Manhood Men Poems

Tell me
I'm not a man.

Up against this 
charred forest,
compelled along
its path.

Handed these levers,
these weights, these
high-stakes appraisals.

Delivered this beaten,
broken mired work,
these floundering hopes.

Living with my chiseled
consequences
and
fast...

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DIARY OF BOYS TO MEN

WHEN WE BECAME A MAN:
Entrant into the promise land of adulthood
Where the wanderings cease and building begins
Where that unstable thing in...

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What does it means to be a man?
Its not what we learn as a child,
The freedom, superiority, happiness is all a lie,
A man is merely...

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                A Man

Gender has classified me, but I am yet...

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I.
They say women don’t need men anymore,
that they can have it all on their own,
feminism claims it is the future,
and that it’s contingent on me...

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Oh Vanity Thy Name is Metro-Man

At the gym,
admiring his bulging biceps in a giant mirror,
he reaches for his ever-ready smart phone
and stops to make a...

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Letter to all Woman from all Men

Now this is very tricky and difficult because I'm also going
to speak for those males that don't know nor...

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can manhood die
before the man
slipping, slow, and silent like grains of sand?

could it be,
once seed, then sapling, now verdant tree
all three
conspire to sow his tragedy?

can...

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You madman ranting in the train
Time sold in that bottle should delay your pain
But what has poisoned you to disordain
Professing the impossible over and over...

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writing a rhyme
never a crime
a man wearing pink
his manhood won't shrink
quickly they'll label
their lives unstable
the names will stay
never for play
before the judgement is made
make sure...

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Yesterday was tears of my childhood
Today is a chapter of new manhood
What does it take to be a real man?
Does it fall in making a...

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A firm, definition attached to my title,
Loyal to my strength as my conviction to Christianity,
Harder than the blows Lucifer dares to strike.
Rigid are these eyes,...

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What annoys me to the core
Is a man to his word untrue
For honor is tied to manhood
It does annoy me, how ‘bout you?

They emasculate themselves
With...

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The strength of a man is not determined
By his muscles or his brawn
It is determined by his strength
To admit when he is wrong

The wisdom of...

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Photograph hanging on my wall of memories 
Keeping you young safe from a world moving 
To fast 
Boys grow into men not in my heart...

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