"Be the stillest and listen to me as I breathe. For you are my hope and I don’t recognize any suf...

I FOUND A DARK SPOT ON THE BACK OF MY LEG
I THOUGHT IT WAS FROM THE INK ON MY HANDS
BLACK INK R...

Today, we have become

a rogue-led nation;

a real-life walking dead-like

nightmar...

awaken by multiple pops aware a war is going on out there somewhere aware people dying every day ...

Time is the illusion where memories are stored, with expectationsof
what we would do differently...

TIME AND ME

Time woke me up this morning
Today seemed just like any other day
Having time by m...

IF I WERE YOU

IF I WERE YOU,

I WOULD WEAR A WARM SCARF

A COMFORTABLE JACKET,

A SENSIB...

DETACHMENT

IN THE TIME THAT IT HAS TAKEN TO WRITE THIS
I HAVE FOUND THAT 10,000 THOUGHTS AND
...

A basket of words
interlaced
interwoven
Wound too tight
spills over and
shatters the air...

They wanted to first destabilize with stable lies

Now they monitor every wave on wifi and cabl...

My greatest weapon style, is to reconcile

Refusing to be heavens bile

As we watch the news ...

You must be willing to die a lot

During intense dialogue

Laugh hard or cry a lot

But tra...

The enemy pretends to be

In enmity, with its own identity

Working on subversive 'effigies',...

Outlandish Hispanic from Atlantis

Simple Sumerian syllabic savage

That can grammatically da...

Inspiration is a thought

Set in a blue black and gold vase which overlooks open and green spac...

As autumn begins fading away,

Soft rain comes falling down.

Rainbow leaves also beg...

Lying naked to the world

Removed all the glitterings and gold, thrown into the land of Caan an...

When you fail,

Ask why.

When you succeed,

Ask how.

When you’re confused,

S...

Strange, yet a reality none the less—

the oppressed destroying themselves

for the s...

That a voted-out dictator-like individual can

continue to hold a bewildered nation hos...

sitting down to breakfast

so glad to have breath in my body

those who show love thank you

I Was Raised As An Only Child But In My House Their Was No Kiddy Sh@t

It Was Demanded By My Pare...

I don't know but I been told

should I take it to heart

should I believe it in my soul

sh...

do I go to sleep and forget to dream

or do I wake up and forget the dream

if this pains not...

life's a moment that can be taken

without a moment's notice

at every crossroad life presen...

In this ilfe, I think for the most part I have done the right thing. I have come across people wh...

There was no sun today

Finding it challenging to not let it get me down

Refusing to liberat...

I watched the moonlight

dance on the ocean surface,

awaiting my turn

Calculated love affair

Falls on deaf ears

Counting the days Of love withdrawals

Trying not t...

Match me,

Strike me,

ignite me,

Just don't box me in

Utilize me

Prioritize me

Critici...

It's broken, is what the report reads

Like a leg? A bracelet, a trinket

This is my mind, my...

Her hair was straw, blonde bright yellow and lips were pink as were the rosey lips, I sat hip to ...

How do I put pen to paper after Maya Angelou, Toni Morrision, Octavia. E. Butler, Zora Neal Hurst...

You are street talking, edge of culture dripping in French accent

Autumn leaves embrace the cu...

there was no good or bad side of my family one just had more ice cream and candy the other had ro...

Everyone was coming to me for guidance and I was sitting in dirt

Confused about who I am

Th...

I wrapped myself in worry and fear at the thought of allowing anyone into my world and mind

I di...

if you searching for love

you won't find that kind of embrace

this is not the place

There isn't a device around that can accurately measure my love for you

I opened my heart upon...

The rubric cube is just like the mind Arranges thoughts like the colors until they're all align...

Get UP! GET UP!

Do not let ‘em call you again!

Alarms are blaring, Scarlet lettering

Sta...

It was inky before it was light

It was lost before it was found

It was blind before it was ...

we don't always know what to think but it's hard not to I think all the time there's nothing deep...

My heart hurts as my thoughts breaks into a purple river of tears
My veins can no longer breathe...

We never quite know
what the future may hold but,
an idea is near

By Street Cries

Rhyme with finesse like diamonds around neck they verbally digress

Pressure on ...

I've been told I be reaching That may be but how else Am I going to touch a star No matter how h...

24 years ago it was raining I was walking down the street holding an umbrella When lightening s...

Create Creative Creator Cannot be spelled with out the word (eat) in the center Our gift Our tale...

As the matter feels worse ~

I live within the means of knowing better,

Even when the worst ...

Joshua saw a man

With a sword in his hand

Asked if he was friend or foe?

‘Neither,’ the ...

If you been on the lookout for famous black poets, im one of them. I have been doing this from th...

If you even believed that there was a word as LIMIT, you already started losing this race. People...

This last sea we have travelled

towards a journey’s end, has been

perilously treach...

It has become clear to me that

nothing is clear

i am blinded by my heart

whichspeaks for...

PRESENCE OF YOU

I feel you
your presence
apart of my waking
conscious
has slipped its way ...

A Wink and a Smile

Driving East
I see the clouds in the distance
I hurry in anticipation to ...

the one who comes to save the day will be the one who will give us nightmares don't fall for the...

are you ever going to forgive me

for whatI done I been guilty for so long

I admit I was wrong I...

I can't say more people are dying than ever before

because I don't know how many people died b...

te he he, ha ha ha,

LOL, ROFL, LMAO

I could use a good laugh

even if it's meant to be

only the hood dies young is not a song unsung it's a national anthem and actual truth it's absolu...

I love to watch Gervonta Davis swing his way out of poverty and lack that boys from the city of B...

picture this you're outside standing on a ledge on the edge the phone rings you turn around to go...

looking around

Having no clue

Flowing through

Bit**es after bit**es

Hoping one of them

G...

Went for a Monday morning stroll

three weeks ago today

Nature filled this lake to its natur...

It is a bird of disdain

Flying just overhead,

Feeding the rarefied,

Smelling salts for p...

The spirit of a WOMAN
it soars touching everyone
reaching no one
never to be contained
Like t...

I HAVE BEEN IN A FETAL POSITION

FOR A WHILE

I BURY ME HEAD UNDER THE BLANKET

TO KEEP MY ...

END TABLE

IN MY LIVING ROOM
THERE ARE TWO BOXES
UNDER THE END TABLE
A BOX OF “WHATS THIS”
...

I have swam through the darkest of waters
waters reflecting the darkness of moonlight
echoing m...

IT WAS A LIE

A LIE I TOLD MYSELF TO SHIELD MY WORDS

TO SAVE FACE

TO COVER THEM WITH NICE...

She Said,

"The Lack of Communication Between Us

Brings Me Pause"

As if, Her Statement Should...

the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth history is not the whole story freedom does ...

it's like a earth quake get out the bed and feel earth shake wishing I was sleep walking and coul...

I love grits even more I like to cook 'em it takes time and patience to get 'em right otherwise y...

it's just thoughts on paper it's just heart on paper it just tear flow it's just pain on paper h...

a taste a smell a sneeze a cough a laugh a smile a a door bell ring a touch of unforgettable fee...

I call these times of bliss time we spent together and never missed always early and never late e...

I never thought change would turn my angels into drunken bastards the devil wouldn't even claim

He asked me if I was scared of change as he held a fainted white heart in his hand

Said if I g...

can you feel it too

its in the cool autumn air

vibrating through your hair

radiating in ...

centuries living and walking amongst creatures
reminded to accept our different eclectic feature...

You say, you have so much anger and rage within you.

When you learn ways to reverse your ang...

Change is my name

Cause I stay the same

When I divide, I multiply

When I add, I subtract

I am...

you terrified I'm about to write a tell all you got secrets you wanna keep I got time I wanna spe...

you taught me to be aggressive you told me I was too weak but you quick to shut me down when I sp...

The mountains are moving The spirit is stirring It's something in the oven It smells like it's...

my pockets "Changed" all I have to do is look instead of counting "Change" to see all I got in m...

it’s your soul that has layers.

beautifully pealed to reveal

the most stunning light in you...

Hello everybody!

I hope y’all are having a good day.

I just want to chat with y’all for a b...

Voting rights have changed;

Changes require you voting—

Votes bring about change…

At the end as in the beginning,

No one criticizes us

More than we do to ourselves;

I have seen the changing of the tides

and the tides of change;

have walked the side...

it seems like

the spring

I’ve waited for

has betrayed me…

the verisimilitudes...

True faith knows

No fear

Neither does the love

That God

Has proclaimed;

Th...

Today is just a day.

We used to celebrate.

But now it’s just a day. that I ***ing hate.