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I have my sexy lingerie and my stilettoes on Sipping on my Chardonnay while listening to my favorite song…
I have no dripping honey for you today Join me in the abyss of immortally where two hearts seductively play…
As I lay in the cathedral veil of time The casting of moonlight beaming its presence…
I lost granny at the age of ten. Thirty years fast-forward and…
We learned to ask for mercy From our mothers before we…
Across five centuries, fate refuses to release its grip on NayNina, a woman of ancient Fairy lineage whose blood carries secrets powerful…
Somewhere Over The Rainbow You will call out my name…
A taste of yearning for you runs so deep Beautiful combined rainfalls, passion escalating higher than the snowcap mountain peaks…
Tucked in the corner of a crowded spoken word den…
Take me back to simpler times, when life was mapped out…
A thousand times, I mourn your absence, a recurring wound which stains every moment…
Time becomes a keeper of all decisions; it holds the consequences, like a collector hoarding treasure…
To go is to see, Every step leads to new experiences, New adventures, And lessons to learn…
I have been laying on the sauce real thick, I think I upgraded from sauce to molasses. I was keeping things stick sticky. I barely got out…
I built this throne with words and rhyme…
Even though it seems as though You’re going the wrong way…
Tucked in the corner of a spoken word poetry scene…
We preach under sodium bulbs and stop signs, hands cupped against the cold to warm a story…
I am sipping on sunshine, with a big straw too. I was always in this place of abundance. I have been looking forward to it. I was a part of…
Set on a vision I dreamed of. Though I struggled to make them believe. Craving a clean cut division. A sudden, sharp need to leave. Guilt…
They stole Our rights and…
I do some of my best writing during church…
The hopes and prayers of my mother, who always knew that I could achieve…
I balance on an unwavering limb. If I fall for you before autumn…
I don't need to be the loudest in the room…
you spend your whole life trying to get somewhere "get there"…
Days never found their proper descent, leaving nights to ignore me…
I was literally bulging, ideas and prose were coming from all directions. I was influential in this endeavor. I was clever about it and I…
We baptize our mornings in diesel and sunrise, coffee cooling in chipped Styrofoam cups—…
We possess many faces, shifting between each…
I wait for your words to move before my mystical brown eyes…
Dark silhouettes pantomime with white gloves On well lit stages a theater for the eyes…
We move together patiently when it all makes sense…
The other day I seen a well worn pick up truck proudly bearing a bumper sticker…
They pray with their heels on the curb, hands cupped like radios catching static gospel—…
There is a girl still living inside her…
Can you write me a love poem, and make it not so obvious that…
She is legendary, and the route I wish to take…
Entities in black hoodies audition to be the Reaper…
Let “I do” carry an eternal vow— to have and to hold…
A painter I shall become, Weave brush…
The pen becomes more than a writing instrument. It morphs into a vessel that transcribes thoughts, channels them onto its companion—the…
We pray on stoops where light fights concrete, where pigeons know our names and old men keep time…
For ten years I’ve witnessed friends turn into enemies strangers turn into kin MADNESSES! Where it all begins. I’ve witnessed losses &…
Do you remember me? Do you remember where we grew up? Do you remember the very first time we met? What about the time we had our first…
When I lost you I lost everything my home my family & even some cl friends words will never be enough to express just how much of a impact…
The moment you look into my eyes my heart explodes & my mind begins to race like a track meet you bring about feelings I’ve kept dormant…
I know I don’t talk much & haven’t spoken to or seen a lot of yall in years just know in my moments of silence I do come across the paths…
It’s been a long time but I feel as though I’m headed back towards the right direction admittedly I let my light diminish over the years…
Sometimes I like to let my mind wonder do other worlds actually exist & if they do exist I wonder if life is as complicated for them as it…
Your evolving embrace is electric, but it is not what gives me light…
Until my lungs cease to draw breath, Until my heart counts its last, receding beat…
