Berkeley showed me how to Speak Easy…
Throughout my creative career, I have manifested a vengeful way of doing things. Feeling always that I have something to prove. The reason why I perceive things in this way is layered by many things. One of the layers comes from being exposed to the “Survival of the Fittest” mentality omnipresent in the hip-hop culture, […]
Joe Budden Vs Drake “The Question of Irrelevance”
Whether you care about the culture of Hip-Hop or not this blog is for you. This blog is for all of us because the so-called” rap beef between “Drizzy” and “Jump-Off Joe Beazy” speaks to a narrative that embodies society on a whole. We are programmed to view success in certain ways and programed to […]
The Ego is a Tricky Little Bastard
Like a child sitting quietly in the corner/ a homeless man that asks you for change when you’re in a hurry/ or a phone number you don’t recognize/ we ignore our own ego/ even though it’s in plain sight/ We ignore this side of us at our own peril/ dismissing its actions like sounds that […]
God Bless this Union
This is the story of a wounded poet/ This is the story of 2 angels of mercy/ This is the story of light shining in the darkness of adversity/ Once upon a time a wounded poet came west from the east/ He had a soul that needed light and a spirit that needed peace/ He […]
My Speak Easy Experience
I have been on many stages in my lifetime, visited many venues and participated in many events where poetry was the common thread that bound the souls in the room. (So have some of you) Rarely…
#AllLivesMatter (kind of…)
All Lives Matter… of course they do/ but as most things the devil is in the details/ the mere fact that all lives matter has to be stated is an epic fail/ All agree/ quite vehemently/ that love will prevail/ But do we know how love works/ saying things like “love hurts?” like we are […]
3 The Hard Way
3 sides/ 3 angles/ + 1 dimension/ circumvention of closed doors/ is my intention/ not to mention/ one unified verse with 3 inflections/ warriors angels for your protection/ 3 voices registered as deadly weapons/ Inside skin we fit comfortably/ Balancing between the 3/ mind, body and spirit/ Boom, bap and lyric/ mic, stage and speaker/ crowd, host […]
The Karma of Passive Aggression
At this point in time many of us have realized two basic truths/ The first is this fact/ How folks are/ and how folks act/ might not match/ like your two thumbs do/ Number two/ There is karma associated with everything we do/ Before your mind contemplates/ or deliberates/ the karma we make by being […]
Once Upon A Time There Were 2 Lovers…
#OnceUponATime there were 2 lovers who were ordained to teach each other love’s true nature as well as the nature of people… One lover was a man who saw himself as invincible, the other was a woman who saw herself as broken… She hid her brokenness behind a mask of ego and lust. Keeping her […]
Battle of the Planets #poetry
Looks like I am in a different space these days/ To best describe this inner space I’ll use outer space as a metaphor/ I dance with the planets in spirit form and verse in manifesto/ If you were empathic enough to see/ the universe inside of me/ You would see planets spinning around the Sun/ […]
I Know… #Poetry of a personal nature…
I know why you say “That conversation would never happen” I know why a woman who has no desire to make peace with me wants to have casual “dialogue” at work. I know why you were and still are hell bent on keeping our history a secret. I know exactly why you had a sudden […]
“She Fascinates Me” #poetry #remix
She fascinates me/She fascinates me with her relentless exploration/She is hungry for the flavors of passion/ If joy had a taste it would taste like her/ And after me being starved of love for quite some time/ I would experience a manifesto that was quite sublime/ She tastes life with me just before dripping wisdom […]
