Long Urban life Poems

Breaking down in the heart and mind.
With all regrets that are truly not kind.
Shocked at people are, so painful to see.
Abused with hated and ecstasy.
Violated and directed with torments
Lost of words or comments.
Hatred gushing out...

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As a teenager, I was so lean and lanky.
My mother worried over my physical stature.
She believed that all the nutrients in my diet,
were rapaciously devoured by my hair.

From childhood onwards, I had long, thick hair
that...

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Hot Child In The Urban Summer Dwelling

A Poem by Debbie_Philly
 
" Poem about the heat in the city ....;) "

Hot Child In the Summer Urban Dwelling
 
 
The city streets are buckling under the ...

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In the movie Denzel said Bumpy Johnson was just as important as Martin Luther 
King
"Meditate"
Think about what that statement really means 
American Gangsters are idolized as Kings
And what Martin said is just a dream
Unfulfilled
Because to...

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********************** Mario Rocha is an old friend of mine from California who was wrongfully imprisoned for over 7 years. He was stabbed several times while locked up, but left the State Penn. a seasoned poet!...

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Tears already shot to the heart without bullets or a trigger,
What a little world but time to make it bigger.
Love isn’t a factor to subtract,
Send me a memory but I’ll send it’s change back.
Family already...

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"some where inside of me i found a place where i hate to visit a place where 
typical things no longer matter."

the search for understanding has uncovered many reasons why i no longer 
believe in...

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Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian.

Flowers in their hair

In the vibrant city of San Francisco, where beauty and complexity intertwine, a tale unfolds with layers of caution and concern....

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Street Symphony
Urban Thoughtz Part 2

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
The Streets just took another soldier leavin another mother breathless

Trapped in the fact that men cant escape smokin so many trees...

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Lovely days produce lovely nights
and the sunset that transitions them;
build memories of comfort and embrace

The flowers of the field are adorn with complexion
and fed by God's grace
Like a sunbathe in darkness
my skin glows shades of...

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You have a different car for every day of the week, but for some 
        reason it’s happiness you still seek.
    You love your big...

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God Brought A Healing To My Troubled Mind…

I used to allow many thoughts to enter my mind.
There were good and bad ones... 
 Just about every kind.

My family thought I was being a “good Christian.”
I...

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Drugs are no good you’re living a lie, are you giving up on life and ready 
                to die?
 ...

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Do you feel like you’re “worn out” and defeated?
Like nothing in your life has really been completed?

Do you feel like your life is going “downhill” fast?
And wonder how much longer you’re “going to last?”

Do you...

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I Heard Jesus Call My Name…

I heard Jesus call my name just the other day.
I told him.  “Not now!”  “Just go away!”

It was his voice.  It was clear and imminent.
I was just...

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Here's The GOOD NEWS!

I get so tired of hearing about
 “the latest scandal…”
It makes me wonder; “how much
can this world handle?”

It seems like each day, on the news,
 it speaks of “another killing…”
Are these types...

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I’ve met many people with different
goals and ambitions…
This often includes making all kinds of decisions…

It seems like many are often confused 
:”which direction to go…”
And yet striving for “happiness,” 
or what “soothes the soul.”

Many are...

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High dollar clothes with tons of gold,
Putting on a look that’s daring and bold,
A rock star’s life , a break I cant get,
Why oh why am I not dead yet?
 
My habits will forever make...

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As the darkness of my room cradles me and hums urban life lullabies of fire engine 
trucks and police sirens.
I think of her.
The mere image of her in my mind causes a 100-watt smile to...

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This habit has a hold of me. ..
 I can’t seem to break it!
I’m so discouraged  …  I can’t “shake it!”

I don’t know what to do, or where to turn…
When I tell others...

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This habit has a hold of me. ..
 I can’t seem to break it!
I’m so discouraged  …  I can’t “shake it!”
I don’t know what to do, or where to turn…
When I tell others...

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HIV and AIDS…
A world epidemic filled with pain through pleasure that allowed you to open your 
legs and let him put it in…
You were wet, dripping with sweat, it didn't matter what he had at...

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(chorus)
sign up for the fallen nation/
become a part of complication/
live life of silent frustration/
only way to gain salvation/

(vrs1)
cheat yourself out of living a lie/
dont choose to live, youd rather die/
hate your past its gone forever/
original,...

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Help Me To Make A Difference…

Lord, help me to make a difference
 in someone’s life today
And to preach Jesus in what I do and say…

Help me to make a difference in this world
 that surrounds...

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This Life We Have…

This life we have is for a brief moment.
On the road to eternity… 
It’s a “postponement.”

This life we have will not be here for long.
This world that we live…  We don’t...

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