Tag: music

• April 30, 2024

  Crazy

  The soft sound of classical music fades into the background Tears fall from my eyes like pools of lava It burns. Will I ever learn? Where is peace? You passed on Too beloved to move on And I need some relief God, Hear me in my hour of despair And be kind to me I…
• January 24, 2024

  Embarrassing Journal Post: Get Your Eagle On

  I been a dark skin sista all my life. Whether in a afro, locks, relaxed or tightly bound braids. I have spent my days as a black woman through and through. During my youth, I spent many days and nights feeling as though my blackness never matched up to societal norms. Growing up I wasn’t…
• January 31, 2021

  Guitar Player

  Guitar Player Pluck at freshly strung guitar strings  Glide steady fingers across vibrating cords  Play a funky tune for the disillusioned and bored  Make the sad leap and shout for joy   Your tunes create happiness That bad energy can’t destroy You gather the lost with your sound  Jaws cease to chew And cackling hens…
• December 13, 2020

  Dying Stereo

    Dying Stereo Sometimes… I wish my portable stereo Would lull me into a false sense of security Instead, the long beeping noise Alerts my ears to the chilling reality   Of a charged battery dying all too soon Please don’t die on me! I scream Don’t you remember When I charged you this afternoon?…
• September 20, 2020

  Sleepy Freestyle Poem: Not Giving Up

    OMG… I’m so tired but I wanna talk to y’all poetically right quick.   Not Giving Up i don’t got much to give in this late night session but i’m gonna turn a little into a lot add water to the juice i brought   shake it up and keep it moving one foot…
• September 7, 2020

  Dance Party

  To say, I been in the house a lot lately is an understatement. But I remember the hot house parties and the small dance floors and it makes me want to write. This is a poem from my up and coming book. I hope you love it! Dance Party the old deteriorating building erupted with…