All posts in verse

colic

colic

Abundance brings me thankfulness
While famine brings me shame
Or abundance makes me forget that
I ever called on God by name. Continue reading →

memorial day

kenn and spencer - days gone bye

Remember anticipating Spring and the life it would avail?
The baby birds, innocent words, and how clouds could grow a tail? Continue reading →

corporate meeting

silent outside. restrained voices
and murmur or muffle of sound.
incoherent. beating irregular.

inside. behind the transparent walls,
shutting out the silence, I scream.
Shrieking. Clawing. Gasping.

Glass breaks. Metal crumples.
Concrete crumbles. Water violently sloshes.
Am I really here? Still?

love songs 4 no 1

love songs 4 no one

Four walls and an echo
Down a long and distant hall
Four intents and no passenger
And a self-constructed wall Continue reading →

blackened History

the past. not the present.

Embryos with a bloodied nose
Paraplegics with painted toes
Diaspora with no where to go
And stranger fruits have yet to be exposed Continue reading →

fine day for a Funeral

fine day for a funeral

Dearest, if you’re reading this
I may be already dead
My wrists are already red
The fish are already fed

“Hope is but a waking dream”
That’s what Aristotle said Continue reading →

far

far

Vexed to perplexed
To what happens next
Should I expose my belly
Or Kevlar my chest? Continue reading →

thank God it’s Monday

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thank God it’s Monday
or maybe it’s too early to be sane
maybe I shouldn’t jump to conclusions so soon before the refrain Continue reading →

hue man being

In the beginning we know not words but the noise of he that sins
The induction of destruction and obstruction of good tends

Do snowballs have a chance in hell and what does it all portend?
Am I left gasping and convulsing or will I get that second wind?

I’m not in Kansas anymore; Toto or Corporate may accept me in
These skin faders and dermis lasers are doing much less than they pretend

“Study real hard”, “don’t let down your guard”, and seven like sapient
When he grows up, will life show up or should we notify next of kin?

Who is in the mirror? Is God any nearer? And where did I begin?
Claim pots or kettles or African settles or whatever moniker gives you skin

Aren’t we all the same ‘ere what’s in a name and don’t labels expire the trend?
We’re at sixes and sevens, a fly is in the ointment, and a straw is in the wind

In the end, we remember not words of enemies but the silence of our friends*
And it’s that absence that negates. It’s that quiet that pretends.

kenn.

* ‘In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.’ – Martin Luther King Jr.

the grapes of rant

The Grapes of Wrath

Don’t stand so close to me while I’m writhing and breathing
This just in – Atlanta traffic is absurd and has me seething
She’s chewing with her mouth wide; maybe she’s still teething
The public education system in the United States? Okay, I’m leaving.
Continue reading →