competitiveness can be dangerous when up against a sore loser who get all in their feelings in ot...

I was sound asleep

during the coming of age

now I'm wide awake

it's easier to climb to the top of a hill than it is to reach the peak of a mountain it's easier ...

I woke about just as excited as I wanted to be. I was in grind mind and my eyes and fingers wante...

I had a girlfriend once and she meant the world to me, I think I can say that about most girlfrie...

I wish I could stay silent sometimes. I heard it is better to stay queit than to open your mouth ...

I was looking for you and I could not find you. You were in my thoughts and dreams and not really...

I thnk in some form or fashion we are looking for someone to light the way and it takes us a whil...

I just set the stage for a rampage, I can feel the universe coarsing through my veins and its tel...

Have you ever really been in love, I mean the kind of love that makes you write black romance poe...

When I write poetry,

It's my escape from Reality.

It's allows me to be set free, and

ena...

Imagine my degree doesn't hold the same weight

All just because I'm not pale in the face

Is...

I know you see me weak

and at times I don't eat

but don't cry for me.

I've lived strong and ca...

just jabbering gibberish (A - J)

Again, another awkward ambitious

arduous attempt at al...

My professional treatment plan

predicated upon duress in extremis

hence Electroconvulsive t...

DOING THINGS THE LONG WAY, IS NOT ALWAYS THE RIGHT WAY, SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO HURRY UP AND JUST F...

AS THE SUN PASSES MY WINDOW
AND I AM WARMED BY THE SUN
IN THIS QUIET SPACE
I AM REMINDED OF YO...

No Kiss under the

Mistletoe for me this year,

No Happy Holidays,

or any Christmas Cheer!...

I claim my innonence at times
then its on the back burner
but the stove is never hot
Something...

I'm moving through
A sudden re-appearance of
old cried out tears wanting
to make themselves fe...

I THINK I UNDERSTAND NOW

Somewhere I stumbled
across some information
that told a differen...

I stumbled across a part of myself
a part of me that long had been forgoten
forgotten with the ...

Hey diddle diddle

the cat and the fiddle

when off to see

a crooked man and woman,

whi...

I saw the water in your eyes so I was running blue, I was always sad to see you go even when I wa...

This teetotaler turns to tea

torquing temptation
towards tippling

thankfully, though

th...

1. There is no such thing as group thought
Men move like this
Girls move like this
Coudnt b...

my pops instilled fear in me I hated the sound he made when he breathe I wanted blood when he mad...

other than who we know and who we knew we have no idea who we kin to what they did and what we ca...

NOTE: This one is a little twisted and nothing like the original story. But, dark and Evil. If Sn...

especially when nasty elephant
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy te...

Its word reveals that the one thing about truth

And the one thing the truth will alway...

if I could kill pain if I could releive people of suffering "let's keep it real" I would be kille...

DON DA DA

Booms from the sound system

Riddim queens and Batty boys flex time to have sex

Cold war collateral

Damage is as devastating

As is that of hot war

Bombing missi...

yesterday at 1400 hours December the fourth
and probably broadcast further
east, west, south an...

in the fall of snow

snow fell on a snow bunny

in cocaine heaven

on every top there's

a bottom that leads

back down and on

every bottom there's

enough...

"woke up this morning with blood on my hand don't know from whom nor where I been" the immortal...

Lies living as real,

Trying to ape what is true;

Claiming history:-

History ...

In the oppressive hive of life

I now find myself bound into,

I will always be a wor...

the tin man had no heart but body armor tough as steel the scarecrow had no brain but a body st...

When you ain't got no money,

When you are broke like a joke.

When you are strapped and poor...

Behind a painted Smile,there

is really just a Frown.

To hide the sensation

of feeling so...

Today was overcast,

just with no rain.

The Cloudy skies,

skies of gray.

So, Glad to s...

Ebullience exudes from mine every pore
courtesy festive mood in the air,

thus acknowledgment ...

In the oppressive hive of life

I now find myself bound into,

I will always be a wor...

Red flags are being shot and thrown everywhere

Seeking to replay bigoted political gai...

Deceit revs its Satanic engine

Emitting emissions of vanity

Causing belching hatred...

We may be laughing but the comedy of errors is

no damn joke:-

Cloned black puppets ...

I have literally written the best poetry in the world and I think you have to. I say that because...

sometime we have some sometime we have one sometime we have none what dilemmas do we face if ...

alternately titled instant infatuation:

a moment of spontaneous spunk

instantaneously trans...

my grandmother told me what she wanted but she didn't put it in a will I wish she did to legally ...

B- affled that you had to tell me a Fib

E- agared to listen to what you really did

F- iguring...

A- Always the one to want to Play games

R- Realizing that you are just not the same

E- Even tho...

B. eing pretty is one thing. But, having an

E. ducated mind is brilliant. I am

A. lways res...

I backed up all software
resident on fifteen inch

Macbook Pro computer
yesterday December fi...

I once conceived an idea and though I mustered up enough faith to believe in the seed inside of m...

I would sit around all day and write romantic love poems for her, she would see me with pen and p...

I wrote a verse poem and in my verse I was somewhere melodic, lost in the world and forever a par...

Is it just YOU?

Is it just ME?

Or, is it us TOGETHER?

Do we need each OTHER?

Or move ...

Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke

within noggin of average baby boomer bloke

catastro...

I close my eyes and write it all down then open my eyes to see the last line then I go back to re...

I didn't participate in the ice bucket challenge and I know without a shadow of doubt I won't do ...

if you have to tuck your chain "you don't belong here" we off the chain If you don't feel safe "y...

come take a walk with me I'm walking down the street you're behind me with your head down draggin...

The greatest lessons taught

are the simplest to learn.

Know this

And b...

A

Two Blacks facing off;

Oppressor’s Syndrome at work:

Slapping Black fac...

times playing tricks on me

a minute ago is now

a hour later

I know somebody out there

remembers when we could

look up a old friend in a thick book

c...

I say I love you

You always exclude your self

You say love you too

Oh, so you the new Patrol Officer now huh? Here comes Phone Patrol, the phone patrol officer who ...

Hey yall, I have a new Comforter. I’m so excited. My new Comforter is soft, warms my soul and a...

People look at me and wonder what is that glow. Some have said, you look different, you are super...

Five days after

getting acquainted with darling cats

pampered like queens courtesy

thee ...

I’m in my Frankenstein

So it’s gotta be electric

It’s gotta be eclectic

Make me wet—it-B...

Harvesting hell’s hate,

Satan’s student shooting souls;

We weirdly watching:-

These Black Hands

Have delivered

And sustained so many

Beautiful Black lives—

Life has thrown so much

Across the home plate

Of my ebony being.

Although I ...

Buoyed here

At the dock

Of the bay,

I meticulously

Reset my sails

For the comi...

Attempting to destroy love

Haunting hate has yet to realize

The permanency of heali...

Cold rain falling…

Her shed tears

Mimicking hell’s waters

Trying to drown

Sin...

Acknowledgment of birthday gal,

whose invaluable priceless worth

exceeds more'n a bajillion...

I ain't the darkest I ain't the lightest I know the difference I witness the privilege my grandm...

Remember when we got
High
Like Showtime at the Apollo
Soft stepping choreography on cloud nine...

she is a fine crystal goblet
and a red rose in bloom
I am dirty white socks
and a cluttered be...

If you have dreams and desires,

or if your feeling inspired,

You have been working your har...

Can I be your apple tree?

can you be the one for me?

canI be the one you adore?

can I be your ...

A inspiration song for young aspiring people and poets

I love the beat the rhythm but grab hol...

posted on the block

keeps one from doing

what one wants to do

“the block is blocking you”

I detest the taste of it
Unpleasant aroma
The presentation placed before me
I want to turn awa...

past impact eternal lasting effect

internal bleeding depending on life support

endless struggle...

Ever since mine late boyhood

when unstoppable coded

cellular processes did segue
I experie...

Constipation spoilt rare visit

with eldest daughter

(yesterday - November twenty sixth

t...

Never in all my cut up

days on earth

thought pills would dictate

my very birth

All th...