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...

I remember

The first time

I kissed you

My heart

Pounding

Trying to escape

This ...

Hennessy bottles get fondled like genie lamps clinched eyes wish of symbolic fortune.
And it is ...

I got that funk that gets into nappy crevices. Parliament Funkadelic doo dood in my ear hole. Git...

In Genesis 46:21, no frontin',
Are the names Muppim and Huppim,
Grandsons of Jacob, ain't that ...

Death is an Epidemic

No time to create a solid family bond

All that’s left is to pick-up ...

Where do you hide O faceless ones?

Who risk life and limb

to fling the greatcry of I AM! at our...

I first met her on a holiday at Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve.

Love strikes me like lightning wh...

Six lane space and time line universe move in unison. Subversive compliant thoughts cast by 7.5 b...

Blaring in my ears

the sounds of excitement

hands clapping

people shouting

streamers ...

Curses are blessings,
Trials and tribulations are testing,
Your resolve and how to solve,
Prob...

<Black friend>
At work, sometimes I go to my car to cry,
Not from sadness but from anger, why?
...

When a warrior carries water,
It's a sign that all is well,
When a warrior carries water,
Know...

Possessor of the willingness to love me the way I need. XY who could not pass judgement nor pre...

My heart aches tight, but I don’t feel so alive

I...

Obama called out prominent Repubs
Said endorsing Trump is a flub
The Donald’s unfit
Dude’s out...

Joy and pain renders emotions unified, as I bath in creative waters

Tears of elation and sorr...

Awakened/Aroused

I must remember the struggle is not against flesh and blood.

It's being able...

Black Lives Matter vs All Lives Matter

Is there really a need for political action

Hopi...

Fyo hood, yeah I said it

Yall out here killing each other, just up to no good and really yall ...

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...