Know this,

The world

In which we live,

Is bitter enough.

Let us,

In la...

Where in hell has it all gone?

What has taken it away from us two?

We can’t deny the bo...

Pregnant with the dream

Dream’s reality breaking

God’s promise coming

CASCADING…

Like a waterfall

Challenging tribulations

Cascading the sea

In keloid memories of supreme love,

Tears of grief and joy flow together;

Reflectin...

They say we pass

This way but once;

That once we’ve been here

We pass away.

Be not proud, death;

Your achievement

Is in name only..

Vengeance is God’s:

PLANE TIME

(A Haiku Trio)

We’re flying freely…

But our wings are not flapping…

St...

Standing green leaf trees…

Readying for falling times—

Renewal assured:-

Busy buzzing flies

Webbing awareness lessons…

Fall’s traps are coming…

Sitting here in the waning sunshine of Summer

And the waxing sunshine of Fall, my mind...

"Word Play"

We play this word play...

We play this game but it is

not a game to ...

“Bliss”

Bliss…

The word we categorize

as wonderful all the time.

“Blackness Vanished”

My blackness is vanishing

by the minute, the hour,

the days and...

Cream Soda

looking into your eyes, i'm mesmerized
at how intensely you're staring back ...

“Entangled Part 2”

Me,

&

You

Are an entangled two…

Sharing our minds

“Entangled Pt I”

Entangled I am with you…

With all the laughter that you give

me a...

“Jaded”

In the end, we seek comfort

tried and true is easier to

swallow and the unkn...

“Pompeii”

have your face, face mine and kiss your lips that are so luscious and divine, ca...

?Raspberry Park?

You are my Raspberry Park

Sweet as honey,

nicely toned li...

“Rode that to glory…”

Don’t get it twisted in no shape or form…

I am a diva,

I ...

“The perfect Love”

The perfect Love Is that special feeling
That you find with that...

“TONGUE KISS”

Love when you give me the kiss, when you give me the kiss down there

yo...

Flames turned into a flint

I love you

I miss you

I need you

I want you

I adore...

Take a moment to contemplate - TruthChills - Contest entry

My moment in time was when I was in...

The Ashes

There used to be....

A you n me

There used to be a reason for the mean...

The Content for Communication

Literally we are here to share information

that will please o...

The gentle touch of the ocean

The waves are crashing against the shore...

And yet t...

Tidal waves do sting

My obsession is not a poem that you can say,

A song you can sing.

Write a poem for contest Discrimination - Padparadscha - The noose with blood swinging from a tre...

Misfit is me...

the one they said had big eyes,

the one they said that had a big nose,

“When I spread my legs”

When I spread my legs...

Brotha, I want you to scream a...

“But… Poetry never left me”

The world is a scarred tissue

to all that inhabit it.

Th...

"Black men your to valuable

to be dropped in a box"


If you could realize the depth of our...

Every time I think it’s all good

Something turns it bad

Every time I’m showing love

It f...

"Black Woman, Blonde Ambition"

You wear the weave, you sell the weave,

you spend hours ...

"The Re-Election of Barack"

The re-election took place and the other party had to hide their f...

Death no longer jars, nixes,

and rattles mine sense and sensibilities

without pride nor pre...

Cheers To You

My Poetryvibe Brothers And Sisters

I Thank God For The Writting Skills That Each ...

I don't like to tie my shoes

I like my strings loose

I know it's dangerous to do

I don't min...

I played this game for years

a game I could not win

no matter how long I played

no matter how ...

Twisting corridors,

doors unknown,

in this dreamscape,

I've flown,

aspirations to exp...

You really cannot say it enough, say it with me Black Man Black Man Black Man. What a goal to set...

The White Of Your Eyes

The Color Of Your Nails

The Color Of You Teeth

The Smell Of Your Breath...

Full of myself
Thanksgiving writing poetic hangover
Gluttonous
Snatched the last glazed verb f...

Even after death, My soul still beats. Even in death, my soul remains active. It's as if my spiri...

Last rays of wicked flickering candlelight

even to this present day
(October 4th, 2023)
lxiv...

ISOLATION is a BLESSING

even though we

don't really see it,

Being SEPARATED from

OTHERS AROUN...

Being Together with

YOUR LOVE ONES,

gives off a

WARM FEELING INSIDE,

whether a HOLIDAY, an EV...

I am taking some time out to celebrate myself, my black king. Heavy is the head that wears the cr...

why is it suicide

to want to make things better

to love one another

to stick togethe...

I was once one of the

greatest drifters of them all

felt like I was born to

wander off

fe...

I can't take back what I gave

I can't get back what I lost

all I have is what I saved

on the way to meet

a sweet destiny awaiting

a twist of fate got in the way

I had to face a u...

I am weathered, yet she still loves me

Every breath invested into her

Softens the edges of my l...

once the internal word

becomes external

the internal flame becomes

eternal everlasti...

it's around that time again

to take that rusty dusty kin

off the shelf stuff em

with turkeya...

I saw you yesterday evening

I hoped you didn't see me

I was hiding in plain sight

ey...

there will always be something missing there will always be someone I'm missing there will always...

Evil is not contrite Evil strikes out of spite Evil's desire is to harm Evil's only objective is ...

I am working on unlimited at this point, there is no stopping me and things are always moving for...

You definitely dont want to be a tangerine. Its where you look solid on the outside but you are r...

All eyes placed, focusing on the missing words that could not escape my lips.

Everything seeme...

I definitely wasnt personal. I had a goal and you were in the way. I had to move you. Besides you...

You need to shout ittwice, Black man black man. The world knew just how great I was, that is why ...

The world has made me naked, it find my weaknesses because I could talk all I wanted to but when ...

You have to know the difference between fire and smoke. The smoke is what you see, the fire is wh...

I think we knew we were always operating at our lowest self because it doenn't matter what we do ...

I want accolades, I survived this world and in some parts I thrived in it. My goal was to be the ...

I am still trying to rise up in all this snow. I am the abominable black man. They covered my in ...

Its a word when

I was about ten

Guess I was the Dennis

the menace type kid

back then

Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Minor emendations to following
just post...

Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing

craving to eat cheese,

a milk prod...

I went to a place unknown

to discover something

I never would've known

If I had not gone...

conversations

were the best

before we stop

talking to text

Continental drift spelled birth
once spelled Pangaea,
in early geologic time,
a supercontinent...

Everyone like to talk

about like to write about

time

Its such an amazin thing

I hear about it...

we can spend the first moments of the day
remaining in the warmth and comfort of the bed in whic...

Be that

BEACON OF LIGHT

SHINE for

this WHOLE WORLD!!!

I GUARANTEE YOU

it's out of SIGHT!!!

I decided not to continue the traditional ways of doing things instead I started my own traditio...

there once lived a prophet on the plane who owned a plane the prophet on the plane who owned a pl...

Moments after
when the tears have dried
And I have put aside my emotions
Setting them downin a...

Glad for birth write to express views
aware cunning linguists

will apply figurative screws
...

I am so pissed

Spending valuable moments out of my day
Spraying words on this note pad like
...

INDEED IT'S ME

WHOM AGREED TO BE

THE FOOL THAT ONCE SHEEPISHLY BELIEVED IN ME

THE BEHEMOTH DEM...

The waiting

In the time before time measured by eons

A billion decades into the past

All...

A eulogy for the invisible

Here lies Hezekiah Bernard

Aged 12 years

Found dead

Shot in the he...

Of the DAWN OF LIGHT,

that cast DARK SHADOWS

that LIES SECRETS UNTOLD,

HIDDEN in a PLACE that'...

Nothing is as I expected to be…

Underwhelmed and disappointed in the present

When it was th...

When I GAZE

into the NIGHT SKY

I see HOPES, DREAMS,

DESIRES and ASPIRATIONS!!!

my MIND steady...

FREE YOURSELF from the

FEAR and FRUSTRATION,

the HURT and the PAIN, the

GLOOM OF DEPRESSION!!!...

When you are

LIVING on

a WING and a PRAYER,

Looking for an ASSURANCE, and

for SOMEONE TO CARE...

Being Black is a race.
A race against time
A race from the police
A race from racism
A race f...

Let’s just call a Shade a Shade.

This is in reference to Colorado’s Coach Deion Sanders wear...