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Slavery wasn't slavery

There's a man who I call DeSatan
From Florida to Sunshine State 
who said that slavery for Black folks in America 
was beneficial and great. 
they were taught skills on how to be 
better productive slaves 
and those beatings, rapes and lynchings 
was simply how white folks behave
no need for us to get bent out of

In the Grip of a Panic Attack

"What's most horrible?" someone asked.
"What's most frightening?" another inquired.

Without a second, the soul replied:
"The panic attack."

One moment, I accept it;
The next, I encounter it.

Yes, it's a panic attack without any bear. 

It begins with a sharp chest pain,
A tightness that mimics the heart arrest.

A lump rises in my threatened throat,
My heartbeat races, erratic and unsure.
My

Love's Beating

Soul of one's life, does it live to exist 
Perhaps emotional wreck of many desires breath 
Love, hate, judgement to feel as if thought 
Undying voice controlling journey of life 
You can not kill for its idealistic 
Realities truth to honesty in a race 
Can not hide, darkness depths can't contain 
Even the unkind feel

Planche de Chair Cuite

She was not invited

She was arranged

They never wanted Jasmine 
not the woman who brought basil-clean hands
and pomegranate soap 
who harmonized soliloquies into pastries 
while they offered only 
hinges rusted shut

She was not guest

She was garnish

Not Jasmine the flower 
but Jasmine the bulb 
strangled in its own clay
frost biting at the marrow 
buried beneath their polite

DELIGHTS OF CHILD IN ME

Carnival nights make the child-in-me 
delight vibrantly in freedom bliss
bask unmindfully midst colors of varied hues
create magical time of beautiful wonders
transforming chaotic world into marvelous haven.

Awesome kaleidoscopic moments
grasp me around engagements, indeed radiant
midst life turning oblivious from grim reality
bringing sheer laughter of amazement-joy.

Viewing the sights at exuberant perspective
carnival attractions invite 
me toward attentiveness-bliss
joining rides midst

I Turn My Back on Bitterness

I wish we could have justice, 
not just under the law, but for those who mistreat, use, and deceive us. 
For those who break promises and hearts with no compunction, no apology.
If I could sue you or accuse you in a court of law, with a judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, and jury…If I could rip

From the Core to the surface

From surface to the core,
we built with metaphor —
now silence stands
where voices used to soar.
We don’t talk anymore,
are you pretty sure?
It’s not like before…
but I remember you,
like an echo in a closing door.
The rising sun returns each day,
making us forget
the hush of night —
just as every other man
revels in the fleeting light
before paying the price
for

Born to Rage

I woke with blood in my mouth
and no memory
of the scab that sealed the rasure.

I’m cat-spitting
dog-growling
peregrine-divebombing
rooster-flogging
badger-flipping
hornet-stinging
wolverine-ripping mad.

I fired the sun for showing up late
cursed the fridge light until
yogurt soured in terror.

God called
I let it ring twice.

The therapist said breathe
so I swallowed my tongue
now I speak
in the language of things with canines.

coyote-howl syntax
vulture-vowel decay
the guttural grammar
of

The Poems That Never Get Read

The poems that never get read.
Sitting in some pile of papers on the desk.
They just didn't have it to go anywhere.
Though they hold the stories of lovers and haters.
Big men and little men.
Winners and losers.
Beauty and the beast!
The World, what a place!
The tales of great drama called the human condition.
From the past and the future

Wombstorm: A Herstory of Hysteria

I. THE WANDERING

I was born with a life that bled—
a seafloor womb
dragging tides of fern
and marigold char

The priests brought saffron
and fear

crowning me with diagnosis

They said: She is too empty
They said: Fill her with figs
with seed
with stillness
They said: Her belly speaks too loud
Mute her

O Plato
old patriarch of phantoms
my body was no beast—
just prophecy you never learned

Heartbroken By Young Love --POTD

I feel your unrehearsed pauses--
the rustle of a blue shirt in leaving
a tangy ache your firm lips make,
holding back  cold, collected words.

This rendezvous ... a slow-fire quiver
an  ending which has it's own interment;
and outside, night wrestles with time
brittle dew against my eyes, dry mouth
licking an estranged bite that reminds me
of your frivolity .

We shall be speaking Physics by the end of today

This is a problem growing in direct proportion
To the papers that we face very soon
In everyone’s speech a pronounced distortion
And half the class sleepwalking at noon
I’m here chiefly to bring to your attention
You may soon not understand us
Because I for one, others by extension
Shall be speaking nothing but Physics because

James is moving about too excited
Gerald

Trust

How can True trust Faith when lies begin to escape,

You are the reason why I hide my face with a Smile or a Cape,

Because I can't forget what you Took and what you keep Taking,

My Heart keeps on breaking daily, that is why I am Inhaling,

These Drugs I Breath,

I just can't Believe,

Life is full of

To Ponder or Not to Ponder

To ponder or not to ponder - that is the question.
Is it a waste of my precious seconds, minutes, hours
To dwell on the questions that plague my mind?
I spend my waking and waning hours mulling and considering,
Crashing waves of question marks and possibilities
Dance around in my mind's eye, quelling the beast of sleep.
A skeptical girl's

No life, No death

Oh death
The fear of countless souls 
I adore your kiss
I need you close
When will we meet?
When shall you come?

It's too long a wait
Please come tonight 
I don't know you
I know life is a tsunami
Perhaps you can rescue me
Where shall we meet?

Oh life
The lover of the lifeless 
I've honored your presence 
I gave you my all
Why

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