I apologize to myself

For holding on to so much grief

It wasn't fair to punish myself

I ...

I want to stay forever young

But yet I want to grow old

It seems I don't know what I want

The one I gave my all to

Just threw it all away

Like yesterday's trash

Straight gutter

Birds of a feather, writes wherever

Flock together even in ill tempered weather

Hob-Knob(in...

You make my juices flow ...with your simple ways

Even when you try not to be sexy

I think o...

Chameleons

of persuasion:

lines and lullabies

inciting senses at will,

spilling secre...

Lives created between blue spaces...
copulation of mind and pen
now crumpled inside a wooden co...

White bodies between

blue lines breathe when

black blood gives life to pages

Black bodie...

Hush nah child

Hush ya cryin’

Ain’t no need a sheddin’

tears if da ones gotcha

bleedi...

Floating somewhere ...in the universe

Galaxies spanning near+space, far+time

You and i

....

I will be complete the day I feel your skin on mine, the day our hands touch softly, when my eyes...

Let me be clear, if you have no goodness planned around me and my life, that means you essentiall...

I could not even recognize myself today. I was too far gone. I was learning things that burned my...

I learned something today and I was better off for it or at least better than I was yesterday. Th...

I'm thankful to my Father I'm able to make a living

But what's the point of making something I...

Such a great sense of sensuality.

Who is she to bring a man like me

On bended knee.

She ...

Sunny day kids play family pic nic positive vibe smiling faces every ones alive Enjoying family ...

A series of small wins

Against the background of adversity

Moments of triumph

Which appe...

Tears roll down my eyes my soul feels down nothing but dark clouds is around isolated from the wo...

24 hour motion picture

Livin life is like watching a 24 hour motion picture

these movies ca...

It has been said that justice

Is getting what you deserve;

The gift—grace given—priceless;

Candles burn a picture of years,

Hugs that hold waves.

Embracing particles of dust that mat...

Before I go in step,

Part of me remembers the patriot,

The time it took to bend the knee,

-Since the government played the role of bank.

-The police started with nightsticks now they hav...

Use your power for good, I never understood /"you stay/ in a bad mood/ got an attitude/ always an...

I love my soul
the art of painted words.
As i listen to sister Day
I realize how illustrious o...

Waking up to Folgers in my cup

Reading written words from my brothers

Knowing that they still...

I'll explain later just come with me

Please don't ask me a series of questions

Just trust me

I...

Death took my brother today

Like a thief in the night

Death took my brother today

Before he co...

It's none of my business what you do behind my back

That's why I'm always looking forward to a...

See how great i am .....for my soul is like the romantic sound of jazz as it sits deep within thi...

Popular demand and more than just ordinary,different and that's what makes it unique,something ab...

I'm in no rush to get married today

Which is funny because I'm rushing to the honeymoon

I g...

Having thought about it—timely,

I’m sorry to say—not really…

Love got everything to do with...

Ancient warriors in counsel collect recon data

On the latest reported movement of the new inva...

The pain

The aim

our names

they changed.

We wore the badges and attributes of God

Falsifi...

Oh how weary

the lost must be;

misguided by

their distorted history—

searching

a g...

History is only history printed in textbooks full of lies

Erasing the depths of our identity

Think they they are so smart

everyone else is irrevelant

and a joke

Walkin round wit swelled h...

Summer heat got me on lockdown

too hot to get about

move around

Love the out doors A/C o...

In the grand design

Of whatever it is ...you might believe

In the beginning ...there was stress...

Most people don't honor who they are until they have lost the very essence of their identity

I am mastery,

For I am to master all, and all that will come to be.

One and twenty years ag...

Flowers of the heart bloom hues of revelry

Silence is kept intent 2b reverent and ausp...

Like ripened fruits plucked from a flourishing tree,

They were stolen from a lush paradise gar...

Got this crazy idea I

can sit in the wooded yard

trying to catch night slip in

In vain I...

in response to... what's read

(i can see clearly now)

not knowing

the background of the matt...

You arc the spark...

Which sets my heart aflame

The thought of you beside me

Brings fort...

In Front of Thee

Behind Thou

Pride pushes for unity

To Forsake the sense of NOW

Pride...

Feet wounded from the branches

Of the trees our brothers forcefully hung from

Mocking the tears...

Every day passes to another yet tomorrow

never comes

As the clock of time continues to run,...

First day of school, stressing to look cool.

Sitting in class, on a stool feeling like a tool....

I feel naked without you wrapped around me

Cover me with your tenderness

I want to only bea...

Everyday is something else

Even though I'm riding the same old bull

Entertaining life's rod...

Born on arrival,

Ceremonial is this revival

As I survey sights unseemingly revealing

In ...

I am trying to be a good girl,

See you keep on saying the right things.

Touching me in a sl...

I danced with the devil
spoke to God on the sly
Looked down on the earth
seen my life gone awr...

I've been offered plenty of things

But none of which I desire

My independence rejects them

It must be a trait in my chromosome

To tolerate the hurt continuously

Getting over it is pu...

Treated myself to a slice of happiness

The guilt free flavor forced me to smile

Sweet, rich...

One spark is all I need

To light up my life once again

One strike of a match

One click o...

I'm not a terrible person

Because I've pursued forbidden fruit

I believed everyone was enti...

I

The winds were loudly whistling,

Blowing the trees’ leaves all around;

God sneezed an...

Excuse me beautiful..do you mind if I take a seat and introduce myself to you? What I wish they w...

Had too much of the wrong dyck/ mistook it it for the right dyck/ cause it felt so right dyck/tha...

It does not matter how you eat it, treat it, put it down, and or take care of it.

If your not ...

When people ...of the world

Suffer needlessly ...at the hands of evil

Unbearable hardship ....

My world wasn't born in green but in the soul of a crooked street

where violence played tricks o...

My brownskin baby skin is pure as gold shining through the sun at nght

Their smile is unbrea...

I've heard you crying a thousand times

Watched my third I from my third eye in a realm that's ...

Humbled by his presence

Honored, yet in awe

Of his ability to deal with

A person so brok...

I love her and in tiem we have grown distant but that is my perspective. My mind is lost in the w...

Too good to be true ... so hard to explain

What would you rather believe...

Few may rise th...

Crooked ways crimepays evildoers roam the streets Cigarette butts all over the pavement stinky...

It seems it’s not enough

that a sister or brother,

or father of mother,

are daily plucke...

the moment my pen met paper it became evident that my passion was unleashed a lost soul in need o...

I lay on my back and gaze at the stars,

I receive these future revelations on this island cal...

If I had a dollar

For every time you said I love you

I will still be broke

Your words ar...

Drop your clothing across the floor

Leave you inhibitions at the door

Experience what’s bey...

Ain't i black ain't I strong my culture came along way and we still exist ain't i black i love li...

Beating our drums—singing, dancing

and giving praises to the Most High

for family harvest, ...

Feeling my way through your passions

Actions, truly speak louder than words

Your curves

____

Water fills her eyes.

Blood drains from his face.

A ghost of kisses haunting two he...

Who knows how long we were to be

Looking to the stars

Before our finger pointing, grunts and ge...

She walked on by
We greeted each other with smiles of Hi
But there was something in disguise
...

In the collective sense ...of our experience

Every individual +interaction, past, present and ...

One

...particle

One seed, one tree

One forest on one planet

Revolving in orbit

Aro...

Alone

crouched in a corner she weeps.

she shivers in her own sweat.

she's drenched by th...

Look at that bright eyed baby+child over there

Finding joy with every little thing she see...

i wanna go where no tree can reach
far beyond what 'ANY' man has discovered
i wanna go where no...

T'was thefairest. That kept from the foe's presence.

Kneedled crink upon, yet mad'n bled.

C...

running a race i know I won’t win/ the monster within is dying to get out/but when she gets out t...

As a child fed with broken promises

I wonder do you miss me?

Are you the reason for this po...

While I was walking with my head held high

Sweat melodies from churches and preachers talking