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Black Umbrella Afternoon

...Scary people are everywhere
weaving through backbones of rain-soaked roads
taillight burning A holes in my balding white walls.
Scary people in endless grocery store lines
carts filled with poiso...

Categories: taillight, life,
Form: Free verse

I Was a Will Smith Fan Once

...I love the way the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences let Will Smith sit there, for 40 minutes, preening in the front row, in plain sight, after he assaulted a black man at the Oscars. 

I...

Categories: taillight, success, teen, violence,
Form: Free verse

Blue Stain

...Slavery was abolished in America almost 200 years ago
but the system refuses to relinquish a sad history
binding young black men as they remain prey
and are locked up in a system to perform free l...

Categories: taillight, abuse, evil,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Thoughts of a Tired Toyota

...You think all I ever need is a full tank of gas
But my old fenders and taillight need repair
I grow weary of the way people stop and stare
Whenever I sputter and belch as we pass.

No proper chi...

Categories: taillight, car, humor, youth,
Form: Personification

Learning My Footsteps

...I want to walk without looking over my shoulder.
I want to eat without looking over my shoulder.
I want to drive without looking over my shoulder.
For, when I look over my shoulder.
My first refl...

Categories: taillight, history, society, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Anguish

...Anguish Isn't Always Visible


Late in the night a war fell, a war of midnight without a glow.
He always wore a painted face. 

His world became shrouded in endless dark all ...

Categories: taillight, suicide,
Form: Free verse

Highway

...Driving on the highway.
Body tired.
Mind Exhausted.
Over rivers of cement.
Under rising jumbo jets, bellies exposed.

Suddenly a flash of sunlight
hits the taillight
of the car in front of me,
creati...

Categories: taillight, light, spiritual, symbolism, ,
Form: Free verse

Night Driving

...I want to take a drive tonight
through a maze of half-lit roads
paved in onyx shadows.
I want to follow starry streets
that roll in waves of cold concrete
beneath the opal moon.
I want to cruis...

Categories: taillight, city,
Form: Free verse