There lies on,

A song of forbidden fruit

And yet my face display complacent

But my mouth, sours for the taste of it

I think I love it,

Although the experience is unknown

My want is full blown

This fruit bearing tree inhabits the oddest space of neighbor’s yard

The odd neighbor with the odd habits

Granted she peeks the blinds all day

She is out of her mind

Yet I, lust for fruit that is not mine

I take liberty pitifully imagining indulging in

The fruit as I bask in its forbiddeness

The mind has deceived my pure thought by forcing it to witness

It hath used decoy to confront coy reason

Torturous matter seasonally gathers and makes leisure

 Curiosity be the leader

Now I perpetually find myself, engaged in sublime distraction

In between the time

I visit my forbidden love by peeking through the blinds 

 

 

The Ideal Confrontation; Blackism

Within the modern views on the culture that surrounds African Americans, it includes misconceptions, distortions and misperceptions as well as revered practices and original characteristics that “represent” those peoples. There are some aspects of self-expression within this community that other cultures cannot understand. In an effort to put these speculations to rest, representatives from this culture should shatter and annihilate all the expected and predicted views that society over the years has established by producing raw emotions into a new wave of art called Blackism.

Within this movement will be the rawest forms of energy, pride, pain, joy, intelligence, autonomous independence, self-knowledge and awareness of all good and evil from an African-American perspective. These ideas will be expressed through poetry, painting, performance, sculpture, installation art; photography, collage and every other genre of art but it will be executed only in the black. Different shades of black. Dark black, soft black, blue black, green black and black…BLACK!

Some or maybe even most will feel threatened but it will just be a means for renouncing all hatred, fear, misunderstanding, mystery, and distortion that surrounds black by means of confrontation. Black will be used to portray every feeling that can be generated and every aspect of the beautiful and painful side of life.

In this manner, we will begin to then either denounce or secure all the negative and/or positive things we’ve ever felt about black and from there, a new understanding will emerge of Black People.

 

 

 

Want Love

Pitter patter goes my heart,

sweet sapper fills the cracks,

with feelings of joy & laughter

of the love im seeking after.

 

Weeping after....

Sometimes I miss him,

other times i cant stand him

wants to be more involved but

live on his own planet.

 

 

 

I never planned it

would go down like this

But love in its essence

and strength is priceless

 

I can move forward

toward a better way

I can move onward

to live a better day

 

 

So when time comes

I can fix my mouth to say

my darling I love you

Forever and always