I can’t sing like Levi Stubbs

but I know our love is a miracle;

only God could send...

In the budding of my flowering

poetic spring,

I know I have but few blossoms

yet...

One thing is true

about the situation

here with you and me;

we live in a multi-r...

Enough has been said, my people:

They had the mendacious mendacity

To say to you an...

I can’t sing like Levi Stubbs

but I know our love is a miracle;

only God could send...

Not in any sense of prodigal ways
Back in those days I was never wayward
quite the opposite of ...

Enemy within...
without

a second chance
when evasion is the only way

to escape the world ...

An energetic aura

circled without purpose,
seeking purchase...

of a soul, perhaps

within itse...

I Began The Day With Prayer

Set On My Way To The Gas Station To Fill Up My Truck

A Young Woman ...

I need to love you just as much as I love the skin that you are in

Kiss your skin as if I were...

Flying through the mid night’s sky

On the way back home

The flight is fairly quiet except f...

Traveling back in present day’s past

On my way to LAX

Got the best seat on the plane

The...

I Argued With A Friend In Which We Came To Commends

He Tried To Convience Me That Only SundayIs ...

Today time touched time:-

Yesterday I was not sure;

Is tomorrow real?

Past time ...

The Year Was 93' I Was At The Young Adult Age Of 19

I Had My Own Apartment, Worked A Full Time J...

An opening salvo

was detected by advanced sensors

Coming fast, unannounced
from th...

An example of

the oldest open secret
Known to mankind

of protection...

Gathered, ...

Impossible dreams?

Seeing things

unimaginably complex…

Simply

This is not, merely...

I

Again, the whole world is at war

and we are its victims: you and me—

fadi...

It is said by the wise

that power concedes

nothing without a struggle.

If You Are A Man

You Most Likely Have A Grandmother, A Mother, A Wife, Aunt, Daughter, Niece, Si...

Each Of Our Lives Is Like A Journal

There's The Beginning The Middle And The End

Now Betwee...

Sitting here anchored at the wharf

On/in the sea of life, my buoyed mind

Waves over...

T.G.I.F.

Thank God it's Friday

The weekend begins right now

A Time to just Chill!!!

Elusive,
Run from cop cars..because cops are..trapped in delusions,
That my brown skin means ...

Indeed, as the world was turning,

For decades they made us believe

That our sufferi...

I could write the most beautiful things,

On the spots where that fuchsia dress clings,

Every...

I once had a ignorant neighbor his color was white he would say things to insult my black pride I...

every soul has a soundtrack the songs on your playlist is your contacts to playback in the consci...

Black lives threats…ignored…

White war talks make breaking news—

Which really mattered?...

You hungry, baby…?

She unbuttoned her blouse and said:

Here, suck on this breast:-

Moments after
when the tears have dried
And I have put aside my emotions
Setting them down in ...

My days seem,

Mostly day dreams,

Wondering if you catch on to how I say things,

The true me...

U S of A can get deadly

hardware missles ammo tanks

guns to the brave folks of Ukraine

y...

don't come in the kitchen taking tops off pots "let me cook" I'm stirring up some sh*t so good yo...

on a wing and a prayer on flat without a spare people passing by don't care out of gas no cash on...

the stormy night proved to be a turbulent ride it felt like the wheels would leave the ground and...

the before the bout to the after do we ever think about the bout to moment when we're about to do...

LABORING ON…

Though long timed retired,

I’ve still not yet expired:-

I still tim...

In war, you can’t sugarcoat life;

And you can’t justify its collateral

Of spiritual...

I got a J,I got a floater (yeah)

Get in the paint, killercrossover!

Triple doubles, when I ...

I was a child I had no sin but every week for some reason unbeknownst to me I had to go in the bo...

I am not here to listen to yet another relatable response

Don’t care to hear that you are sorr...

we used to shoot the sh*t about this and that now we sit quietly no chit no chat ironically we ma...

talking in my sleep secrets that I keep kicking off the sheet wrapped around my feet like a noose...

There's a point to be had
You're quite mad at the way the globe is currently turning
And the so...

A New Adventure

Trying something new

Scares the Willies out of Me

Feet don't Fail me No...

As the world turns one of the stories my mom

watched for years I know as kids every year we

had...

Once
before time...

primitive minds, declined

to continue the practice
of stealing the ...

It’s really hard to live an equilateral life

In a land infested with pandemic inequality.

We must not allow ourselves to be as Impala-Victims

Of wild dogs, nor let War to be fo...

Rain’s moisture welcomed—

Hungry worms leave holes to feast;

Starved ducks quack with j...

Look Deep Within Our World In These Times

Compared To The Years Prior

Things Are Indeliby Chang...

I like to drive love to

hit the highway

Ride one of my

favorite hobbies

This gas pric...

Deep in
like a heart submerged in trust
concluding in better rest

Unseen depths
still felt ...

THEY SAY BLACK LIVES MATTER BUT TELL ME HOW THAT IS.

WHEN OUR WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE BEAT AND RAP...

What legacy you profess

adventure(greatness)

was supposed to be

spreading hope ...

Pushed out into a world of love

which had expectations so clear,

fought it like climbing do...

Been hunting you for weeks,

although I knew it’s a sin.

Sighted you few times

every now ...

All this time…

the good seeds planted, within

our fertile minds…

Race, aroun...

When I think of release

I think of a caged bird

being tossed in the air

spread its wings...

Mastermind of my kind

Letting words drip off these lips

Like liquid bullets

Water takes form a...

They will all read this aloud
The gun sounds
Repeating rounds
The mass bolting from the starti...

Misfired visions

stewed all sense of reason

skewed my thoughts

made me lose all track
o...

Ordinary
Nothing

extravagant,

no extraordinary efforts to achieve…

what you might belie...

Open your Eyes
take time, to

Look up through the haze in the clouds,
A staircase leading u...

There were 44 million people living in Ukraine, at the start of the 2022 war

About thesame as Bl...

There's Nothing In The World Like A Mother's Love

A Love That Carries On

The Sacrifices She...

there is no time

there's only space to

create time to create

space to create

if I fumble do not hold it over my head for the rest of my life just because I fumbled that one t...

Today…Mothers’ Day. The wingless angels of God. Our navel makers.

Let us celebrate. Mothers ar...

We

who are
the clockwork

of wondrous
dreams

Despite our insistence
on straying ...

Just because

you wish, for something
Does not always make it true

When someone’s else’...

Early in the AM

and here I am

another them no get

a sleep nite

so just sitting up in ...

Many PeopleWorking Or Retired AreLiving Check To Check,

Hanging On To Everything That Could Disa...

Way downnnn... in the soil deep!

With the potatoes, rutabagas and other beets!

I enrich with ca...

Instead of watching life, you should just hit the download button. Soak it all up, it was meant f...

Im practicing mind control, that thing got away from me for a little bit. I really looked for and...

I have an apple a day and she is the apple of my eye. I die so that she can live. I take so that ...

It all looks like chaos but its really how I roll. You ever seem a wheel with 4 corners, thats me...

Starving artist over here, forget about it. You might want to remember this. This could be life o...

Just remember that the current time is never going to change, its always "right now." Whatever dr...

I remember the first time I experience black love, she would wake me up in the morning to get me ...

I am still tooting my own horn. Great black poets of the world unite and stand in this fight with...

Well, you asked for me and here I am. I am on the Forbes list for Best African American Poets and...

I live a life that was meant for black poetry books. I am writing the book now as we speak. You a...

You ever walk through life and you are just tired, well maybe you are not tired but your mind is....

Creatively expressed

images suggesting such things

as teddy bears and diamond rings

a co...

Sculptress

that you are

Bending the alabaster

to your will

You call the morning mists

Taking a break, after a long walk

Reconstructing history in my mind…
laid back, sitting down
...

Order is all about us

The best way to do things, without a fuss

The planets orbit the sun i...

I don't have many more steps to go to reach the goal I set so I stop to pause and reflect on the ...

in silence
in the cool of the evening breeze
I gazed at you with insatiable intent
emotions ig...

I am quite sure I know
exactly
what you're looking for
as I closely study the billboard signse...

It is early in the morning before the stars have left the skies
she rises from her slumber and w...