As A Father

I Am....I Am....I Am

So Proud

I Thank The LORD

Praises Loud

I Taught Them Well

The wind is calling

Wind shuffles the air

Leaves flutter and sway in the breeze

Gods breath mo...

This is a story goes back

some years ago I was 28 yrs old

going through some tough terrain ...

Choose

So-called chosen ones chastised

Cast aside

Choose

Red pill or Blue pill

You...

Run it down

Some run and tell

Some rip and run

Runnin they mouth

Talkin grand theft n...

Beginning with the celebration

Of our Juneteenth,

We prepare a new perspective

F...

Eagle

Fly like an Eagle

And go fly so very High

Connect with the Sky

Union

Be one w...

THIS TITLE STUCK OUT AS I READ YOUR TEXT, WANNA REWIND MY LIFE JUST FOR A SEC.

BEEN A PROJECT GI...

Dear China:

Please use your influence and international bully pulpit

To force France and the Un...

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Its often been said:

No lie can live forever:

What of injustice?

Lifetime memories

Lumped keloid pain on my soul:-

Healing spirit…craved…

Like stoic wise owls,

They sit there incubating

The eggs of justice…

Poised ...

Today, the emptiness of my broken heart

Was filled and overflowed with tearful grief.

O...

Today, the emptiness of my broken heart

Was filled and overflowed with tearful grief.

O...

The truth is not the problem;

Truth is inevitable…

The problem lies in lying:-

The water of love,

Flows pristine waves frothing hope;

Be wet with her grace.

MAN APART OF HIS HEART WAS SO COLD, NOT KNOWING WHAT HIS PAST LIFE WAS LIKE HE KEPT APART OF HIM ...

I FOUND MYSELF CRYING BECAUSE I BARELY KNEW ME, DIDN'T SEE WHAT I WAS FEELING THAT I CALLED BEAU...

NEVER BE NOBODY'S CONVENIENCE OR COMFORT IF YOU TRULY WANT COMMITMENT, SIGNALS GET CROSSED AND TH...

THE P IS BROKEN PROMISES I NEVER HEALED FROM.

R IS THE YEARS THAT FORMED A RIVER WHEN THEY RUN.

Our Words will not die.

Our Voice will always be heard.

Our Vibe will survive.

I rather wait for the paint to dry before abruptly jumping to conclusions in a curt and crude man...

some of those who had a hand in raising me let me down when I fell they didn't reach down to pi...

Who am I? Who am I trying to be?

Not myself, anyone but myself.

Living in a fantasy to bury...

you been told you been sold on believing everything you been told you been sold on believing you ...

dying on the bridge,

floating in the sky

This is me Asking for help

getting hard to ...

Just had to sit
when today
justby accident
I read this obit on the local news
a name that ran...

Scared

Fearful

Afraid to be seen

Afraid that people

Wouldn’t accept me

Scared to be Judg...

No longer can it be

that we were once father

and son;

we’ve always been

and w...

What could have been those 40 acres, have become

Concrete jungles; and today’s mules, two-...

Canvassers of the word, from the fireplaces of

Pregnant minds let us, with ebullient enthu...

Part 1…

Birth control and gun control

Are both now a big national goal

Meeting each...

Dove into the sea

of watering words

And came up with

a school of swimming

inspira...

Sitting here on the banks

of the word riverbed

of soothing poetic creation,

may ...

I am lonely

I am sad

I am depressed

At times I’m mad.

I have no idea

I have no clue

In a single bed I cannot imagine,
I cannot dream or fantasize
What it’s like lying next to you....

I wrote this a few months ago after my trip to Cali. I was blessed with the opportunity to see a ...

Alone in her abode
Classical melodies make
For good company
Keeping wandering thoughts
From r...

Russia invading Ukraine

Is like England and France invading 'the new world'to claim

It’s ma...

can't no body love you like your mama it's a one of a kind love it's a different kind of love it'...

Let's Go Back Between The Years Of 81' And 92'

If There Were Cameras On My Journey As A Student,...

I stepped on the scene going for the gold but I still was green writing lines to read between a p...

I BEEN WISHFUL THINKING FOR A MINUTE AND YET I FINALLY SEE, ALL THE THINGS I THOUGHT WE WAS IT W...

write it down before you forget it again I forgot your number because I didn't write it down I fo...

Everybody trying tomake it through the night

A rich man paranoid of sunrise without his eyes s...

since you been gone

I feel like your spirit

makes me strong

I don't fear death

becaus...

the test of love we took together

was too difficult for us to pass

and we both failed it mi...

on a daily basis I leave traces

of I been there there and there

still I have gone no where

oth...

once I close these eyes for the final time I will be forgotten the image of me will fade the word...

KICKING IT ONE DAY AROUND THE HOOD, I MET A GUY WHO THOUGHT IT WAS ALL GOOD.

I WALKED OVER TO HI...

I GO SO DEEP IN WORDS CAUSE MY LIFE IS SPOKEN, I LIKE RHYTHM AND RHYMES THAT'S WHY I'M CHOSEN.

W...

IF HEAVEN HAD VISITING HOURS I WOULD VISIT EVERYDAY. I MISS MY AUNTIE DEARLY I JUST WANNA SEE HER...

THEY BELIEVED HE WAS NOBODY BUT HE WAS SOMEBODY TO ME, HE WAS MY SUNSET ON THIS PRELIT BEACH.

I NEVER THOUGHT I'D HOLD HIM NEAR TO ME BUT THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES, HIS WORDS DIDN'T MATCH HIS ...

woke at 6:30 AM to someone knocking on the door wondering who would be knocking this early in the...

Im plain example but doing extraordinary things.I played basketball with no rings, walked the san...

I was swinging back and forth trying to figure out what to do. I knew the assignment and yet I st...

No matter what happens, make sure that you keep writing poetry. Keep saying what matters and make...

This is the immortal layer and the important question is "Who sent for you?" You have been long o...

It was late at night and I opened the door to my moms room, she was praying. I don't know if it w...

Your secret is out,

I know your truth,

Now u can stop pretending to accept me, Im tried of your...

IT'S CRAZY HOW THESE KIDS WANNA MIMIC THEIR IDOL.

WHEN YOU WAS GOING THROUGH YOUR LOWS THEY WERE...

Contingence; Intimacy in rhythm,

precision when I intentionally stretch your linen,

Meanwhile...

I AM MY HAIR ONLY MY KIND CAN RELATE.

I'M TALKED ABOUT WHEN IT'S NAPPY AND HATED ON WHEN IT'S ST...

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...