School can be frustrating
Please don't give up
Just one more step
You will be grown-up
You ha...

I did not just disappear

You took me away from here

You did away with my body

You left m...

I’ve explored vast galaxies, within your cosmic brown eyes

I spent years studying your constel...

Young lady your whole life’s being recorded

All your midnight dreams

shall be repor...

At this age, I write to reach

Because my life has been to teach

I just want to shar...

Endless Night

True love

Unmistakable

Two hearts as one

Unbreakable

Two hearts in ...

He said of his people,

“…We are all in the gutter together…

[But]…our eyes are on the s...

Leo you really held my heart,you seen my emptiness from the start. You prey on the broken hearts ...

a lonely firefighter relocated

to a place where there were

no fires to fight the desperate

...

when a heart breaks can it be fixed can broken people really be fix what does it take to fix the ...

those who left me left me to defend myself against fear of being lonely those who left me without...

My spirit lays tonight, over the dark hills and valleys in sight. I wonder what will become of my...

Im always the leader on the leaderboard, even when I aint even scored. I have a high opinion of m...

Perpendicular to the ground

For some 80 years, each day

I walk through the shadows

(Apropos of Karma Nurisha Wa Kupenda Lowe-Corbin)

[ANOTHER YEAR PERPENDICULAR TO EARTH...

genetic survivalist

in the call of duty

loaded glock in a

lock box a survival kit

extended cl...

the thought of one's

I love departing this life

pierce my heart like

the point of a sharp dagg...

before it was different

life after the pandemic

before it was distant

rise and do not fall stand

and do it tall go and do it all

tackle life if it takes the ball...

you're still young

where I used to be

in different time in a

different place when

a child had...

the art of survival is mastering

the art of believing you can and

you will survive the devi...

as the purity of life fade

and there's nothing left

in air but lingering faith

and water lilie...

Know that surrealistically

Is not authenticity

Be not confused in being

Your tru...

Laying here in a seemingly chilled ocean breeze,

The womb of mind envisions an opened ...

I.

It came unannounced—that Greeking

Covid thing—delivering a secret of natu...

Cold outside

Sad and lonely

My lover

Just wont phone me

Thunder crashes

Rain and t...

The thing themed time touches the truth

That torched the timed day was created:

“Le...

All my life I had friends

real human friends

Friends I was physically in

their presence

Met my 4month old great nephew

a few months back

My nephew 2 brothers their wives

all st...

Sometime a lot of time

we are complacent

When we are young we think

we have forever to c...

I wish
Somehow before the reality of right now
While crossing some avenue of a previous day in ...

Rain kept falling down…

Birds kept soaring down to peck:-

Worms kept crawling up......

They poetically penned us

As the white man’s burden;

Yet, it was our ancestors

W...

To My Poetryvibe Fam.

There's Not A Soul ThatCanDeny That Fact That We Are All Gifted In Our On ...

In This Life There Is ACertain WordThat Happens To Us That We'll Never Unerstand

It Possess No...

Old McDonald stole this proverbial farm,

Civil war shall forever be constant, sharecropping al...

Out of sight, came into might of mind insight

Refined thru support structures of sublime timin...

In the midst of worldwide attention to war

Thought is being sought to deem war crimes

Children bombed in the Ukrainian war;

Black children murdered in the USA;

Is one wa...

Seems nothing to b sacred

in this world anymore

Gunning down young 5 and 6

year old babies

Ki...

I stood beside

Strong female archetypes

Pushed aside the stereotypes

Created by men

Ignored t...

I come from the gut of the earth first day here I got cut it was a decision to make a incision to...

once I heard a song that can only be sung from the heart of a spirit I close my eyes and still ca...

when I say you got it easy I mean you don't have it as hard as me you might be grocery shopping a...

the sound of the civil rights movement motivated people to fight for justice lift every voice and...

real life problems real life drama real life dad real life mama real life thunder real life anger...

Flowers…worker bees…

Honey queen pleasing her drones:-

Sweet, mother nature…

Oblivious to the then segregated

Games you use to play, you abhor

It when children ...

I'll be stuck on you if we stick together same wings different feathers one night of stormy weath...

always is a lie forever bares no truth happily ever after has no proof change swoops in and knock...

if thou were to ask thee
"how much do thee love
thou" thee will look thou in
the eyes and the...

Drip drop is the new sound that me and future husband will make with matching shoes we placed...

Contrary to the belief

of some

the spirit of death

is not the way

rather

i...

GENDER PHOBIA

Hating the womb’s birth—

Charging God with a mistake:-

Hell’s...

Sitting, sipping cabernet, because it's bloody red.

Swirling the wine in the cup.

It transfor...

To bee or not to bee sting yo'like Ali to Abraxes

Completely free when I attack this monopoly ...

Since the Civil War, we Blacks have been engaged in cold war

here at home.

However,...

As the winter slowly fades

Away,

Trials and tribulations are here

To stay;

Fallin...

Woke up to bright sunshine this morning!

And there they were, chirping away as they

The evil of war weighs heavy

on the yokes of life:

children…bombed…gone…

likewis...

After the apex

once you reach your

apex of dreams

accomplishments

you made come true

Now tha...

As I impatiently await for anew I’ll like to share my today with you

About all of the drea...

Around the world—evil raging wars continue to be steadfastly fought

In the name of las...

Enter the domain of my

heart

at her pleasure

Sacred are our times together

cant b measured

a...

You have to listen to the world and what its telling you, then again you have to listen to the wo...

The hands of time paints

upon the canvas of fleeing life;

each stroke a unique high...

sometimes life can be painful how painful can life sometimes be it's like getting bit by your e...

deep in a virtual world trying to swim back to reality fell in contempt tempted to wet my feet th...

if I could make it like it was I wouldn't know where to start to put the feeling back in my heart...

when you get tired you

rest when you rest you

sleep when you sleep

you wake when you wak...

"I woke and I realize"

I gave forgiveness to those
who never forgave me

"I woke and I real...

if I truly understood the making

of a butterfly I would stop struggling

and allow change to tak...

I was gonna sit this one out

Sit in the back row while other poets
Dip their big toe into the...

Each day we awake to a fate that reflects a hate that somehow we can’t escape.

A misfortunat...

Rhythmic linguistics

Mimic spirits of the gifted

That which I use to enthuse through prose,...

I internally died

Though I obnoxiously vied

I quite consciously, constantly tried

To do ...

Questing meander, balking propaganda

Ego commandeers pinpoints targets, from shards of light r...

I never learned how to teach the world to understand me

as they always taught theirs to never vi...

Sometimes what I say is unusual.

I confuse a few.

So absorb every molecule of written intelle...

Yeah
It was something like that blinding light that knocked the Saul out of Paul
Angelic voices...

Machine gun logic, dictates more voices...

Less chance, more choices as we dance.....

In the not too distant future, an earthquake instantly creates a new land

Less Atlantic Ocean,...

As victims of domestic cold war atrocities,

Including deaths by lynching, other forms

If only we could be as water:

Solid, liquid, and gas->>>

Expressing ourselves in 3;...

I can hear the ringing, and the pattling of the drum.

That day, the one that comes for everyone...

As a king

I must create my own path

Beyond the shawdowsof my father

Against the odds of ...

We All Live Day To Day

Some Take LifeSeriously

Others Laugh AndPlay

They Understand That No Ma...

Is this Real or is it Fake

Am I asleep or am I Awake

The image is real but your not There