Black Book Poems

Speed Dial

...Hang ups, 
I’ve got plenty of those 
Like a phone with
too many busy signals,
I couldn’t get through to you.

I think the number  you gave me was out of service.
You said, “Dial me up”
but th...

Book

...----------BOOK----------

Some sort of book,
Everybody needs.
Good book, bad book,
Fulfills your greed.

Light book, nice book,
Whatever you need.
Some sort of book,
Everybody needs.

Goo...

Petals of Pain

...Turquoise tears stain my face
Like violet varicose veins 
Stains of sentimental sensuality
Wrapped in white fears and black feathers

For love has fuschia flown away
Ruining reverie’s red roses...

Seijaku

...I swallowed the Little Book of Calm
to become a soothsayer, 
a seeker, a crier, a prophet for peace and solemnity.
For only then could I calm and relieve my troubled black book soul
torn by regre...

When the Dream is Chasing You

...I slithered into the well bucket,
sinking deeper and deeper out of focus, 
Self-healing with funneled darkness, 
but I could only call it home 

I huddled into the escape pod and retreated from ...

Leap

...I set out on a journey to appease my soul and honor the deity, but I got caught in a rift and almost fell from the cliff. I was caught between the tree and the rock, and the shrubs is covering my cap...

Black Is Not Wack

...
In a world where the color black is often misunderstood,
Let's shed some light on what's truly good.
Black Friday sales, a shopper's delight,
Financial success on the bottom line, shines bright....

Gangsta r

...



(Thinks) I Float like a Butterfly and sting like a tazer.
Mouth of the South, but my lips don't say (intelligent) 
words
Like Muhammad Alley Bin drive by shooting
Bin Laden with
delusion...

Pull The Rug

...

Taking on an odd challenge - committed
Ideal forms, fired in keenest kiln
Trespass pages torn out, inmate omitted
Anguish arms, firm steely shield


Tigers eye eclipse rolls out a rosy moon...

Whispers Of Validation

...


A gifted lover who uses emotions as a bargaining chip.
Tenacious in his grieving of a relationship that had so much potential.
A thick black book what holds the libido of lovers clinged toget...

Breakthrough

...Piano ballad. Hold on to your hope and your breakthrough. 

Breakthrough
(We're all trying)
By Michelle Morris
31/10/2022

There you are
All alone in the park
Sitting on that cold bench
Lif...

The Planets Part One

...after Gustav Holst

Do you remember when you told me that story
of all the Planets in the sky and how they all
had different jobs and had different people they
were in charge of?

(i)
In the ...

Tell It Like It Is

...(aka… A Note To A Cheat)

The birds and the bees are down on their knees
The bunnies and kittens are riddled with fleas
The chocolates are melted the flowers are dead
And Cupid’s gold arr...

God

...God is not a building dedicated to one faith 
that icon of a dead Christ that’s a myth that man makes…

Because men must define the unknown in stone a human façade or by words in a black book boun...

Child of the King

...I wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I believed in Jesus, a man of love,
But scared to death of God above.

Why would J...

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