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Honoring The Title
"Mother" a sacred word revered and worth its weight in gold children learn to bow their head and say their grace and bless the hands that…
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Silence Had Me Pressed
Silence walked in like it knew my name told me chill everything don’t need to be explained as if to say don't look for no explanation I…
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trash & broken glass around my church
I saw a deacon picking up trash around our church’s parking lot So I grabbed a broom to sweep up empty bags/vials of crack rock…
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"My Mind was my Own Cult"
Being fooled by Satan's lies by his own devise his own charm My mind is like branches trying to stay strong ,but break like the vines and…
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Scars To Prove It
does healing look like progress a quiet home inside voices children who do not flinch when their name is called perhaps it does but healing…
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Straight To The Point
loose strands growing side by side twisting into one tangled vine strengthen by time grows together into one loc locked up forming a strong…
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The Spark of Madness
Given a spark of madness is the madness of insisting that all is, when all are miserable…
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A rebellious seed
Christians praise a trinity but are monotheistic…
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Emotional Pivot
my life looks like that spinning wheel circling in the center of a screen my delays got choreography…
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"Please"
when I say "please" am I asking or begging am I being respectful or begging for a chance to be heard what does “please” mean what does…
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Don't Get The Wrong Idea
don’t get the wrong idea when you read the words I write…
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STOP, just STOP
STOP, just Stop. I’m done swallowing storms…
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Angry Reflective
Angry, reflective.... two flames in the same glass…
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Pour the Water, SIP the Wine
Pour the water to wash away the weight of yesterday’s dust. Sip the wine to honor the fire still burning in my chest…
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The Object of Desire (Poem inspired by the book The Delectable Negro)
We are the object of desire…
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Shadows Hide Under the Sun
Shadows hide under the sun, quiet as secrets that refuse to die…
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The Words That Could Undo Us
The words you carry are heavier than the night…
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Part not thou lips,
Part not thou lips, for I can hear the truth before it’s spoken…
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Evolution is a myth
How did time convert Morganucodons into humans? Over 200 million years ago, just walking around dinosaur ruins…
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Slow-Burning
I lay beside the anger like a fire that won’t die down, embers whispering what the flames were too loud to say…
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The Spillage
broke homegrown curses writing verses backwards in cursive each sentence a surgical precise incision a poet with a purpose not just…
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Turn Your Back
Turn your back— not in anger, but in arrival. Some roads don’t deserve your footsteps anymore, and walking away is the loudest truth you’ll…
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Fire Under the Bridge
There’s fire under the bridge— not the kind that burns it down, but the kind that whispers, “I’m not finished.” Heat in the hush, anger…
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Framed in Shadows I Never Cast
They tried to shape my story…
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Earth Core
the world ain't ready for a world changer a world changer ain't ready to change the world it's too much sh*t to deal with starting at the…
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In The Wake Of Sleep
I see a broken pencil I have a impulse to fix it…
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Pie
there was a time when you wanted your voice to be heard all you had to do is scream the noise wasn't as loud as it is now you need more…
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Watermark (04292026)
I think about the good times "the good times" there were good times not to say all the good times have passed away life is a song to those…
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Pass The Passion
Pass the passion like sunlight through branches— soft, warm, and meant to be carried…
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Bending Not to Break
Like a branch shaped by seasons, I curve with the weather of my life— sun?warmed, storm?tested, softened at the edges by time…
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If Brothers Could Sing the Blues
If brothers could sing the blues…
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Break in My Blues
There’s a crack in the quiet where the light slips through…
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Life is a broken-wing
Cannot fly.” You will always find a way” wake up, for sometimes, when you fall, you fly…
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Did Love You
Now, what do I say…. everything I had was placed into a man; at least I felt he was a man, a man I could love until. Well you know to him I…
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Time, Lost Time?
A minute too late. Lost - yesterday, between sunrise and sunset, two hours, gone forever…
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Playing till Sunrise
Playing till sunrise the low-down blues, blew my mind. Something’s been missing my whole life…
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"Lying to myself"
Lying to myself was or still is easy for my mind to cope with I been lying to myself without anyone's help…
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Message In A Bottle
these words might find you or you may find these words…
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"Silence in Four Corners "
Inside of my own oasis I float in my own silence, in my own cloud of happiness In my own paradise…
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Stuck in the Zipper
Summer camp 1983, we just left the pool Rushing to catch the bus, I grabbed my shorts off of a stool…
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Anything Is Possible
Imagine what the world would be like if we could exceed the mind. If we could push the limits of what we feel and override all of our…
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You Really Have To Believe This Stuff
You really have to look at the world and you need to believe that we are in the service of each other. At least that is my take on it. The…
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The Violet Flower (04082026)
She stands in a place where the ground still aches Where everything around her has already given in…
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Dark Callback (04062026)
sometimes Heaven gets a call and the caller is me and I want to talk to someone I believe is there but I am told "there's no one here by…
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Five Ways To Say Forever
Her name lingers at the tip of my tongue…
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Cosmic Dust
The universe sees us as energy of low intensity…
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Broken Glass Compass
I’m so close to killing somebody— might be myself…
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The Situation
It's out for delivery you can't track it nothing to indicate how many stops away…
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Addicted To Hope (03042026)
words like drums every line attack double up the flow never fall off track…
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Have No Fear
Live your life to the fullest without fear Climb the hills, bust through walls, run toward your dreams, and forge through life's fires…
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Between (04042026)
The difference between a believer and a believer is a believer believes.
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The Loop (03032026)
I come I go I never leave if I do I'm not gone for long…
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All The Cruel Deeds (03032026)
all the ramifications are extremely severe harsh cruel and difficult to bear hard to watch can't help but stare at the unforgiving far…
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My Friend Is In A Better Place
This poem was written by me in respect for the life of a good man, Mr. David E. Choate…
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Troubles
survival... the constant battle a spiritual tone of consciousness…
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Quote Me
It's gonna be one of those days standing in the way blocking the view won't let me through what would you do if you were me stop in your…
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Something To Say
silence is a place to keep secrets safe left more words behind then words could say if the window was open wide enough I'd see more space…
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