when you ask a male

sometimes you will get - tales

but if you want to know

ask the soul ...

Love?...

the very essence of this word has only been known by few who use it.....in our human ...

The stinch of plastic wrapped mats and industrial cleaner fills my nose as i lay drowning in the ...

Sleeping next to a stranger

In the back of my mind,

“Caution! He is dangerous”.

I though...

My feelings run so deep; though its so hard for them to surface.

My heart is so full, though the...

Calloused hands and bent backs, we do what we must for th elife we dream of.

Crows feet and fu...

I battle MCs with ease,
This freestyle's a breeze,
Ocean spray, then fish filet,
Rap abstract,...

Simone Manuel made barrier crack
NBC put knife in her back
Didn't cover medal stand
Told us Ta...

To my hut, I will take you back,
You have free will, but only with the force can I attack,
S&M,...

She gazed at him

Never smiled

Simply looked at his eyes

And stared at his soul

He stood there...

"you walk around with a smug a$$ attitude"

she spoke those words with venom

i didnt have a resp...

Im striving for someone to be that someone for me So i can be that someone for someone else Im ju...

what is perfection?

is it perception?

does it change with perspective?

is it accepted wh...

Rap is something we do; hip-hop is something we live!

Back in days, blessed to live long e...

I see you making moves

Through the cover of night

Slowing progessing towards your target in sig...

Why do I know now what I sense

Am so confused but the other side could care...

The eyes are the window of the soul

unless it’s mirrored glass that casts

the image you beh...

I WOULD LOVE TO DISCOVER THE SEED
TO THE VERY ESSENTIAL FLOWER YOU ARE
CARESSING THE VERY PEDAL...

My first love was alluring yet painful,

Every time I go back to those reminiscences,

my hea...

Fragments of plaster lie damp over a long untrodden floor,

their only purpose to soak in the sea...

the black struggle in Namibia,

a brave anti-colonial freedom fighter.

Who touched the heart...

I sit here still in disbelief thinking about the conversation I overheard earlier

I repeatedly...

A writer has but one goal,
For everyone to read their thoughts,
To think, learn, feel, love, ha...

When I 'Gladiate' the page, it's ominous,
I author this like Spartacus,
Mace and spear foes,, '...

why would you create a story and tell it as if it was reality

when in actuality

you put your im...

Opinions

We must choose when to verbalize an opinion
Words can have a negative impact on ones...

Today she wore curlers in her hair

looking like cannons staked out ready to blare

Her lipstic...

Welcome to my house,
How was your day?
I will pick you up today!
If you come home again,
You ...

Over the last few months I've learned alot.I've been in contact with different people in differen...

Hope

Hope shows it's face then quickly disappears
Leaving me stagnant in my own fears
Desper...

Every other day, I have Bath Night,
Taking turns with my wife,
Precious time with our daughter ...

Seeking validation
forgetting to just Live
And breathe.
The chaos has tried to consume me.

I ...

I see that s*it burning man I thought I did the killing

Bu...

Zombieapocalypse oralien invasion,
Might be the only cure for violence and racism,
Aredeath and...

The life without you
is like a tree without flowers,
the moon without the stars,

a kiss with...

Sunday, we lay hands on,

and we pray on each other.

Monday, we lay hands on,

and we prey on e...

So you took me

cradled me inside a storm

abusing my thoughts to die

Pattering me so that...

Cuff me

Until my body drapes into your arms

Cuff me

Because I wanna feel passion and not...

Love escaped me...

through a river of red that flowed through my heart...

Blood?

Or was ...

She inhaled a long drag from the filtered tip of her cigarette. Abby had always planned to quit...

Think about this...
Lucifer was an angel in utopia, yet he was still pissed,
And challengedGod,...

When money's more than your mission,
You value life and walk with a sunny disposition,
Turn off...

I Pray

For those caught up in politics

It's pretty obvious that they don't get it

They've ye...

Give me a Song

Give me the words to my very own song

That will help me understand w...

Whenever I am lonely, I'm Hold*En on to our joyful memories to keep me company.

Whe...

A dawn without clouds. Brown goes gray and life fades out. Go and slay a clown for all I care, yo...

Apostasy is one condition that plagues us most,
To know the truth, reject it, and pull on a diff...

Inertia

Does it describe the place you're at
Stagnant, haven't reached your goals yet
Worked...

Slowly feeding my ego
I feel like I'm regal
Acting out fantasies
Oh,
here we go
It should be...

I Choose

"Life and death are in the power of the tongue"... You said choose. I choose life, I ...

They all knew
I was never the type
To settle down
Held onto a handful of
Meaningful relations...

The elation
Began to erase
The hatred
As time created
A wasted basin
Fate had it
Chasing
T...

Wish I could take credit for the masterpiece
In front of me
But the godthat created your perfec...

I'm constantly on that next level sh**
Using music as the gift
That powers my soul
You say I t...

Who are we anymore?

Just colors and memories

Of the day before.

We've lost touch of the realit...

excuse me

excuse the way that i appear

but do you think that we can talk

somewhere outsi...

i get off

on knowing where i stand

six foot three

and my own man

games behind me

I guess the appeal is control,
Of mind, body, and soul,
They rarely heed my command,
But with ...

like shells eroded

hewn by Love's Sea

dug deep into beds of

shifting sands

-these impati...

That day I didn't physically need music

Just those scribbled words I wanted to use it

Been thin...

Ode to Pootie Tang,
What did you say?
Sa Da Tay?
Cole me down on the panny sty,
And be a role...

I have these

moments

of self doubt.

So I censor the emotions

that would overflow out,...

This is the most sincere statement I will ever make. Its something I aspire to. Its embedded and ...

Africa, our Land, our Continent, our Haven.

The place where Black people roamed free without a...

God, please forgive me for I have sinned.
I cuss, lust, and covet stuff, and then pretend,
That...

I guess how WE feel is just irrelevant (hun?),
Black is mouse, white is elephant,
Some may say ...

"Unjustifiable Homicide"

Not again, 2 black men killed by the hands of a white cop.

When wi...

a seashore sight of

rapt delight is when you think

you spot a mermaid

pretty and slinky ...

We don't conform, we perform because we're the Renegades.

We swagger and sway in a new age bec...

How strange it must seem to have a Hippo for a best friend. For me, it's the most natural thing...

My world had become an endless compilation of days upon nights.

My days busy doing the bid...

nothing to fear
serve your soul
getting inside my head
I am my own worst enemy
the monster of...

The Beast
Hungry for a taste
feed it well
or suffer it's rage
A pain
Nothing can Quench
The...

dream of my love
the reflection of my heart
passion from my soul set free
my light bursting in...

Hostage

Imprisoned by my mind

Thoughts getting pass the stop sign

The past just won't go awa...

Im ashamed, not because I write poems for women like you to cry to.
But that I drink and you bec...

It Matters

Now siblings continues, yes at war.

Over his metal and bible from which word...

I breathed and broke silent

The world was queit and I was loud again. I was an angel among men...

please come home to love

be my everything again

ebb and flow tonight

Undefined me

The more I sit the more I become absent minded

Undecided dreams, no direction,...

thought i had me

thought that was enough

then i got cold

and couldn't cover up

Mary had a lot of lambs
"JOSEPH YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER"
of these sons and daughters
we forgot ...

when you left you shifted my atmosphere

I lost my foundation and fell to the bottom

of the ...

I found my voice when I returned home
found myself sitting in a dim lit room
all alone , turned...

everyone has a song

if I knew my own

I would sing it

until my souls content

it is som...

I watch his lips move but I'm totally tuned out. His topic of oration holds no sway in my consc...

You can catch me ridin’ shotgun

just like an innocent victim that fell

from the shell that ...

He’s More,

More than a father figure
that’s finely framed
in a happy family picture, He’s mo...

“All I want is you” The bait which hid the barb of deceit, I engulfed in its entir...

Life is a journey filled with teachings,

Adversities, sorrows, ecstasies, festivities

and d...