PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

My daughter saw a woman die in a drive by gang shooting last week in her neighborhood in Oakland, CA. The lack or feeling, and apathy over the senseless murder added to her concern anguish about our people's future!

The statistics are in... We seem to be losing the fight! Write, or call your elected officals! Make them take a stand on this war!

I got the feeling that there is going to be a major change where, who what when or why? But, I know that something has to die in order for it to happen...

Just always tryin to put down something on paper that`s positive. As whatever you put on paper is a reflection of what resides in you.

I dunno what to say about this comment he gave me, but that he was right. You were right Dustin, you were so right...

Let's see what beautiful images I can reflect upon from my Nigerian adventure, almost ten years later.

Any resemblence to fact in this poem is strictly coincidental. I don't have anything against abstract art, but I get a kick out of people trying to figure out what the artist was trying to say, when in effect, they were just putting together a color palette on canvas to go in a particular room of their home. It is just pretty colors, like some poetry I have read, have no message or is so buried in abstractions that it is totally lost in the pretty words. Not to say it doesn't take talent, it takes a real command of the language to do that, but the purpose of language is to communicate and if the message is encoded, it kind of leaves me dry.