Remember Your Mother’s Hair

Remember Your Mother’s Hair

by | Apr 28, 2018 | Poetry

Remember your mother’s hair For it is not yours And you are not mine But the love binds us It curls and coils with us Love like hair Hair like love Remember your mother’s hair Remember your mother’s hair For it crowns and covers you Like blood and...
Telling the Truth: Black Panther

Telling the Truth: Black Panther

by | Feb 24, 2018 | Poetry

Everyone looks the same In Hollywood Same size, same clothes Same look Or they don’t sell for long Telling the truth Too Black Well, to be fair We buy it Our gilded cage is here Delivered by Uber And the ones that step out Brave enough to stand out Get attacked...
With the Old and the New Again

With the Old and the New Again

by | Feb 3, 2018 | Poetry

The below is from the last day of 2015 because my soul needed remindering! Blackbird Bluest Eye Bone straight hair Skinny thigh This is not I This is part I This in part I This impart I Winged creature fly Dragon Fly Dragonfly This is I This is why One of the good...
I Was Waiting for You

I Was Waiting for You

by | Nov 25, 2017 | Poetry

I was walking around my dining room last night, holding heaven in my arms.  I sang.  I danced. For the past 31 days, I have been high on love. I was given a promise in 2009, and it took until 2017 for all the pieces to fall divinely into place. I am fabulously tired....
For the Morning Sip

For the Morning Sip

by | Mar 4, 2017 | Poetry

It could be an oxymoron Like Decaf coffee Or democratic racism Or just words on a page A wall A tattoo on an elbow When you draw on rocks What does that change? You, I think There are ghosts in the machine Or smoke blown up an arse Perhaps this is too political for a...