To Honor Not Dishonor

You cannot belittle me, or put me down in order to lift up your self...

As was the morning sun rising to begin the day,

So has been the half moon evening tide’s w...

Happy chirping blackbirds

Was my alarm this morning;

Their bodies reflecting the sun:-

it smacked me upside my head
stinging
like a Muhammad Ali bee
and I turned around
about to op...

Its that part of life

if U dont adapt to it

U will b left behind you

will b sidelined

Soaring life freely—

Liberated butterflies:

Caterpillars’ kids:-

I am a superstar today just as I was yesterday. I was doing the best that I could and when that w...

CONSIDER THIS…

Life is full of juxtapositions:

For every day, there is a night;

If you have a job

You may live check to check

If you have a career

You may live check to check...

Welcome to the new world

Accepted by all men, women, boys, and girls

Everythings changed from w...

God’s human-like doves

Are colorless and colored—

His gift of women:

...

One who begins their day or pride one Praying for things that are appealing to the flesh

Hopin...

Today let us pray;

Tomorrow some will not see—

There’s “WAR” in Haiti:-

An independent Black Country in the Americas

Since 1803;

Liberated and Emancipated ...

warm day along my journey
I decided to cool off a little
a patch of grass along a tranquil lake...

spry buck analogous to energizing bunny
jump/kickstarted procreation ruckus.

Home on the ra...

Michael told us all to remember the time

Peter Piper picked peppers, but Run rocked rhymes!

(03/10/20230)

Haiti Begging Aid!

U.S. Closing Embassy!

Priority Made!

(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coi...

THE WAR GAME

Power

takes

to

the

mound;

all

batters

are

struck

o...

NATURE’S ROUNDUP

Winter is waning…

Rainbow nature coloring…

Lively Spring waxing...

OH, SAY CAN YOU SEE…HAITI…?

A painful reality has demanded to be

Refl...

In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. Th...

An old man would visit his wife’s grave

To keep the promise that he once made

‘I love you, ...

forever
penned in poetry and prose and
Hallmark cards and letters
calls
texts from places whe...

In the light of dawn, she rises like the sun, strong, and bright

With Grace and determination, s...

Black dress, black heels, your hair is in the curls i like.. it’s a slit in the dress because...

It feels like I have been writing for decades and I don't know if the world is getting smaller or...

Old men never told young

men about the stages of gettin old

Now that I am old I now know wh...

(A Haiku Trilogy Tribute To Bob Marley)

Mental chains going;

Bob echoing in my mind...

(A Haiku Trilogy Tribute To Bob Marley)

Mental chains going;

Bob echoing in my mind...

You walk in FAITH

With head always high

Stride with confidence, the stature of Valor

When ente...

for the trumpeting don
spells loss for democracy
after inauguration day
witnesses his swearing...

So her womb brought forth the beginning, all the fake friends had blurred into a Picasso

Looki...

A person who destroys another through sex

and sucks the soul from them theywhen reachtheir cli...

Children are hungry...

Time to feed their mind'sbellies...

Curing starvation...

Over an over

Ire-wrote each line

From Dear you ,

To

Hello, can you hear me,

I bèen staine...

Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder
if qualified to self diagnose
mein k...

I and I
Waited for her lamp light to turn low
Red, white and blue
dimming as the evening appro...

Leroy put me down with the game

My first 8 ball a street scholarship in my pocket

You showed me...

There we were

Chanting incantations

Shouting salutations to the Gods

Forcing embers from...

Hanging from the chandelier

Ya lips against mine

Captured by ya excitement

As you flipped on...

I was in the mood for some ghetto soul poetry, whatever that means. I wanted to feel a connection...

if a 2024 November presidential Biden win
pandemonium likely to occur,
subsequently figurative ...

Dare politicians to imply winning an election

Depends upon the amount of campaign ...

The way you speak ,

Pouring into me,

Your Lips persuaing the mood,

You seduced my arrival

Pul...

There’s war right next door…

The hued war victims…ignored—

America…blind…

In memory of a soul so brave and true

Whose strength and spirit shone bright through and through...

Sharing this excellent poem I found on YouTube:

for trayvon martin by reuben jackson
instead ...

I don't think I have ever left a note on Poetry Vibe for black history poems for church. I grew u...

Uncertain if my one man pep rally appeals to thee most amazing, daring, grueling... youngest aspi...

Bloodshot eyes lose tears;

Empty bloated bellies grow—l

Starving kids ignored:-

What can I say?!

God’s directing my way:-

I must tell it like it is;

Telling the tru...

Ah... nothing more enjoyable

than acidic gastric fluid (bile)

flowing backward into esophag...

Food for those who starve

Arrives with firing bullets—

Hunger is murdered:-

I never meant to love you...

Even tho i knew your conversation was Gas..

Even though I'd fe...

I was on the extreme end of pondering, I was into myself and I couldn't really see anything else....

We are chosen by God

To share his tailor-made words:

Love…Peace…Hope…Faith…

Insp...

consumed later at night than usual
finds me bright eyed and bushy tailed
amply lively to learn
...

On every morning

You look into amirror

The image portrayed reflectswho should be the number one...

Love’s Labor

Today you can’t change

Love’s job God planned

yesterday—

Just ge...

an unusual situation
quite a situation for us to be
in transition

seated in the waiting area...

In the ocean of mind, still waters of thoughts

Deeply run;

Boarding these thoug...

Sweat is the scent, sweet sweat acidic even it is hanging in the doorway

Back room is blue, wa...

In everyones book of life there's a TESTIMONY before the Survive

Some have went through Hell On ...

Fore score minus xv orbitz ago
from being centenarian

strong contractions forced me

to pas...

Yes! She’s running too;

No need to mention her name—

She looks just like you:-

I'm bettering myself...

Why can't he get on my level,

I never claimed to be better...

just wet...

It is you who has

the power

to elect people who

r true

People who will do right

fo...

I
chill if you want to
not telling you what to do
'cause someone else will

II
ancestors cryi...

Complain Not, For No One Gives A Damn.

TEEDUB815

Indeed since about eight

almost straight out

the gate

music a big part of the

village...

I told myself

That I’d write a three part love poem that had a very happy ending.

So certain ...

(Tribute To An Ebonic Princess)

Quietly she sits…

her still waters running deep…

A gas-soaked body;

Self-lit to protest the war—

Peace burning to death:-

What was it like to be alive

As a member of the world’s first tribe?

Everyone was famous an...

Time does not past for light…

A star, light years away, still shines so bright…

And moves s...

before the arrival of dawn
the line is already formed from the front gates of the palace door
a...

Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess e...

Not present...but present...Ablessing*

Guiding me to his alter, as I dig my feet in the sand

Th...

(Black History Month in VA, 2024*)

Went down to the James River

And touched the...

Positive thinking;

Ignorance is evicted—

Wisdom…abiding:-

I was born into this world and something just wasnt right, I was too nice about it and there were...

Not only am I an insomniac but diagnosed

PTSD but also an active mind that never

wants to wind ...

Just

Look at you;

You are awesome!

You and all you are,

Are just phenomenal!

Y...

When the entire mug awash
with floating leavings
by golly by gosh,
sipping said herbal brew
a...

Assiduous, hard work, laborious by Hand isthe way a majority seek success and provide for their f...

there's times when
we can't see hope
in some cases we
feel there's no hope

we feel hopeless...

I feel like I lost all my at the casino

Gambled all of it trying to get rich

Forgot that the...

It’s the well of love;

The rutter and sail of life—

Home of the Shepherd:-

Chess : Every pawn means nothing , mindlessly pushed to the side, as the Queen thinks her Night...

Reflecting
Innocent days of my being the inquisitive
Fearful
PK
A quiet moment
when he was h...

When I was younger, I’d always ask why

Now that I’m old, I ask how

Things that I was too af...

Love equals space divided by time

In the beginning, both yours and mine

An infinite numerat...

Look into the mirror and notice

The one looking back at you—

The you that you are and w...

studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe

My utmost humblest apology
for inducing the fol...

I am guesing the subject Life

has a lot of different meanings to

a lot of different people

I m...

My mama and uncle always bickered

I mean hard down yelling while every one snickered

I neve...

Never chase a person because when you do

you'll eventually have to stop running

and realize yo...