poetry
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Disconnect
Common Sense has now been down-graded on a scale of OMG, I’m LMBO, I can’t hear the sound of laughing my butt off! can’t tell if my voice is hard or soft where have all the people gone? Real players must have given it a new definition because I can’t hear the sound of my… Continue reading
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Live Words
Anoint my imagination with the personification of sound let it walk its way through my memories so we may build dreams as infinite as the sky bless my brain with a physical manifestation of text do not speak to me or translate my feelings into emoticons but metamorph into the vibration you wish to kiss… Continue reading
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How
“How do you tell a black woman, raising a son isn’t some type of inside joke …snickering at the soul of a single parent mother, dressing her son for graduation hoping he can make it across the stage, down the aisles or off the balcony quick enough to not be caught in his skin at… Continue reading
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Genuine
Loving you is not a game It will not play psychology With language Will not toss rhetoric from walls Or hang deception on emotional hooks That dangle temptation like foolish tongues Will touch neither your body Or your mind Without permission instead Sincerity is the loudest whisper you’ve ever heard Laughter fills your belly to… Continue reading
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The Work of Love
“May your hands be an extension of your heart, and may you do the work of love with them.” – Aja Monet Continue reading
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Spoken Word
What is Spoken Word? Spoken Word is an oral art form; performance-based poetry that is focused on the aesthetics of word play and story-telling. However, there are aspects of the artistry that indicate it is, indeed, spoken word without the necessity of it being poetry. While Spoken Word Poetry is the foundation of what we… Continue reading
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Angels Sing
“Did your forehead ever collapse in your hands when you saw me acting too human for wings? Did you ever for a second consider giving up on me? From angels who flew too close to the sons and sons who did not fly close enough to angels, did you bleed rubies? Or cry diamonds on… Continue reading
