Occupation: Columnist Birth: July 8, 1957
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him..
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too..
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace..
Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings..
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-real….
Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the v….
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks..
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions….
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaiss….
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth..
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud….
Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh and blood life, especially when there is….
Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal..
Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights..
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds..
Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such….
Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed..
An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively….
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back..
A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuousl….
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that co….