Poetry
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Grown Enough
She has a secret that she just does not want to grow up If she could just make it to 21 drink her liver half-dead and tell Hennessy he’s the one he makes her forget she’s had too much but maybe she just hasn’t had enough to make her realize that her friends are gone … Continue reading
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“What’s Your Poetry?”
Like angels are playing on the strings of my vocal cords. Words that cannot remain unmoved or concealed however introverted I am. What’s YOUR poetry? Continue reading
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Starving Contentment
Like music swallows its bass inside the belly of the loud speakers their stomachs growl, but they ain’t really hungry…. they just come to see what all the commotion is like…. they wanna know what all this poetry stuff is but…… they ain’t really hungry…… they just wanna see how pretty her pain is. Continue reading
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Revolutionary Youth
I notice that young people like to engage into conscious conversation nowadays…. a mind heavy with questions a….. bed of regret too slippery to hold onto any longer we linger on the brink of activism and righteous revolution but….. like wild bulls in a net we are caught ironically by the same thirst for… Continue reading
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Humility
Humility is loving that which is poor it is bringing oneself down becoming a servant to an innermost consciousness to appreciate that which is forgotten and insignificant to relapse back into a state of childhood where even something as great as a piece of broken glass seems innocent where it is not glass it is… Continue reading
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The Revelation of Speech
Think before you speak. For the mind is the root of all conduct it sprouts four branches: good and evil life and death and it is the tongue that continually rules them. The test of a man is in his conversation so a persons speech discloses the cultivation of his mind. Continue reading
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Cousin
She walks but she sleeps… she sleeps her way down 35th street, Chicago’s State Streets. The project life booming lights camera action, whistles blowing the street life calling undressing her body with its eyes for she blooms into this new body just as suddenly as the sky rises she rises into womanhood……. since that first… Continue reading
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