Rhyme Dramatic Verse Poems

walking through life as as a black person, 
the world needs to understand 
we rock with a rhyme, we bop with a beat
we jive like...

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The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers

The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's"...

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WHAT IF?

What if you were  the brightest star on the solstice night
Would you feel antagonism from the sparkling maze?
Or would Love dismiss uncertainty to...

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I wanted to leave the world behind,
But she said, "I want our story to be romanticized".
So I buried us alive, side by side.
...

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Whence I did take my chisel to stone
Carved I a damsel in rock
She bore the finest curves
As men bespoke of in droves

Each part was etched...

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Once upon a time, without complete thought
My life was simple, nothing was too fraught
But as I grew, new challenges emerged
My path wasn’t clear, fate was...

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I was walking home down the lane,                  ...

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"Oh' What should I call you 
my darlings letters gather
O'together with all of you
sisters and brothers what 
what is and what are that
So the shape...

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…thirteen miners…
…only one survived… 
…still clinging to life...  
...with a history of violations...
It wasn’t West Virginia. 
It was I.
And I’m taking the day off....

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It ain't a day that passes I don't think about u
Never thought there would be days that I'd be without u
Always thought u would be...

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You may not like my words 
you say they don't rhyme
 you say I'm  wasting time
Some say I've crossed the line
But in this dew...

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Give me a rhyme or reason
For me to stay with you
And it will be our summer season
Can’t you feel it too

So I wish for everyday...

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Camille, a girl of twelve
Red air and lost duel
With a virus that chokes 
Your chest with wheezing tones

You glow of your mountain shack
Your mother replenishing...

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I take no glory 
In the words that I crave
I've taken Glory not in these words that concave
Place on paper written and rhyme
Enveloped in emotions...

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Our own history disadvantages our weak soul
We were conquered by our weak thoughts
We defy power thinking we were deceived
Guilty or not we acted more than...

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