My Prayer…

For the ones baptized when the levees broke…
Lord we ask you for your unending comfort.

For the ones thrust into the battlefields on foreign soil…
Lord we ask you to keep them and give them everlasting courage.

For the ones thrust into the battlefields of or cities and urban jungles….
Lord we ask you to give them [...]

The CHOKKLIT SHOP!!!!

Join myself, DJ Diva, RareBreed & Chokklit in a new venture.  Come by the Chokklit Shop and see what’s poppin’!!

Writers block…

It just hit me that I haven’t written any poetry in a minute!  I must be lacking some inspiration.  I need to get my Sonia Sanchez  mojo workin!

I Need…

i need you to see me…
 
a ghetto sunrise amongst a chocolate horizon
 
a single wish floating amongst the long drags
of cigarette smoke
 
a soulless tear washed away in a sea of brown
water and broken glass
 
a lonely word tainted with the taste of whiskey
and gloom
 
a lost rhythm found in the gyrating hips of little
brown [...]

still

i fell down and stretchedout my hands like tallblades of grass greeting thesunrise and feasting on the light.
cognac breezes intoxicate me asblack butterflies whisper songs ofsurvival in my ear.
i was tired of fightingand i lay here torest my soul as visionsof my past lives frolicon the edge of daybreak.
with each blink my eyessteal pieces of [...]

Color Struck

it was black love
that gave blessings to
black inspiration which cradled
black conception in it arms
‘til it birthed black babies under
grey clouds and a amethyst sky
it was black hands
that carried black
burdens as it picked
white cotton from brown
earth waiting for golden
chariots to swing low
it was black revolution
that created black pride
which blues eyes tried to
murder by hangin’ black men
from [...]