Name Slavery Poems

Oh, Africa, a vast and varied land
Yet overshadowed by IMF's hand
Structural adjustments they decree
Yet bring nothing but misery

Forced reforms they demand
Leaving nations bound in financial...

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("Bye Bye Safe Journey", 2014, original pen and ink and oil)

The Great Reset

As the modern world hurls towards tomorrow
more and more of us are swept...

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My dreams became galling
To my fratricidal brothers
My father's favor appalling
Birthed from different mothers

"The master of dreams is coming."
Down the cistern they tossed me
Their plan to...

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Inside this cell no sell, just a bag of spiders big and fat 
with gnarly hands she tucks away fifty crawlies in her hat
Her name...

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A wild wisp,
bound by a vile kiss.
A rogue thought,
bound by flesh and an unchaste heart.

The parallax of bliss..

An outcast shut in.
Withering in distraught.
Die blessed, you...

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I bow down to the great Dickens
Whose name has touched every soil,
And whose art has touched every soul,
His  art "Hard Times" has travelled far...

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A Letter from Heaven!

This Poem was Inspired by My Reaction to Individuals Carrying Out Abortions on a Daily Basis, as if that New Life Had...

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Citizens Are

By the numbers, 
1,2,3... count them all you see. 
From here and there and everywhere, 
we are one. 

America. 
The land of plenty. 
But...

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(From the musical "On Eagles' Wings." This song was written with my sister Faith Alexis.)

No, He cannot think I would deserve
To have His eye upon...

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"It’s 2022 some of our Caucasian brothers and sisters;
Still thinkN like them, their ancestors
I’m indentured renounce demented
Whipped, cut almost raw to the bone;
(Mentally-spiritually unwrapped;
Shot N...

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slaves around me, slaves everywhere,
I am myself a slave, slave to scares.
bound by chains unseen,
in prisons without walls,
enslaved by beliefs from births,
tutored to worship,
trained to...

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Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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~ Ironical-Educational Limerick ~

     Slinging southern-fried political pus
     Easy as pie for smooth-talking Russ
   ...

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An elderly black man with a head of grey hair,
Loyal to the farmland he worked but did not own,
In a time when law and justice’s...

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Black folk kept in sad condition
By owners without contrition.
What to do, what to do?
Wage war for emancipation
And forge a fresh slave-free nation.

The Forrest-Byrd Klan and...

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