Sometimes I lay on silken sheets of thought and allow yesterday’s weather to wash over me....

You are simply perfection.

And The sun that shines through your eyes has me hypnotized

I recoll...

We travel
Feet bleeding
We walk a road of broken dreams and glass hate
Deceiving ourselves of...

Feed me your hurt.
Make me full off your pain
I’ll become emotionally bulimic
Purging m...

I have a crush on you

The serious kind where all I think about is laughter with you

Seeing you ...

fashion show Sundays

from the fire love,

to the affair in the pub

commitment rush

cant explain why i leave her

u...

Just when i thought that i had a chance, i realized that this was just a silly dance.
Stuck in ...

Though it's been a while I can still visualize your smile, however it no longer belongs to me, ne...

I only told her what I was going through

to get a woman's point of view

I've done what I've s...

-I informed these parts of the machine.
-Of how I intend to bring destruction to the oppressors ...

And if I honestly was all she spoke with you give her a chance to prove what she wrote, through h...

Dear Black History,

It's clearly that you're merely a mystery

well at least parts of you, still...

he's living my life

his present, what my past should've been

my glory blew in the wind

his...

What do i have to do to get your attention?

Is it a matter of time? Or does time even matter?

L...

So there are 3lil mini me running round

My hair and I have been thru it

And I wonder

if mother of poetic

speaking,

takes account of

my wasted paper marks.

All pen m...

Many people of today ask what is black history?
The hidden factor of our accomplishments aren't ...

I realize that Icannot move forward with a divided mind

I cant be in and out and then wanting to...

Allow me to catch my breath,

As I catch myself from falling too deep to recover,

I pray to ...

I was born a different breed,

I use to love someone

It was the kind of love that made my brain brings thoughts of her just as ...

here we encounter again

neglect not the

black and white suits

stood all storms

years of promise, left behind

Cursed for life but changed for the better. 

I want my mind to be so clear,
That I can see the bare,
Bottom of the ocean,
Through the tidal...

The feeling of being unwanted,
And then that person coming to you frontin,
As if you can't comp...

Trying not to get so caught up in this emotional twist,
best friends now, lovers in the mist.
S...

-As I sit in the holding cell at 4:30am I’m thinking about how much I can’t stand t...

-I use to rock an afro with the pick.
-Lately it was a beard, smile…tooth with the pick.
...

-When I’m in the pin.
-My pen & mouth flip words.
-And that taste I gotta savor.
-Damn ...

-When I smell that unforgettable scent of “Love” incense burning in the air as I step...

she laid me off without a care, my welfare

-I often marvel at the thought.
-What if I was 18 during the 70’s.
-I am a 80s baby bein...

Every time I decide to watch the news
Mostly it's sad and degrading, that it gives me the blues
...

I have never really been a friend to anyone

Only seeing someone in need and fulfilling that need...

Hope is a delicate thing

It has to be cared for andjust like anything else

You need to really w...

his music sound intense

It had to be you to make me feel this way

I want to be a complete and utter sucker

I want to be...

-Are words still my gift & or my curse?
-Well all the animosity I once had is dead....rolled awa...

-Are words my gift and or my curse?
-You see my vernacular, transcends words spoken by others.
...

-I gotta get published.
-So I’m fighting for my writing as if I’m Irish.
-Because...

-I’ve dedicated the rest of my days on this dust ball.
-Towards dealing with my demons.
...

-I’m so damn glad you finally got some minutes on the phone
-It’s been so long sin...

-Tonight
-I write
-These words
-So my wrongs are write.
-Sin was or bond.
-And we all know.
...

-Inmates keep and store
-What they bought from the store
-Inmates bake and sell
-What they bou...

-Sunrise mail & sunsets.
-Is as good as it gets.
-The breakfast, lunch & dinner is the worst ye...

-This is the parable of the orphan turned parent
-A man and a woman fell in love
-They were ano...

-Lately it seems that all I can do.
-Is think of you
-In the midst of a horrible day I stop, la...

-I’ve traded in DJ’ing at nightclubs and bars
-For these county bars
-I have a Ja...

-As I watch the sun set once again.
-Through these bars.
-As if this is a pen.
-And I’m...

shouts and screams, infared beam subjects

poems

words can never express

a presentation of arms to our heroes in harm

Insight, are you near?

Insight, are you near?

i felt low, such a cold blow

damaged my ego

ho

but oh no, no, no

you easily let me go...

my inflicted pain, your incredible shame

Survivor

-Now I don’t mean to deem or discredit nor do I mean to be callous or a critic.
-But if t...

What would you do, in the drive to excellence?
Would you be determined? Full of energy and unbri...

church isle runways, fashion show Sundays

I sit on Sundays and think about the plans we made. I sit listening to Stevie Wonder thinking Ive...

(HOOK)
-Let's start this song all over.
-Hit play back & not delete.
-I didn't understand it b...

-If you’re looking for the truth….here I am.
-You won’t need a co-signer or ...

-Floating chariots motor pass.
-Single floating chariots with mustang speed.
-One totes a conne...

the walk, the talk

-I’m not gonna get into the topic of slavery we all know about this
-I’m gonna tak...

the year 1929, a timeline

-As I watch them stroll midtown at midnight hand in hand observing the architecture.
-Anchor & C...

-Shhh... I'm on an indoor wiggle.
-My bunkie left the door open when he left for a little.
-C.O...

-This is my dichotomy
-The part one and part two that adds up and equals me
-Is kind like my hi...

-See those stars’ there…they make up Orion’s Belt.
-No….I’ve ne...

-This one goes out to the woman at the piano
-With the big beautiful smile and cornrows
-That f...

his warm embrace..
cant help but, put a smile upon my face...
told myself I wouldnt be in this ...

head in my lap, another part of the map

riding to unfamiliar territory, a life changing story

a hostile crowd, nigros on benches, popo in the trenches

loud speaker, in the air blowing reefer...

life of fiction, urban actors, gangsta rap, the biggest factor

shawty trying to fufill that role...

Look into my eyes and read my mind

know what I want

relax, don't be so taunt.

Graze my face wi...

-I listen to a little Wayne but all of JoDeCi.
-Because I'm not some arrogant little kid that wa...

-Frozen rain hangs from the rood crying teardrops
-Root beer slushies’ covers the sidewal...

-I’m too used to jumping in and outta limos
-Being fresh to death or wearing tuxedos
-Ch...

-On this bus
-This dawn of day
-Opticals to ink
-Auto pilot
-Systems slip into idle
-Radio v...

-Perhaps you’ve taken things past a point & apologies won't do.
-By lacking a certain cri...

-Perhaps my covert coffee mate was correct.
-When she said that us leaving conversation at a ful...

lack luster faith

With every breath I take

for every sin I forsake.

With every ounce of my being

my love f...

you never left

i sat with genuine men, the outcast

background blues

Dear Food Pantry

from heaven, a strong audible

lifeless

we were rightfully yours

three spoons, two beds