(From A Pedagogical Odyssey)

Shall I always be

As a transient soul

Traveling on ...

for the alarm clock
no day of rest

ringing rudely on my nightstand
rising in time
to don our ...

I'm getting ready...

peaking out my bedroom window
Rapunzel, I am
sorta
hearing you call ou...

You have to admit that it sounds like a good idea to have poetry black history month. Whe you ded...

I am already writing about black poetry in history. As I speak the words, they have already come ...

I was built to write black poetry, I can feel the blood coursing through my veins. The rush is in...

This ain't a dream, we were raised off lies, and you wondering why the world crying.... ....we h...

This ain't a dream, we was raised off lies, and you wondering the world crying.... ...See the b...

I see the flames but no fire, my life feels like Novocaine, my blood is like procaine with the ra...

The mind don't speak the same language of the soul, the mind grow cold why the soul gets old, whi...

I am alone when I'm alone, wondering if these four walls make a home as I make a home far away fr...

They want to hold you back... I get that..."But why you holding you back?"...you got a mind of yo...

I'm lost in space outer space with no space, slow pace, like I'm high with no face... I've been f...

MY THALAMUS TEXTURE

IS MEANT TO IMPRESS YA

DIGGING DEEP INTO THE DEPTHS OF MY SOUL

AS I ...

I wanna blast your synaptics
With didactic & distractive
Hyperactive volcanic grammatics
Rappi...

THE DEVIL AND I GRAPPLE

AS I TRY TO MIND TRAVEL

TIRED OF HAVING TO EAT, I DESPISE GRAVEL

(From A Pedagogical Odyssey)

Let us be as crucible steel

Forged bythe life-fires

(From A Pedagogical Odyssey)

Arise you children of now.

Wipe away the matter

Fro...

Fraught traumatized wordsmith

telephonic grand slam rent psyche asunder

witnessing helpless...

As did Ancestors…

Divine Wisdom and Guidance…

Shielding the Children…

In labors of love…

Footprinting for the children—

Their journey guided…

Emancipation—

The shattering of shackles…

Equality waits…

MIRRORING MIRRORS

Just face the mirror

Mirrors always tell the truth

Try mirrori...

Hate can not love…love

Where hate is…love will go

Love can not hate…hate

Hate left its wormhole—

A dove flew down and had lunch;

Peace then filled the hole:...

Deep black pain screams loud,

Seeking its healing relief;

Deep black pain ignored:-...

Three for a nickle

Frozen flavorful ice pops

Corner bodega

When the journey ends

What will I leave behind me

Books of poetry

My name in a book

Whatever took me so long

Next one in progress

My world stops spinning

Thunder and lightning passes

Glad to hear your voice

Got on my last nerve

I'malmost on CNN

Write a haiku, quick

The blackness of the day
For our youthful protection
Was always kept at bay
Kept away from our...

Feeling kind of blue

So I thought I’d share

This with you

Together in loneliness...

Us killing ourselves…

The oppressor sits smiling—

The syndrome working…

wrought maximum monetary mayhem
within mein kampf

Incomprehensible inhumane
inquisitorial ...

Waning and Waxing…

Allegorical moonings—

Sunshine oneness taught:-

TOP CHEF OF MUTINY

Political chef

Mastered deceptive menus

Serving disaster

H...

In the same household

Always different points of view

Gods sense of humor

Listening closely

My six year old Granddaughter

Always wins her case

I love being black

Slow cooked and so flavorful

Delicious people

I don't like onions

Never have and never will

You're off my menu

In the marketplace

Working my way through college

Won't you buy my book?

Existential nihilism rent psyche asunder

courtesy unforeseen deadly bombs
lobbed by computer ...

got what he wanted at my expense.

Said crack fast talking

hacker and scammer
pulled fi...

I really have my focus on and I can see where I need to go. I am always one step closer to achiev...

More'n ten thousand leagues under the sea
next to an octopus's garden in the shade.

OceanGate...

DNA Coded
Jigsaw
missing pieces
deep inside the soul

where is the devotion?

*warpe...

Expunging justice...

Tricksters challenge each other...

Deception...balanced...

Birds with same feathers

Don't always flock together

See America

What goes up comes down…

What goes down could just stay there—

Planes and submarines:-

Muse got to talking

to me bout

how mean Green

nothin has changed

The greed for the

mean gree...

Bird chirps greet sunlight…

Lightning flashes and hail falls…

Bird’s nest lost in sight...

where has it

all gone to

leaving frozen

contentment

and its

“to hell with ...

HEAVEN’S PESTICIDE

No matter the pest,

In the end you will be blessed;

God rid...

The time’s temp is cold…

Mind’s spirit burns like coal…

Warm wise wisdom flows…

We must be

the Black men

the Ancestors left

saved behind

to carry on

the p...

Social fathering

Is every Black man’s duty

The children need us

Let’s commit...

the bottom of the ocean is like the inside of a haunted house "don't go in there" only God can sa...

And now you complain

Two systems of government

What is your shoe size?

From the Silk City

P-Town is where I am from

still cool if you aint

Dismiss racism

looked in the mirror lately?

windex will clean it

Peer through my facemask

he will not catch up with me

wide receiver blues

Another cruise booked?

I just wanna be with you

be still our waters

I checked your rainbow

can I disagree with you?

different colors

My morning coffee

You and your fuzzy slippers

wishing you were here

A diabolical, inimical, piratical,
and venal worm,
whose cut throat devious shenanigans
found ...

Murder rates are up…

Mind unshackling downs them;

Oppression conquered:-

Onward journeying…

Many dis railings occur…

Tubman’s voice rerails…

I Look at You when I want to connect...

The look i get back isn't always the best..

This h...

announces Summer Solstice 2023

regarding ray zing planetary earthlings

Wednesday, June tw...

When Low vibes occur, I Self-Soothe.

I'm a Poet, and thats what I do...

"Speaking" listens...

Just as I am

What you see is what you get.

Your inability to understand me

Doesn’t requi...

From the first day I set out,
You were the encouraging winds
That filled my sails.
As I learne...

Heaven sent its angels

In the form of the raindrops

Silently comforting the unknown

In p...

One hot summer’s day

June 19th, 1865

Was a day that forever changed

Black America’s live...

After reading the novel titled
Broken English by Paul L Gaus...

accentuating, exhibiting, inc...

I am Honey and spice,

I am nothing nice...

I am Sage and Hood,

I wish another soul would.....

come…

let

us

seize

the

time…

free-

ing

up

our

ch...

Woman to woman my sistas,

We have to do better.

We need to look up more

Instead of looki...

Speak love, light and prosperity

Into every ear regardless of

The choices they make.

Sil...

What he said 55 years ago,

Changed millions of lives

Stirring hearts and minds

Yet anger...

In time, with time and by time

From first thoughts to implementation

In creation and format...

We can no longer

Just walk the walk

Talk the talk

And sing the song

Rather

Like scriptures

that often repeat themselves…

likewise must I…

For when it c...

Though things are not

where we want them to be

in this land of the brave and

sup...

Juneteenth here again—

One hundred and sixty years;

Still bushwhacked and killed:-

PART ONE

(Apropos Of Being Updated And Elated)

Wow, from 1863 to 2023!...

we never learn how to die

we learn how to die while

learning how to live

we never learn ...

if you can take a hard hit and stay on your feet don't call it defeat if you get knocked down and...

Juneteeth be comin'

Be comin' round the mountain

Be moving targets

freeflow

mind

bending…

can not

stop writing

the mind

needs to

take a r...

Flowing

thoughts

conflict…

Awareness

damming

their

flow;

Confusion

I need somebody to understand me.

From the the tip of my hair follicle

To the tip of my to...

Do I know you? I dont recon I do. I could get to know you if we took the time but you have to be ...

Juneteenth hint: three hundred

and sixty six days

after eighteen sixty four.

Major Gener...

It never happened
It was a all a dream that we still dream
Although we are still
“woke”
W...

Apart meant for One to grow.

Old to new, surely beginnings ensue.

When a heart is broken in...