Bombs know no agony, pain or joy;
No victory nor defeat:
They simply explode....

The arid winds steal

Our tears.

The sterile dust tease

Cystic hopes

Of dreams d...

Tears of Joy…

God cried today; His tears fertilized

Mother Earth’s womb;

...

BORN AGAIN

(FROM THE WOMB OF MY REBIRTH)

As I descended t...

SHATTERING THE SHACKLES…

(APROPOS RESURRECTION)…

I shall no longer be your traged...

CRUISING WITH THE TRANE…

(Apropos Our Musical Saint)

Sometimes

In a blue note mood...

Justice took a holiday today;

Peace fought back the tears.

The mourners came to knell a...

When the levees broke...

When the levees broke...

When the levees broke...

The world...

I am a canvas…as plain as I am.

I am far beyond what your imagination perceives to be its limi...

I feel like I have already lost you…even though you are still here with me.

Waking up and not ...

When you see me, refer to me as your majesty. You have just witnessed royalty and you can testify...

Wondering mind not knowing how deep the memory it keeps

Reminiscing in silence or being discre...

‘Shyt’ is what it is ‘cuz’, I ain’t gonna front; I miss how it was.

I’m trying to forget the s...

Can you see the struggle? Poverty; Family dying no one caring

Only me crying, and fighting ste...

my past you're my ex I miss you

I don't want to go back to you

my future my love I long to ...

Now I realize that I'm a stranger in a strange land, I've never had the choice to live in my pred...

you’re a story teller

telling stories to me

I don’t know what to believe

fac...

First hand experience

Last minute deal

One last tear before I hit this blunt and leave.

Set by mark, I go for

Strolls in the park

Doin’ it after dark

Rock Creek,

barefeet

Much respect to knowledge but much more than 5%(ers)

Held up by devils projecting incr...

I casted all of my fears and feelings underneath the thick sheets of ice in Alaska, Boy is that c...

Walking down the inner reflections of my mind. Muddled by thoughts of insecurities and doubt, a b...

Watching all the kids leave school johnny stands alone,

wishing he had a place to go other tha...

As the sun kissed

the sea’s soothing bosom,

caressing waves splashed the shores

leav...

CRY THE BELOVED CONTINENT…

(Apropos The Ripping Veil of PanAfricanism)

In all...

Sex.....

Passionate, ecstasy,

the illiusion of something real.

Today sex holds no value ...

If only the sun could warm my aching soul
shivering within my inner being---immovable---
an...

Salty tears littering the ground...fingers griping the air like I'm trying to snatch an imaginary...

It's not like

it never happened;

it did.

The gentle sighs;

the soft sweet smiles;

I remember the ticking of a clock as I lay upon your chest. Wondering how in the world did that h...

The jasmine scented air

gently caressed the cool night;

Foam crested waves teased

the fl...

Went down to the river;

touched the stilled waters.

From the Diaspora o...

Though stolen,
I never left you:
Remaining Like a keloid
Etched across your healing womb.

I

your love

is like the sun

the ember

of my life

fueling my being

ener...

When I'm gone

remember me in tamarind season

reflecting the bitter

sweet of life we shar...

How long

must we still march

and sing---

our feet grown weary

and facades of justice

her empty eyes

stared at the belly

of the fullness of her womb

she

the child

hassles

i'm tired of coping

i just want explode

and be free

and be me

an...

A SONNET FOR BLOODY BUT UNBOWED HEADS

The hands of my children's raised arms

have becom...

DREAMING HOME...

In cosmic dreams,

I've waded the Nile

In golden nubian sunsets;

Let's pause for a second, cause I know I wasn't first
I won't call it a sprite but I obeyed my t...

This perception

The out of mind, body and soul experience of peace and harmony.

I lost myse...

I am 2.2 seconds

I did not need you I wanted you.

Living, breathing, surviving, providing…

To keep myself from falling,
I must write, I must release, this ugly
inner beast from choking t...

Will you take me from here?

take me to a place where love

does not equal fear?

Will you ...

you’re getting on my nerves

slurring your words

I think

you had too much to drink

I’m...

my grandmother, tweeted me from heaven

in my lucid dream telling me to wake up

when I was a...

After WW1 we were given the League of Nations as the solution, it failed so it evolved to retribu...

Earth in it's fourth dimension, thinking with our right brain is our feminine extension, the side...

Those black dayz which overwhelm my life's esteem, remain hard heartidly within my dreams, black ...

To all who are let down, thought I was renown to be great, what a fake I am, and you misjudge, se...

Contradictions of the mind, restrictions of the one divine, arguments inside my mind and soul som...

In the den of theives where there's no honor amongst men, worsening sets in, no need for amends, ...

Imagine a world with no wars and no need for money visualize no poor and no starvation in this co...

Picture us holding hands in distant lands, walking on a beach of jet black sand, me putting a dia...

You give me every reason, you give my emotions that spark, I know for a fact you'll follow me int...

You are at the top of my list, you have my heart no other love can exist, give me all your trust ...

My body leaning slightly back, constanly trying not to slack, my future is clear firm and straigh...

I had the world imbraced, I would'nt release deigned to proclaim to know them both I recognized a...

Mother of my earth, compatible one to my soul, mother of my worth, that watches that knows, contr...

My life is on hold, waiting to be set free, I am missing you more than you miss me, wanting to ho...

His work is never done, especially for a black man he is always on the run, running for something...

The life that God wants me to live is hard, even though they say the devil makes it this way, why...

It's hard to see pull the wool from over your eyes, the heart in me I give to you in disguise, re...

I bet that they dont know that I am way worser than before the devil he never leaves, the lord he...

The pride inside, entangles my stride, the weakest link that stays by my side, cant hide this fac...

What is southern heritage to me

Lynching, slavery and misery

Suppression of dignity and cit...

Inside a manifold, love is told

Bred 2b best, precious to hold

Crimson at rest, until expos...

Looking for me stare at the sun, the stars, I am the shadow to mars, I am the glow of the moon, a...

Curse them, every female and with longing, the ones I know double not one of them I know has not ...

What is success to me it is grand comfortability in knowing I dont want for sh*t, it's not having...

I woke up and I was excited today. I recognized my breath and then air intake and then lungs and ...

It seems that for forever and a day

I stay gripping the edge of my seat

contemplating you a...

My reputation was ruined when my dad left, the reasons dont matter to me or to my mother

We wo...

I Know A Girl Who Looks For Love In All The Wrong Places,
Every Guy She Meets Is The Same Demon ...

Born incarcerated, locked down by those of judgmental thoughts while trying to plan the perfect e...

is rendered

interpretations

of emotions

be they danced,

written down,

sketched out...

Images and words collaborating as the my mind form what my heart can''t resist .....verses and im...

I choose how I want you tonight,

I remember the dark days

and the thoughts relayed

Cats barking and the dogs meowing

the rats w...

Something is not right when poetry left me. I was stranded and had a tattoo on my forehead that r...

Excuse me but did you just try to play me. You made a statement, tried to play it off and tried t...

In my defense, I was insane. I had to do it. You should have seen the way I lunged at him and the...

I was on the warpath of a misguided belief and I bit it so hard, it was stuck in my teeth, baited...

You just got saltined so you need to wrap up that show and blow. I a-salted your rhyme, took your...

My heart wrote a song today. It had bars that broke knowledge and eventfully broke me down. The b...