I have worked myself quite literally, to death

and sometimes my sons won’t even say thank you like it’s a waste of their breath

ok son, so now you think you’re too old to listen to what your mama has to say

Reminding me that you are grown just because you’ve passed your 18th birthday ... Read More

Mother’s Wonder

Watching the dawning of realization

Drift into bright open eyes

All of that perfect understanding
The truest learning of a lesson

My children are a wonder

Receiving the purity of thought

Imagination within them

Th ... Read More

The Cotton People

Hand me down the burden of cut hands and sun beaten brow. Allow me to walk barefoot thru thorns and thicket. Deprave me the drink to quench my thirst and soothe my throat. Force me to my feet when I'm full of cold and sickness. Scar my back when my honor steps forth. Steal away my father and mother and make me bury my own brothers. Rape my sister then punish her for baring your y ... Read More

Past Tense

Here on this day, I remember my mother and father and all those that are bound to their creation. Every man, woman and child that was raised to honor those before them, all those that were raised to provide to those after. One house and home to shelter all that need the warmth within. The blessings that kept the fire lit and let the bread rise. All that could be done for Family was done ... Read More

Strength

Does not always come from brawn

Instead, the ability to endure beyond

To find a smile behind a tear

To discover comfort past the fear

It is not a result bought in a jar

The force that will take you far

It’s the sinew within the spirit of a heart

That will in th ... Read More

Sinking Fast

Just How Long?

Can A Family Last?

Without One Member

The Cost Of Life

Family Goes Beyond

Husband & Wife

From Ancestors To Descendants

From The Beginning To The End

Omega Is Where

Alpha Does End

When The World Comes Full Circle

360 Degrees

Who Will Stand?

Who Will Please?

The Children's Desire

To Learn About The Past

Just How Long?

Can This RelationSHIP ... Read More

Who wants 2 be a baby mama?.. Quick for the $1 million dollars?

Is that ur final answer? (ding) that's becus no woman, as a lil girl dreams of being the carrier of his seed,

No ring, no papers, just the supplier of his physical need.

Who w ... Read More

I have never mourned the loss

of a treasure chest buried deep,

nor do I remember the face of money

when I’m haunted in my sleep.

My Family never ... Read More

Michael Jordan

I'd like to go down as the Michael Jordan of Poetry

Stay with me here, cuz I'm speaking metaphorically

The way he dominated hardwoods athletically

I wan to forever dominate mental stimulation poetically

The way his exploits inspired many to dribble a ball

I want to channel the inner skillcraft in us all

When young men get done with a pick up game

I want them to go home and stimulate their brains

The sa ... Read More

Don't put your hands on her

Like Ms. Cole I must be dreaming

Scratching my head lookin' for reasons

My Pop has to go and tell my Granny

That Keisha's voice again she won't be hearing

See, she was unable to break the cycle

And the coward finally took her life

The same coward that left his seed inside

Did the deed while his baby cried

Ironically, even half dead cowards can cre ... Read More

Note:  I wrote this piece after watching a two part series on Span television.  It featured some of our well known actors and entertainers; it was a series about them tracing their roots and what they found or did not find.  Very interesting how information can be lost and found, or lost forever.  Most of us don't have the funds to do an indepth search of our family; I've always said I was going to do a Family tree.  Have you ever wondered where your ancestry star ... Read More

I remember wakeing up to a woman
She was standing right by my bed
My pillow was soaked from tears
She wiped away the ones recently shed

She was pretty
A head full of black hair
I didnt know who she was
So i lay there and stare

The one i always knew as mom walked in
She had a bit of flour on her chin
The woman said "hey honey Do you remember me"
But my eyes were filled with tears i couldnt see

She told me that she was my birth mother
That i co ... Read More

If I died today
Would i know tomorrow
Or is hell my only sorrow
I lived and died no more time to borrow
Slouched in the cave like sleepy hollow
No more one night stnds no apollos
Yet if I died today
I leave behind nothing
Not a scream not a cry
No lonely whisper or alibie
No wife no Family ties
Maybe some growing pains
Big brother eagle eyes
Caskets have no lullabies
Yet they poetry me on TV closed caption alphabatized
Death ears so hypnoized
St ... Read More

epiphany

(dedicated to my baby brother who was just eighteen when killed by a drunk driver. i was just nineteen and fresh off to university while he had just been accepted to a very prestigious school for the arts. So much for youth. i was now demolished)

… epiphany

i find myself

“CERISE SIMONE”

(my niece)