Lord Brown..
Intrigued by earthbound skin tone, co...
Had to change the locks
cause, you wouldn’t give me back my keys..
No more tears over you ...
Just as leaves fade and change colors on a tree..
Like that..
His feelings weren’t what the...
Its alot of steam coming out of the pot
But Im still breathing
Ive been stuffed
in the bel...
Verse 1:
It's the new swagg flow ain't it i'd like to see which rapper is going to try and bit...
bust a nut in a rut I'm here to pump ask Don Ho talking about Jay Z
being bruised by the enemy...
Beating stained glass wings
Intoxicated flight plan for a tiny spectacle
Swathed in summer ...
WHAT YOU SAY TO ME!
SAY ITTO MY FACE!
DON'T MUMBLE UNDA YO BREATH!
I AIN'T GOING TO BE T...
despitewhat outsidetemperatureregister
(even absolute zero), the unofficial arrival
of summer o...
if i lose my self inside you
can i trust you to come in and find me
but only after ive drowned
...
if your spirit is honest
it'll receive his promise
but to defy his word is suicide
which is...
Verse 1: EL-Fez
Oe batla kae, ko mokokotlong you know i'm that guy I want the whole bread ska ...
something led me to you
and it wasnt sparrows compass
but im encompassed by you
like a ship th...
The glow of the early dawn
And the gleam of the sun’s day
Kissed and illuminated my...
The other woman
I’m the other woman
The other woman
Not always a nasty, home wreckin...