Tag: freestyle
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Poem 5.18.22
I’m transforming again- this time I’m breathing through it. Breathing in. Breathing out. Praying out. Going in. I prayed to be broken, to keep my heart open. We’ll rub the scars with lotion;keep the soul, anchored mind, leave body go. Got lost in;Found my breathin us-ratea (اسرتي),Papa& um-me (امي). From kennels if remorse,water, son of…
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Poem 2.28.22: Black to the Future
Heaven aight up there.Less moonshots please,more clean pots pipelines leading cleanwater to soil, Sons &Daughters, leadmade livin graves. Glass houses meanless when Shamecan be coded-in. Lean starts are all we’ve lived. Born to star in the darkand be the light. I don’t chase I gravitate. Nah! The Future is where We are!Ask again, nahI’ll say—switch…
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Freestyle poem #1: An industry plant – 12.4.21
I’m a product of my environment. The soil bore from the burning of the Moors, surviving off industrial complex runoff. Weeded and bested by the hands of man and machine. Replanted and remanded for demanding more than sunlight to sustain. Bled for the rain, and asked the cloud to drown me and all around, if…