Soul of the Poet 2
Mother Rosa
In memory of Rosa L. Parks
Freedom.
You carried that banner
For us all
And for all of us you stood
The test of time
And weathered every storm
In order to bring
On FREEDOM as our goal and place
FREEDOM in our sights.
You sat down
So we can move up,
You sat down
So our children's children
Won't give up or give out.
You carried that torch
Of FREEDOM in order
To bring hope for others
Even in a dying world
Where race is an issue
You were the one
The barrier of that light....
(C) 2005
soul of the poet 2
The Dance of Winter's Wonder
The winter's cold
Falls suddenly as those outside
Bungles up in their winter wears.
The crisp December air
Cuts like a knife
As the winter's old man dances
Around in a symphony of winter's
Song playing repeats
In those winter days.
The crystal snowy flakes
Fall freely dancing like
Tiny dancers in a winter's ballet
In December air
As I watch in wonder
The beauty of winter's wonderland
Right before my very eyes.
The delight of it all
To watch winter unfold like
Pages of a book that
You pick up and look
At the pictures and you
See it before your very eyes.
The winter nights are special
With the moon up
Shinning brightly illuminating
The night skies with delight
Shinning a reflecting on the snow
The starry clear skies
Reflects the loveliness of the night
Gleaming
Brightly in the upward skies
Lovely and bright
Because the night's affair
To bring about a joy to see
Even now....
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Soul Mate
*a wedding poem*
In my heart
I do believe
Our love is true
And it won't depart
No matter what we go through
You are my soul mate.
Lifetime partners yes
Until the end
But I guess
And you know that my lover my friend
My African Queen everyday
Love has found us
In every-way.
Truly soulmates for life
Soon we will
Be together as husband and wife
My African Queen
My soul mate.
17 Feb. 2000
The Common Man
to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen
The common man gets up in the morning
To work in. order to feed his family,
The common man struggles to make ends meet
Not letting his family go hungry,
The common man prays for his family daily
From any hurt harm or danger
That's what the common man does.
The common loves his wife and kids,
Holding things together everyday.
The common man works sunrise to sunset
Does what he can in every way.
The common man is peaceable to his fellow man
Not in war with his neighbor
Being the kind of man who loves----
Yeah, that's what the common man does.
The common man believes in God
And all His wondrous things He do,
Prays with his family daily
He tries to be true,
True to his family and his God
That's common man as you see
And that's what he does.
Now that you know what is a common man,And what a common man does and do,Then clearly understandAbout the common man.In case you haven't seen oneLook around and take a good look----And you'll surely fine and understoodThe common man and his purposeYes that's what the common man does.
As Crazy As This Sound
Hey girl,
Are you thinking of me?
I am sure thinking of you
Even more and more
As the mood is set just right
And the night is cool as it can be
As you and I are snuggled
Up against each other so in love.
I just wanted to that light
Shinning on you day and night and
Always and forever and a day!
You with your sexy self
Looking good to eat
Looking good enough to be like ice cream
Just to scoop you up like every single flor
There is to be flavored.
Be like fried chicken
Fried nd well seasoned at all times.
with every topping galore
To fit you like a "T".
As crazy this sounds
You give me fever to burn
Torch hot to sizzle and then more.
baby you are the one for me
Because you are the one for me
As crazy as it sounds
But I don't care
I just want you!
(C) 2004
soul of the poet 2
THE BLACK POET SPEAKS
I write as I speak to you
In a poem I write to you
May God's blessings be plentiful for you
I bid my people long life and love,
I bid you my people peace among one another,
I bid financial success to you my blessed people.
God's richest blessings upon you as I speak,
The black poet has spoken!
3-21-83
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See Me?
Can you see me?
Skin dark
Eyes brown
I am someone's
Son, nephew, grandchild
Even in a world so cruel
Where violence is everywhere.
Can you see me?
A man with a heart
Not my skin color
Or my class
But see me as a human being.
2017
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I look at you from different eyes
Seeing you like this
In a much different light
Then those eyes of yesterday.
You are one beautiful person
Shaped into a beautiful being
God's wonder of creation created
Fashioned, formed and put together
Like no one else
But you
Yes, you as I look at you.
And it wasn't until now
I see you as something better
Then you are clearly then.
But you are here in the now.
And until now I see a beautiful being
Like no one else.
(C) 2003
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soul of the poet 2
Poem # 19
In your eyes
I see a different light
Maybe another you
Perhaps something about you
I see a certain you
A far side of you
The best side of you
And that's all I can see
Of you from inside out
Outside in...
(C) 2006
Untitled
I'm experiencing some things right now
Dealing with a virus that won't go away
violence on the streets
This is a messed up time or day.
Everywhere you turn
Something's always going on
More violence on the streets
Same verse and same song.
a government that turned it's back
Not carrying or not
and not for the working class
Or do something better in fact.
I'm experiencing conflict all around
Fix what's been broken
Even when things seems rough
and after all the silence but no sound.
Marchers marching to a different beat
Echoes of protest thundering loud
and you can hear it by the sound of their feet
The shades of the past is suddenly shown.
The protesters in blue
Trying to defend themselves and the only they live
While the loud sounds of a crowd
Addresses their various views.
While there's violence around us
Peace will be found someday
As I experienced somethings in my head..... 10 july 2020
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DARK SKIN, Light Skin
A social commentary
Black is my skin
Tar baby...sambo
Negro
SKIN DARk as NIGHT
So DARK where there’s no light
Because BLACK is my skin.
They called me ugly
Because of the shade of my skin, you see
You know what, that don’t bother me
Because BLACK is my skin.
Charcoal BLACK SKIN
Dark as the night some say DARK as sin
Looking burnt beyond seen
Yes, even black a coffee bean
That's why BLACK is my skin.
Monkey DARK smut
So BLACK from your head to toes and all over the butt
Too dark for me
Much too dark would you agree?
And that’s why BLACK is my skin.
Let there be light....
Mixed breed, whop, wanna be white
Tanned and kissed by the sun
Every guy wants you and the tale of the tape begun
Light is what my skin is.
Half and half like putting in coffee as cream
Give me a light sister anytime a beauty that seems
Flawless, fearless and just so fine
I hope I’m not out of line
Because light is my skin.
Silky smooth beauty
Long hair of beauty I see
With brown eyes so divine
Bedroom eyes to say you’re mine,
And light is my skin.
She's BLACK with kinky hair,
She’s light and her skin so fair,
She’s BLACK and loud
She’s light like those clouds
And it’s the skin I’m in.
BLACK SKIN, DARK SKIN
Light skin the skin
I’m in. 25 June 2020
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Words
Enough said,
Words are only words
When you put it together?
Sew it together
Like a quilt
Rapped in love
Warm and just wonderful
Because words are not enough.
Catch a star
Don't let it go
Watch it fall and then
Make a wish
For wishes can come true
And to let you know
Words are not enough.
Dream your dreams
Don't let nobody turn you around,
Keep the faith and maintain that course
Called life love hope, peace
And other things positive
But remember that words are not enough.
Enough said---
Words are only words
When spoken and spoken well
Because words are not enough.
2 April 07
NIGHT LIGHt
The is lit up
Like a brighten the skies
With the and stars
Joining to bright the night.
The elements off the skies
Is proven to be like a light show
Shining brightly
Brightly
The brightness of night---
Night LIGHT…
The Vote Or Bullet
A Social Commentary
We need to press the issue
Of what’s wrong in our country
Or are the puppets of democracy blind and can’t see
How they’ll bent backwards to their own butts.
We need to press the problems
Out of the window of do nothingness
And drown it out to what’s not more but less
For the ones who are struggling day in and day out.
We THE ARE fed up
With its so-called leaders playing with lives so
And in return THE COLD you know
And the world turned all about.
One VOTE at a titimeme
To what’s wrong to right......
Feb. 2020
Stressless
I won't stress
I won't freak out
And AGAIN, being in a mess
All I can do is my very best---
Without all these feelings no doubt.
I cannot let stress
Bother me in the long run
Or burn me like the sun,
Or put me in an early grave
All I can do is my very best.
I won't let stress break me
Tear me down badly
Or make me go insane
No not on my watch
And not today.
I will survive
I will thrive
And I will make it
No matter what comes my way
And stress will not be part of my day.
24 July 2015
Private Thoughts
Inside my head
Are mostly private thoughts
Secrets deep inside
Inside so no one can hear me
Or hear my thoughts.
I really won't say
What's on my mind
Or tell you what I am thinking
But keep it buried deep
SO, no one can know
How I feel but me and God.
Inside this mind
I can say what ever I think
No matter
No matter what anyone may say
Because they are my thoughts
No matter what anyone may say.
(C) 2005
O Native Song
Dedicated to
PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA,JR
History has been standing still
Waiting for perhaps a native son
To embark the journey's pressing mark
In order to fulfill
The task waiting ahead.
And as History awaits and see
From a distance walking in the dust of time---
The dust of eternity's passions relayed
I will somewhere be
Right there watching and waiting.
O native son welcome home to along side
The portals of time and space
Welcome home native son welcome.......
19 Jan 2009
(C)2009
One
One voice,
One people,
One God,
One Faith
Bleed into one
Like colors blending
Into shades of colors
Like no other
And that's just the tip of it all.
If we all can see it like colors
Then and maybe then
The world would be a better place.
One voice,
One people,
One God,
One Faith,
Unlike anything else
Or perhaps anyone else
We can be as one
Together in unity
And as long
We are as one
We can unite nations
Spreading love
Where there is no love.
One voice,
One people,
One God,
One Faith,
Building up a nation
With unity
That goes beyond skin
Deep than skin deep
And more than color
For color has no boundaries
Beyond all of this and more
Because through God's eyes,
These things does not exists
Not even a minute
Or a second
Or an hour
Or even a minute
Or the thought of it,
We are one
Equal as one
In oneness
FAST THOUGHTS
Night/day/time/space/hope/love/hate /religion/faith/believe/God/Devil/Right/wrong/left/right/wrong/right/democrat/ republican//independent/other/nigger/black/african-american/indian/native american/white/honky/mr. honky/boss/massa/girl/woman/boy/man /homo/controversy/news/poet/spoken word/life/peace/war/no matter how you say it/the more the words they get longer it'll become/the earth just keeps on turning/turning/burning/getting worst before it gets better/and now it's much worst with things getting out of hand/what the hell we're they're think?/black/white/grey/red/colors/ rainbow/tribe/more war/more sorrow/more suffering/more dying/more sickness/more pain/Jesus is coming back/Jesus is coming back soon/Jesus is coming back/Jesus is coming/oops too late he's here already.....
6 may 2004
It Smell Like Sunday
Up in the early morning
While the sun is wakened up
I say a prayer and grab a cup
Of coffee to start the day,
I am so glad about it.
The Spirit is in the air
Moving my soul to music I hear,
Feeding my soul and blessing my ears
As the Lord showers blessings
I am so glad about it.
The Spirit is high we get close to God's house
With the choir sings to His Glory,
As we hear about that redemption story
On how we overcome
Yes, I'm so glad about it.
The Word of God is being preached
With so much power from among high
Enough to fill the skies
As the Angels rejoiced
Yes, I'm so glad about it.
There's a certain feeling
In the air this glorious day
God has blessed this in every way,
It smells like Sunday.
19 Feb. 2020
While the sun is wakened up
I say a prayer and grab a cup
Of coffee to start the day,
I am so glad about it.
The Spirit is in the air
Moving my soul to music I hear,
Feeding my soul and blessing my ears
As the Lord showers blessings
I am so glad about it.
The Spirit is high we get close to God's house
With the choir sings to His Glory,
As we hear about that redemption story
On how we overcome
Yes, I'm so glad about it.
The Word of God is being preached
With so much power from among high
Enough to fill the skies
As the Angels rejoiced
Yes, I'm so glad about it.
There's a certain feeling
In the air this glorious day
God has blessed this in every way,
It smells like Sunday.
19 Feb. 2020
A Strange Night
Clouds gather together
Like a congregation gathers
Bunched together like it's one.
Then soon rumbling
In the skies like it's warning us
Or telling us to cease all things
And let the Lord do it's mighty work.
Now here comes the flash
A flash of light
Streaking across the skies
Like a runner
Running fast.
The winds make the trees bow
And is quiet---
With the rain stop
The winds are calm now,
The flash of light rest
And now there's calm.
A strange light
From the horizon
Peaks out where sea meet the skies
And finally
A rainbow with it's colors of bright
reminding us of God's grace and mercy.
20 Jan. 2019
to fly...
and they took up wings to fly.
Please, don’t cry for me,
You don’t need to shed a tear,
Just put those tears in a bottle then set it free,
And let it sail to the nearest ocean far away.
Please, don’t cry,
For each tear are the glorious memories
Of you, my darling daughter and me,
And from the distance you’ ll hear Moonlight Sonnet.
Don’t forget me and keep me in your memory,
The good and the bad that know best,
And keep us in your dreams as you rest,
As you lay your head on that pillow of love.
Sweet dreams to you
As we fly away to our distant home far away
Keep us in your thoughts every day,
Good night and sweet dreams.
...and they took up wings to fly.
In memory of Kobe and his daughter