The tragedy of the hood -- is that you don't have time to think

We are the source of our tragedi...

I know he's watching me

I can feel the heat of his eyes caressing my skin
I look up

He kno...

Take Me

Throw me against the wall

Raise my skirt around my waist

Rip my panties

Feel the rise...

Catch me as I glide down the center
Taking my time as running sap from a tree

Leaving you hyp...

Tempted by a possibility

Needing to release some untapped energy

I look to others and try to fi...

Thoughts swimming through my mind

I feel a breeze blow between my thighs

Intoxicating and mind-...

Constantly raped by your views

you continuosly keep trying to force your ideas of who I should ...

Why you coming at me like this

Robbing me of moments

Trying to enjoy my life and be peaceful an...

I want you

To penetrate my bodyas well as my mind

Stretch my inner core to fit and snuggle your...

Unusual, weird, comical, annoying,

Describe me with every syllable and I say to you, "Etcera."

Is it through these eyes, as my heart lies n lies
So blind that it divides the part that cries
...

Since the day we met i've been by your side

meeting you that day was like winning a prize

We co...

Clubs didnt do it. Her rub didn't do it. The smell of this scenery around me now putrid. My dark ...

Looking to the sky

wondering whats in store

for me

Formations of clouds of

bodies and faces

JB
BY
Tony Adamo (February 3, 12)

Gospel testifying soul burn’n and funk bumpn’...

BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK – Tony Adamo - 1990



Jimmy Smith was laying down an incred...

Crackles of vinyl wax beneath the apex of a whetted needle spins
an aria of whimpering whispers ...

MILES OF BLUE
By
Tony Adamo (Nov.25,’05)

I walked into a little jazz dive off 125th and...

I stood higher than the cockpit

How could I be so wrong

I'm not here for your kids or for your peoples to approve, the only thing I give a f*ck about is ...

I don't know how to flow with this so I'll just let it ride, there're things inside my heart and ...

roses are red, and i was true to u now im in love but not with you.

Reason why is your a dog and...

Diction
By: Keith Fuchs

PoetryVibe October 2013 Contest

I'm malevolent, yet benevolent.

I...

Karma. .....?

Who am I,.......to you?

What is your meaning in life ?

Is your purpose ser...

My lifeline peaks

like a mountain,

through the belly

of this sky.

Its stability is

threatene...

as i am standing here in the midst of my turmoil and dispair i am patientlly waiting

as i think ...

Draped in yesterday’s attire, freshly dipped in today’s promiscuity. The air I brea...

I'm facing every if, I ever had

I'm still here, are you surprised to see me?, if I went back and told my old self i'd never belie...

Bereft of leaves, the naked branch
That spreads onto our balcony
Is the curvature of mystery
W...

Non Essentials such

disrespect to workers

A bunch of self centered jokers

playing with people ...

The magic of ink

more potent then

the strongest drink

Words framed together

only 26 letters

Lake Therapy a cool place for me

A place to go to calm all this stored up

anxiety

Like today j...

I woke up one morning and noticed that I didn't have a smile...
I stood up that morning and I ...

Palms still get sweaty everytime I see her
The butterflies in my stomach seem to multiply each y...

In the end, we all begin
To appreciate the persistence….
Of the singularity of...

I cannot cut off or let go... I must continue to let the rivers flow....

I am so tired can't l...

Like electrons exchanging their charges; I'm...giving you my all.

love a man that when......

when I get up in the morning he holds my slipper so my foot doesn't...

I'm in love with a woman named Earth.

When your making love its more then just simply putting your inside her (excuse my verge langua...

Money----The tool of rule this is what I see in the world before me

I have taken my turn on the...

We were peas n a pod

'Youre like heaven rhyming in my mind,
A sight of your smile, your eyes takes me high.
You have...

It rained last night , and I know that you could hear my cries forcing into your ears.that banis...

... Sitting here thinking why I let it go so young. I wasn't ready for it , but I thought I was. ...

Pouring in pouring out into my lap time lapses night comes early

Reaching for creative energ...

I wish, I was a catfish. Swimming in the

hieroglyphics of a kiss. But A whirlwind

romance wrapp...

O

Dear, Me, you got some work to do to better who u r. He said some hurtful things, he says most of...

So far gone

Every morning in the rise and shine
Awaits a chance to change
A chance to do it one more time...

Casualties of War

Time wasted…dreams destroyed
Scorched Earth Diplomacy….burn down ...

Through the heavy rains.

The poets and the prophets

shall gather upon the dawn-

To dine, perhaps entrance

The coming mo...

Or maybe its cooking that i am really good at all three choice is an option i mean its what i am ...

I only have one dream and pretty soon i am going to make it into reality this is not a parvati mi...

my emotions bizarre

so fresh, so clean, bit of strut in my walk

the sun wont rise, cold still in my eyes

this is your day, erotic play to another dimension

I just touched down

She assisted greatly in raising me to be a REAL MAN. Was it easy? I wouldn't say so, but I was bl...

He takes his time and preys on young women like you
Women who have past life issues that were ne...

In my heart there’s a void that you once occupied

Each day that you’re not...

I am free like the comets soaring through the depths of space

I am at peace like a flowe...

I'm engulfed in the sound of her voice

The wetness of her lips has my mind all off cours...

5 Seconds

“Good Morning Sir. May I take your order?”
Five…
Go ‘head gi...

I don't really know you.

Why is pain reminiscent rain

He dips his quill in black ice and

scribes arctic winds underside

my spine

Crimson spill...

hips at a slow roll, makes me want to sell my soul

SISTER TO SISTER

You are more than the eyelash extensions and the fake color contacts that you s...

SISTER TO A BROTHER
You say i don't know your struggles and in some ways that may be true, I'm j...

I never dream, I used to plot on

fashion show, runway Sunday

slothful lyrics, industry is awful, it should be banned and

Smilin’ Ass

Who the *** do you think you are?!
Walking around smiling and laughing and !...

Traffic Light

I'm red...
enraged...bitter...angry...
I'm red because I'm hateful....I'm red ...

I never knew such beauty
Until I saw her wings
They were spread wide
Like a smile from eye to ...

Slavery exist
This very day
Just not in those obvious ways

Freedom
Is more than just minimu...

a flickering fire left behind

I'm fleeing this stand still, I have dreams I wish to fufillI

I wish I would've listened to ma...

I feel the power even in my sour times

chronical hours in filth and slime

I was dining with...

I have walked the path of the present to step away from the past

I heard the waves breaking through our conversation.

Our hearts that beat because of you

Still daydream about you

Plenty memories surround our visio...

Fighting for 1st place

I don’t like to run but I shall race

Anyone in my way

Cause I lo...