Shout out for mothers

Love’s eternal manifestation

Maternal love, making nations

Beauty...

This kingdom is cold without you

I've spent hours barefoot on marbled floors searching for your ...

beneath our feet

the rhythmic tides

swept salty sands to and fro

as we walked together

where does the wind go---chasing;

breezing time through the annuals

of our lives?

wh...

what strange webs they weave---

woven like black widows lacing

silk dreams of ecstasy

In the desiccated vineyards of peace

ebony hued ‘grapes of wrath’

cooled their souring soul...

Hope is a starving hunger seeking to be fed;

Faith awaits the reality of visions of the dead.

At he entrance of evening,

The melting sun slowly dips

Behind the tree tops---reflecting

The raga muffin invisibly stood there;

lone tears wrapping themselves

around his heart. Blu...

BLACK MADONNA(S)…

They have labored

In blood and pain:

Birth.

T...

I tend to always recollect your intellect, because it caught me off guard as I was just crossing ...

Leo Curtis knew that he had f*¢ked up big this time, and that this one mistake was gonna end h...

A broken heart I thought time would heal...

Afraid to be a father and state how I feel or felt...

Beneath the cold gray skies---proudly

she stood.

Stripped bare, naked to the world,

arms...

Being the seeds of the seeds

of the fruits of our beginnings---

Yours is the destiny to...

Your first nourishment for life, the first heartbeat you heard

The first tears you ever felt w...

As the sharp rays

of sunlight slowly sliced

through the tarring tinted clouds,

I wiped a...

I woke up this morning
With a smile on my face

Winds change directions, from whispers to gusts

Edges are but peaks explored in thrust and th...

My dreams got me shining,

Like high beams blinding

Resigning my taste of reality

Flossin...

I don't want to go ~ where they stood in packs ~ black to black ~cross burned yards ~ white sheet...

Sunlit clouds settle on the horizon
Reaching across the sky as far as
The eyes can see
Looking...

Caught in these feelings
distracted from the root of the problem
superficial connection to this...

come---

a river of love

flows within my bleeding heart---

deep and wide

waiting for y...

Liars, Liars all are liars;
Walking, talking and deceiving criers;
Outsiders and insiders con...

the window...

here

looking out

looking in

through

my

self:

a transparent orb...

Possessions we seek,
Prison which creates,
Limiting ourself to
Decisions to make.

- Aly

My uncles were strong men

with strong hands; hands

fathering children they never had.

Confusion clouds my mind, when I am awaken to these thoughts
Last night I closed my eyes, insi...

Pain I then felt it a thousand times what's new pain it comes and goes along with smiles at times...

Wherever we go we take mental notes –

survey our surroundings like recon missions.

Most ade...

so fresh, so clean, bit a strut in my walk

a scoliosis lean with no talk

or no team

a gentle c...

and so I continue to try to compromise, rationalize lies

the backslide dived out of retirement

I dont even remember who I was. I know who I thought I was and what the world was. I hit a realit...

ABANDONED SNEAKERS

As we walked watchfully along the way,

A pair of sneakers lay s...

David Bell had been awake since quarter after three, he sighed out "it's ok"; well it was ...

​Why talk when there are no listeners?​
Why talk when you are in the audience of a...

My eyes and my mouth are closed, yet my ears and my heart are open...

I've closed my eyes beca...

They say that you are who you surround yourself with and I believe that it's true. Because If you...

Sickened by this hell still I ask heaven to wait...

The things on my mind I have no words to s...

Mesmeric pursuits consumed
all his energies:
leaving him only frustrations
to nourish his mang...

come---
a river of love
flows within my bleeding heart---
deep and wide
waiting for you to di...

Sitting up, the man dug deep into his matted hair to reach his itching scalp. This was no eas...

You pound as loud as the sound of human ears can with stand , every beat give way to a deep form ...

They have many stories
of life’s ups and downs:
these bedrooms of the world;
holding cold secr...

Oh how I wish my words could
sometimes be shields---
rather than the necessary poison tip
swor...

This just may be
the last poem from the last poet
among the poets of last
who first spoke the ...

I can no longer tell the difference between
prisoners and slaves
cause in your eyes you see us ...

gONE TO THE MOON AS I MIGHT BE
iN THE WIND THATS WHERE U FIND ME
BLOWING
HARDLY GOING
BECAU...

I know a girl who thinks she’s a hustler

I know a girl who’s A slave to a man who muscles her

Her name was Patience, She worked on Virtue,

A therapist who helped me with ongoing issues

trouble always finds me

when I’m trying to find peace

no matter where I go

no matter wha...

It's been a long time since the lyrics were written.
In the late 30's when it was normal for liv...

bloodstreams like melted ice cream

on the grounds of a crime scene

dope fiends having dope drea...

We gotover

because of the childless women

whko mothered and fathered us---

Bronzed, ...

Wearing her crown of pearly white hair,
Her sunken orbs glowed with a regal glare.
Her ebony hu...

Haiku A:

keeping hope alive---
strong stalwart sweet sable souls:
these are our mothers.

Like clock work, Sugar Man rang the door bell at exactly 8 AM. TiBow reluctantly pulled himself ...

I am handled with kid’s gloves

at the end of ten foot poles

as if I plot to stab your heart...

Every poem tells a story, every story tells a tale; A tale of a life, a life of living hell.
Why...

Every poem tells a story, every story tells a tale; A tale of a life, a life of living hell.
Why...

I’m sorry, but it is not for you, that I live
Hence the reason for this apology, I now give
The...

Excuse me sir,

Why must you weight me down?

With your lies, neglect,

and hand-me-down lo...

(Aright before anyone reads this please know that this is not about anyone at all, as much as I w...

If I closed my eyes and tried to comprehend what you were saying, I don’t believe that I would be...

I was great today because I woke up and believed I could be. I was powerful when yesterday I was ...

when I'm alone

with my thoughts

I dream of you

Different from them

Guys

that read ...

Acting violent to the cause won't do , and raising hands to the LAW only get us hit,so we get mor...

Faced with the unpredictability of possibilities that wild lilies can turn into red roses. And th...

So many fears beyond these tears we've cried. hidden beliefs in white lies. Told out of love, but...

Having hatred in my heart, faced with the dilemma to let it show
Still had love for her, what wa...

She told me, you're so sweet, there is no equal
This was the second time around, called it the s...

Swimming in a pool of love, my joy comes from up above;

Words without faces, and no limit to g...

They told me hate was over there

They said that we must fight it

They said no time for a de...

Can your mind go on even without time?

Do your words linger longer with each breath in life?

Last of a dying breed, greed, felt envy still this sh*t was born in me , 80s baby drove my momma ...

Responsible I have the ability to prevent the outcome, responsive I have the means to do and act ...

Why am I dying to live if I am living to die, grew up screwed up no one gave a f**k I was cued up...

All my dad gave me was life, left me with nothing but life, never complained that I might not get...