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Father, Over the Long Years

I have struggled, father,since the conclusion of your account,and most times, when my eyes openedupon dreadful way stations, skin stretchedtight over a belly rounded by new life,hope seemed like forgotten lore,a tale vaguely remembered from early yea

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Content Me, If You Would

an a capella of sinful verse as intro,then the song of ages begins to play,a serenade to this conference of familiar strangers,and, o, how my veins thrill to the sound of those gospel truthshummed along elicited receptors to consecrated need,sweet, s

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Just found this

Third & Auction (an intersection in memphis)you can glimpse the little girl sheonce was notlong agoin the pristine purse of her lips,the heartfelt flutter of hereye/lashes,The way she swings her folded umbrellaas she walks through the rain.The crow's

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Metaphysical

Is it wrong to think of myself as a god to beIs it wrong not to believe in what only they seeMy Blackness is the keyTrue light emanates from meIt’s warm and cozy like sheNow who is she that’s got it like thatSo Pretty, ass so fatYeah it’s like thatJa

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The Goddess and Her Consort

Gone mad and she’s wildLove to watch, loves to prowlYou think he doesn’t know but I doThere’s a goddess walking amongst youGot god eyes so I can seeIn woman that divine ShaktiThe awe of your temple is bigger than heI am nothing without your energyWal

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You My High(for Nicole)

You my high,baby,you my high.I fiend for you like a crackhead fiends for scotty beams;You are the reason I focus on enhancing my C.R.E.A.M.,for cash rules fools like me;You are the pit-stop en route to my destiny,wherever it may be.I can only bluepri

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First Breath

With bloodbeating at my templesand horizonsbeckoning for discoveryland, magicalstrangetaboowaitedfor my penMiles and Coltrane'snightingalesawoke to trill of moonbeamsand desireZora,Langston andOctavia whispered:"We waiting onon you,you better createw

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NORMAL EARTH

Routine mummies.Mums the word;Don't disrupt them,the conformed herd.Them, of normal Earth.Walk like they walk.Talk like they talk.Mums the word.Speak not alien to them.Them,of normal EarthSpectator to player,you become,they see you;You dare to differ

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70s Groove

Young, freshin tank tops, shortsopen-toed sandalsWe enterlaminated black lightcartoon postersWAR kicking an ill beaton eight trackBlow shotgunsuntil our eyesare mauveheavy liddedHang until minute detailsbecome conundrumssuitable for heavy rappingBut

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Levithan

Leviathan
of flesh and steel
Racing through streets
Soaring comet of
technological genius

His fists crush tons
of debris to dust
His sight travels miles
over the designated horizon

Torn from his life --
crushed
disemboweled
by madness
inferno and s

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My Best Day

Summerwe walk the concreteMe, Sukie and Laconyawith dusty feetmidriff topscutoff shortsPast knee high grasspurple and fuchsia wildflowersJune bugsLiberate blackberries from the vine-- “Don’t worry ‘bout no snakes.”Join a gathering of elderseighteen t

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Love Poems

RealMy man is everything a woman could dream.Dedicated, hard working, strong.I bear my soul to him.With him I have no reason to fear anything.My rock, strength, fortress.He is my protector.The love in his eyes exsists only for me.Sensual, penetrating

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