The First time ever I saw your face…
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Tender twangSweet tangypurple thighfingers of limeblue navelarched eyeRavenwrists flutter-byblueberry chesthealed bowmaple humpbony kneecurved legcherry toeflat lipbeaded waistblazed neckangled chincarob facemilked hipburgundy tipboysenberried side carries babies high Twists with turns, oozed sting, lasting taste of lime […]
Flute
Blow…Blow through bitten lips. Tight and clung…wisps through teeth. Hollow, curved and turned. Flung around tongue, wrapped around jaws. Open loose Blow.Blow. Stretched through me. Opened airbreezycold Blow.Blow. on topinside throughout and round about Wide, […]
These Fingers
I’ve noticed that I haven’t been wearing any rings lately; on my fingers. No polish, or color; except for my own brown glossy shade. I’m attracted to the plainness, the shortness of fingernail, the roundness […]
Black Beauty’s Song
I sing on top of mountaintops I sing at births and weddings I sing at jazz clubs in Hip-hop clubs Reggae fests and Auditoriums plays and musicals parks and supermarkets bathrooms and bedrooms I sing […]
The T’s Have it
Originally posted on Mantra:
Tantalizing Temptations of a Troublesome Twosome Tender Twists and Twinkling Eye. A Twilight Tryst with Tangy Twang Tasty Trifles Toppling Thigh. Twirling and Two-Timing Twined and Torrid Trapped and Tamed Tempted…
Black Woman
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Blue Notes (for Billie)
“Chile, That LADY sang dem’ BLUES”… She sang of Men and Women, boys and girls, Love and Beginnings and the Beginning to an End. She sang of her trouble and triumph She sang through lynchings […]
