Lost innocence and the hurt I carried inside

Bruised ribs and the scars I had to hide

Tears...

The moment you finally give up

you realize it's for the best

The moment you stop caring

The Turnaround

Put a Spin on Things

Do a complete Three Sixty

Into a Whirlwind

...

Learning how to be at peace and master the art of finally letting go

Imagine planting seeds and ...

When you’re lost in hate,

Forgiveness will come searching;

Returned love…assured:-

If love breaks a heart,

Only love can then heal it;

Self-injection works:-

Hate has pierced our love—

Pain’s blood bleeds her misery…

We need tourniquets:...

To sing a song is one thing; to live it is another.

To live in amazing grace, we must ...

In These Days The Face Of Evil Is Showing Up More And More

In Unexpected Places Such As; Hospi...

Glide your way into the

Light of a New Day

Go Ahead and Strut your stuff

When the tough gets...

Mack Lady Its early in the morning, you're butt naked right beside me,

Even though you snore ...

TODAY SHOULD BE A MEMORABLE MOMENT BUT I GUESS OUR TIME HAS PASSED.

ALL THE LOVE I GAVE AND SHOW...

To be Happy

Happy to be Thrilled

A Joyful kind of Feeling

You can’t Steal my Joy

Just the scent of your essence,

what it feels to be in your presence..

I'll go the distance

Yo...

Profound and diverse; abundantly-melanated,

You cant help but rave over.

My common ground 4 c...

The longer the wait, the stronger the faith..

You had me falling for you by the time we sat do...

Today…

got to start timing

my time

because when it

comes to mine,

don’t have m...

Ripe words are kicking,

Rhythmic pain labors hard;

Weighted wait waning:-

In the...

Many of us

have seen

and experienced

timed spaced reality

of what a poet/est

MAMA THE DAY YOU PASSED AWAY I CALLED TO HEAVEN BEFORE YOU MADE IT.

CONFIRMATION WAS SHOWN WIT...

With your extraordinary beauty and your afrocentric melanin,

my appreciation of your elegant exp...

Today is the day, years of playing back that part at the alter has come,

The anticipation as t...

Admist the noise and toxic culture,

I'm an advocate of daily doses of self love, I don't usu...

I used to think I got away with it karma will give you a life sentence make you stay here until y...

have to remind myself to breathe have to remind myself to stay on my feet have to remind myself n...

you're the light in my life the joy in my word when it's dark out and it feels like night inside ...

You send me
Yes
Your poetry sends me
You all really do
From warm fields of grain
Waving lang...

I NEED TO TELL YOU HOW I'M FEELING I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND.

I'M BIPOLAR TO THIS LIFE I'M IN IT'S...

We’re living in a one-room world.
We’re living in it today.
What affects some people
influence...

how can you be a relative when we don't have a relationship you don't like me because I meditate ...

Go on and Touch the Sky

Reach on up so very High

Spread your Wings Fly and Soar

Run and Jump...

a born titlist no argument a true survivalist apposed to proposals refusal to signing contracts ...

King's quite the dynamite that comes in small packages I hope his encounters of riffs are staged ...

one must take out enough time to build a bridge to get a point across still the ear only hears wh...

OPPRESSOR SYNDROME AWARENESS

This season of nature’s resurrection

Into new beginnings a...

HAIKU T

In life’s mattering,

We ask God to bless us here;

Then, we slapp...

While you gyrate
Swivelling your hips like the old time 25-cent chicks in 42nd street peep shows...

Good Morning,

Nice To See You,

How Do You Do?

If In Need

May I Help You?

We Should All Give ...

Scientists say that the center of the earth

Is as hot as the surface of the sun…

How is that ...

A Helping Hand, A Caring Touch

A Friend that Cares and Loves You so Much

A Person that Knows...

Madness sadness a dangerous

combination

but that what politicians causing

this nation

Moonlight is really just sunlight

Reflected so bright

Because the sun still burns, even at nigh...

Laborers of love,

God’s gift to humanity;

Thus are those who teach:-

Laborin...

Yeah and you don't stop!
Gotta cover up all my Getaway Garden crops!
When it hits 7 o’clock
...

Repost one of my older poems written in 1999

after the Columbine High School masacre

Wh...

We are of God

But we’re not God;

We can never be perfect,

No matter how hard we ...

may

the cistern

of the fruit

of the womb

of grace

spill over

into the s...

Twice they were aware.

But really didn’t care much—

Alarm was colored:-

They...

Red the lights

In the city

Tonight

Ms. Lovely

Begs

Her legs lov...

Married Mom’s

Finger

Ringer

Upon her finger

Faithless man’s

Thoughts

Linger...

It's Short simple sweet and to the point

.

Where is my Love for our

Love has gone Astray...

Virus not dangerous enough

not enough people suffering

and dying not enough crying

There...

“Don’t Speak!” “Just Listen!”

Listen to the Sounds that are Around You,

Listen to the Wind ...

When Directly Focused On Your Dreams, Goals, Or Anything That You Work So Hard Towards Disappoi...

Since The Beginning, Our Beautiful Skin Has Been Meant To Blend With The Illuminating Twilight Of...

I can’t sing like Levi Stubbs

but I know our love is a miracle;

only God could send...

In the budding of my flowering

poetic spring,

I know I have but few blossoms

yet...

One thing is true

about the situation

here with you and me;

we live in a multi-r...

Enough has been said, my people:

They had the mendacious mendacity

To say to you an...

I can’t sing like Levi Stubbs

but I know our love is a miracle;

only God could send...

Not in any sense of prodigal ways
Back in those days I was never wayward
quite the opposite of ...

Enemy within...
without

a second chance
when evasion is the only way

to escape the world ...

An energetic aura

circled without purpose,
seeking purchase...

of a soul, perhaps

within itse...

I Began The Day With Prayer

Set On My Way To The Gas Station To Fill Up My Truck

A Young Woman ...

I need to love you just as much as I love the skin that you are in

Kiss your skin as if I were...

Flying through the mid night’s sky

On the way back home

The flight is fairly quiet except f...

Traveling back in present day’s past

On my way to LAX

Got the best seat on the plane

The...

I Argued With A Friend In Which We Came To Commends

He Tried To Convience Me That Only SundayIs ...

Today time touched time:-

Yesterday I was not sure;

Is tomorrow real?

Past time ...

The Year Was 93' I Was At The Young Adult Age Of 19

I Had My Own Apartment, Worked A Full Time J...

An opening salvo

was detected by advanced sensors

Coming fast, unannounced
from th...

An example of

the oldest open secret
Known to mankind

of protection...

Gathered, ...

Impossible dreams?

Seeing things

unimaginably complex…

Simply

This is not, merely...

I

Again, the whole world is at war

and we are its victims: you and me—

fadi...

It is said by the wise

that power concedes

nothing without a struggle.

If You Are A Man

You Most Likely Have A Grandmother, A Mother, A Wife, Aunt, Daughter, Niece, Si...

Each Of Our Lives Is Like A Journal

There's The Beginning The Middle And The End

Now Betwee...

Sitting here anchored at the wharf

On/in the sea of life, my buoyed mind

Waves over...

T.G.I.F.

Thank God it's Friday

The weekend begins right now

A Time to just Chill!!!

Elusive,
Run from cop cars..because cops are..trapped in delusions,
That my brown skin means ...

Indeed, as the world was turning,

For decades they made us believe

That our sufferi...

I could write the most beautiful things,

On the spots where that fuchsia dress clings,

Every...

I once had a ignorant neighbor his color was white he would say things to insult my black pride I...

every soul has a soundtrack the songs on your playlist is your contacts to playback in the consci...

Black lives threats…ignored…

White war talks make breaking news—

Which really mattered?...

You hungry, baby…?

She unbuttoned her blouse and said:

Here, suck on this breast:-

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

My days seem,

Mostly day dreams,

Wondering if you catch on to how I say things,

The true me...

U S of A can get deadly

hardware missles ammo tanks

guns to the brave folks of Ukraine

y...

don't come in the kitchen taking tops off pots "let me cook" I'm stirring up some sh*t so good yo...

on a wing and a prayer on flat without a spare people passing by don't care out of gas no cash on...

the stormy night proved to be a turbulent ride it felt like the wheels would leave the ground and...

the before the bout to the after do we ever think about the bout to moment when we're about to do...

LABORING ON…

Though long timed retired,

I’ve still not yet expired:-

I still tim...

In war, you can’t sugarcoat life;

And you can’t justify its collateral

Of spiritual...

I got a J,I got a floater (yeah)

Get in the paint, killercrossover!

Triple doubles, when I ...

I was a child I had no sin but every week for some reason unbeknownst to me I had to go in the bo...

I am not here to listen to yet another relatable response

Don’t care to hear that you are sorr...

we used to shoot the sh*t about this and that now we sit quietly no chit no chat ironically we ma...