Beneath the quiet cerulean sky

spotted with flat puffy white clouds

I cruised the l...

OUT OF SELF RESPECT
I HAD TO INSURRECT MY TETE
'CAUSE MY DEBT WAS DEATH
LIFE IS SPIRIT WHICH I...

Times where you find yourself in absolute stillness... In an empty room minding your own business...

I saw an old man today, walking in the rain

Struggling with an umbrella, some grocery bags, and ...

Delta has passed on—

Omicron is on the scene:-

Omega looks on...

No to new Jim Crow—

We are not going back to that:-

Dam your variant!

Like a tree trunk

we are rooted here

anchored in the soil

of the struggle of l...

Today has been nice…

Tomorrow promises much:-

Survived yesterday…

Moon kisse...

Its lovely weather for a season full of hope and dreaming

Kids look forward to the day, and gr...

All in my feels.

Hardly know what to say.

You’re right next to me

Yet,

So far away.

They divide and separate us... racial ignorance
Saying Black skin is not the right skin
But som...

The Warning

Good morning mom/dad
I will see you later
I am on my way to school
In the cafet...

Some are left towonder when the misery will leave

They fill up with tears and dont know the reas...

I

Listen, my children! “Stony the road we trod…”

Listen, my children! “…with a...

They tried turning us back

But they failed to do so.

We’re not peop...

Ancestral footprints—

Their blood mapping-out the way:-

There’s no going back…

Pandemic

As I stand here unfamiliar to some relatable to most

I’m introduced by preconceive...

EX-LOVER

Heart pounding out my chest, I’m heart broken, eyes pouring T-shirt soaking

I'm f...

everytime
I think of you
there I am staring into space
my mind just wonders off
and there I a...

Thinking

Lately just been
thinking about you,
closely sitting next to you, pulling up sexy ...

Penned allegory—

Imaging reality:-

Those haiku moments…

We gone—

No going back:-

We free!

spending little time

haiku allegorizes

the truths long story

Promised I would never fess up
That I would never write about that day
You and I
Went to oppos...

I need that pep that zip that pazzaz that zing that light that flare that sparkle that excitement...

The pregnancy of peace and love

Can never be aborted—can never

Be a miscarriage—jo...

Can’t abort or block

The pregnant poetic mind

The seeded word must

Have its time...

Being afraid does not necessarily make

You’re a coward;

Being not afraid to right a...

go above and beyond the limit to succeed beyond expectations to overcome and rise above exceed ex...

when the wait is over

when the weight lifts off my shoulders

I'll be light as a feather

Sea billows roll with my hurt

Sores breathe upon my sorrows

I’m desperate and alone

I fi...

Safety is a secret place of Love

It’s the security of peace and lasting happiness

It’s joy ...

Rear views are now clear views in looking

Once mirrors impose what is now and forever 2b

Bl...

In late evening

Jet streaks paint the skies

In the distance

The sun

Mother of...

Love is a feeling you want to have

A feeling you would love to taste

Each moment spins a bottle...

I can tell rain from snow a donut from a bagel cabbage from lettuce collar greens from kale a emo...

how you gone be jealous of me when you ate dinner I had nothing to eat how you gone be jealous of...

if a beautiful lady invited me over for tea I wonder would it be hot or cold bitter or sweet in a...

write your poetry

plant your seeds on fertile ground

truth be always told

you woke "yeah Im woke" I'm also woke to woke folks who say I'm woke but sleep on a lot of sh*...

I’ve never been so free orhad so much power

My time well spent by the hour

Constantly being...

You conjure dreams
of absent time
and solid streams.

Where rampant minds
submit to hearts o...

some time I feel like I'm Batman in a room at the Gotham City Hotel with the Riddler in the room ...

two wino's fought over a bottle one bust the other in the head I would say he bled but the wine w...

if I stuff em inside where there's no air if I held em captive if I didn't allow em to leave if I...

Rowe vs. Wade
The suppression of the vote
Districts that used to be painted blue
Are now point...

I’ve adopted it
Jamaica, land that I love
Pour me a Red Stripe

With everything that’s going on in the world,

I am so glad to have you by your side.

It fee...

I dont know it for sure but I am a part of something else. It feels like being part of the world ...

Picture of you
Exactly one hundred years
Dressed in wedding white
And that same night
Began t...

love
greets you at the airport with a limousine
complete with wet bar and cable television
bec...

It was in this year
The scales of innocence were
slowly removed from my eyes
And I began to se...

I never been a fan of celebrities and I'm sure none of em would follow me it's all idol worshipin...

you are so close to my heart
as each beat pounds metronomic rhythms of love
coinciding with my ...

you can't ask someone who hates you to love you and you can't expect them to you can feed them an...

I learned that people die I learned we don't stay alive I learned I'm gonna die I learned that wh...

active on a project I'm intending to complete up on it I can't sleep not even a wink I hardly bli...

the world is screaming bloody murder to the heavens up above I hear it's power in the blood but w...

it's too easy to fall it's harder to stand I can't hold out my hand and expect you to grasp what ...

on this first day of December I have a true love to remember written letters to send her I need h...

I know I'm a dreamer that's what makes me a believer in miracles happening through every song tha...

You can deny who I am
You even can deny me
But the root of every tree represents me
I know som...

You can't make him happy and
You can't make him stay
You are not happy with yourself anyway
Yo...

before the arrival of dawn
the line is already formed from the front gates of the palace door
a...