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Back in 1996, when I got into poetry
Trying to gather stories I had in my mind knowingly
I ...
Sooner or later
if not before
we all come to realize
love is not a thing
but a giving...
Undecided decisions
Deciding undivided divisions
Take that plus 1 out the picture
Can't see me...
Truth is…
I don’t really care
for this time of year.
It all feels fake
but Iââ‚...
i just went and ran a mile it
really made me feel alive
outside on the trail by the river and y...
in the room watching cartoons
wishing my siblings were around
wishing we were young again
Befo...
had a grandmother
her name was Irma
Irma done the unthinkable
thinking she could sale her soul...
the bears have caves
the birds have nest
does the server, ever
find happiness
will the slave,...
woke up
this morning
you on my mind, I guess
I'm just in love with insane
I guess I , just ca...
You engulf me
In whirlwinds of emotion
Fueled by an epicenter of love
I’ve imagined you
In vi...
Feeling alone out there in the what seems a lonely world
Where no one is walking with you becaus...
All of a sudden they are both so religious
They only speak of this with so much prestigious
...A boy has a dream of flying deep into the night's sky
Always dreamt of wanting to spreading hi...
Indifferent and kind I love you where love was blind to others but to me I see you with my own tw...
Feb. 21, 2016 Dear Diary, Today I got to see him. He gives me the world that I've been craving. ...
Who am I..... Who are you..... Am I you..... You are who..... Hmm.... Hmm... I stared into a pers...
FLOTUS /First a Lady
A bit of a cliche, beside every great man there stands a great woman;...
I was called a for telling the truth, spewed venom from the hateful words that carried my worth ...
I write line
After line for her
I don’t even know her
I have this strong urge to show her
Wha...
Out of you and me,
The colors of our skins
And our humanity,
Comes the scarred history
...Damn I thought you were all that
Pretty face, nice smile & yowas so fat
I had become mesmerized...
I was 21 when my pops died.
Stage 4 cancer. Colon, kidneys, lung and thyroid and there's no st...
from through these eyes
all that which is seen is benevolence
its evident that we already exist...
¢H€MI¢@L €NGIN€€RING
Born in a space station asylum
Screaming & wiling
From a quiet ...
See I've lost you in the midst of my worldly flames & somehow along the way I've forgotten to cal...
Come tenacious muse
goddess within
Bid us bleed
nourishing words
rhythmically flo...
i
Bombs fall like rain;
there’s no umbrella for war;
blood of the dead flows.
...
Here
in the yuletide
season,
today’s
peace on earth
and good will…
lay hidden s...
Mental Affairs
I see the truth finally decided
To set you free
While your chains breaking fr...
paper flowers
don’t grow
and love
is not a play thing
you tickled my heart
and...
Irresistible
A Kiss
Blissful realizations
Two hearts
Recording their emotions
Flowers gro...
Beyond the dream of the upper deck,
I stole a pack of amulets,
Cant wait to see their faces...
Before the sun sets I raise under the covers,
Hip Hop as usual the sound I flutter,
Atop th...
PHer smile, Her laugh,
I wanted to listen to it everyday
She's probably the only one who can ...
Prey trapped in the storm
Heard the cry of the
HUNTED
Felt the fear of the
PREY
I en...
Heartbreaks come and go like the Earth’s windflow
where the shattered heart lands no one knows...
rock bottom is a place where people go
and
realize they need to get their sh!+ toge...
Our kind of love is nothing like a romance movie
In fact none of us are romantic at all
Walki...
At the office holiday party near the meat and cheese platter,
After hours work event spent engag...
Morning
Please
Please don’t do this to me
Wake me
In this empty bed
Before my ala...
Bed too big
House too small
Silence is so loud
That I can hear the bugs crawl
A red d...
Beautifully burning beyond understanding
All of my poetic and philosophical elaborations
st...
Trying to numb out this pain
I do not lose it but gain
Heart always sad and heavy
Trying...
I was brought up inna place in East London, by the name of Hackney
I would love to cross water...
I’m so mad, I feel to gwarn bad
Our legacy has been stolen
Since we made contact with them,...
on 28th @ Central
I saw a man with only
minutes to go
5 minutes later
that man was dead
shot...
I am so proud of my people
we are not offspring's of weak folks
what can scare us down
we just...
Let me step back a moment and not even sit down
Get my facts straight so I do not have this me...
Jesus You're my everything. My dependence in the midnight hour. My confidant when no ones near. T...
Oh mother why can't you comprehend
The words you release do hurt and offend
Not only do you...
Floating on hopes and dreams,
Two separate but related ships steam down twisted streams,
Bound ...
This morning I really felt it
The thoughts felt like kibble and bits
Felt like dog S#!T
...People say death leaves no trace
When the GOV keeps track of death...in the 50 states
Sign ...
A new life
because of you
all my debt that I owe
is now in you
taking it in your body
you ...
Well here we go again,
Another season's changed,
By the time this one will end,
We'll be month...
Lost cost time rhyme,
Blind truth believe grieve,
Facts melt wax lies die,
Focus hopeless ques...
I fail at folding fitted sheets,
Misspell words when the I's come before or after the c's,
Neve...
The gentle East Indian man disliked flyswatters
He would let an imprisoned fly find an outside e...
Sitting by the fireplace listening to the crackling sound of the fire
I reminisce on the first...
I live to see this.
Your smile is the sweetness
in my bitter coffee days…
That ray of go...
I find my peace within.
There is no external force
or influence that makes me win
or los...
It's seems I'm married to Love and I don't even know how. But Someone regretted informing me that...
Thoughts being played of you on the next level
Conscious is playing sides like God and the dev...
Struggled through life like rats in a sewer
Night after night putting spam on a skewer
Moti...
spooning food onto plates
passing out dollar store
Santa Clause hats
as if the needy are in fa...
she moan, she sing
she song, she rattled chains
she made the caged bird sing
she endured, she ...
This shouldn't be about romance
It should be about when is the final chance
The one I do no...
Insecurities all day, how do you deal with it? Back and fourth in my mind, my personality is spli...
you are POET
you are ordained
you are POET
the HOLY GRAIL is
your pen
you are POET
you rais...
Cold metallic air seeps under a cracked single pane window. Lying beneath a square portal, strugg...
It was around the age of eight that everything changed
I didn't know then but as I got older I...
This love thing is tricky, it will test your faith... the problem with me is, I can't tell what's...
a perfect wave, that
much has been brought about
and not brought about
a tin ear
...Seeing you was great
Seeing you gave me faith
I felt lost before you came
You made me wh...
everybody wants to be that one.
but no one wants to be that one,
who holds the tears and se...
Hips large at the equator bearing jewels from deep inside her womb.
Breasts pointy as Mount Ki...
If money is the root of all evil, why is it required to live? Debt collector just took 225$ out m...
This female be bugging sometimes
I do not get the message
Some people want to always to be ...
End of the year decorations
Throughout the world in every nation
Everywhere it's lit up wit...
Two more weeks and it's Christmas Day
Can not wait to get with my loving family and celebrate
...Dear Lord, in these days of trying times,
I come to you humbled and fearful.
I'm in knowledge o...
Aint no love down in the Delta
The depthsof the deep where many sleep
Where murderers seat an...
This is the true story of my life
I met a woman who had a child made her my wife
Entering their...
I never signed up to be constantly under assault
Buried under your anger and willingness to pl...
Tinsel glistens in the overhang, bell chimes ring
in the distance, streets are lined with tree...
walkin towards sunset and gower, hollywood
a very old guy tap dances for me in the echoing gar...
Called her a few times, even went by her crib. Saw her car outside, she gotta be in the bed. Na, ...
You used to be my brother, good thing we ain't blood. We had a bond like no other, it was nothing...
What's making me feel like this? I can't figure it out. I'm not eating, not sleeping... walking a...
Knocked at justice’s door;
It squeaked and opened slowly…
The room was empty.
We are children of the water;
the depths of our victorious struggles
flow deeper than the h...
percolating in time
i reached out
and plucked a star
took its points
and chiseled...
TRANSCENDENCE
I'm like the god Adonis
Concocting and dropping honest hypnotic sonnets
...When she said photographs are special pictures,
Her students began to snicker,
Teacher tried to...
You occupy my brain
Keeping your touch fresh in my mind
The taste of you still burning on ...
Sometimes I get this urge
all of a sudden an over flowing
word surge
So I take these let...
My little cousin Johnny, I weep for you.
I wish I coulda been there and ran them streets for you...
If I want never have to leave home
never have to roam
If I want escapism just a
push of ...