Poetry

I never thought I could love San Francisco because of the weather. Sporadic earthquakes and 300 days of fogs that suffocate the sunshine ri...

It started with a simple question, “Why would anyone ever choose to be celibate?” My answer is as follows, In the months l...

So what did you want to do love? Crack his head open, you can't make homes out of human beings, someone should have already told you tha...

I never thought I could love San Francisco because of the weather. Sporadic earthquakes and 300 days of fogs that suffocate the sunshine ri...

She slipped into a coma felt nothing. Not the fire on her tongue or the water flowing through  her fingertips. Perhaps a panini could awa...

I meditate on the same things. There are mentors  att my door. It takes a village to raise a child I will no longer be in birthing pains ...

My tongue is the home of many flames. I have clamped dow  tbis furnace. The fire man sits at my feet searching for an entrance, claiming,...

Kemet is no longer a village but judgement day is still today Tehuti sits on my tongue and reports to Ma'at I fear this judgement. p...

 Kemet is the thing that most inspires me. I like talking about my mother. She truly is a wonderful woman. I don't talk about her enough...

An effective Heimlich maneuver will often brake the tip of the sternum. {no pause} 30 percent of successful resuscitations end in at leas...

So I have this fear right? And it's really shiny, Like... a knife with no handle. And I keep holding on to it, this blade, Because I fi...

It’s this chastity thing I’m holding onto. It’s like a blade with no handle. The more I trust, means the more I loosen my grip. Then I ...

do not ask a hurricane if it is thirsty. the answer is always ‘yes’ the core is always empty the peace you find in the eye of my storm i...

The chatter. The incessant talking. Judging deliberating Hung jury. Did I ask your opinion? I do not remember grippin a gavel or han...

I'm not supposed to be this rusty... I'm not supposed to creak at only the thought of my bolts turning, not supposed to have dust ...

Dear Mommy, When I was constructed in your womb, you airbrushed my features, sand blew my skin, shaped my eyes into light brown hazards....

I have a better understanding of myself now. I am very much the narrative thinker against which Christ was warning. I presume to know who ...

If it is a typical demonic strategy is to slip thoughts into mind in order to create a diversion, to hold dominion long enough an opportuni...

Impressive masterpiece of actions. Amazing. No really I don't know how you do it. How magnificently orchestrated. How quick you are ...

Dear Taharka, It would appear I'm starting us off early. Not a real shocker. Perhaps it's good, perhaps this is the habit the docto...

For you to find balance, You must look at something immovable, some stable, a constant. If your eyes shift, if they view something tha...

He is Egyptian, a Pharoh, from West Berkeley, an optimist. If his compassion for humanity was placed in front of the horizon it would block ...

You sunk to the bottom of my stomach that immediately felt like I imagine a bubble would while carrying a weight that is not it's own. Y...

Dear Kyle, I just missed 11:11 on the clock. It is now 11:12 which means I could be dead wrong about everything I'm about to write (I d...

He could see through the thick skin of the wind could wrap chimes around his fingers. I swore he conducted the stars. We were standing ...

Chivalrous, (includes door opening, purchases, flowers and all around thoughtfulness) Respects me and my vow for AS LONG AS IT TAKES. I wil...

It just that him saying that last night gave me hope, that if that was truly what it was, if how he treats me was because of something I did...

We went through some super natural stuff. For sure, it was beautiful and noteworthy but can't be the focus. If that is what is needed, t...

He could see through the thick skin of the wind could wrap chimes around his fingers. I swore he conducted the stars. We were standing ...

I know deep down in my heart that you're not the one. But if that fails, there is pure common sense. For instance; *I want a guy wh...

The night is usually so clam here, Rhythmic crickets, wind hums and melodic calmness Denver's night's bring this part of town. ...

There are thing a fire learns very early in life; To blaze, to sizzle, dance, desire, tempt, engulf destroy. There are things a fi...

And you'll make a problems just to see if they'll help you solve them when you really should be trusting and avoiding your time with...

I can't keep playing keep it up with my relationships or pull it down just to watch them force their way to the ceiling. Let them ri...

Dear Kyle, There are certain people, you just keep coming back to. She is right in front of you. You befin to wonder could you find a...

So we sat there, both of us begging for something with our eyes. Her forgiveness for her ancestry, me for understanding of what my peopl...

Something beautiful about a daughter falling off a slide into her father's welcoming arms. You mean to tell me there's a scenario i...

You know who you are, Stop talking to me about marriage and kids when you don't even want to be with me. And I'm not getting marri...

Inspiration woke me up around 4:30 this morning. I was pissed . But it was worth it.

And this guilt I carry around like maggots in pocket like flesh eating vultures. As if I enjoy feeling my muscles deteriorate wage wars...

I like to dive in knowing I can’t swim, But I figure, once I get in the water, I’ll have no choice but to learn right? When the water ...

In the attic of my mother's heart there are cobwebs, and crowbars. Old bibles and new religions In the center of everything lies a th...

An effective Heimlich maneuver will often brake the tip of the sternum. {no pause} 30 percent of successful resuscitations end in at lea...

I don’t know the history of my own skin. Still I wear it like a favorite garment, though I have long since forgot where it came from. I ...

When sand dunes form in my skin, When the silver lining I’ve spent most of my life pursuing finally makes it’s way home into my scalp and d...

Flipped over, world spinning the table slit my wrist like a suicide alert I would never become. These are the consequences of losing you...

Dear Reggie, Sort of strange isn't it? The way every relationship you have still manages to grapevine it's way back to me? #haunt...

I was laying down a personalized path to the insane asylum down the street when you called. You asked me if I were busy.... And I told you...

We're holding on to air hoping it won't slip through our fingers, gripping so hard and crying. Holding on to the smell of what u...

David Blair. I didn't know you, though I think I might have hugged you once... I don't know how you died. All I know is in your...

*The Sufi tell stories of timeless proportions, each one a gem ready to place value to all lives willing to cradle their worth with dili...

I find that heavy emotions make me feel more important when universe of love gets stuck in my throat and I form words around the air being ...

In the grand scheme, we are so small. We are pebbles thrown at the Sagrada Famillia. We will never even make a dent to this beautiful struc...

*My mother is not religious, Traded church attendance for a Miles Monroe novels, tells me, when she went to church, so times the things ...

When I realized your reason for visiting D.C., it stilled my heart.

My mother never fully pronounces the word molest-, lestation, molestation *hard swallow*, some things still get smothered in her throat.

We have so many words for the way we carry weight. Tote, bring, baggage, carry. So many names for the way our shoulders slump, the way boul...

If being happy is what makes you happy why not be happy?

When does it get to the point where denying your feelings is necessary? Where can I find the line between self-pity and self-honesty. Is...

There is so much I could say, So many poems I could write. Too many stories could be noted On behalf of this delight. But pain is immin...

Hardest thing about holding on is realizing there is nothing to hold onto. Hardest thing about being hurt is knowing he'll  never fee...

I do but then again, I don't. Or maybe it's that. I don't then again, I don't at   all .... ~Yeah. That one's defini...

At the beginning of the relationship, I was the sceptic. You were the sweet talker who liked the way “forever” rolled off your tongue. It’s ...