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...
The Responsibility of Open Dialog

The Responsibility of Open Dialog

by | Jan 13, 2018 | Poetry

No Not one Noone Nope Don’t want to hear your honest opinion right now Serve me up some platitudes, please Some straight sycophantisms Not to me, but to the image one would like to portray Of themselves That broken mirror that tells you Yes Screams that thing If...

The Loneliness of Elevation

by | Oct 29, 2017 | Poetry

It’s the view that calls So tempting Seems inviting as hot cocoa And then you get there And the view is incredible But it is also cold No air up there It’s too high for even a  breath of life...