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Change

If you have been giving the opportunity to wake up and see another day, you still have time to change whatever it is that's holding you…

Midnight Choir on Concrete

I learned to pray with my back against a brick wall, knees in the gutter where the light forgot to shine…

Eclipsed

Umm, handsome one, my fervent one who plays the heartstrings of my body so softly under the covers Plummeting within the essence of my…

Incantation Of My Soul

The melodic elements always harken to thy ears when the universe chimes It always pours the fastest rings the loudest when blending with the…

Kingdom on the Corner

I grew up where the streetlights hum old gospel, where grandmama's curtains breath the night in slow prayer…

Angela Davis Soul Sister

Call her Angela…

Collapse All Distance

A corresponding voice that resonates with its own tone…

Cornerlight Sermon

We pray under streetlamps that buzz like old radios, neon halos haloing the hush between two trains…

Ten Toes on the Asphalt

I learned how to pray with my knees on cracked concrete, the church bells muffled by the traffic…

Changing of Hands

It’s becoming a young world. Elders start their ascent…

Perceptions

at one time black…

Odyssey

so I wonder what would it be like…

Cold Poem

I wish for the snow to fall anytime…

The Ancestral Mechanics of Vodou

The Rite, the Tools, the Spirits, the Workers To reclaim our rite, we must correct the confusion that colonizers created. They blurred lines…

Defining the History of Sainthood: Reclaiming the Rite They Forced Into Darkness

I. Before the Chains: The Supreme Knowledge of Our People Before the ships. Before the branding irons. Before the names were stolen. Before…

Concrete Gospel

Listen — the street hums like a hymn, neon prayers in the gutters, and the city keeps the beat of our heartbeats…

Until the Night Exhales

Let me kiss you the right way, all over, soft and slow…

Concrete Prayer

My city hums like a throat clearing — morning coffee, tires, the backyard radio. Streets remember your name before you do…

Relentless Rhythm

I move like the city breathes — short gasps between streetlights…

Concrete Prayers

I wake before the city shakes, put my hand on the hood of dawn like it owes me something…

Blocklight Sermon

They say the city teach you how to breathe in the ash…

Block Symphony

Hear the block breathe —tires sing, neon hums,kids trade futures like marbles. Some days the sky looks low, but we learn to bounce it back…

The Sovereign Surrender

I just can’t unwrap my head From the thoughts of you…

Handcuffs

Some people like handcuffs, they will hold on to an idea even if it puts them in bondage. They will sit and smile and all the while putting…

Dear Wifey

Dear Wifey-based on the novel Shadows of Obsession by Kemy and Creative Universe Partner Aszar follows the unraveling of a love that was…

Thief Of Hearts

He stole my prized possession With no regard of my feelings or hesitation…

My Feet Are Tired And I Need A Bed To Rest In

My feet are tired and I need a bed to rest in Let evening captivate my spirit and quiet my bones…

It's Alright

peeking from behind closed doors speaking in metaphors laced with symbolism…

Men 2 Boys

Hey Boy!…

Earthquake

I head the Earth quake as my words shake and I have been left deposited in fragments of lingering thoughts. I thought my influence would…

Open Minded

They became deep in their poetic space, as they defied sound permitting…

Promises In Passion

(back from vacation with old lyrics from the "attic..")…

Beyond Her Threshold

The physical fades to a quiet background when the map of your…

Changing The Past

I am changing the past and there is only one way to do that, its to change exactly what I am doing in this present moment. If you are…

Exposing the Naysayers

Why are you against me, Cos, I speak what is right?…

Prelude Get Ready

Just a prelude song for my Fall winter Hobby campaigm This group a all time favorite saw them in concert in CT live sound deeper…

Infinity

Cosmic, a celestial charm…

Lines

I forgot how to say you forgot how to say…

Call Me

"call me when you get there" not text me…

Moment

Come to Me

Come to me, as honest as the sun…

Positive Identification

Listen, I know it’s loud amongst our…

Pocket Change

In today's economy it's next to impossible…

The Trials and The Tribulations

Life called us forth before we could reply…

Can I Take You There

Can I, take you to a realm called ‘Us’…

A Whisper To Gaia

Aquarian Water rises not from rivers, or by the roaring of the seas But from the quiet sanctum…

When The Moon Enters Shadow: A Partial Lunar Eclipse Reflection Across Sky And Spirit

A partial lunar eclipse is never just an astronomical event. It is a moment when the sky pauses, when the Sun and Moon exchange their…

Almost Complete Love Memory Lost (Lost Lust/Love memoir #23)

Lonely is me, after everything…

Tipping My Crown

Thank you Almighty, for the things I have seen…

One Nation Under God

At a hierarchy of times, I'm too black, he's too pink…

Strange Fruit (Repost)

Earth tone, the melanin jazz that sings throughout my veins The protective barriers when, Come By Here My Lord provided no cooling rain…

STRANGE FRUITS: A NECESSARY VIGILANCE

There are volatility seasons when history does not echo, it repeats. Not as metaphor, not as memory, but as a quiet procession of tragedies…

OUTAGE

the power goes out suddenly the bright city remembers what darkness is all about windows blackout one by one streetlights surrender traffic…

She Has My Attention

It’s 3AM with the venue to capacity, but I still spot her nonchalant eyes…

Passion

He is the epitome of a man with a presence of mind to visit her dreams…

"He Knows This Is For Him.. Always"

Stealing his heart He had me at a sweet disadvantage…

A Thousand Years From Forever (Series Two of Series Five

Pearly Gates The Second Heaven…

Home

A moment in time where hearts know no bounds Desires of affection of unforgotten yearns…

Spiritually Commissioned

Inhale and exhale and close your eyes Let me softly memorize your mind with lullabies whispered from the skies…

Reserved Sovereignty

"Asking" when does asking collapse into begging…

The Painful Chapter

wrote a book I don’t want to read out loud I bound the spine in tweed I regret the…

I Dreamed Of This

I dreamed of this day, I knew this was possible and the world did not even bend to my will. I looked inwards, asked and the answer was…

Walk Away

answers never came in spoken words in the silence of a room plans were delayed and calls went unheard shadows formed where trees should…

Grand Rising Queen

Here we are as we wake under the stars amidst blue covers…

Selling False Dreams

Don't believe the FALSE STORIES…

I’m Him

I’m him…

The N word

The N word…

Read This Slowly

Read into me, feel my silken pages, absent of a literal touch, but for…

I could not touch Her

I could not touch her…

Hours of Operation

When you have a business or even go to a business establishment, there are “Hours of Operation.” Meaning, a time from which the business is…

Into the Lake(True Story)

Pots filled with raindrops, the roof leaked a lot, things really started to…

Reclaiming Your Lost Dreams

Just stopping through on a Friday with my spiritual incantation to advise you always to seek peace, find your center, and give yourself…

If You Say So

Just lay there a while, I want to admire…

Rear View Mirror

(old song lyrics I found in my "attic..")…

Newpanther (The Blackness Of The Day)

the blackness of the day…

Speakeasy in Helsinki

The night falls heavy…

Heaven On Earth

I wonder if you have ever experienced heaven on Earth, its a wonderful mindset. You wish for what you want in the world, then see it all…

Buy Bustanutt I seen it on Youtube!

Tired of limp d!ck depression! Tired of semi soft sex!…

Blank Slate

here I am today…

Sweetest Girl

I used to be the sweetest girl until I was turned sour. I used to be the sweetest girl until that continuous darkest hour. These days I'm…

Inkings of Me(III)

Who am I without a voice? Never will I be him, him who seems…

The Temptation Of Immortality (Lilith) The Rebirth Of A Queen

Lilith There are words circulating in the dark underworld of your arrival my Angelic Queen…

I Could

I could leap tall office buildings…

Anxious Distress

How far-fetched is it to think that my present hardship comes from some cruel act I've not done yet? Even with regret, trouble still…

The Waterloo (Series One of Five)

Sometimes you have to take it back to the origin Back to the sacred waters where Kings rise and Queens remember…

Inkings of Me(II)

Hmm, I was once told that I wouldn’t be able to prevail because I think…

Small Poem

Fold ourselves into compromising positions Bending into downward facing dogs…

Let It Be Me

let it be me Teddy on the turntable…

Mmm… Are You Lonesome Tonight

Are you lonesome tonight Do you crave the taste of my lips in the hour of twilight…

Wet

And then he said…

Touched By An Angel (Upon The Stars with Poet Darkcloud)

Touch you, touch the tip of your nose Touching your lips when your mouth is closed…

“Escape”

Pickles Pub 520 Washington Blvd…

My Cosmic Mural

To whom hears me approaching beforehand of the night’s prelude…

Fight For The Right

Daily I have to fight the right, my right To live in a world full of drama, so my tinme is tight…

You are Sweet, like Honey

You are sweet like honey…

Pulled into your Rapids

My chest is racing, open your celestial eyes after having closed them briefly…

Just September

Just September, when autumn begins…

The Quiet Ones

The Quiet Ones, don't take my…

Moth to a Flame

Like a moth to a flame, This is Love Can be contained…

The Architecture Of Power

We celebrate generative images, generative video, and generative audio for the joy they bring to our lives, but have we ever asked whether…