Bitten by Smitten

Stroking that kitten

Moving in mangroves

Swung low, to and fro

We s...

In third grade, I never had tigers on my shirt

I was fat and a flirt. All that and a neck bone...

I knew there was something special about her because everything faded into the background but she...

Poetic Spill w/ Poetess Elle McLin

Anthony...
Maybe having too much pride...
Is bad but yo...

Her mastery of language…

is dangerous.

I’m an endangered species

swimming toward...

Saying that I "love" you is just some fancy words or a verb that really just means that I care, a...

The smell of your lavender scented skin. Romeo. He, yet suttle in his demonic ways, it drips dark...

One day she's going be a mother and how is she supposed to explain to her daughter her insecuriti...

I loved him

Even though

He left me

Unprotected

Rejected

Feeling so neglected

Th...

I wish I should have saved myself...from you. But then again I'm glad you could shed so much wisd...

Beautifully untainted, not yet ready for this world.

what could I tell you precious baby girl?...

I love you but they want to hide you from me

I ask my self why won’t they let us be

Why can...

I......... am a tidal wave. I have never known love and I trust no one. Why am I like this? I hur...

Nothing's funny
when you hit your funny bone
Sarcasm runs the whole nation
By saying things in...

Why fight over a man that cheats on you? Why fight the woman he cheated on you with? What do that...

Rich with talents and gifts, rich in spirits with me and God there is no rift, others spirits I l...

Bravado is he so daring and wild,

So chic are his clothes, his physique virile,

Attributes ...

Eyes connected similtanously on contact, brain waves formulating foreplays that combat, body lang...

You can silence my ears from hearing mother natures voice of the day, you can silence my mouth so...

My own man, following no one, no shadow, dont know if that's good or bad or I am I just being sha...

We treat each other so cold , such indignation, so bold, inhumane, animalistic,so harsh, unrealis...

Stuck in a cell, I feel like a animal caged, it's like I sold them my dreams and I silenced my ra...

You found safety and sanity
In selling me fantasies of forevers
Love what you forgot is
I'm no...

It's my job as a parent to keep my son protected

Cop man it's your job too! You chose to negle...

Think about this carefully

And you'll realize this fact

Black memorabilia is not

Black m...

They stole you from your countries, cities, states and lands

Never will they be able to wash y...

Take my hand and walk with me

Brothers and sisters, to be free

March on to our destiny

O...

To himself he had this to say:

I’ll enslave my brother today

I’m gonna suppress the cor...

There is nothing minor about me

So never call me minority

Put your deck of race cards on th...

I can hear my ancestors calling me

I can hear them saying do you fight to be free

Will you ...

WHEN HE'S IN HIS WHITE NEIGHBOR "HOOD"

HE'S KNOWN AS OFFICER FRIENDLY

WHEN HE'S IN OUR BLAC...

My Beautiful king. His smile brights up my day, his love is so explainable in every kind of way. ...

I am not her,i am not her. My face is not her, my personality is not her. My hips are not her my ...

I don't like you but I love you...
tried my best to put no one above
you or us but I couldn...

Say what you want but I'm juggling things,I don't care about who what , who they or what they say...

Overwhelming day to say the least...
My mature mind on overload
Ready to release this toxic...

The shyest soul says the wisest things
And a pure soul illuminates green
I'm in this world sear...

Left to scatter aimlessly in the wind
Your love has sharp edges
Cuts me to the quick every time...

Babylon uses those who can't peep the blueprint and decipher the bull
Ready or not here they com...

i hate when i think of a poem to write and do not have time to write it down

the thoughts just...

Meretricious, no obfuscation, life is axiomatic in my exaggeration, no surprises I seen it all ex...

lace lingerie placed on all the special places

still leaving enough to the imagination

fant...

We're at war, let's make peace, let's strike a deal that allow our bodies to meet. Bring the Cat-...

thoughts of you wont leave my mind

i've tried time and time again to clear them

i've been down ...

I remember the long stares from across the room, the way you would walk by just so you could talk...

A quest in search of God, is a question of God, though hard, it's a challenge man being called up...

Those love has taken me many places that i thought i would never encounter , still i found away t...

Why in the end, does this grief begin

Life long journey’s destination….transcendence

Maybe ...

I wonder, for hours and days at a time

Bringing back recollection of stored instances

I’m c...

Some say the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh the faster they S...

I am the walking dead, do you hear me dread ==

I was always more than what you thought I could...

Thanks to all of my Temporary mind holders and drama Provokers, I'm thankful for every second tha...

Together we will create heaven here on earth and the real heaven will only seem like we are livin...

I want to be you get joined at the skin, like siamese twins, Iwant to live within, since Iam in y...

I have been broken.

I lost part of myself

in this ancient process,

so I have no hope in

I know thy self and I die daily, I was born perfect, a piece of pure lambskin, (baby at birth) em...

My intellect is deep, by the ocean it can't be drowned, I am the restless one who you come to whe...

Yesterday I was listing to a friend talk about life,

thencame a thought, I had to write it dow...

I am standind still though every thing else is moving fast around me, negativity surrounds me, me...

With every move made strategy has to be applied, one false move will cost you a chance for your p...

I have a Jones in my bones for you, even my lungs and my yawns speak to you. My charms and my arm...

With you I am but a fish drowning below the seas of your tear ducts

A bird that flew off of the ...

King screaming, I was screaming. I could notbelieve trey shot David. I had a flash back to everyt...

When my decisions become less then the gift you've bless me with and life seem to fill my mind wi...

Strumming along the interworkings of my out of the box thinking, lined with blood lines and vocal...

Yo Feed me your #words

them #nouns

them #verbs

your #adjectives

your #slurs

Feed me them #sc...

I waded in her waters.

I should have stood

at waters’ edge;

used my head

and better ju...

I dreamt last night, a vivid dream of me, I was in a lost city, Lord have pity, on me and in his ...

The fear of lonliness the wish of death, love grown blank disturbingly there's no love left, ange...

I glimpsed in a pool this year, you would take the vision as an image of love, it too should be g...

I kissed a couple frogs under the impression that you would be a prince
Now knowing today a prin...

THE PRICE OF COTTON

Times are good on the old plantation

Selling our cotton to the othe...

BLAME IT ON THE BLACK MAN

He killed his wife, and shot himself

Now he wants to blame it...

Every day of your life
Was dedicated to others
Keeping it real all so those...
Who chose t...

King once said that when you cry, I cry and If I cry it may create an image of you in real life ...

Bury me a poet amongst
The greats like Baraka Hurston
And Hughes remember me because
I refus...

Strange fruit hanging from the

Poplar trees blood trickling down

From their heads to thei...

Broken angels sit a top roof tops
Saddened by what humanity
Had done saddened by what
The ...