In the age of their awareness—

In the drama of their lives—they

Cast us as simple c...

VOLCANIC SEMANTICS | VIA STRETCHED SYLLABICS
AS I SPIT A HARMONIC SONIC PSALM
WITH THE INTENSIT...

whenlife hands you the ball

hold on to it no one can snatch it

awayfrom you once it's in yo...

I got relationship problems

the problem is I ain't got no relationship

when I think about i...

there's a heart in a box

I can hear it knock

I hold the key but I

can't unlock the box

can't go back to the past

swallowed from a glass

got mad because it did't last

spend m...

In the chilling waning Fall-waxing-Winter

evening,

I cautiously step out in...

Today my day will be bright

If today I can wade

In the abyss of your eyes

Dreamy bli...

In the early dawn, the loud barking of my dog

Woke me up;

I arose and went to the d...

Why do I keep crying?
Why can't I release this?
why am I still hurting?
With all the bad that ...

My heart cringes, scary realties set in. Hope is gone, my help is feeble.
tears don't seem to ce...

It used to be my student desk
with paper
typewriter and pen
this was when
words were newly pu...

we live with the thought of
life

we die with the thought of
death

we live with the thou...

I can't give you my recipe
it would be like giving you
myhustle I can't give you
the lyrics to...

if I die today I won't be
here tomorrow
so I'm not gone worry
about tomorrow today

woke up this morning

ready to go

started flying before

my feet hitthe floor

outside b...

got enough energy
for my enemy today
my enemy better
stay out the way got
a sword in the shea...

Again, with joy, we will sing, sing, sing, sing

When we see the face of our elected Qu...

Give freedom or death!

The oppressors heard the cry:-

Issued both in one…

Fighting for freedom,

Many died in the process:-

Yet—all became free….

I watched every Sunday in awe
Every Sunday morning I saw her hit the piano keys
And sing to the...

I am quite sure I know
exactly
what you're looking for
as I closely study the billboard signs
...

I wish for the snow to fall
anytime
summer days as well as now

emotions
frozen like icicles...

how can I ever forget your face

when I never forgot your smile

if I keep you captive in my ...

if you don't set boundaries

people are bound to take the line they constantly cross

wrap it...

The face you see in front of you is far from the true face that lies beneath the surface of what ...

stopped along the way
looking up at both your names
still parenting me

Thoughts in my mind roam around like stray cats under street lamps... Purring their way into my m...

I would have met you sooner
Shaken your hand
Invited you to hang with me among my innermost cir...

When the love song of me and you

Has died

Outside in the open

My heart cries

With...

Blacks murdered each day;

Shadowed chaos in darkness:-

Injustice lives on…

F...

Sometimes in your sleep you tend to ‘whisper dream’

Sharing details of your hopes, secrets, an...

You stroke me unintentionally from time to time,

You feel so damn good,

You become my delight, ...

Placing all calculations
Into the proper equations
All fit perfectly
In all mathematical
Soci...

Nature aping American jurisprudence;

Stoic fall teasing the rule of cold winter:

Fl...

Lambs of God we are—

But we are lion-hearted ones:-

Grazing freedom’s grass…

if I take time to listen to your story it means I'm interested in your saga and the roads you tra...

fall fast and quickly get up emerge from the lowest level and make the highest mark fall in a he...

Why you be trying to put on this facade,like you

" THAT B**** "

make it make sense,

How every...

Beneath the quiet cerulean sky

spotted with flat puffy white clouds

I cruised the l...

OUT OF SELF RESPECT
I HAD TO INSURRECT MY TETE
'CAUSE MY DEBT WAS DEATH
LIFE IS SPIRIT WHICH I...

Times where you find yourself in absolute stillness... In an empty room minding your own business...

I saw an old man today, walking in the rain

Struggling with an umbrella, some grocery bags, and ...

Delta has passed on—

Omicron is on the scene:-

Omega looks on...

No to new Jim Crow—

We are not going back to that:-

Dam your variant!

Like a tree trunk

we are rooted here

anchored in the soil

of the struggle of l...

Today has been nice…

Tomorrow promises much:-

Survived yesterday…

Moon kisse...

Its lovely weather for a season full of hope and dreaming

Kids look forward to the day, and gr...

All in my feels.

Hardly know what to say.

You’re right next to me

Yet,

So far away.

They divide and separate us... racial ignorance
Saying Black skin is not the right skin
But som...

The Warning

Good morning mom/dad
I will see you later
I am on my way to school
In the cafet...

Some are left towonder when the misery will leave

They fill up with tears and dont know the reas...

I

Listen, my children! “Stony the road we trod…”

Listen, my children! “…with a...

They tried turning us back

But they failed to do so.

We’re not peop...

Ancestral footprints—

Their blood mapping-out the way:-

There’s no going back…

Pandemic

As I stand here unfamiliar to some relatable to most

I’m introduced by preconceive...

EX-LOVER

Heart pounding out my chest, I’m heart broken, eyes pouring T-shirt soaking

I'm f...

everytime
I think of you
there I am staring into space
my mind just wonders off
and there I a...

Thinking

Lately just been
thinking about you,
closely sitting next to you, pulling up sexy ...

Penned allegory—

Imaging reality:-

Those haiku moments…

We gone—

No going back:-

We free!

spending little time

haiku allegorizes

the truths long story

Promised I would never fess up
That I would never write about that day
You and I
Went to oppos...

I need that pep that zip that pazzaz that zing that light that flare that sparkle that excitement...

The pregnancy of peace and love

Can never be aborted—can never

Be a miscarriage—jo...

Can’t abort or block

The pregnant poetic mind

The seeded word must

Have its time...

Being afraid does not necessarily make

You’re a coward;

Being not afraid to right a...

go above and beyond the limit to succeed beyond expectations to overcome and rise above exceed ex...

when the wait is over

when the weight lifts off my shoulders

I'll be light as a feather

Sea billows roll with my hurt

Sores breathe upon my sorrows

I’m desperate and alone

I fi...