When facts become fear, pandemonium escalates;

likewise does the proliferation of its ...

Be sure to wash your hands…

the new pleading command

from fearing fearers…living

Born to struggle,

chasing power to survive,

riding waves of hope…

Came to fa...

It doesn't matter what day it is, we were always great. We knew what was at stake in writin...

Do you believe we are made of the universe and have you seen what it can do? We are harnessing wi...

Dear Sista its how you maintain your brains and your beauty,

It's not just ya booty but the pa...

Suck ups, breathe deep

Unfortunate clamor for relief

Old folks kept for long term storage

The last two impeached US Presidents were acquitted

Both vehemently admitted

Innocents as w...

Praying the pain away but my soul still hurts

Sweeping floors in the basement of my church

Prayers once so simple

As God please wake me up for class

To taking exams hoping you’d help...

Dogs do, people too

Figuring where to go with #1 & #2

To make ends do what it ‘pose to do…

Treasure Marked Red

A puzzle ahead
the blind man who peed dropped dead;
longing..laughter & ...

A naked truth,

the naked you,

maketh bloom

a full anatomy.

Your outter space,

skin ...

Psychosis: A Covid-19 Triad

No cure…no problem…

Let’s live a fool’s perspective;

Cur...

Who said it?

we don't know,

mouths zipped like the emoji,

smiling on the other side.

“Don’t tell me what you can’t do;

tell…[show]…me what you can do!”

So went the sale...

Regurgitating blubber that I thought I just immersed.

Hating myself in the mirror, a common pl...

Pen to my paper, Iwrite my thoughts andlet them flow...

I have toput them on these sheets beca...

Constantly wrapping, combing,brushing,imitating celebrities, forever lusting at what is unreal.

Backdraft lit, heat like read, kiln kindling

Bred inline on old tracks of soul claps performin...

Disclaiming minds, no cosign

Now is about that time, of no wanders

For conflation, is on a ...

I am a aprt of all things and in this existene I am black. The deep kind that would sacrifice for...

Nature…

Something …alive and new…

Enters the scene …for the ver...

truth is I hurt inside
feels like I might die
feels like I want suicide
telling God I wont lie...

people won't come to your rescue
but they will come to your funeral
these are the kind of thing...

I received the God particle and I had the power to create. I was given the gift and the only requ...

Even if you hate me I don’t hate you

I know I was bad

But now I’m a dad

Can’t have my se...

I had a late night and it is only 10 in the morning. I thought I was burning the midnight oil but...

Assholes come in two forms, one deliberately dispenses the built up inside of you that makes you...

Breach

Heart …pounding…

Alarm sounding

…in ANGER…

Multiple person intru...

When I qualified for this slam, my brother asked me, what if you come in second place, I thought ...

I wrote my first poem the minute I came out from between my mother’s legs, it was a Thursday nigh...

My friend asked me what it's like to be Black and to serve, I said, it’s kinda like being the kid...

There are only two kinds of people in the world, Im popping Coronas over here and I hope the othe...

words are sounds that vibrate
every word we speak is spoken
into our everyday existence, so
ho...

Sweet presentation,

a brown sugar complexion

smelling of the essences,

I call her Rain Afri...

2 am’s thoughts going through my mind but no thoughts of sleep.

The thoughts of what to do, wh...

Where did you come from, I was here all along and I brought my grandson. My son is gone and my so...

That h*e never stood a chance, there was too much that was broken around her. They had hard attit...

Sitting here I felt as if I was drowning

until I realized that I was just sitting ther...

TENDERIZED FEAR…

It’s not that I am not afraid,

It’s just that I am not scared

We sh...

A picture may be

Worth a thousand words;

But the Word itself,

Is priceless—whisp...

That “…we are all in this together…”

Has become the new-now watch-phrase

Of the day...

open the sky I need to see stars tonight

tired of dark clouds in my light actually

haven't...

what if all the birds sung the same song at the same time harmonizing all over the world in unis...

Corona,

not the liquor,

hopping onto minds,

poison still.

Violence ill,

marked with masks,...

got me a citation for spitting
on the sidewalk of society
caught in my throat like a loogie
ca...

can you see you
I can see me
changing what
I can in a nick of
time span spent
not looking ou...

it's like if water was joy
poured into a vase
then some one comes
along knocking it over
spil...

Bags of burdens

submitted to watering

all that is beneath me.

-Jg

I recognized teh new me. I was pressure tested and there is stilll more to come. Im ahead of the ...

All of me beamed,

til she left in that light

shadowing my body into dark depths

staining me...

Silver blood is much sweeter then the gold her love has to offer

for her pain only moans my na...

Mesmerized by the essence of your divine soul, your true being

How is it possible for a being ...

too many distractions coming into play
we can't stay together too long
still we can't kill each...

today you're talking
yesterday you were silent
today you said I love you
yesterday you said no...

I ain't got nothing to do
sep't sit here writing to you
so that's what I'm gong to do
until th...

The streets are talking,

misguided lane change,

misdirection location,

nothing but pot hole...

Rings’ alarm, world’s crash to a halt

Still, out in space, the universe moves invariably

Lo...

Suddenly, a chance of make belief
seek a thorn inside the bowl
chase back the pillow from the e...

Time …lost

It’s

Relevance... Given value

To dues being paid

...justice,

Denied by ...

Destruction runs into your home, tries to take what you own, but it's doing it wrong

Destruc...

Frothy sparkles,

translucent hues,

one thousand faces,

all of them you.

Water juice,...

Year of the mirrors

COVID-19

Theyear is 2020

Humanity plays the victim.

Does it really take...

Race …baiting…

You'z ...and you'z

...still keep trying

raping, pillaging and...

Once again, we're wedged in a wrinkle

of time in our lives; a wrinkle that can't

be...

In recognition ofNational Women's History Month

The Ruby of our world
was a rose-tinted glass...

Distilled memories,

pure like running water

from under her mascara line

falling over her mel...

a ringing bell
may not be heard
but it cannot be unrung...
a falling tree
not seen or heard...

With eyes on the past and vision of the present,

focus on the prize in the futuremust ...

Meet me on the edge

when the moon is bigger than life,

illuminating the deepest shadows,

war...

Got a text late last night;

Saying there will be no holding

of hands when singing T...

I’m running running
away From these s
with face mask
I’m disappointed to see
How this y...

out here holding my breath
trying not to sneeze
choking back a cough
trying not to breathe
is...

Oddly being, Godly, hardly never,

Ever, meant, being guilty or filthy

Handshakes curbed by ...

You asked me, "Am I living in vain?"

My answer to you was, "Not really."

Once my life was...

Falling water,

widow's pain,

fondness gone,

her cheek stained.

Images blem,

unbese...

Got on the Trane

and after a few Miles

in walked Monk.

Later… I laid back

wit...

...I always hated the night time because that’s when the distractions stop and I’m ...

The violence of war and terrorism—

domestic and abroad— have been pandemic

concerns...

I have a problem
it’s serious to me
Those who doesn’t understand
My pain shall never und...

There was a time in West African history

when rich ancient Kingdoms traded

pound fo...

If it is not time then what time is it? Can you tell by the tone? Or are you subject or immune? W...

Take a puff.

Pass it on.

Blaze it up

While I burn alone.

Patronize my insecurities

Make love to me,

& whisper things my father should have said..

Trying to waltz around

to freedom and liberation

Is like an avian trying

to take...

Not the true tinted redbreasts

Virginia Cardinals, but

no doubt, true distant cousi...

Reflections On A Slow Falling Spring Rain

Slow falling raindrops

Add dampness to the sp...

Crucified so long;

A bloody craving today:

The risen Black vote…

Looking out the window
I se e stars floating
Looking up above
I see rain coming down
My mood ...

The scars of her blackish skin

wrote no notes of their linking.

Goodbye into a path secure fr...

Vibe with me baby,

fighting over love,

pushing and shoving,

til someone wins.

The tu...

You have so much flight. I seen it in your eyes that night. I knew you would make everything ...

Shordy you dozed off the hood changed you,

All it took was a few blunts and a drank or two to de...

With her hair raised

like a lioness's spine

she extended on tip toes

unfrightened if she sho...