Best Ics Poems

"Home is Where the Heart Is"



Savages 
behind closed doors
Civilised 
but wild animals
sharpening claws
Humanity 
tries to escape itself
can’t run away 
from finding
"TRUE HOME"
behind closed doors
Now opening windows 
fresh air 
escaping shadows
Legs splayed and arms wide
breathe
"LIFE"
in for once, 
we are empty vessels
noisy prisoners 
in our own skin
Soul...

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*written for Verlena's Contest "EBONICS, Let's Do Some Slang"


SHAWTY,

Yir' boy fin' ta' told ya' bout some lessons in what the Man call Ebonics.
Cus' I gots' this!
Like the young fellow named Carmello on the New York Knicks, 
and girrrrrl I got mo' slang in my verse...

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And shake off the mantric spells ringing in your conditioned minds
            but remember and preserve the great sanskrit treatises
            those that refined aesthetics...

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"Wings of Icarus"


every angel for himself

the sky never falls
when love carries its 
shining sword on clouds 
walking on a blue Ichthys ocean 

words each feather
waxing lyrical wings
enfolding the fallen labyrinth
opening golden grail stories

wings of Icarus 
Michael held aloft
under morning star’s 
rapturous warming

the sky never falls
when...

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Chess--
It's a sixty four square board divided fight
Chessman rise, move among spaces out·right
It's high contrast, black and white
We sit over a table small
Making moves with our brains to a forward crawl
Both keeping mysteries to a concealed en·thrall

You a player... I'm game
White goes to start, me...

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'cubics' are
...non-perfect...
linears shaped by
...iron like...
consistencies in

...iron-ics...
of thought as
...reflections...
that manifest
...chisel-like...

cutting edges
...to contour...
some concept into
...an idea shaped meta...
for the actualities of some

...reality thats passing by...

 
stans sand...

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