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...

My pen cannot fathom nor can it describe my displeasure. My mind and my tongue was once on one ac...

Brainwasher - telling me this thing.

That way - I must sing.

Your song only for me.

Not ...

Whorled widely spaced fingertips wink online across the webbed world
Whereby global access with ...

aim sol low for the stars, that vast stellar near infinite dome upon embarking on this spaceship....

Countless generations lapsed
since height of Greco-Roman
mythology conceived, birthed
and popu...

This alternate reality we're living in,
Like someone turned the dial up to ten,
Values, opinion...

the pain-staking truth paints a picture perfect muse

in the bombardment of imperfection...

DONALD J TRUMP WEARS CASHMERE SOCKS

YES HE CAN'T HELP BUT STRETCH HIS TOOTSIES DEEP WITHIN ULTRA...

that weaver Adonis
he plays his games
while his soul is in pain
lost in her torment
she doe...

Mascara running down my face

he did it again

Now ...

Polluted wonder in my life.

Swim I do, dead fish strife.

Tiny pipe - mercury asunder.

Hi...

time and space was I not, an immortal sphere, germinating out from the dawns of life’s u...

Frosty winter snows abound.

There a blanket upon the ground.

A pure simple song fills the a...

Humpty Trumpty wants to sit a top

a Great Wall

Eventually Humpty Trumpty you will

have a...

We're building a dynasty with vibrancy

Preparing for primacy, not surprisingly

Finally, got...

Is every conversation we have going to end with an okay?

Is every conversation we have going t...

I assess the aural wonder of the piercing traject and subtle stretch and friction of follicular v...

You cannot audit

my mind

nor still my voice.

Truth—the breastplate

of mind an...

Life in the slow past.

Machines to make casts.

Man left his two feet.

Onward machines an...

That which I give my attention will manifest itself in its own time… There are times when ...

Journeying the Edge of the Wilderness

(Apropos Succoth, Circa 2017)

No, not at ...

See when I first started it was all about the comments...

Now im no longer worrying about that n...

Why do I not feel the distance we share is it cause I don't now what distance is when it comes to...

An overtureForFriendship i try to allure.
WHILED AWAY WITH WEE WILLY WEBBER! YAHOO! YIPEE! HI HO...

whether the weathernecessitates
to anchor myself as a tether,
when the frankenstorm socks
the ...

Congressman and senators
forewentall manner of
civility, fidelity and integrity
wiihull ding b...

Through the dark comes spark

Struck by emotions, coming to surface

Purposely purported 2b e...

The moment I gasped for air
I realized I was there
it was night
the light were so bright
hold...

she screamed
no one acted like they heard her
no one liked her
everyone ignored her
they thre...

watch these words
no telling how high
or low they'll go
back and forth
here and there
sit ri...