Mouthing off
trying to trace invisible lines my minds on data overload…
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Two to tango
To be forever unnamed the title wave of memories of a slave…
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Rebellious Acts
Something that was created at birth, Excuse me for my ravishing behavior…
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From Scratch
I write while looking in the mirror at me I see the ankh that hangs…
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odd scribbles
Dimmed lights, laid back under the covers, A4 on my bedside table, searching for my black pen... From long walks to trailing thoughts...its…
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Idk
Could never question the direction, then I landed on shore, after that, maybe a blessing, freed but uncivil-ed through war, fear for my…
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Flat Lines
I rose to the sound of beeping in the distance I heard weeping…
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"Remembering space"
I longed for your kiss... Like mans first drink of water after being lost in a desert for 3 days…
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Take Time
Im taking time out for me, i get so busy and swamped with responsibilities that its hard to do for me. Bills, work,cook,clean,be mommy to…
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Believe in yourself
There is something within don't count me out…
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My Block
It kills me to hear what is being sung into these unsound waves Flesh torn like our history in these Amerikkkan pages…
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Suicidal Pt. 5 (Epiphany)
i write my poems so others can have tranquility or peace but i guess i dont practice what i preach because most of the time im i not happy…
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LADY (Updated Spoken Rendition)
Sista, I do not need to see the tops of your breasts bare to know they’re there…
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Sound Proof
Are the young black screams as the whips,rope, and now burning bullets have touched our people's flesh the mourning of mothers and fathers…
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Dream Contradictions
Awaking and mind racing not stopping to give Him his thanks but yet you feel he owes you something or someone, anyone who you may pass you…
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Interpretation of Love
Kissing me with your heart as your lips substitute your hearts presence And your hands replace the feeling of your soul while making…
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"Haunted"
In my sleep i hear the screams,im trying hard not to acknowlege them Shadows on my ceiling, why do they always seem to follow me?…
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Joshy Wrote It For Me
Ok it's been along time Coming shawty…
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Let Me Explain
Let me explain something to you Mr Murphy People have loved me over again and they really hurt me…
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unfair law
Black people get mad when another a white person takes one of our lives but we do it day by day without blinking twice, we offer them the…
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First Loss
To those who are still with your "First Love"... I hope you never lose it... You will lose a piece of you... that you will never get…
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Winter, Rose
Dry, golden-crisp grass, Unscented like the flavour of water, with chilled, icy winds blowing past…
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Black American
understand that I write poetry too give my people a voice and choice…
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"peeping jane"
Youve been runnin your whole life from anything short of love…
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My Son
Went from Egyptian men of pride, who wrote hieroglyphics on scribes, to this friction I describe, seeing so much genocide, they wearing…
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"Nation under fire"
I woke up out my sleep to a stench in the air I cried, i choked, but couldnt figure out where…
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Open Your Eyes (Appericate Life)
We often live our live's in hope we make it to the next day…
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Fall Of A Psychopath {A Poetic Short Story}
July 2014 Red Malone was statue still as he sat there and watched…
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Short poem
That feeling you get when you know you found the one Feeling straight through you body like the bullet of a gun, next thing you know your…
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Cold Gravy
It’s food on my plate but I can’t With all these brains all over the street…
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Black Man in America
I am a black man in America, that makes me subject to random pull overs on the freeway, subject to white women holding their purses when I…
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Care for your WHO (WHO is Symbolic)
Don't mean to be nasty but I gotta stay true these women are forgetting the importance of their WHO giving it up so fast that once he hit…
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Dedication poem to TUPAC
Ever since hearing tupac I've never had a hardship I couldn't get through because every rap he had was like a song I related to, Â keep…
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imitation drug love
Hidden emotions..hopelessness, praying that he wont notice I try my best to control it, so no1 can expose them…
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An Ode to My Peers, The Urban Poets
It’s been a rollercoaster ride since I decided to share…
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The Right Word
An appropriate word at the appropriate time is like beautiful music. It's the feel of sunshine on a chilled face after a long rain…
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I Wonder
How do you move forward in life When it seems like your past is always in your peripheral view…
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Just for my # 1
Just gonna shout this out to my boy Matt Murphy Young son but never Hov…
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Its All You
Sometimes I think the worst thing I ever did was love you,a heart full of burdens,stress taking over,I feel like you the type that would…
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Dedicated to the writer of suicidal thoughts
If suicidal is how you feel I say find a new way to deal…
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Life
Life has finally brought me to my knees every time I try to do better something or someone knocks me my mother don't care, daddy never been…
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Actions Speak Louder than Words
You know what.... Wait never mind…
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In Too Deep
Believing the lies Falling for the deceit Knowing what your doing is wrong But listening to the false truths Beginning to hate myself to…
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Prized Possession
Greater than winning a trophy Higher than the intake of drugs Beyond the appeal of the eye Time has stopped the minutes have froze Telling…
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Trapped In Pain
Locked myself behind closed doors ,this world and the way they judge ,I cant take it no more…
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Your Happy & My Happy
Salutations to One’s Misery While another’s Smile is a Mystery…
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The Lesson I Wish My Father Taught Me
I mistreated her like she was a hoe; she deserved much better like she wanted…
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What I Think About
my eyes are seeing red its seems like a life and death…
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Sweetest Dreams...
Stiletto chiseled manicure pierces underside inching cross the median of his neck…
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Bagged up, Broken Up
I took my heart in my hand Bagged it up tight…
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Woman of Virtues
What happened to a woman cherishing her worth? Why are we treating ourselves like scums of the earth? Why must we speak with our lips and…
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In the Wake of
I heard it said that angry black people who act out in violence against social injustice…
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Tale of the Snail
All I want is to run away But I still haven't learned to walk…
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If I
If and maybe, by some slight chance I could paint pictures in words, I'd keep between the borders and present to you, a 'Mona Lisa'…
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Texture
It covers me like a wool sweater, warms me in the same manner, and makes me itch because of my adverse addiction to it It hugs me like silk…
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