August 19th nineteen seven five a child was born, amidst the strife of ghetto life yet he defied ...

Leave the jacks turned off cause there's no need for ladder trucks, I know it's smokier than f*ck...

Once again that time of year is here for one and all, to see your favorite football heroes pass a...

Your boy be on that sh!t sometimes to make you bust a gut, some people think I’m funny; ot...

Happy Birthday Grandma; Ms. Victoria McKie, there aren’t words enough to write our storied...

Violence, murder, misery and people getting robbed, a big @ss celebration when our people get a j...

Antoinette was pregnant and nobody didn't know, she hid it all through school but in the end; she...

I have a friend who name is ben, I known him since the time i wasabout ten.

Me and ben have many...

It's not that i can't live without you,

It's just that i don't even want to try.

Every night i ...

I scream can you hear me

Don’t act like your not listening

My voice is amplified

Sounds...

once i could handle the truth, when the truth was, You and I.

But time after time all the promis...

The way ya body swayed as i watched you from behind,

Got me so excited, How can i fight it?

L...

She loves me.

Overdosed off his chivalrous

Nice smile protective body over me

He was my everything

I gave hi...

So it was 2008 I met him

I let him eat and I melted

Never took me on a date

But I let him

Tel...

Slander and back hands backed down with a new dance I hear my voice yealling screaming, dreaming ...

Years in the stretch

Darker than the deep end of the ocean floor.

I'll blame this trauma on my mama

why I live in all this drama

going around in circles

seeing ...

today I had a gray day

nothing went my way

first I prayed about it

sat and thought about it

t...

central air central heat

living down on Central street

got to get back up on my feet

make some...

I got this condition

keeps me on a mission

my heart beats fast

like a panic attack

got me blo...

From this day forward unless its a job interview, funeral or my wedding i will never and i repeat...

constantly

trying to stay alive

survive

a time bomb

waiting to explode

a nuclear holocaust

sushi girl

john dies at the end

two days in new york

white man white house white history

railroad tracks and poverty

limousines and lean cuisine

78...

give me an uzi

watch me go to work

a hand grenade

blow them fool's up

watch 'em twitch and je...

Elbows off the table/the gravies hot use a ladle this fires fatal

I’ll fry...

Glancing out towards the sky
My eyes do spy on a star
Far off in the horizon

I’m immedi...

This Is My PSA for today:

TO ALL THE DBOYS, STICKUP KIDS, PROSTITUTES, MURDERERS, GANGSTERS, THI...

The results of what my life is.....

What painful joy it is to see your smile

What painful joy it is to see your smile

I’m dying to live in this jar with no lid

Waiting for the dust to settle in ...

how many times

have i

searched for a rainbow

only to find despair

locked down and

locked out...

There once was a flame which shone so bright,

A flame which said everything would be alright.

T...

Its Classy, like school’s in session,
bringing the daily lesson

It requires La...

Blunt tips of blunt graphite; double lines of my letters, my writings are unclear.

They say the truth a set you free, so most stay locked in a lie, the truth of our society, on blo...

A good poem to me is , a slip-of-a-thing,

It celebrates language and the knowledge it brings.

I...

Hip-hop has grown from it's inner-city roots to being worldwide,

Unfortunately, its having a pro...

My Internal Struggle

They told me the best way to get over you...
Is to walk away and make it d...

My Family’s Serendipity, often told whimsically

Like daddy was a drinker, so I...

death

follows me closely

while life

retreats into shadows

shunning

gnarled fingers of winter...

( written in prison after my moms came to see me)

we sat staring silently at one another...

firm you stand as an old oak tree

rooted in your beliefs

as wise as an eagle

who's decisions a...

"Leave me alone!"

can this be construed as poetry

or just the ramblings of mockery

are my eyes to sharp for image...

Pierce my body in places where there arent meant to have holes

hopefully some of the pain will...

Its sober when I'm with you. It's noble when we are mobile moving to new hieghts and new sights w...

it is as a distant memory

fleeting in thought

fools gold scribes hark

as day kisses night into...

Don't wanna live n a house where you gotta hide your things like a mouse

As i sit looking, at the waters flow;

thinking of who lets, a poet know.

The ability of putting...

All fathers are special in each their own way,

Taking care of their own,living life by the day.

I want to say thank you o mother of mine,

your wondrous ability to pen and rhyme.

For in my poe...

Grasping,begging,pulling, pleading,

Fighting, crying, aching, bleeding,

Torn apart, I writhe wi...

when we write, it often severs a purpose,broken words, spoken truth, Hidden desires, The pen my w...

Broken wisk.

This habit of leaving earth and fanning up to the sky is my get away

from the stated reality

Th...

You are what i call " A man", always there to be my bestfriend.

Holding me down when i am feelin...

Forgive me for I have sinned,
yet no remorse does my
conscience concede.
A promiscuous whore....

Snatched from my high

Skinny dipping in dark

Highlighted by an over exposure

My encl...

What’s the purpose of an average love? The word itself is nothing short of extraordinary. ...

In search of who I am, thus my journey began

traveled near and far, here there, even made a frie...

Unconditional love

You can look at him

You can talk to him

you can touch him

BUT

You cant h...

Faruq can only imagine a life filled with passion.

A life without having to hide himself from ...

It’s been an amazing year
an amazing time with you Lord
an amazing time to hear
everyth...

not just chatter, its everyday matters

the ebb and flow

A qirl named Past hurts from traqic realities. Heart turned cold, there's no "Hi's" or formalitie...

right before our eyes

for all to see

if we seek truth foretold throughout millennia

gods crash...

My actions my choices all blow up in my face

static energy

your kisses upon my flesh

killing

me

softly

fragile flowers withering

the crumbling of innocence replaced

by carnal knowledge of violence a...

A beg for forgiveness
Repetitiously performed
Seeking sincerity prolonged
Performed for ...

Harken back to old when the basics

served our soul

Struggling to be free working hard

to be wh...

Lines of colorless spaces
leaves the picture incomplete
Hues of my complexion are used
to masq...

She held my face in the palms of her
rough, un-manicured hands.
I remember her eyes looking int...

this ain't the life we wanted

"i was born with a head full of naps and perhaps

I find at most times thay i cannot find the strength

If I want to make a Change

I need to be Unchained

From the Barriers of Life

That are Keeping m...

Do you understand the black man's struggle?

Dealing with all the stero types and the live's they...

I write when I am Happy!

As she waits for him to arrive, the clock indicates it's 33 minutes past five; now begins the tim...

I’ve been hurt before you. I thought there’d be no after you. You caught my attenti...

Kisses lost in last years calendar. Left over hugs from our anniversary still torture me. It was ...

I just want to kiss every inch of your body
Every single cell individually
Let you know that IÃ...

I hope that my thoughts find you in good spirits
You ran across my mind the other day and I miss...

You were so broken you made me feel unloveable. I tried to fix you. You belittled me every chance...

We live in a time where a woman will let you into her vagina before she lets you into her heart. ...

class and character in every area

TELL NO LIES, I WAS BORN TO BE GREAT!

I have nothing. I have nothing to lose. If God took my hands back I would sing the promises of hi...

20 days and 20 nights

the sun rays and rotations

into moonlight

tree fires and trenches

This is Deep!

40 proof knocking on my window

at a crescendo

pornography performing choreography

herb t...

my fingers pulsate
as a life line
dripping black blood
onto a lifeless
backdrop of
white pr...

Every day of my life that passes by, means another chance,for me to try, and write a poem that wi...

Who am I to claim knowledge
on the essence of mAn?
I'm a WomAn journeying
to unearth the woMan...