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ON THE LEVEES OF TIME (APROPOS "WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE)
When the levees broke…
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For Always
I feel like I have already lost you…even though you are still here with me…
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Love is......
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking…
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Your Majesty
When you see me, refer to me as your majesty. You have just witnessed royalty and you can testify to that. You didnt have to travel far. Im…
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Secret Thoughts
Wondering mind not knowing how deep the memory it keeps…
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Shyt is what it is
‘Shyt’ is what it is ‘cuz’, I ain’t gonna front; I miss how it was…
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Sad but real
Can you see the struggle? Poverty; Family dying no one caring…
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Who am I really?
Now I realize that I'm a stranger in a strange land, I've never had the choice to live in my predestined land. The wickedness of this…
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Forgive me for my sins and my ends
Forgive me for my sins and my ends…
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Possible Possibility
It's possible , to be born with a brilliant mind ~ stare up at a mountain top ~ challenge yourself to climb ~ sit in the oval office of the…
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Ebony Me "
I bare the sins that come ~ Instinctively sculptured ~ my strength is fierce ~ like blazing guns ~ I whisper quietly ~ with prayers of…
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Tales of a Sentry
Much respect to knowledge but much more than 5%(ers)…
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Paper Clips
I’ve been waiting too long for so long It’s hard to scare me…
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Bleep( it is what it is)
I casted all of my fears and feelings underneath the thick sheets of ice in Alaska, Boy is that cold, being played with gets old…
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Battle of the Mind
Walking down the inner reflections of my mind. Muddled by thoughts of insecurities and doubt, a battle ensues. Reversing the damage done by…
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Frozen Flame:
Watching all the kids leave school johnny stands alone…
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ESCAPING INTO THE NIGHT...
If only the sun could warm my aching soul shivering within my inner being---immovable…
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Feelin Salty
Salty tears littering the ground...fingers griping the air like I'm trying to snatch an imaginary line…
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Fall Forever Remains (Dedication to my Daddy)
I remember the ticking of a clock as I lay upon your chest. Wondering how in the world did that happen and if I had the same inside me. You…
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LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY THE WATERS...
Though stolen, I never left you…
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A SONNET FOR BLOODY BUT UNBOWED HEADS
A SONNET FOR BLOODY BUT UNBOWED HEADS…
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Motion In Second
Let's pause for a second, cause I know I wasn't first I won't call it a sprite but I obeyed my thrist…
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Baa Baa
some stuff makes me want to curse but it’s best to taste my words first…
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To keep myself from Falling...
To keep myself from falling, I must write, I must release, this ugly…
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Kickin dogs
you can’t go around doing people dirty expecting to stay clean I know too many people who are that damn insane…
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Am I crazy ???!!!???
Words from a poets heart, Thoughts from a dreamers subconscious…
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Spirit of a Star
Genetically blessed, but sometimes my minds such a mess. Think I'll move to Mars…
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Product's of a Nation
A ***ed up product of my ***ed up nation; Striving to be a better person but loosing all patience…
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Higher love
Known strangers with common interests. I, across her, walking in the same street…
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Dark Rulers 2 continued
After WW1 we were given the League of Nations as the solution, it failed so it evolved to retribution, conditions were created that made…
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Dark Rulers
Earth in it's fourth dimension, thinking with our right brain is our feminine extension, the side in all of us that is able to intuit, the…
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What's it gon be?(yeah you)
Put me into your plans or erase me out of your life, I too can find someone who's willing to hike mountains with me and risk there life…
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Black Dayz
Those black dayz which overwhelm my life's esteem, remain hard heartidly within my dreams, black dayz in the summer when it seems I am at…
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An Apology
To all who are let down, thought I was renown to be great, what a fake I am, and you misjudge, selling dreams for who I was , I hope you…
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The Lords Blessing
Contradictions of the mind, restrictions of the one divine, arguments inside my mind and soul sometimes in which my heart has no control…
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Jailing
In the den of theives where there's no honor amongst men, worsening sets in, no need for amends, activities all sin, better off before you…
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Perfect Picture
Imagine a world with no wars and no need for money visualize no poor and no starvation in this country no weapons of mass destruction no…
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Heaven On Earth
Picture us holding hands in distant lands, walking on a beach of jet black sand, me putting a diamond on your habd , something other men…
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Vested Love
You give me every reason, you give my emotions that spark, I know for a fact you'll follow me into the dark, you will come get me from the…
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No Problem, No Comparison
You are at the top of my list, you have my heart no other love can exist, give me all your trust and I'll promise you this, I am your…
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Life
My body leaning slightly back, constanly trying not to slack, my future is clear firm and straight, God found my birth deliberate a life of…
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World So Empty
I had the world imbraced, I would'nt release deigned to proclaim to know them both I recognized and realized this plighted truth I am a…
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Black Queen
Mother of my earth, compatible one to my soul, mother of my worth, that watches that knows, controller in my life, protector of my heart…
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Love Always
My life is on hold, waiting to be set free, I am missing you more than you miss me, wanting to hold you all through the night, while…
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A Man's Worth
His work is never done, especially for a black man he is always on the run, running for something , running to something, or running from…
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Blasphemies
The life that God wants me to live is hard, even though they say the devil makes it this way, why would he give him earth for his…
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Ever So Different
It's hard to see pull the wool from over your eyes, the heart in me I give to you in disguise, regardless If we enemies or guys, or your…
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The Beast
I bet that they dont know that I am way worser than before the devil he never leaves, the lord he never pleads, but the devil warrants fall…
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My Own Worst Enemy
The pride inside, entangles my stride, the weakest link that stays by my side, cant hide this fact of this virtue I often react ambiguos…
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second guessing
I wonder about you You having me second guessing…
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About My Father's Business
Looking for me stare at the sun, the stars, I am the shadow to mars, I am the glow of the moon, all who can't view me is hopeless and…
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Maybe Me
Curse them, every female and with longing, the ones I know double not one of them I know has not been trouble, or was kind to my condition…
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What Is Success?
What is success to me it is grand comfortability in knowing I dont want for sh*t, it's not having to work so hard, to have it made, not…
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Excited
I woke up and I was excited today. I recognized my breath and then air intake and then lungs and life. My eyes opened and I was here and…
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Reputation
My reputation was ruined when my dad left, the reasons dont matter to me or to my mother…
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Shared Anguish
I Know A Girl Who Looks For Love In All The Wrong Places, Every Guy She Meets Is The Same Demon Behind Different Faces…
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The way out..
Born incarcerated, locked down by those of judgmental thoughts while trying to plan the perfect escape. Refusing to become harmonized with…
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Mind of a Poet
Images and words collaborating as the my mind form what my heart can''t resist .....verses and images of passion , enhance by strong…
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Man Devour
I choose how I want you tonight, Naked with a full blown appetite, Let me demonstrate how you turn me into a bad gal…
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Popular belief (good never got props)
I remember the dark days and the thoughts relayed…
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Not Right
Something is not right when poetry left me. I was stranded and had a tattoo on my forehead that read "Gone." I was gone and my mind had no…
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Excuse Me
Excuse me but did you just try to play me. You made a statement, tried to play it off and tried to get me to accept I was less than I…
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Insanity Defense
In my defense, I was insane. I had to do it. You should have seen the way I lunged at him and then there was no more him, only me. It was…
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Misguided Belief
I was on the warpath of a misguided belief and I bit it so hard, it was stuck in my teeth, baited and darkened my breath, filled my spit…
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Cracker Barrel
You just got saltined so you need to wrap up that show and blow. I a-salted your rhyme, took your words and packaged them. I didnt even put…
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Heart Song
My heart wrote a song today. It had bars that broke knowledge and eventfully broke me down. The beginning got my attention, I cried during…
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Fire Flame
I woke up in poetry and died in something else. I was reborn and fluid. I was here in this moment and everywhere at once…
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Naked
He was a dancer. Grace such as the letter "S". A master of his craft. I watched him…
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