deep in a virtual world trying to swim back to reality fell in contempt tempted to wet my feet th...

if I could make it like it was I wouldn't know where to start to put the feeling back in my heart...

when you get tired you

rest when you rest you

sleep when you sleep

you wake when you wak...

"I woke and I realize"

I gave forgiveness to those
who never forgave me

"I woke and I real...

if I truly understood the making

of a butterfly I would stop struggling

and allow change to tak...

I was gonna sit this one out

Sit in the back row while other poets
Dip their big toe into the...

Each day we awake to a fate that reflects a hate that somehow we can’t escape.

A misfortunat...

Rhythmic linguistics

Mimic spirits of the gifted

That which I use to enthuse through prose,...

I internally died

Though I obnoxiously vied

I quite consciously, constantly tried

To do ...

Questing meander, balking propaganda

Ego commandeers pinpoints targets, from shards of light r...

I never learned how to teach the world to understand me

as they always taught theirs to never vi...

Sometimes what I say is unusual.

I confuse a few.

So absorb every molecule of written intelle...

Yeah
It was something like that blinding light that knocked the Saul out of Paul
Angelic voices...

Machine gun logic, dictates more voices...

Less chance, more choices as we dance.....

In the not too distant future, an earthquake instantly creates a new land

Less Atlantic Ocean,...

As victims of domestic cold war atrocities,

Including deaths by lynching, other forms

If only we could be as water:

Solid, liquid, and gas->>>

Expressing ourselves in 3;...

I can hear the ringing, and the pattling of the drum.

That day, the one that comes for everyone...

As a king

I must create my own path

Beyond the shawdowsof my father

Against the odds of ...

We All Live Day To Day

Some Take LifeSeriously

Others Laugh AndPlay

They Understand That No Ma...

Is this Real or is it Fake

Am I asleep or am I Awake

The image is real but your not There

Lately I have been thinking About You

Often you have been on my Mind

Reminiscing about the ...

Preceded by pandemic discontent,

this winter’s snow, in coal-like times

gave opport...

From alphabet seeds,

Comes life’s conveying plowed words:

Strange laboring fruits:-

Itchy, Real Name Keenan S., Age 17, City Dallas Tx., Year 1991

Itchy Was One Of My Neighborhood ...

Sometimes the superhero used to be a villan.

Wearing a mask, so you can only believe In the act...

Folks who aint no joke

wanted dead or alive

The mercenaries have begin to arrive

Proffes...

Tik Tok a social media

craze

Thats right best listen

to that clock

cause World

Time is runni...

It is
The voice of Phyllis Hyman
Or whoever you got on your Bluetooth playlistwhile you buzz ar...

Check thismental divide

We are often told to be better,and to do better

We are often told w...

Bad faith, bad actors, Armageddon at it again

Saving 1st world from karmic disasters

Diaspo...

There oncewas a little brown girl, and she knew she had self worth

She would walk for hours just...

Its simply us that have to think outside the box

Do you dare to be different?

Everyone cant...

Road Shows a Warrior

Step by Steps kept Three in One

Jesus Metaphor

that you

in the inner sanctum

of your mind

are listening to me

makes my heart...

As I sit at this table surrounded by myself.

I look at all that is me.

To my right sits Anger...

Why am I sitting here, stuck

Like a candle waiting to be lit?

For once lit, my cand...

Suddenly, the lights went out

To play; leaving a complete darkness

Revealing itself...

what is your plan of attack if they plan to attack who are they I don't know who they are but I k...

you stole from me when I was sleep to wake and discover it was gone and I couldn't do nothing to ...

the sun came out for a brief time then went back in for the rest of the day didn't stay out long ...

Over 1,000 years ago

An Ethiopian farmer named Kaldi

Found his goats dancing and acting ver...

Dedicated to Outstanding Womenof Achievement. Thankfully, theynever left a Room the way they foun...

Sometimes It Takes For A Person To Isolate, Look Deep Within Themselves, And Focus On Making The ...

Charred little bodies—

Bombed schools—Children’s hospitals:

Deemed foes of the war:...

Tears of blood drown hope—

Mangled bodies testing faith:-

Hate challenging love...

Woke this morning to the golden hue of the horizon’s

spreading line.

Red breasted b...

So much sorrow, wallowing in misery.

Squirming with thoughts of despair.

Unable to interact, ...

Russian war bombs flow…

Cascading life into naught:-

Remember Sodom.

Babylon...

In unawareness, old winter decided to just lay back

last night.

Little ...

Chaos chemistry

In dreamy eyes

Only true love exists

The rest lies

Lies told

Lies that b...

We’re not birthed this way.. There’s no “bull, creep or *** off” gene that fuels our hearts and m...

They Say that parting is such Sweet Sorrow

You Could be here today and gone Tomorrow

Just o...

“Help Me!” “For I am Trapped”

I feel like I am trapped between the

Beginning and the End,

I write to express my views on life.

Some you might like, some you might not.

Regardless, pen...

Fresh out of sleep,

Restlessness returns

Recognition unconcerned

Maybe just another turn...

New To This

FROM ROACHES TO FLIES

UNTRUTHS WE CALL LIES

AILIBI'S LOST HERE COMES

Light of my life.

My love 4 U burns eternal

like flicker of flame dancing

in midnight air.

U ...

I Will come to your Aide in a Heartbeat

I will Never Leave your Side

I will be your Shoulder to...

Bullets erupt piercing

black skin, as angel tears

soak in fabric of broken

hearts.

Sa...

God is light and we are his reflections—shinning

wherever we be—

Mirror...

OF…[HUED]…WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

Harriet laid the tracks to the Underground Rai...

Children and their families become the war’s collateral damage.

Referees of color suff...

Angry skies opened;

Bombs came falling like the rain:

Children drenched in bloo...

1.

Like crocodile birds—

African Ukrainians:

Jawed in racism…

2...

Wars cannot be fought in the name of peace; for where it

is, war can’t be.

Wars...

you came in and stayed too long you were not invited inside you stayed until breakfast no one ...

I recall drinking water out the kitchen and bathroom faucet never knew water came in a bottle th...

spending time taking a broom to cobweb corners of the room swatting a pesky fly on the wall did ...

standing by a fax machine

looking at a widescreen

chewing on some wintergreen

thinking about c...

we accept it

we endure it

we tolerate it

we allow it

we take it

we bear it

we swallow it

w...

how many times must I apologize
in order for it to stick like a label to a jar
sick and tired o...

One Love

One heart

One mind

One soul that is completely made whole

By Love.

Species Rhyme Animal, not a rapper, rather a poet

The line is so fine, that I often choose to to...

Each morning you are vertical to the earth, give God

the praises due;

And in your p...

This is the lesson you learn the hard way. If they feign weakness, their teeth is their understan...

His pen still burns afire from across the bridges of yesterday
Flames
Seen from the mountaintop...

Sex, money, more lies

Before blink of a third eye

Daze in reprisals

Must be piped dreams,

It would seem, 2b gleaned

While I whistle themes of Mayberry,

I like the name 'cause it sounds nice, Im not chasing happiness anymore. You can chose to like or...

Often, you need not

say so much

as choice words

will convey all—

re...

The reason for the anger and rage was pointless but the knife in my hand definitely had a point t...

Never thought how easy writing could be, ‘til I heard God’...

Slight notice has been paid to lack of social

climatic changes.

Like lack of notice...

Celebrating the ancestral journey, let us go on

in glory;

God did not brin...

In quiet night graveyard silence—save ringing ears—I

contemplate grace;

Albeit wani...

(Apropos Of Loving Dee)

Always be yourself;

No matter what, be yourself:

Can’t b...

Faith: nourished belief;

Hope and love fuel the spirit:-

The mind merges all.

On...

My ex lover called

said she was

at the shopping mall

Wearing wanting panties

and a br...

Got to the White House

As many got evicted:-

Where is our VP?

Saved Afghanistan—...

The divorced man who lives across the street

Is never home

His le...

Agony, despair, misery, and pain

All will eventually find healing; even

When dying,...

Percolating, who we, I’m just relating

Relaying the conveying of alarming apex

Son’s gettin...

It's because I want to. It's because I need to. It's because I have to. It's because of who I am....