Ode Love Poems

Dr King done a marvelous thing.
He fought for racial equality, without taking a swing.
He didn't use a gun, nor even a fist.
But peaceful protests, he...

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everything I've ever written
these pieces of torn paper in my hand 
all this has only ever been
an ode to my silence
not for the boy who...

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Ode To Unrequited Love

Are you indeed my soul mate?
Then speak in kindness
When you speak to me

Endow me with a smile so sweet
That my heart would...

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His skin is stained like the softest grass
I bet he wouldn’t need a pole to catch a bass
The way his voice sounds so gravely and...

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We love it, we laud it, we honor its name.
We want to protect it,  this country of ours.
Our forefathers bought it with blood, sweat...

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Inspired by my beloved uncle Elliot Lubisi

Powerful is a man who respects his role of being a provider, a protector and a peacemaker in the...

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Oh yes! For the young girl
Who just landed on Mother Earth!
The one about to turn five with a smile
Or the other one who just turned...

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midst love flames, bliss glows

blest family reunion …

fiery thanksgiving* 

*Revelation 7:12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and...

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and though the sun shines brightly not
the tree lights this night of snow and ice
long it was for your love that i had sought
having it...

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Varying tactics to deftest tongues, 
I find it a futile taxing of tired lungs; 
She hears finer tropes with disdain, 
And loves lips that deal...

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Times have changed,
And I still think of you.

We are not the same -
We never have been.
Yet these thoughts trickle inside of me
Pooling 
Towards the desire....

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Ode to Bob

My little bird, 
that bites, 
hard.
How I love thee, 
anyway. 
You make me laugh, 
and cry, 
and believe
that all things 
are exactly…
what God...

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I do not recall when this relationship began,
But it seems as if you noticed me before I noticed you. 
Every season you were changing just...

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She snores under Night's somnolent veil,
Far from quiet throes of his teetering sail;
Her pulses come and go in silent throbs,
Attuned to trigger no lover’s salted...

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" Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs"
  - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gold tinged paints dripped from the air,
under the clear opalescent autumn sky
jade...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs;"

I sit alone in the Winter of my life
To ponder, the length of years by my own design

Here...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs;”  
               ...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of 
mossy leafless boughs; " 
                         Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Amid the jagged...

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“Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam 
                Of perilous...

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The splayed light of an obliging red sunset
lays upon the darkening meadow
of windswept grass

Slow-moving fingers in a visible dance
wrap in quiet space
when moonlight, silhouettes our...

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