He was arrested and detained for nailing Barbie doll heads to telephone poles. He was beaten while in custody, accussed. After healing,...

Each tear that fell from the crushed moon of your face, stabbed me, broke and split into a thousand pains. But I held out my arms, and...

God be in my head And in my understanding; God be in mine eyes And in my looking; God be in my mouth And in my speaking; God be in my...

Luis Ponce de Leon, returning to his university after five years’ of  imprisonment by the Inquisition, resumed his lectures with the...

I am blind. I cannot see. Color has no bar to me. I know niether Black or white. I walk in night. Yet it seems I see mankind More...

I stand most humbly Before man’s wisdom, Knowing we are not Really wise: If we were We’d open up the kingdom And make earth happy As the...

Once I adopted A little girl child, She grew up and got ruint, Nearly drove me wild. Then I adopted A little boy. He used a switch-blade...

Always first to rise he usually sliped into daybreak like a phantom – heading (in jacket jeans white socks & loafers) for Alemeda the...

I cannot sleep.  The long, long Night is full of bitterness. I sit alone in my room, Beside a smoky lamp. I rub my heavy eyelids And idly...

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon I heard a Negro play Down on Lenox Avenue the other night ...

In places like Selma, Alabama, Kids say, In places like Chicago and New York…… In places like Chicago and New York Kids say, In places...

The path I walk was made for me with grains of faith for sand……. Because of those who paved the way – I am free to walk this land. The...

That which inside of me screaming beating about for exit or entry names the wind, wanting winds’ voice wanting winds’ power it is not...

“Mingus One, Two and Three” “Which is the image you want the world to see?’ – Charles Mingus, Beneath the UnderdogHeartstring, Blessed...

I. Would That I were a jewel, A shattered jewel, That all my shining brilliants Might fall at thy feet, Thou dark one. II. Would That I...

Listen! All you beauty-makers, Give up beauty for a moment. Look at harshness, look at pain, Look at life again. Look at hungry...

First, erase your mane, unravel your years, destroy your surroundings, uproot what you seem, and who remains standing?Then, rewrite...

my ole man took me to the fulton fish market we walk around the guts and the scalesmy ole man show mw the dead fish, eyes like throat...

1 when i stand around among poets i am embarrassed mostly, their long white beards, the great bulge in their pantstheir certainties i...

What would Martin do? I’ll leave the rest to you……. Hope all is well family, have a great weekend. Peace, Tenthltr2u