Best Licensed Poems

I am black and I have the ability to glorify the King
I am great and in believing in him, I have authority over all things
I...

Read more of this work...

Heavy heart 

Die  die
The fear in my eye
I can hide behind this badge
It will protect me and mines 

Is this how you feds think
Is...

Read more of this work...

Today I caught a little green lizard
He was the best one I have ever seen.
I caught him in my lizard-catching net,
He was poised, confident, polite...

Read more of this work...

A
walk
with God
alongside-
licensed to laughter
at life's impossibilities


Inspired by a line from  a Charles Wesley hymn...

Read more of this work...

He is out in the hallways wailing like a wailing wall.
I do not get involved until asked, so I stand quietly.
The teacher comes out and...

Read more of this work...

Retired now, the Government calls me a carer. 
Now I ask you what could be fairer?
They pay me a few dollars to look after my...

Read more of this work...

Licensed to right the wrong
Look past loopholes of lies 
Lure rivals to confess
Listen to untold facts
Lend voice for the silent
Language, their pearl armor
Lawful knights, dressed...

Read more of this work...

The land shrugs off the chill of winter
And emerges into spring’s full beauty.
The things barren bloom hereafter.
People remember me as an icon of vitality
I am...

Read more of this work...

Beneath a misty veil of ‘Euphoria’ by Calvin Klein, she dares to dream of acceptance in a world of wanna-be Literary Giants who are members...

Read more of this work...

Translation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan

(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here...

Read more of this work...

Welcome To The Black Society
Welcome to the dead society
I hope you make through it this poem
I hope I make through this poem
I hope gunshots don't...

Read more of this work...

Got referred to a female Urologist
After which I needed a Psychologist
"I'm a licensed physician
Now resume your position!"
Next appointment? Her sister Proctologist...

Read more of this work...

On nights like this the back porch was his haven. Removed, so he could focus on a poem, yet connected to the family inside by...

Read more of this work...

Stifled cries
No concern for the black man until the black man dies
Images of black and blue flash before my eyes
How many times?
Unprotected our men go...

Read more of this work...

I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen,...

Read more of this work...