Yes, the government was unprepared
Brushed it off and didn't care
Dropped the ball, was slow to...

At home in a zone, peaceful, alone, relaxed to the max.

Doing nothing, something, anything, wh...

Today in my life I experience quiet, calm and serenity, the silence of peace. I am free, surround...

How much in our life do we copy/paste and what is the effect of it?
You can copy/paste pictures,...

Heyyy! What's Ben up with you?

Me, I'm just chilling, ain't much Ben happening 'round here. I ...

Don't let the bread get stale came about when I had this huge crush on my lil sweetheart at work....

I am the difference between fixed it and made it!
Asked for and took it! Celebrated or hated!
A...

found my voice on a death bed
got up and walked instead of
slept there could've been the end
s...

Getcha Hot Fresh Pralines And Newspaper!

Getcha Hot Fresh Pralines And Newspaper!

Is What I Use...

Dawn's rays pierce the skies

penetrating the shadows of scattered trees

Birds chirp echoes ...

This is a new year and I put on a new cap, I was born to be reborn, to change the script to pull ...

The head rises in the morning,

Hope hits the brain the cortex pumping with dreams

Yesterday...

you can't pay me nor persuade me to change sides I've been over here all my life I plan to be her...

when's the sun comes out I'll be there to catch the raze I love sunny daze on my skin it feels so...

standing on a ledge
trying not to get too close
to the edge of night

ten toes down standin...

There are so many times we come before God to ask
for more, more, more.
More wisdom, more visio...

Relationships start off like oh so right
Making love damn near every single night
Dancing, the ...

Saying stuff over and over makes you think a person didn't get it, but it's just that they didn't...

You ever had a neighbor, a friend, a family member or somebody that always wanna know if “y...

As I have walked pass or visited high-in rich subdivisions and gated communities, I have noticed ...

Birds are free
Free to laugh, free to cry
Free to leave with no good-byes
Free to spread their...

Did you do Lyft today?
The word “Lyft” has a whole new meaning. This is something we...

The present dent is so disgusting and aggravating at times, so much so, that something has to cha...

Poetry is the freedom of expression.
Poetry is expressed through feelings, emotions and or exper...

Why are we working so damn hard
to get paid for our faith in humanity
hump in the back got thro...

There are times in life when you will come across or even be around people who “Don’...

OBSTACLE
There is an obstacle in front of me.
I stand or I can sit.
It does not move out of my...

When I met you

I never knew I would love you

When I met you

I grew I felt like I would n...

OCCUPYING THE SAME SPACE THAT I CREATE LIMITS MY SPACE TO ELEVATE
DISTRACTIONS BETWEEN THE SPACE...

You crucifix of domesticity, You heavy cross of peasant thread, Sibyl of pain, snatched from my w...

“A mass Delusion Event”, they said;

“…a rally against reason…”—Fueled

with fantasy ...

Insurrection praised…

Narcissism clearly revealed—

Anarchy canvassed…

White House truly downed,

Attackers reflecting self—

Wrinkles all ironed out…

Clorox USA…

Revolution televised—

Anarchy—“How To”…

Squeezing of my lungs
It’s toughly pressed within my chest
The hard cores of my flesh
raging d...

Down on the underside

Is the place where lost souls hide

And broken dre...

I

Free as you want to be,

Privileged anarchist riots—

Insurrection praised…

TELL ME WHAT YOU GONNA DO
WHEN THE RENT IS DUE
KEEP HOPING AND WISHING
SOMETHING A COME THRU
...

Light kisses the lake,

in one spot more than others,

SOMEHOW THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT KICKS IN, AND YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO ASK YOUR SELF THE OBVIOUS
QUEST...

"Dis 'ere..." Cannonball announces, E flat sax of his all lit up,

In this smoke-filled club, ".....

I want to write a song about a love so true
Scribble a lyrical feeling involving all that love c...

Beware what you wish for
As you might not like
hat you reap
Wish for happiness
Above all thin...

Poetry impersonates our chaotic conscious,

eagerly spilling ink on vacant pages.

Crowded th...

Dog $#!+wrapped in plastic bags

Dropped from an overpass

Hit my windshield, splash!

A gr...

January 6th, I say

Shallhenceforth forever be known as, 'White Privilege Day'

As thousands ...

Kiki and Drake in they feelings right now sitting at home all alone

Talk of prosperity springs...

Sore losing,Sore winning

The ending, Just beginning

Fighting heir rights, Imaginative pligh...

Lost in conversation,

I’m on a first name basis

with my anima.

Architypes in congregatio...

Who's spewing soothing tunes to enthuse?

While ruining confusing runes that bruise?

Some fo...

I’M PROBABLY AS FREE AS I’M EVER GONE BE, AS SURE AS MY MIND STATE THAT DOES NOT ACCEPT THIS NEW ...

I'm inclined to underline lines rhymes

Not undermine minds

Even if they're under mine

My...

FOLLOW THE PATH THAT LEADS YOU BACK HOME

WHEN THE ANGELS HELD YOU AND YOU WERE NOT ALONE

TH...

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

A text sent at 10:14 am

Read a few hours later

Becomes what have you...

A SPOOL OF THREAD WAS NOT ALWAYS
A SPOOL OF THREAD
IT WAS A STRING WRAPPED AROUND AN
OBJECT MA...

REVERBERATE

SEVERED CONNECTIONS
BROKEN SYNAPSES
STATIC MIND SET
INCOHERENT
MUDDLED THOUGHT...

the first time I done wrong

it was easy but that kinda easy

was hard on me so hard I
...

CLOTHED IN A THOUSAND LAYERS OF EMOTION
PEEL THEM AWAY AND FIND ME WANTING YOU
IN THE DEEPEST R...

IF I COULD NAME EVERY SONG THAT CAME ALONG THAT TOUCHED A MEMORY TO REMIND ME THAT I BELONG TO TH...

THERE IS NO MYSTERY THAT THIS HISTORY IS NOT THE STORY THAT I’VE BEEN TOLD I LISTEN TO MY FATHER ...

A FORM LESS NIGHT OF BROKEN SORROWS WET PAVEMENT GROUND HARD AS CONCRETE UNYIELDINGTO CARDBOARD S...

The expression“cap”is slang meaning “lie” or “bullsh!t”

The expression“no cap”is slang meaning...

Spinning spiralling thoughts of me left as debris

Seeing you climb that mountain with my child...

A Full Moon

Long walks on the beach

Laid out a blanket with the light of a candle

Walkin...

In An Erotic Club Called Stash He Met Her

She First Approached Him With Drunken Aggression And W...

Quarantined in the house,

conversating with myself.

Formulating plans for the culture,

j...

My hands lay firm on feverish glass.

I can taste my elation as it scatters along the aperture

Let go, as the gentle flow of canal boat twists down the rivulets of water stream

My eyes have...

Sat at a window, with pig tails and a pink princess dress

The years were the 80's and the rhythm...

𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚢 ð�...

held a light in the face of injustice

fought the good fight agains darkness

spaeaking the l...

you came into my life and put a spell on my mind when the spell took hold I could see the shine ...

Looking over 2020, this year I…
I cooked on the stove and I pushed the button on the micro...

Feel dud, feel nothing can be changed or will be changed

Will a hot holiday away make us becom...

The Rich mans says more money more problems

Lord knows I aint got a wor...

Promises you made

Promises you kept,

Hardly missed a beat

Promises as you slept.

Said you'd o...

(From The Queen And I)

The axon,

“What a difference

a day makes”—

floats on stran...

Sacred Indian bird of prey

gliding amongst

ancient ghost spirits

in the wind rid...

Good night my sweet love,

May we see tomorrow's dawn...

If not...heaven waits...

I was told to apologize

For a LOT of lies

But I'm not the type to wanna lie

So I don't g...

We can only be

whose and who

we are…

Jesus can only be

who He is: Love…

An...

(To Remaining Whole With You)

There can be no blowing

Without wind;

The...

Aged fuel still ignites…

Old log and burning desire—

The fireplace waiting…

𝙳𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝙼𝚎 ...

Tonight, we complete

The canvassing of yesteryear;

Tomorrow’s easel will be reloade...

In the cases of cases

involving the matter

of black lives,

we are taught

many...

Despite axiomatic renderings, life is not

A game of chess and chess is not a game

O...

On its own merits…

Being a white narcissist…

Begets racism…

Debating—not us...

Only those who are well-off—

Suffering—we wait…

Haiku/5-7-5…

The difference…cultural—

Canvassing…the same…

Contemplating time,

I sit here tic-toting life—

Writing profusely…

Inking seeded words—

Reaped from ripe thoughts—I am…

Erecting easels…

Well ripe word...

the sound of a entertaining piano

opened so many doors for me

I had topossess my own keys

Have you Fed Ex? Meaningex, your last relationship?
Did you feed into that relationship?

In a r...

In this world, so many people focus on name brands and designers.

You want designer this, desi...

Deer Colette,

Thank u four the sweater. Eye did knot no it wood cost that much. It was hire th...

There are times in life where you will have emotional highs and lows.

There will be rejection, h...

Father, for all the things this year has brought
For the things we have learned and the things w...