Seemingly hanging in place

as the nightly world turns,

the smiling fingertip

cre...

Navigating uncharted territories

GPSs misplaced us like our streets signs didn’t fit their puz...

Pouring down
Like the Noah forty day downpour
Covering my earth
overflowing my seas
blackness...

Black is beautiful
Still is and always will be
My wishful thinking

Greetings I give to you
On the dawn of this new day
May the light of Allah's blessings
Illumin...

From the bottoms of my heart and aching bones

My love the misses

Her kisses

I mi...

Two things we are told and should always

recall: Our light should so shine that all

Sitting here in the belly

of the womb of mind—In deep

Contemplation—It’s soon reali...

You stand there looking—

Canvassing everything you see

As if I am a sketch you once...

Thanksgiving…Xmas—

And Easter eggs on their way:-

Merchants praising God…

I, being of solid mind and mostly grounded

Founded on a few feats and a whole lot of legend

A TRANSGENDERED HAIKU TRIO

(Apropos Of All Our Children)

GENDER PHOBIA

Hati...

winter is coming

and we are ready

as our hearts

are warm

and our spirits

b...

When law and order personnel

Can break into a Black woman’s house

And murder her fo...

Just lives don’t matter:-

Take them out with your free will—

Tried their politics:-

The wheel of time just rolled on—

Tick—ticking…backwards…

Pages of my life
Turning faster than October leaves
Falling
Chased around the backyard with a ...

last night
when my anger and frustration
overtook the lightly barricaded defenses of reasonable...

Nipples pressed against ya spine, exhale together , as we unwind

Whispers of sweet nothings an e...

Deep in the lifetime of another

I dreamt when I was a mother.

I was mine and mine was my ba...

If you want to get to know me
You have to verbally communicate
Not by clicks on glass keyboar...

Feelings of abandonment haunt her

Like nightmares in the daytime.

Everything is cold, barren an...

The last 5 months have proven to be
Nothing short of miraculous.
The ups and downs of the days
...

They Can Smile WithYou

They Can Laugh WithYou

They Can Lie WithYou

They Can Cry With You

They...

Their Was Once A Dog With A White Streak Across His Face

A Louisiana Gator Pitbull By Breed;Tall...

there are some people who do wrong and try to fix the wrong they done there are some people who d...

I allow my internal darkness to express itself as much as possible to be good all the time is imp...

my child your child their child our child still a child still in need of love and nurturing like ...

words are too valuable to be garbage when I speak I'm not talking trash I be spitting facts won't...

you know you around snakes you know you not safe what makes you stay do you believe you could cha...

If You Let People Run Over Your Life And Have Their Way

They Will Ultimately Become Your Master ...

I can pen clever letters
but they can't smile the way you do...

the pen I hold
is not the wa...

i have seen you
with precious fingers outstretched to the skies...

i have heard your soft sma...

fireworks... parades...
hot dogs and apple pies...
blonde haired babies
with starry blue eyes....

it took a six hour drive west on I-80
passing through the delaware water gap
pennsylvania pocon...

i always sat in the last row
in the last chair against the wall
and impatiently watched
as the...

When the music plays

Non-stop,

pulsating beats cascading symbols

Bongo beats strumming p...

got a black pair and a white pair to go with everything I wear to see clear I wear a pair of eye ...

the velvet tongue twisted linguistic lyricist rhythmically twirled limericks around rosy lipstick...

some people want to play the game but some people don't want to follow the rules some people want...

I sit in a room staring at a spot on the wall it's a red dot could be blood "nah" it's ketchup wh...

today's lesson plan
the critical race theory
sharpen your pencils

emancipated slaves in one room shacks
a-b-c’s
1-2-3's
for all ages
shapes and sizes

"ebolu...

stange fruit still swinging
from sea to shining seashores
lady day still cries

what is a haiku?
a disciplnary write
aim for the bulls eye...

heard the hearsay I dare say a word of it as if I haven't heard of it It's difficult not to speak...

she bore fruit rotten

to the core she swore

to have no more

she gave birth to one more

some time we gotta walk away some time we gotta turn away some time we gotta run away some time w...

move out my way, sister,
'cause I gots ta move fast
and play these numbers with my dollar,
and...

although
you will no longer feel the touch of her soft hand in your own
and the sweat of her la...

No longer a poet
Have gone through the rinse cycle
A writer of poems

in a coin toss it's either this side or that side the beging or end of one thing to another to de...

Its hard to fight the world when you are focused inward, your energy flows and stops with you. Yo...

on Christ the solid rock they stood
while all around them
the shifting sands of changing times
...

I hid myself in the far corner of the room
as they gathered around the cauldron
to strip those ...

I loved her

though she wasn't the cutest girl in the neighborhood
and couldn't afford to wear...

Poetic words speak;

Pensive eyes look and listen:

Minds become aware...

To fear God is love—

Where love abides, fear can’t be:-

True love is fearless…

To fear God is love—

Where love abides, fear can’t be:-

True love is fearless…

My mind spinning round—

My spirit soaring upward:-

My soul sits…waiting…

True love seeks nothing—

Fertile soul reaps what is sowed:-

The harvest is you...

Can something

given

be taken back…?

Only

if it’s not love…:-

If love…

i...

what if murder was art and artist were murderer's that would make Jack the Ripper a master crafts...

not yet I don't know when yet will be yet I know yet will come but as far as I can see so far pri...

I've gone as far as I could go to get there and realize I can't pass through now what I'm suppose...

There was a time when families stayed, prayed, and stuck together

Now it's like no one knows e...

How can the free fight to be free?
Why must I try to survive for just being Black me?
They ...

when I'm up I'm up don't bring me down when I'm done don't do nothing to change my mind when I'm ...

I touch what I want to feel what I feel touches me I won't touch what I don't want to feel touchi...

I wrote this back when Covid first started.

You know as I read the news and see so many people d...

pleasant dreams, my little ones
lay down your weary little heads
and nestle deeply in the blank...

I've had to wise up over the years...

there was a question I had rolling around inside of my h...

a woman of the eighties
the arts you used to take up
so sophisticated, you
spoiled your look w...

one day
when i was in a green mood
i sat myself down to write a green poem
with lots of green ...

Why, I ask?

Aren’t you wearing a mask?

You already have the vaccine?

And the booster too...

This colonoscopy literally

Got me seeing $#!+clearly!

At age 45 my…

Doctor recommended t...

How you know, how far a lies goes,

Don’t know, but it surely goes long, yet rarely up or down

I have been up all night
between the screams of fighting
and screams of violent lovemaking over...

I couldn't fool him...

although I would spend hours in front of his television set
watching eve...

How much am I willing to sacrifice?

How hard am I willing to go? To catch the flow

Mine is ...

Its been quite some time now,

conversing with a known stranger,

video calls, and text,

you ask...

at one time

black

was evil and satanic

then became

beautiful

whereas

it is now

don’t get the wrong idea
when you read the words I write
and listen with attentive ears
to the...

she loves the color blue
but ain't got 'em

ain't got the sympathy you think she should have
...

take this crown from me I'm tired of sitting on this throne take on the mantle I'm trying to pass...

life is living inside a dome nothing on earth will matter when the glass is shattered the sky wi...

don't make me feel special then use me for my special abilities then leave me in my humility don'...

do you know I thank God every day for your existence more than once in case God wasn't listening ...

Never saw your face—

My mind canvassed your beauty:-

My heart…your ...

then
we wore afros and dashikis
and took to the streets with poetic words for our women
milita...

In my roving path today, I met a precious angle

nestling in radiant, glorious delight;...

No matter how hard heated hatred

may try…

We’re permanent navels from stolen wombs

All that you mention, I have ya attention

simular assumptions when your use to

the familar ...