There I am upon the stage.

My hair is the current rage.

Flying colors before my eyes.

I ...

No one ever bothers to ask me if I'm okay.

My life is an open book but if you don't ask the qu...

Just a little bit of art please pass the sugar

Let his mind wonders
Of the upcoming pages...

She strums her graffitied mandolin

shakes her leaden locks about her Spanish head

takes a while...

My favorite color?

That bluish hue

the yellow moon

bathes her

mocha skin in

when i...

You can hear the tears of a killer if you listen for the silence. I grew up in an asylum, and my ...

Some people like to say that Jesus is not real

but I'm here to tell you that is a lie,

for ...

Been a hypocrite all my life

Now I'm trynna do what's right

Came out the darkness into the ligh...

Show me your character, the distinctiveness to your design.

The person you are behind closed doo...

My 40 and 1

1 acre for the pain
2 for the hurt
3 acres for the deception
4 for the births.....

The system controlling or minds by celling our dreams

Selling No Martin No Luther, what’s the ...

All the water is gone.

No fish left in the pond.

Sodas are all off the shelf.

Maybe my l...

Ever since I was a child

I was told that the world was ending

They tell me to believe in Go...

What a fellowship, what a joy divine

Standing in your presence

Worship and giving you all t...

IfI go a day without thinking of you

my nights are consumed with visions of you

those eyes ...

Living half dead must be a hard job. Latching on to hate must make you feel alive. A soul so low ...

I laid at his feet, followed him like a sheep...submission was my mission. It was only right to ...

Paved roads

are black coffins sealing

the American Indians'

oneness with nature.

In order to be real sometimes you have to be fake

To bide your time in the choices you make.

We've all been hurt in relationships

Sometimes we dismiss or we get dismissed.

Love is not the ...

Before you love me

Let me have your loyalty

If not, set me free

She told me I was so pretty as I said Thank you and I kept on walking.

Probably thinking "this s...

Just so you know

I understand those screams asthey burn for escape

coming staight from your hea...

You think you're the one for me, let me ask you a few questions.

Are you a God-fearing woman? Do...

We all live in glass houses so drop your stone

no need for judge and jury amongst your own

Flip...

Turn the channel more.

There it is again as before.

The glory of blood, and gore.

Images...

Where do I place my hurt?

I'm tired of them being on others lips

those lips don't even know...

she was from the hood.

but she wasn't hood like her neighbor.

what is being "hood"? she thought...

my emotions leak out of my pores

as i pour my aged tears in my wine glass

here baby,

hav...

I'm suffocating in a molasses lake of emotions. It's like quicksand, I can't get out. It sucks me...

Your house chores are not done,

you don't have enough Jesus,

you can't discipline your kids no ...

I feel like you want me
all I want to be is lonely
had a lot of relationships
in my life
stab...

it is so easy to go
while you.re sleeping
what did we say
before goodnight
did we argue with ...

You're absolutely beautiful is what they all say

but when it comes to love what scares them away...

I love to look at you because I love how you look at me.

Eyes that look past my beauty and want ...

He was 50 million lightyears away I met him on the horizon. We dined on the nile river. He introd...

Self-possesed and self proclaimed smoother than the sounds of a five part harmony. Cruising throu...

Hood Haiku # 187

Listened to my heart

should've punched it in the mouth

-Haakim Understand...

I can't stop the clock

it's not a stop watch

getting up

I'm down

3 floors off the gro...

you're beautiful
like a steel magnolia
though I may know you
I have yet to know you
you're so...

There is no love in these streets

The homey’s lie when you meet

Females trip, and lie at yo...

Waiting for me like a virus of today's reflections. Moody was how she greeted me, tried to escape...

Our crazy world today.

Falling hope - bills of May.

Where to go - no pay.

Endless pit ho...

So vain is she at ninety-nine

every time she looks in the mirror she calls herself "fine."

Toni...

its the steps we take that lead to the choices we make. we should pay attention to the voices we ...

You have force my hand and I will lay down my Queen of Spades, its the only way. Take note and he...

Next to me sits.

One all full of bits.

Looks just like me.

Yet many more keys.

Same f...

Dont hate me because of mysery

The state or the place in which i have been in

A shallow gra...

If my people shall humble themselves and call me by my name seems to be the scripture that is tug...

*only trying to love you*

You start to get a clue but don’t follow the lead

You don’t want ...

*modern day ancestors*

They begin to say stuff like we fear for our lives, so...

She regrets now
the time spent sulking

As if her tears
could wash away the pain
of his infi...

Weather records charted mercury risinghot enough to melt tar,//Which indicates global warming qui...

I could write
a poem for you
but I would rather
cry my heart out
sing the blues for you
lose...

Perhaps in another world, this mister of deux daughters (who sometimes feels caught in an invisib...

The prism of hindsight allows, enables and provides a leg up for us scant survivors to parse and ...

Perhaps living in the aegis of near poverty prompts this perceptive papa to ponder the luxurious ...

This unseasoned and virgin wastrel of a wayfarer (hidebound and tethered like a yoked oxen) to th...

If I could travel
to a distant star

Upon the back of
a Humpback Whale
wailing of unrequited...

Although an ache in pit o my belly//Like a dull swinging pendulum used at a deli//Undermines me s...

Most every day of existence finds my state of being forced to delve into a recollection of trying...

Memories packed away in suitcases stored
in dark closets collecting dust

Love refused as old ...

No more searching for me I will be sitting and waiting

here should you magically appear

I f...

We come into this world knowing

not what to do

We begin to learn early

am here in this a...

Whats really going on ?

T.V. for hours - THEY'RE GONE !

Homework maybe and radio on.

Let...

You may ask me to say why I love you and I could reply:

When you smile, it’s the way the ...

Radical song.

Change to belong.

What is that ???

Funny skull cap.

Stomp on rats !!!!!...

I remained transfixed as the booming voice of this roman majestic orator cleft the hallowed halls...

No off ford dodge fiat decreeing death sentence twill span//the rest o' me life, cuz such incarce...

More than two score years since elapsed since incipient onslaught of slow suicide by starvation t...

“Where fore art those innocent and precious days of youth”? That rhetorical question continues to...

As we seek the magical
We need be more tactical
Not practical but radical
But overcome letharg...

Elevated on high surfing in space, my favor is unmerited thanks to amazing grace, alien in the la...

Play me likea guitar, hold me close, finger my strings, tell me you love me, whisper sweet things...

Cold nights, lonely days, stayed away from the world like the rest of the strays, poison coursing...

I can't believeI still reminisce about you even though I am here with himin his houseon his couch...

My late paternal grandfather culled from a nondescript birthplace.//Wherein Philadelphia an urban...

Eagerness readily overtakes me prior to succumbing to nightly slumber. Tis boot a blink of the ey...

an average of 2,830 cubic meters per second of rich silt//forms an alluvial plain that spreads ou...

I want to meet and establish ayecontact with you. I'm waiting for you....did you get to see the p...

I want to meet and establish ayecontact with you. I'm waiting for you....did you get to see t...

Lost battered and broken all because I wanted to be his trophy.

Begging him to love me and he di...