He and I are like night and day, the only way for me to shine is for him to get out of the way. M...

Black History is Our history
Black History is American history
Black History is World history...

Forget the First 48, how 'bout the first 30 days, smh.

How is it that the House that has ALL the...

Waveriders

In pursuit of the most thrilling

Bone chilling

Fantastic fantasy

Im lifted and gifted and oh yeah, surrounded by noise. I hear the world inching its way around me...

she laughed
stretched out across the beige carpet of our apartment
my clumsiness always did tha...

Notice… how time moves in waves

Like water at the beach

Slow, until the sand shifts

That...

The mistakes that you make today may seem heavy

But when you take time to relaxand are ready

Tell me this is real?

Not a dream or the truth, but how you feel

All our time and history c...

When there’s no there there, what should you do?

When love, friendship, goods and services are...

For real, for real, for real, for real?

That’s the cost for just one single pill?!

A new ho...

If I had a horse, that is what I would call it. Black Destiny. It would have an afro on it and be...

I was a prodigy to the world, I was black in poetry as if I ever left. I was stranded in the worl...

so I write
never asking for this cup to be passed to me
but it is my turn to drink of its bitte...

We told the world that it was all about our urban poetry. We had a message and we wanted them to ...

Just Let your LIGHT SHINE BRIGHT, and

ILLUMINATE through THIS OLE WORLD,

FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE ...

WE ARE BLACK and

WE ARE PROUD

SAY IT LOUD!!!

It's BLACK HISTORY

MONTH, and

WE STAN...

Do i exist in your mind as you are in your quiet space, do you feel my presence in your heart as ...

The thing about asking for the gift is that you have to be ready to accept it. Its as simple and ...

He da*n near twisting my arm and had me leaning at an angle where I was losing my balance. My sol...

verdict etched
in the static of stars

We are fossils
in the making

Can’t be saved
...

Whose America is it?

The ones who had it

To begin with?

There’s Indigenous blood

In m...

A lot of y'all havent been giving yourself enough credit. You were doing things passively and not...

I loved her
though she wasn't the cutest girl in the neighborhood
couldn't afford to wear the l...

Rudder than trigger, provoke,
incite..., voodoo curse

necessitating emergency visit
courtesy...

not just in time for Valentine's Day
but the remaining days of our lives

as the world turns
...

at one time
black
was evil and satanic
then became
beautiful
whereas
it is now
fashionable...

I got back pain from carrying the back strain of a black stain on how the world thinks my history...

out of mind
out of sight
was what you said last night
as the light was turned off
and I walke...

I incorporated you into my life.. despite the distance that might have originally deterred me …...

The one thing I have always tried to do is bring my weather with me, that is when I figured out i...

Doggone poet laureate

wannabe his index finger wags

nonverbally naysaying those,

who dou...

Whenever the missus irks me or complains...
I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch
bef...

Salutations! and then he just punched me in the face. Welcome to the party pal! but this aint die...

forever
penned in poetry and prose and Hallmark cards and letters
calls
texts from places wher...

At some point we all end up in the grave so we eventually bow down to the most high. We live with...

I think we reached the find out part of the phase where we told and now you just have to feel the...

Nothing beats the refreshing
blissful peaceful easy feeling
resulting from shut-eye after
feel...

I was burnt like bacon, even around the edges were black. I was walking through the world full we...

I remember there was a time I use to wear braids, I liked the way it made me feel and I was looki...

formerly an abandoned Amazon warehouse went to pot
with mold and magic mushrooms growing in ever...

at approximately

a painfully early o'clock in the morning

give or take an o'clock
found yo...

I’m not a poet
have gone through the rinse cycle
a writer of poems

so
I wonder what would it be like
if I were a planet in your universe

what if I flew too nea...

He kept staring at me, his eyes looked like blackened cranberries with a mental poverty swagger a...

I had a delayed response, life was throwing bullsh*t at me and for a while I just stood there and...

The Lord is my rest

And until I lay down the rest

I will not rest

until I see the rest o...

("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassina...

Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,

similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthr...

no longer land of the free home of the brave,
original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified,...

You are the master of your choices in life

Let the mirror that you see yourself through be the j...

I thought I was almost scared today, I was living a real life scary movie and had to come to a st...

I do not dream of yesterday
when all my troubles seemed so far away
but they are as near as my ...

Though negligible communication
now transpires between us
twenty seven years ago
come February...

Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unname...

I did not think I would be one of the people to save this but you need to stop being nice. Someti...

bending low to the ground
aluminum dustpan in hand
brushing the last remnants of who you
neatl...

though I yam Caucasian,

tis rightful to honor that most bitter

racist genocidal crime
none...

Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognostic...

Extant latent forcefields transcend
across avast panoply multitudinous biosphere

scads of div...

Just before logging off for the day,
and ready to boogie out of the joint
an email landed squar...

dry rosemary and regret
a shrine to what we swore

memories a sieve
echoes in an hourgl...

Imagine if ye will

earlier one blustery February sixteenth

two thousand twenty one,

your...

Despite being an amateur
paperback writer wannabe,
whose storied protagonist
stars colporteur ...

The scent of wreaths
permeate the air

a funeral
for truths never buried

petals ~
...

it may have been just a media ratings boost
when Malcolm said that thing about
chickens coming ...

(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these wor...

In this life, any expectation ofachieving anygoal that you may aquire will require you to be disc...

Awareness about behavior,
present since mine days of yore
an unswerving allie analogous
to pea...