Category Archives: Poetry
Damaged – Poem #3
He’s coming run! Run and hide dammit! I’m trying to warn you Little Me Please run and hide Precious The damage he’s going to do can’t be undone It won’t be. I’ve tried. © 2012 EmittingLove
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Episode – Poem #2
I ain’t backed up horny an undercover freak sistah always in heat gettin it on between dem sheets feenin for wood always on my mind- I just love to make love Don’t you? © 2012 EmittingLove
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Tears – Poem #1
Tears – like lemon drops- make life’s sour trials much sweeter to taste © 2012 EmittingLove
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Poetically Celebrating Poetry
“To write about poetry is to believe that there are answers to some of the questions poets ask of their art, or at least that there are reasons for writing it,” Michael Weigers, editor of the anthology One Art: Poems … Continue reading
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i could love you – Poem
i could love you i could curl up wrap myself in the warmth of your smile the strength in your arms your manliness, sexiness supreme essence of masculinity protectively surrounding me and i know in you I can rest, easily … Continue reading
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Poem #14 A Poem About Their Rights
*Ode to June Jordan I decided today that I want my own country. I want to be a ruler over another land another people who don’t speak my language nor share my religion but I will force both upon them … Continue reading
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Poem #13- Hey Mister
Who told you I need your permission to love you? Ain’t nobody ever said that I need YOUR permission to love you. You see I am of the particular belief that if I so choose to settle my mind on … Continue reading
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Poem #12- Poetry is a bitch
Poetry is a bitch today Goading me incessantly with snickers And i-told-you-so’s Taunting me, rudely, with incomprehensible words and senseless lines Insulting my intelligence with stupid ironical phrases And endless chiding. Even had the nerve To push me Up against … Continue reading
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Poem #11
i have loved you through all time and space my love for you/has traveled to galaxies ten times over through wars my love has sustained the middle passage enslavement and freedom again. I have loved you through incarcerations mental and … Continue reading
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Poem #10
He laid his head in my lap as I softly recited my poetry. His flowing locs brushed my thigh Warm, cinnamon scented breath tickled my skin My words impregnated the air Like the scent of dew drenched cherry blossoms Hung … Continue reading
