Category: black

• September 4, 2021

  Redemption

  Redemption I wish I could tell you the truth Without shame or judgement Without pointed words attacking me Like daggers cutting through bruised flesh This is the only place I can go I have been rejected from the rest I am the black sheep And the shepherd’s burden It’s nearly impossible to offend me Because…
• August 31, 2021

  Big-Eyed

  Big-Eyed Look into the silver framed mirror, Covered in watermarks Big-eyed wonder stares back at you Questions form around the pupil’s black ring Who will you be today? What will you choose today? How will you find your way? We are falling rain drops in a storm Searching for the plush ground We dream beneath…
• August 3, 2021

  Test Time

  Test Time The hour has arrived… If this is a test? I probably already failed My palms perspire As butterflies glide in uneasy surroundings Answers evade me I think about the questions But the A, B, C, and D selections Leave me in tatters… So I erase… Till my smudges appear In grey and black…
• December 31, 2020

  New Years Vibe

  New Years Vibe Season’s Greetings, Are due to you And everyone who made it through This crazy ass year Full of shock and walled in tears   It ends the minute The countdown begins: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…. So let the dazzling gold and silver confetti fly Let it twinkle and fall Like so…
• August 29, 2020

  Small Thoughts: Lies

  Small Thoughts: Lies Lies are bittersweet tales, fixed in sullen eyes, hidden in the cracks of crooked, rotten teeth, painted on trusting faces illustrated in the shifts of broken pavement but we walk on them anyway…   Love Always, Esha 🌺🌺
• August 26, 2020

  Solution

  Solution spent my whole life trying to stay out of jail didn’t waste my time scamming for a rich man’s retail seen too many people… end up broke and broken be hide the sullen bars of bricked cells but it doesn’t take much… vague descriptions of a Black suspect turn daily lineups and bypassed identity…
• July 19, 2020

  Still Exist

   Still Exist don’t smash me into your picture perfect, modish suburban family of four affirmed kodak frame staples offset by social media acclaim   i learned long ago… my lavish thighs were too wide for the lenses they can’t be boxed into geometric spheres they can’t be tamed, Lord knows I tried… but they exist…
• June 19, 2020

  Happy Juneteenth

  Happy Juneteenth On June 19th 1865 we heard the chime of freedom 2 years of sweet reluctant truth… reached enslaved ears in Galveston, Texas elation soared in tow with archangels and they blew a golden trumpet for us beyond the frightful barks of German Shepard’s bullet shells and exuberant hymns was still peace… no more…
• June 3, 2020

  Spoken Word: I’m Free Too

  they call me divine mystic skin mahogany kissed by red wine i studied hard so i enrolled in school take out loans like they do share the same bathroom, dorm floor, bedroom so they make me think… i’m free too   who am i? some may ask, grit their crooked teeth and give sly looks…