They plan was to never let us expand unless it was in a cotton field, our thoughts are kill with ...

"How can we win in this trash Ben, where they trash men and we trash our women?" The mask is spin...

Long ago summer evening
warm and still
taken amidst your sighs and cries
from your beloved lan...

The following fictitious poetic vignette attempts a feeble tale of one ordinary day in life of an...

Over the years

I’ve often mention

The Oppressor Syndrome

In many of my shares

Tod...

Bullets have been fired—

Another young black has died:-

Watch out as you drive.

My fellow African Americans,

This is not Stockholm and we are free;

Let’s not be victim...

Damn, for some reason

I thought I was sinking

Until I realized that

I was floating—

Somehow the blizzard show has eluded some of us

But not the cold and hazardous devasta...

Mistakes after mistakes got me locked in a cage like I'm mirroring my age, they mirroring my ways...

Mirrors

The world’s worst invention

We weren’t designed to see who we are

We weren’t des...

In These Days

Life's Like A World Wind Fastly SpinningAndVicariously DetouringLikeA Maze

Think ...

I am place in a cage upon a cage where they wage death against my age, burning ways of a slave ra...

In the blink of an eye vehicles turn into taxi cabs Then there"s everyday people that turn their ...

noticeably decreases in one direction.

I take lock, stock and barrel

to revisit good ol...

I had to rewrite history and make it all about everyone else. I was too worried about what people...

I have been living life in snow, a straight blizzard. Afraid to look out into the world because t...

I am hidden

Masking my truth behind water I carry in emotion

Wells to my nephew

Womb chi...

Theysaiditwouldn'tlast,

Butrapmusichashad a very long past,

Kurtis Blow, Sequence and the Sugar...

(nevertheless ex post facto still flattered

genuine heartfelt kinship mattered,

hence the r...

Back in the day mothers of Cabrini wouldn't allow you to leave the porch until you came of age,
...

Remember back in the day When rubbing alcohol Cleaned the scratches On LP's and 45's, And pla...

Just when you thought that you didn't need your parents anymore and that you were on the brink,...

As a child growing up in Chicago's notorious Cabrini Green I was told that if you go into the bat...

16 Shots! (Laquan McDonald) They get Sixteen Candles like Molly Ringwald We get 16 shots to the b...

I Will Never Be On Sue's Side (Suicide) (WORK IN PROGRESS) Mama, In gym class today we played ki...

I am a poet Not a court jester Therefore I think In rhymes Not in riddles I am a poet Not a music...

This poem goes out to those ofyouwho

have neverreally cared for me and would

ratherseeme ro...

This poem goes out to those ofyouwho

have neverreally cared for me and would

ratherseeme ro...

This poem goes out to those ofyouwho

have neverreally cared for me and would

ratherseeme ro...

What God Has For Me...Is For Me

When I feel like my position in life should be more advanced, I ...

My heart is heavy, as I watch news footage of you gliding across the stage and gyrating your pelv...

As I sit here still in shock with pen in hand and tears streaming, I can't help but wish that thi...

Do not stand at my urn and weep Do not lose slumber nor sleep For I am not there I am in the smil...

You ignore our RED RUGS We ignore your RED FLAGS We're not the only minorities In this country bu...

Today I shed tears For the man who was Light on his feet and Easy on the ears The party rapper Wh...

We all know that there are tears in Heaven,
But how many of you know that now there is laughter ...

I want to merge so far over into the left lane So that no one can see my tears or my pain So that...

They say that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones or; Instead of judging other...

Sometimes I watch the '70's movie 'Cooley High' in reverse Because for me the ending is the worst...

Traveling through this life for over five decades
I have discovered that everyday living will ne...

Some people say that the things that tend to make us fondly remember,

Are a familiar fragrance...

Damn, J. Edgar Hoover!

WIth all of the shenanigans

That he concocted to maneuver

The rui...

Sitting here in this chair Listening to Alicia Key's You don't Know My Name Loving the lyrics and...

BLACKLIVESMATTER!

Come on y'all and stop the chitter chatter we watched ablackman get murdered o...

Everyday you brag about cheating death Out in these streets But I think you are really cheating l...

This is a Sonnet About That Bonnet

Girl, didn't you hear Monique say take that bonnet ...

The following artfully crafted back in the day

(actually poetic endeavor presented below
writ...

I gave you a gift and you threw it away because it wasn't what you wanted you're too deep in your...

Death passed by today

Waving and calling—

“Come on”;

I waved back

And smi...

Yes, nature has her way of teasing us

Into reality;

Causing us to reflect on the ch...

PART I

This may be a winter of many grievous

Hailing discontents,

But w...

In my life’s soarings

I had always

wanted to be

as wise

as an owl

un...

(A Haiku Quartet Of Who She Is)

Sensed or not, she lives—

Her gleam breathes eterna...

In the weathering seasons of time

We‘ve survived many storming events

Of injustic...

This frailed tenement

May not host me much longer;

In faith I have dwelled:-

Being afraid does not necessarily make

You’re a coward;

Being not afraid to right a...

Fields of dreams

Must not become

Burnt forests

Of smoking nightmares;

Pat...

God called me today,

and said labors of love wait;

that I’m not done yet:-

0...

when I caught wind of his senseless demise I swear I died with him then came back to life I woul...

I’ll be in this storm for as

long as it last knowing

for sure this storm will

pass when ...

Ring with no feather in my cap only envy
at handsome man drakes with bucks,
who could bank on "...

some people don't deserve your energy some people don't deserve your time some people don't deser...

All You Have To Do Is Just Keep Living

And As Your Days Here Above Earth's Ground Become Much S...

you don't have it in your heart not to care you say you don't care but you do care you pretend no...

Above title attests

how mine mundane mein kampf

insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:

I was taught to keep my head down, watch my mouth, stay close in the yard, watch the the house, l...

Long emotional eves

into a deep moody pink

lined in a milky coat

draped in tea leaves

F...

Blessed are his fingers that

Grace the strings of the

Acoustic guitar he gifted me.

I si...

Belief:

Know that most things sought
As we journey on through life
Can be ours in time.

Every time I look into your eyes,
I want to envision
The next 5 years of our lives;
Where we’l...

Looking for forever in a world of uncertainty.
A place where lost hopes
Find empty dreams of yo...

drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.

When e'er I summon fat chance

to empower me sel...

did you hear did you hear what I said don't think l can repeat it again should've had a pen to wr...

if art imitates life then the artist has a part to play what kind of art will you display if the ...

I am not even struggling with this back pain, I carry the weight of my children on it and an exam...

If you were looking from the outside in, you would think I was drawn to conflict or mediocrity. I...

Steppin through that sliding

door of time

Love ones friends they all

have done their tim...

In the still of the night, My thoughts burns like in the heat of the night to see what's right wh...

Lake mine previous

(stream of consciousness

imponderable) poetic efforts,
sans spiritus mu...

Effort

A word to mull over

a word that causes some

to cower

If one wants some form

In the trek this life demands,

let no devious stone

be unturned; least lies left

Black child be aware;

bullets are seeking you and

they are everywhere:-

As...

Back men

Daily shot down;

No matter where or when,

Justice seems not to be f...

Looking out and above the snowy ground

Into a branched tree with snow-sprinkled leaves...

If only, for that one time i hadnt listened to your voice. Perhaps, instead of wrapping my arms a...

Chances are...

we

are aware of our surroudings

we have received instruction

become ex...