I write while looking in the mirror

at me I see the ankh that hangs

around my neck to what ideo...

I feel the frustrations of a nation

rising from the fear of genetic decimation,

comingled w...

Dimmed lights, laid back under the covers, A4 on my bedside table, searching for my black pen...

Could never question the direction, then I landed on shore, after that, maybe a blessing, freed b...

I rose to the sound of beeping

in the distance I heard weeping

It's so much frustration flowing...

I longed for your kiss...

everyone is trying to make it in this world

everyone has a hustle

at any cost

not thinki...

I will never

Let my failures

in life.

dampen my hopes

for a better future

a rebound is inevi...

Im taking time out for me, i get so busy and swamped with responsibilities that its hard to do fo...

There is something within

don't count me out

I am the number

you can't figure out

don't bury ...

Clanging bells, falling drums.

The deathly silence that follows.

"Believe me I hear it", sh...

I surrender! I surrender!!

I have nothing that can harm you

Tell me what is it about me tha...

There stands death, hand in hand with time.

There stands fear, right before the truth.

Ther...

It kills me to hear what is being sung into these unsound waves

i write my poems so others can have tranquility or peace
but i guess i dont practice what i prea...

My thoughts flare

like bombs bursting in air

like stars from falling sockets

like flamingtails...

Sista, I do not need to see the tops of your breasts bare

to know they’re there,

nor t...

Then.

In my sleep i hear the screams,im trying hard not to acknowlege them

People come and go

and so does the times

everything is temporary

forever is in our minds...

Effortless...

This poem was as its title...

The words brought themselves together...

Yet...

Down here it's dark

And only we can see

The light runs away

And we are left to be

Lef...

To those who are still with your "First Love"... I hope you never lose it... You will lose a pie...

Our road lies ahead

like a ribbon unfurled.

Four wheels beneath us,

our day to day world

shri...

Dry, golden-crisp grass, Unscented like the flavour of water,

with chilled, icy winds blowing pa...

Strong out the box

understand that I write poetry too give my people a voice and choice.

Land of the gritty, home...

Youve been runnin your whole life from anything short of love

Searching for the other half of ...

"I see no color..."

i'm having a really big celebration

a formal get together everyone is invited

i'll be speki...

Went from Egyptian men of pride, who wrote hieroglyphics on scribes, to this friction I describe,...

Sometimes we do not do
the things he wants us to,
Like obeying his commandments
so he will pul...

Jesus said "Love one another."

He didn't name a color.

He came to save us all,

no matter...

I woke up out my sleep to a stench in the air

My own Hell

I can never completely miss,
the suffering
Constant infliction of torment
Tha...

You’re worried I’d forget my past.

The lights will blind me and leave you last.

You think I...

We often live our live's in hope we make it to the next day,

oblivious to what's happening in ...

July 2014

Somewhere along the way I lost control

Complete and total control

Somewhere during my journ...

how have you been?

I haven’t seen you in years

who told you that?

I admit that I...

You’re looking over here

Wondering why I’m not looking over there

There are better things t...

It’s food on my plate but I can’t

With all these brains all over the street

Less ...

I am a black man in America, that makes me subject to random pull overs on the freeway, subject t...

I love you.

Images of phantoms danced in my mind

Trying to recall and hold on to them in time

Images of...

Mind crammed tight

Not allowing me to sleep at night

To many poems in my head

Not many has bee...

They kiss you passionately

You have the uncanny ability to ...

Hidden emotions..hopelessness, praying that he wont notice

Captivated.

Conversed

(not conversated).

Interest

reciprocated.

Game

This journey...

is an odyssey into madness,

excursion of relentless suffering.

Longer th...

It’s been a rollercoaster ride

since I decided to share

my poems in the cybersphere.

An appropriate word at the appropriate time is like beautiful music.

It's the feel of sunshine o...

How do you move forward in life

Everyone needs a support system

Family I suppose would be number one

but some families get ...

Sometimes I think the worst thing I ever did was love you,a heart full of burdens,stress taking o...

Life has finally brought me to my knees every time I try to do better something or someone knocks...

There is no such thing as THE truth

No facts.

No proof.

No pure information

here i am
consulting you once again
now a days you seem like my only friend
on you i depend, i...

They sup’d to investigate

Broadcast finds annihilate goodwill

As blowing up spots obsc...

Believing the lies Falling for the deceit Knowing what your doing is wrong But listening to the f...

Oh earthly humans,

Greater than winning a trophy Higher than the intake of drugs Beyond the appeal of the eye Time h...

Locked myself behind closed doors ,this world and the way they judge ,I cant take it no more.

Bethany

By: Keith Fuchs

www.myththepoet.com / www.facebook.com/myththepoet

A Compelled B...

Salutations to One’s Misery

I mistreated her like she was a hoe;

she deserved much better like she wanted,

but she just did...

my eyes are seeing red
its seems like a life and death-
decision if i choose to move ahead
my ...

Stiletto chiseled manicure pierces underside

inching cross the median of his neck

garnering sli...

I took my heart in my hand

What happened to a woman cherishing her worth? Why are we treating ourselves like scums of the ea...

I heard it said that angry black people who

act out in violence against social injustice

are se...

These mere words won’t fully express

the joy of having that pink flesh

But I still haven't learned to walk

I'm still crawling

At a snail's ...

I'm going to have a special kind of love.

Like all that cliche sh** that other couples miss, b...

I'm crying for help

By pretending to be strong

Going on with my life

As if not...

If and maybe, by some slight chance I could paint pictures in words, I'd keep between the borders...

It was a wild imagination behind creation

There’s unexplained beauty in the mind

Behind eve...

Laid up on concrete,

It covers me like a wool sweater, warms me in the same manner, and makes me itch because of my ad...

Adam was a common thief just not of little stuff,

The memory of your face is fresh in my mind –

uncorrupted by the passage of time

no matter ...

I thought that I would be jealous watching my lover enjoy another woman but I was more fascin...

Her skin, his skin, my skin all inner twined together slippery from the sweat we just made hi...

Reading through the bible, laughing aloud.

No offence do I mean to whoever starts to frown.

I charge at foe like the crusaders did long ago,

Battle torn and weary but with my head held u...

You call them dumb.

You call them lazy.

You say they are just little vagrants.

But t...

I lived under conception that love never existed,