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 mourning after…

she came to me in a decadent whisper
singing songs of caged birds dying to be free
her soul dipped in melancholy reached out to me
as if i could save her
she somehow know that i was broken
wounded in the house of strangers
beaten down by empty kisses
as sensuous hands tear away pieces of me
my cries fell on deaf [...]

Morning…

this morning my dreams got away from me
 
showed me pieces of destiny and left my
soul yearning.
 
showed me visions of my past lives and i
strained my third eye to see the sequel
 
showed me the pain i hand conquered and my glaring imperfections
 
showed me my death and resurrection
 
showed me my broken heart once filled with cigarettes [...]

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!