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Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unname...
I did not think I would be one of the people to save this but you need to stop being nice. Someti...
bending low to the ground
aluminum dustpan in hand
brushing the last remnants of who you
neatl...
though I yam Caucasian,
tis rightful to honor that most bitter
racist genocidal crime
none...
Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognostic...
Extant latent forcefields transcend
across avast panoply multitudinous biosphere
scads of div...
Just before logging off for the day,
and ready to boogie out of the joint
an email landed squar...
dry rosemary and regret
a shrine to what we swore
memories a sieve
echoes in an hourgl...
Imagine if ye will
earlier one blustery February sixteenth
two thousand twenty one,
your...
Despite being an amateur
paperback writer wannabe,
whose storied protagonist
stars colporteur ...
The scent of wreaths
permeate the air
a funeral
for truths never buried
petals ~
...
it may have been just a media ratings boost
when Malcolm said that thing about
chickens coming ...
(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these wor...
In this life, any expectation ofachieving anygoal that you may aquire will require you to be disc...
Awareness about behavior,
present since mine days of yore
an unswerving allie analogous
to pea...
Adherence regarding credo
to finish reading arbitrarily
self selected book beginning
to end si...
I stand able, eager, & ready to jump
impossible mission to swallow lump
muscles primed analogou...
you
in that hip-huggin’ black dress
just lookin’ for me to
lock my arms around your waist
a...
Castaway stranded on figurative
deserted island pitted with absolute
zero salvation, sole recou...
When alive colorful turns of phrases
uttered courtesy my father or mother
whose ability to desc...
to tickle your fancy dear reader rabbit,
perchance European G-man double agent
regarding th...
poem
tucked neatly discretely away underneath three upside down walnut shells
people
places
t...
If the world is pushing you, it may be time to push back. To take what is yours and declare self ...
in the words of the The Isley Brothers " I Got Work To Do" and my work to do ain't got nothing t...
I wish you knew the sacrifices you had to make to get here, you really step in and out of some sh...
Its Miami in January and I am dropping hints all winter. Cold weather and a cold demeanor wont ma...
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing icela...
My heart is humming
My gaze upon you is running
My soul through
My skin
S...
she told me
she was only nineteen
maybe twentyish
simply having a quick Sunday afternoon soul ...
Haunted dreams and and daydreams
And echoes of the past
The sound was just a s...
I’m so apoplectic, I'm overcome with anger
With the last inauguration, my nation became a stra...
if your name is melancholy,
the scant tidbits I know of French.
perfect cold day to dow...
Most of the time you have to bring it to the world on-demand, they will try to bring tragedy to y...
I think I learned some of the secrets to this whole thing, you have to be consistent and avoid th...
Ala Goofus and Gallant
highlights my diametrically
divergent alter egos
always the reserved
...
tell tale sign where
winter storm Demi left her mark.
Beautiful and bountiful visual scen...
and ratchet up global warming
like bubbling vegetable stew
with tsk... tsk... heard
cour...
because I am black
and a writer of poems
my semi-automatic pen should be loaded with fatal word...
but much to my relief, said mandatory inquisition (rather inspection) will take place sixty nine ...
Traces of the masterful
impregnable prepubescent wall
still extant scads of decades since
co...
No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed,
and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025
e...
it used to be my student desk
paper
typewriter and pen
this was when words were newly put toge...
Please tell me you are reading this because you absolutely love black poetry sites. I did a compl...
Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.
The l...
then
we wore afros and dashikis
and took to the streets with poetic words for our women
milita...
By gravity said law
linkedin with physics
stating that a body at rest
will remain thus unless ...
for Mutualism among Homo sapiens
long thought to be a pipe dream
case in point sited by a coupl...
All the roses
have turned grey
the dandelions
have withered away
g r e e n e r . ....
blizzard in DC
but don't look for accumulating flakes of snow and ice
not sure today what the a...
A Sober Man’s Heart
“The triangular theory of love holds that love can be understood in terms ...
(alternately titled: unrelenting flatulence)
initially crafted the eleventh day of October
tw...
after implementing long overdue criminal justice reforms,
especially affecting marginalized grou...
Shrouded in darkness
When the sun don’t shine
The light within
T...
when I came into being who I am Sam Cooke was telling the world he was born by the river in a lit...
I am here hoping you exceed all of your limitations. We were all meant for something greater and ...
A part of me died that day,
Not with a scream, but reading a text.
A heavy sigh of regret
...primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking Glycopyrrolate
2 MG Table...
while channeling the energy of Google
exemplified by cute and cuddly moogle.
I awoke from m...
How in the world did we get here, to the point where we see ourselves as floating images of thing...
Who (on a lark) doth
spur my distant soul
fully bellowed ahoy
quickly hastening
ye to catfish...
Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the t...
sick people will make you sick if you're not already sick if you're already sick you probably got...
Perchance yar juiced a young man or woman
maybe born, bread and raised
in the city that never...
Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress.
...
Her summery spirit and winterly blues
Seemingly Eternal and
Alive in the my...
A minuscule might each separate human, and even collectively
(the entire race of mankind) no mat...
as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky t...
there are those who came before you that came after you there are those who came after you who di...
The first hint of light
And the new day has begun
In the shadows of the sun...
Big and beautiful dreams
picture perfect reality
of the heart and mind
Alive...
(no matter extreme global
warming more dire,
then cursing me smoldering
infernal languishi...
a blizzard of blinding demoniacal
highly radioactive fueled banshees
(analogous to a bajillio...
something is broken and I can't fix it and I can't get in touch with those who can but I can't gi...
when I see stars in the sky I think about all the things that dominate the sky but those things h...
Feathers in the breeze
On the sea scene
The sea’s scene
By boardwalk painters se...
Snowed in
Natures house arrest
Warm cider
Picture perfect
Kind of day
Suns...
they told us what happened they showed us what happened now their trying to convince us it happen...
Lots of things a mystery
to all
In this present dimension is
all I know and can tell
...sometimes I feel as though I'm heading in the wrong direction I could turn around but curious abo...
in nineteen eighty, twenty twenty five seemed to be far away now that I've arrived it seems like ...