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Trump questioned a Gold Star mom's silence
Did he mistake it for compliance?
Mama bears scars
...
I thought you would get it light, nah Skipp...
Professor is given lectures to students
That are armed, while raising his arm
Displaying his fi...
How can it be that your absence is felt so keenly within my soul?
Why do I feel your han...
Abandoned
Can you see the sadness behind my eyes?
would you be able to feel my pain?
thi...
I eat cereal and milk with a big smile
Thinking about when I was a child
Giving my brother ...
I like turning people into frogs
Putting cat tails on dogs
I tend to turn things upside dow...
Should we perish believing what we don't know
Should we perish knowing what we believe is true...
If the sun gets any closer to the ground
Yes, there will be fire next time.
I lost as shoe ...
Last year I was watching "The Wiz" with my kid,
When the Scarecrow sang, she was shocked at what...
When man first seen fire
He had to know, that there
Was a God but, when
The fire went ou...
Charlie's hat
Do you know where it's at?
Where did it go?
Is it bobbing in the middle of t...
In life theres no being in the middle only, its either you die or you live. You have to choose on...
Only you lord
Who can I turn to, only you Lord
So many regrets burdens my heart
Ever...
Sweet Georgia clay cling to heels. Breathless , on the run 700 miles.
paying the last installm...
Eyes betray the slate grey walls of Jessup Correctional.
14 with a baseball bat, swung and mad...
The pool hall is silent. The bartender wipes imaginary dust from
the counter, counting the min...
Statues of former kings
Weep concrete tears
A puddle forms, a pool of nothingness
in whi...
The melody so loud so familiar I ain't go...
What if I never learned how to read and write?
How different right now would be my life?
Ho...
I would like to know what mjy role is in this life, I'm mired in trying to understand the physica...
I'm the girl they called Legendary, the one who didn't know what wings were so they fell off and ...
It feels good to know that he yells at me
My heart skips a beat when
He says he wish he never m...
Let me breathe in all your features from the past
As I ran into the house where my secrets fell
...
I really did love her, I said I would in the end
This situation reminds me of the time I sat on ...
I could have broken into pieces for the hell of it
If you said you would put them back together
...
I remember I called you a Phoenix
I guess I was wrong because they only
Rise from ashes and you...
Don't assume what you thinking
Don't identify with your feelings
...Her heart has been ripped out her chest by a man she pledged to spend her life with
she did no...
My heart begged yours to love him, yours replied to him to wait patiently, but patience is no vir...
winds
and
clouds
roam
s
to
ried
...
Women,
All created differently
Embodied with so much creativity
Dreams often shattered, invisi...
I wonder whats the obsession?
The fact that you have a man or woman of color on their knees an...
Appetite for truth and knowledge aren't separate things, different but never separate. Either you...
I am smothered by love.. I am waiting,
Patiently to be taken……….
Seriously.
The love I h...
All those wants that we fiend,
The most desirable of people, places, and things,
Once we feel, ...
Barack Obama
Angelic face
Immaculate taste
Couldn't be outpaced
But wasn't a GOP ace
Repeal ...
Girl, I guess I’m with her
Tho’ I’d love to have someone else
Early on I was feeling the Be...
Bill O'Reilly made an insensitiveclaim
Slaves who built the White House were well fed
I'm sure ...
#MothersOfTheMovement on stage
Had the look of tigers caged
Shared pain publicly
In full view ...
Baltimore charges were dropped
Freddie Gray justice was stopped
No help from police
Wheels wer...
why am i without
the free things in life
why does love not know me
why am i without
...I hear God's call from within to push this pen, and let my words flow!
What lies beneath this in...
There is a unique power that black people use,
To make a lot money for others who abuse,
Our ma...
Snuck home this afternoon for a slice of delight,
In response to a urgent text from my wife,
Sh...
Is anything quite as peaceful in city life?
All that world of water and quick glimmers of fish.
...You stay in the trap longer
the unraveling
of a cloud's circumference
is the Sky Magician
preparing another act
Ocean vastness covers mother earth, as waves dance to and fro like dope beats of a Bonita Appleba...
We grow up in public landfills, train stations,
under the bridges of towns,
victims of all kind...
Is commerce over conscious shrewd?
Republicans buy sneakers too?
Rich ignorant bald headed fool...
I'm proficient in PowerPoint,
Excellent in Excel,
Outstanding in Outlook,
In Microsoft Office ...
There once was a very meek quiet cricket
who never chirped much
only rubbed faint sad notes bet...
This is what change looks like?
Dull and depressing, not happy and bright,
Gradual, over time, ...
Uncle Sam, Uncle Tom,
Uncle white, Uncle wrong,
Oh brother, sister, mother, mister, your auntie...
This is for the the black child because the black child is a rose,

But there is no beauti...
Cleopatra where are you black mother to hold and comfort me in a world where dreams of Children i...
It feels like I'm stuck
Two feet in quick sand
On and off for as long as I can remember
glue h...
My heart is beating so fast because we keep
replaying this same story. You make your
decision, ...
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With you,
I can ...
when we as children - grew into men - when did we adopt - the lying gene
when we look at l...
Being strong is a must
showing weakness is just
A bad representation of who you are.
If I gr...
Intimately you don't satisfy me anymore
But sexually you fulfill every desire
You ignite my f...
He was really smart
he was one apart
not like the rest of them
not even a percentage or a deci...
Mixed emotions, craving the intimacy
Tasting the happiness you give.
The fulfillment of Lov...
This skin is not black, your eyes are, why should I be persecuted because you choose to live in d...
James...what if you find yourself face to face with the woman who has shared your slumber filled ...
Feet build integrated chess matches,
As the walls close into the signs of whats happening,
...The onus ain't on us,
As we die, cry, fight and cuss,
The government can't legislate morals to ...
Wearing a flowing purple workman's robe
water beaker in hand
he anoints the baby palm
with the...
I was sitting in a lobby,
My child was playing Madden,
In walked a woman,
Her view was v...
It is for a moment we listen to them,
The tilt of the fade, the head of the guilt,
Be Caref...
If black rubbed off
Some of us would have
Taken a bath along time ago
Not to dist the race
To...
If I beat my fist up against a wall
I am...violent
If I beat my fist up against the law
I am.....
ThereLere times, I didn't look back
But, I find that memories attract
Things I need to atatch t...
Mama / I hope you know you raised some warriors / and what's running through their veins is battl...
My brother, what becomes of a trap when pressure takes the form of a woman, in other words, that ...
She is steadily the wrath of determination,
I know U,
Her voice across my mind,
U know m...
Connected points made paths-
Connected minds birth ideas-
Connected hearts, more care-
C...
Blessed be the light of day to mark my way
Unfortunate or Fortuitous I must move in stealth
...Dear Poetry……How did we begin?
Seems like now we are more than friends…
Casual was this acquain...
Jesus I no longer want to be me mentally, emotionally even physically
I want to be you mentall...
I tried to write about love and hope,
But the words just didn't flow,
I understand what I'm sup...
Eyes like fantastic moons that shiver in some stagnant lake
folded like a white rose-leaf
hair ...
Where I let the sun hit me
Darkness overcame
The world said it was a shame while the earth ...