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Delicious.. #poetry

Delicious.. Life is delicious is it not? Delicious like the kiss of a new lover after eating strawberries that swim in champagne/ Delicious like waffles/ syrup & coffee/ delicious like the thoughts of you that make me at ease/ Delicious like liquid legacy in penmanship/ in cursive/ in manuscript/ in calligraphy/ in graffiti/ although in […]

A Hundred Bars of Tough Love

At the table I sit like I’ve done so many times before/ Sometimes to break bread/ sometimes to wage war/ What more/ can I say/ if top billing/  Was already achieved at the hand of mic killing?/ Everything that doesn’t give you that feeling/ Like you ate soul food that promotes healing/ Hurt people/ Hurt […]

Top 5 Emcees with That Kid Raja.

I walk in spirit with God’s wind at my back… I think out-loud and I share those thoughts with critical thinkers. Today’s thinker is That Kid Raja. Today we chop it up about our “Top 5 Emcees”

Racism is Green.

I walk in spirit with God’s wind at my back… I think out-loud and I share those thoughts with critical thinkers. Today’s thinker is good friend, confidant and historian Khalid Francis.

There’s No Money in Poetry.. (Why is That?) #writtenverse

  Poets are smart enough to locate the seeds of inspiration/ Wise enough to prepare those seeds for cultivation/ Clever enough to harvest the words/ Seasoned enough to roll up the herbs/ and blow smoke into pronouns/ metaphors and verbs/ Haikus and Testimonies/ Shadowboxing with soliloquies/ Stanzas/ novels and sweet melodies/ The Earth is the […]

A Moment of Clarity #FreeVerse

        A Moment of Clarity #FreeVerse   So here I stand/ audience curious/ cameras rolling/ verses upon verses on the ready/ Heart injecting blood furious/ glands injecting adrenaline/ yet my hands are steady/ Butterflies now fly away freely/ and my gut easy/ No longer am I nervous although I embrace that energy/ […]

Black Love & the State of the Human Condition.

Black Love (An Honest Discussion ALL Races Need to Hear)

I walk in spirit with God’s wind at my back… I think out-loud and I share those thoughts with critical thinkers. Today’s thinker is Poet – Author – Activist – Essence Mahogany..