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Dew drops as a signal 2b still no more forever is back again,
Good mourning, begins to end the...
Five score and five years ago hatred was embraced
Backed by fear and usurping common sense
...City grounds around dusk
Freshly grown protests to toil
Blades of people
Faces green, yellow, ...
Imagine being bought, sold, and traded
Killed, raped, and confiscated
More valuable that go...
disingenuous platitudes
from companies across the globe
Bandaid is justnow (in 2020) promot...
A few lines down in the comment section deep
Lie hundreds of Anonymous, racist, misogynist cre...
You are a man who carries his own wisdom and shares his courage through the minds and souls of ot...
You are my sexual fantasy bringing me to ecstasy.
Touching me in forbidden places, forgetting ...
Darkness engulfs me. The silence deafening. One side of my bed is cold. I need your body beside m...
When you first made a grab for my hand it felt natural as if it was meant to be. Hands fitting pe...
Strident voices ring with defiance
Strong minds stage the attack with mutual reliance
A change ...
Creative souls
… ultimate quest…
To initiate, each further step…
...when i was young i often thought that in my family my father was the good one. taaking time to gi...
Love this Powerful new Generation
that is emerging
with courage
To see the thousands and thous...
playing jump rope and hopsctch. dating boys without cars. seeing fhat wd are not all alike. compe...
for all my life warnings flew of the way we would be treated because of our skin 's hue. their an...
Another great song from Mr Curtis Mayfield from the CD Curtis this great prophet muscian poet son...
Going thirty years strong from you being with me, you never want to go, what do you see in me? ...
F**ked around and loved you.
and I didn’t love myself.
You seen all the flaws in me
and...
From the bleeding stolen womb of Africa to the dried navel of American,
Black man walk...
Where you been?
I saw you peeping around the corner
when you thought I couldn't win
...I can't breathe with your knee on my neck
While others stand by and watch, what the heck?
I...
It’s all been an issue for a while.
We’ve had to wipe with a tissue then issue a smile.
It’...
Have you ever been trapped in your own mind
Deep in your own thoughts
Plenty on your mind
...It seems current generations have false admiration. For self domination without revelation. Mater...
We been suffering
For a long long time Coming
For a while now
I been thinking
It could of bee...
I pledge allegiance to your flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it...
Rainy days, sunlights counselled by the warmth of the leaves, hidden treasures in the depth of ri...
Cuffing season
Although it’s cuffing season I watch people get cuffed on tv for no reason.
...I want peace and there is a heavy price to pay. I have to venture through the storm of dealing wi...
There have been times when Ive lost faith in myself but never in you.
Because you held on ...
Does your blood boil like mine, 100 degrees celsius, we turn into full fledge hulks, fire breathi...
“From the wicked that oppress me,
from my deadly enemies, who
compass me about…Aris...
Words are my only weapon
The metal detectors failed to discover my language
Entered the are...
WHY BLACK LIVES MATTER
Black cat, Black Bat, Black Friday.
Death , Supernatural, Devil, Negat...
1 thing I learned was that 2 people need love before making a baby. So instead of shooting the 3 ...
($$$$$$$BLACK$$$$$$$$)
It’s money that fuels capitalist
injustice.
Let’s prove t...
Fools create wars
From being captive to their own
Rage of depravities...
Please forbid m...
It was a driving rain and from his car he can see a silhouette of a famaliear frame moving in the...
A Live Sonnet To Walking In The Shadows
Of Death~ ~~~
Out of the day, weird and as dark...
Enough is enough.
The people are in the streets protesting for a better and brighter day. To b...
Strange fruits no longer hang from
trees;
Trees…with winds blowing their bloody
...WHEN THE SOLDIER SINGS by Shabazz
Screaming, the shouts of a thousand lion roars, like raindro...
Those who identifyAs positive, progressive
Resilient, connectedCreative souls,
whose life dan...
Just Listen to this passionate plea from a song recorded in 1968 its 2020 now you would think you...
With outstretched wings, I grasped the foundation of torso, fingers interlocked, head bowed, thin...
We did not tear up target to honor our dearly departed.
With all of our fist up how could you ...
Rain drops
strumming on the roof top,
her mood,
bare naked in tube socks.
Cold feet,...
Asz I watch the Moon I wonder What Wat you Are doing I shudnt But I do U ment so much to me to ha...
Vicarious trauma
From years of discrimination
As we die, defend and dread in the US nation
...No justice, no peace, no freedom
Emotions, restrictions unfair
My skin, features, and hair,...
What a time to be alive
In a time to kill, black lives
Stolen from gardens
faced down on conc...
<Black>
If I protested with caution
And bought my daughter to witness
And she accidental...
When will we get a definitive win?
Where Justice prevails and intolerance ends
If race and ...
The Red in your Blue kills Blacks.
The White in your Blue blinds your eyes.
The Blue in your Re...
QUIET ON THE SET!
NECK! KNEE! CAMERA ROLLING...!
REVOLUTION FILMED!
No! They said to us…
No revolution on film;
Is your TV on?
I'm not a devil slayah or a seuth sayah, maybe a liberatah but not for a prayah for a narrative, ...
STAGELESS REALITY: A POETIC ESSAY
Our Americais not a world stage,
And we the black opp...
Nobody said life is fair
No use n playin the
blame game
Gotta play the hand you
been delt
Le...
During this Virus thing and with all the protesting going on around the world (Rightly So)
I ret...
No! We are not all
in this together;
if we were, the curve
would not lie.
Whi...
IN GOD’S WORLD
Prologue: We can dock a ship n outer space
but on earth, can’t unite th...
Death torturing knee…
Law and order prevailing;
Oppression speaking…
One...
I travelled through time
Centuries through history via my bloodline
As different men, women...
Numb, broken, our nation’s soul is in utter despair
Coronavirus, record unemployment, and raci...
Sometimes I sit and think Of Life's situations. Meaning. Purpose. Thoughts of creation. Decisions...
We used to be
the shadows of mankind,
silhouettes now come to the light
depicting images sc...
walking down a dark street full of guns and enemies she rose.
staring at the whiteness in thei...
They call it defense WE call it murder.
They say all lives MATTER
WE say PROVE IT!!!!
Beautiful
like the ocean waving
outside the window seat
of the flight you've put me on.
...
They say black is bad
Black is sad
But they don't know the pain that I've had
Yet and still I ...
I
defy living.
My
mind is drifting
through light prisms,
and sinister skies
tha...
They're scared of,
who they man the bread crumbs,
the families of dead sons,
and daughters no ...
Street life,
hand guns under street lights,
this is when real sh¡t meets life,
and can't ...
I didn't ask for this, I didn't ask for you, I wasn't waiting or watching. I was just there with ...
Rivers run to the sea
Feel her tugging at your coattails
Pulling you downstream
Past unr...
When the oppressed rises up
from the bending knee of oppression
to protest modern-d...
Prologue: We can dock a ship n outer space
but on earth, can’t unite the human race…
...In nearly every room ofour home
There is a shrine that we diligently praise
Sacrifices of t...