Introspection Black African American Poems

In poetry, love and wisdom intertwine—a heartfelt love poem can carry profound wisdom, and wise reflections often touch upon matters of the heart. ????
Psalm 90:6
in...

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In the vast expanse of existence,
Your world, I find, fails to captivate my senses.
Unfortunate days, like wayward wanderers,
Don the garments of absurdity,
Parading their disconcerting presence.

Each...

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We grasp shadows flow over magenta light
      in the crystal trails of tourmaline
      yes, both...

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"ON THE MARK…! GET SET…!"

Ancestral faith has brought us this far;
They did so much with so little.
Let us not fail to do more;
There is much...

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hyenas don’t laugh
for nothing…

wrinkled elephant skin
is grayed with preserving
purpose unseen…

the surviving strength
of fire ants—who though not
born black—have a pretty
good idea of what’s it like…

oh this...

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Born into poverty , unholy society , sobriety the key to my life savings.
Daddy can't put the cider down ,Mama smoking that nicotine like her...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Privileged and lily white, my skin. 
Complicit from silence, my shame.
All lives matter, but in this moment, in this uneasy time,
Black lives should matter, not...

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C.O.M.S

Colors
Black, brown

Something that has been an issue since the beginning of time

Colors unite 
Colors causes actions out of spite
Colors are all different shades
Colors has been...

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I Am That I Am…Without End…

Listen, my heart is a soul drum
Beating the spiritual rhythms 
Of the sojourning struggle of life—
Pumping pulsating blood inking
The notes...

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Africa! my beloved Africa…mother
continent of my ancestor’s ancestors…
how well I know of you; yearn for you; yet
I have not met you in person.

America!  my...

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I looked at my community, and everything was ruined.
I thought, "It's a conspiracy; it's someone else's doing."

Day by day, I blamed the world---angry and frustrated:
The...

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introspection

i’m an ebony
hued mind poet
writing mine

inking words
bled from 
pregnant thoughts
yearning to be shared

sharing
is caring about:

freedom
justice
injustice
love
hungry children
war
peace
horrors of murder innocence
and lumbering shadows of life

i’m an ebony
hued...

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Black and white heart

I see you, and you see me
but, what is it really that you see?

Black skin-black heart
White skin-white heart

Can you see beyond the...

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Out of you and me,
The colors of our skins
And our humanity,
Comes the scarred history
Of the home of the brave
And the land of the free;
Where it...

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