Encaged Poems

THE RED

...Thinking I was paralized, 
understanding I was torn.
Feeling no love,
and my existence void of any form.
Hovering I felt I had traveled 
beyond a dream.
I knew this was torment,
yet I was unab...

Though no political pundit, nevertheless

...Though no political pundit, nevertheless...

I trumpet the withdrawal
of democratic contender from out the presidential race.

Breaking headline news story
courtesy rumor monger premieres
show...

A Birds Cry for Freedom

...I have been encaged all my life for mans pleasure and fun, 
my precious life had sadly ended before it even begun. 

In human terms I have been enslaved so man could hear my song. 
Behind the bar...

My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month

...My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month

Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and ...

Reflections

...Years of lifetime thrown away,
I am encaged of bars I created myself.
The host and the hostage;
The prisoner and the prison.
They are all the same,
They are all me.

I have been here long enou...

Mother

...Was I never enough or was I always too much? 
Or was I just right there missing your touch?
How could you break it through
Life gave you life but placed these crazy challenges
Upon you
You had m...

Encaged and Enraged

...She lived in a castle, isolated,
Time flew slow, gruelling and full of hatred,
The crown lay broken on the floor,
Shattered, scattered, one piece no more.

Royal duties thrown away, Pirates life...

One Fine Night

..."one fine night"

do you remember the night that one fine night
starting as a three hour tour lasting endlessly
witnessing the sun then the moon and sun once more
never expecting our happy place...

My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month

...My nascent poetic tribute to black history month

more apropos and alternately titled: 
praise to thee people 
of variegated melanin color,
whose immense understated improvements
and enhancemen...

The Epic of the Great King

...There sits behind deep forests hidden,
A sight to behold, place of all sins ridden,
Where the great rivers give life and churn,
A thousand diamonds and the trees sing
Along with the wind, ruled b...

Aspirations of My Soul

...My soul is encaged within ribbed walls
Bound by body as if shackled and tethered.
What would it wish if one could be granted?
To be freed from my mind, from my body depart?
No, that's not...

Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month

...Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color  
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred. 

Though I yam Caucas...

I Found It

...As you look at me I'm not him.
Wearing a face of a man that does not exist, a myth. 
   For i am reserved, deep within the confines of self.
Ensorcelled, impelled, upon a journey of discovery. 
 ...

Encaged and Enraged

...I am encaged and enraged.
Have not been inside a store since February.
It is almost Christmas. Not that it matters.
The pandemic is worse than ever.
Fear keeps me trapped.
In a house with one ot...

I Will Never Forget

...I will never forget the man I fell in love with, 
a man who once felt whole, who now bellows 
through broken nights of blood-stained desert, 
who sees ashen faces frozen in sand squalls  
and cal...

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