I never liked the taste of lies,
like a half sip of cognac they are tough to swallow.
So I should’ve known better than to trust a man who couldn’t look me in the eyes. I...
It was just me, warm beer, the phone and a clock as I sat there in the dark spotlights of loneliness.
A Friday night and I was sitting alone staring off into...
She Gave Me Life
(A Mother’s Day Tribute)
Her smile shared laughter when pain and poverty
challenged her soul. Her eyes sparkled joy
when sadness weakened...
What Time Left Behind
A Four family house, all white with a trim of red;
stain glassed windows and steps of concrete stone.
A house no longer a home...
There is always hope when the beauty of roses
uplift through the cracks of shattered sidewalks
where footprints of promise have faded…
and there are always...
It does not take a crown,
a throne or a bloodline of royalty
to become a king;
it takes the heart of a man
and the sweat of a warrior.
A man does not become...
Art By Antwan Sargent, www.i-d.vice.com
Voices silenced;
minds hypnotized, stereotyped by violence –
HANDS UP, DON’T SHOOT
the injustice of equality...
In Summer
In summer, the song sings itself.
~William CarlosWilliams
I hear the songs again. Back when my mind
was in the body of innocence – before growth
when...
I wonder what Langston Hughes would’ve done
if there were no words – I wonder how he would’ve
taught the world about deferred dreams if there was no way
to...
