once one is bitten by a snake and one does not die from one's snake bite either one is immune to ...

I wear this struggle like a old pair of shoes this struggle fits like a glove it clings like a hu...

Wires, tubes
Get-well cards and vase with plastic flower
Freshly released from your hospital be...

Every Sunday
It is what I looked for as I passed through the
Old front wooden door
A box of bi...

In the midst of the fog of life

we now find ourselves, we often

conclude that we ca...

Love can sometimes hurt—

She often absorbs great pain:-

Nothing heals like love.HEA...

Dwelling on the past

makes me regret the future

hangin on to what u'sta...be

and the dec...

past midnight I stroll down the pathway through the hallway of the past books in hand speeding up...

Ive been writing before it was even a thing, my carpal tunnel had carpal tunnel and I was tuned i...

As time is waxing,

My time here begins waning:-

Time is so unique.

once was a time we'd get up and hit the side of the television set when the picture mess up it wo...

I'm not old enough to know your pain I wasn't there to see a thing I never seen a body hang I see...

your words come across emphatic unsympathetic and lack empathy I wish you wouldn't talk to me at...

They lie and say they white

But we all know that statements too false

As long as you live

Excuse my sarcasm

and lack of enthusiasm

I'm in awe of your negligence

and lack of intel...

Who told you to be strong

When you are not okay

It is okay to cry

let those bad feelings...

Where did all the Black men go?
Did they go to a show? Maybe out on parole?
Probably on a midni...

DRIP…

There is

the Life we live

and there is

the Life we seek8

to liv...

God cried hard today—

Tears flooding down His earth’s face:-

Empty clouds dried out...

There she stood on the edge

of the cliff of loneliness—her

tiny eyes staring out in...

They did not want you to read
because they knew you would find it
So they gave you their books ...

Its easy to roast, shaving heads like toast

unlike most, yall bi.tches out here

clout chasin, l...

it's a hell of a climb sometime I don't mind sometime I don't feel like I want to rise again not ...

don't expect me to tell you what to do when you have no idea in mind what you should do if I tell...

Early this morning, I saw a young woman walking down the road

She didn’t have a coat on, but i...

Both invisible to the naked eye

With scripture and science we try to explain why

To all of ...

Why is it the minute you humble yourself .. it’s taken as a weakness? Don’t act like you actually...

In our Christmas joy,

Let’s remember those others

Still sadly seeking…

Sitting here on this early Christmas Eve,

doves of keloid memories fly my soul over

GOD’S BLESSED GIFT TO ME

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

(To My Queen, Barbara)

God gave Jos...

when I was a young boy
sitting on grandfather's knee
I looked at his face
while he spoke to me...

I can not answer
today
how it all would’ve turned out if we had stayed together at the time

Sometimes telling me that everything is going to be okay just does not sit well in my soul

You...

All of which you have written in the history

of your story that is without a shadow of...

The morning is here—

I sit perpendicular:-

Knees bent…Praising God.

You’ve heard my screams and my many cries. And you’re really telling me you don’t understand why?...

Quiet flesh!

. . .

Heart speak a little louder

Silence flesh!

fears are getting brighter ...

MY innocence wont allow me to, currupt you

But keep asking, an i wont hesitate this storm..

All...

You made it clear what you into,

Now Letmeshow you, what he dosent do...

Allow you to be fr...

The atmosphere of peace

The silence of fears

I’m being recreated

and brand new.

This ...

Mirrors

just

reflect—

The

moon

is

like

a mirror:-

We...

I ONCE HAD | A WRITING PAD | NAMED MAXI
WHERE I'D BLEED MY CREEDS
AND WOULD ATTACK MY BAD GENES...

As said by the wise ones, wisdom dwells

In contemplation; there we must seek her.

S...

Liberty coming—

Wise ones tracing the dream's course:-

Freedom’s manger waits.

Waking up and the light turns on

I wash my hands to begin another day

grateful, I swallow u...

Anger, frustration, temptation, and greed, faced with uncertianty, in time of need, Bullets with ...

it's sad to think that
words have gotten to
the point where they hurt
so bad that it makes
so...

I can hold all the pieces
to a puzzle but still I will
find it difficult to be able
to put it ...

Love gave me you, your blood made me new. As it was pouring I saw life. I felt love renewing, my ...

Part 1

Xing-out our Christ—

Chi is next to last in Greek:-

Didn’t call Covi...

false truth 1:

all are equal,

some not as others;

juxtaposition

fal...

Pregnant mothers of the waters they give birth to

Took an afternoon/evening walk acros...

Harriet reminded all of the Black brave

That her train ran only on a one-way track.

I live up the road from a funeral home ever day I see a procession passing by ever day someone p...

poetry
don't wear black ties and tailz no more
nor do it sashay 'round central park
in horse d...

A Box Showed Up At My Front Door Without A Return Address

I Carried It Inside And Placed It On M...

I have seen so much and not really seen anything at all. A life of limited experiences even in ri...

you look familiar I seen you before your name is on the tip of my tongue it's something you done ...

I got a goal to reach I don't see nothing but what's ahead of me I got to go all the way because ...

He never allowed us to play cards
Not even Tunk, Pitty Pat or
The long and boring game of war
...

I can tell you what it look like but you shouldn't believe it until you see it then you'll tell s...

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, ...