Beautiful But Powerless
She is a crystal dove
See her glitter
See her shine
Sweet is her Love
Angelically divine
Look
But never touch
Or call her mine
Gaze upon the beauty of her
face
But God forbid
You should embrace
For she would shatter
Into an infinite number of
fragments
You see in life
Some were meant
Only to be gazed upon
Like a falling snowflake
Melting
To live but one moment
And then be gone
Nostalgia
A time warp caught my seventy
eights
Mondale Reagan debates
Dialing a phone
Working our fingers to the
bone
Taxes on paper with ink
We could really think
Coffee for a dime
No high-tech crime
Playboy magazine
Backyard trampoline
Talking into the late
Saturday evening
The future would be better
We were believing
Hope
Striving to cope
Saying hello
Watching a television show
Movies in a theatre
Friends near
The police cars proper and
blue
Saying “I love you”
Dark Skinned Color Girl
I am a dark skinned color girl
A grand black pearl
I shine divine
A child of the Earth
Of unfathomable worth
I am of the soil
More precious than oil
Black is the color of imagination
Through me shines the light of salvation
I am one with the land
There is a connection few understand
Mother Nature she is alive
Through her we all survive
Africa she is where I dwell
Oh her grandeur and glory I can tell
We are the cradle of civilization
Humanity’s genesis
Knowledge’s origination
Of eternal bliss
I am ordinary
And most extraordinary
A common person
But know the lesson
I am not defined by my dark skin
But rather by the beauty within
Can you even see
The reality
Of me
I am a dark skinned colored girl
And that is absolutely wonderful
Fishing
Down beneath the waters blue
Await treasures for me and you
Cause in the depths you’ll find
Fishes of every kind
To nourish the body and please your mind
Get line, hook and bait
Cast it into the water and patiently wait
Soon you’ll have a nibble or two
I think you know what to do
On a good day when all is done
You have food for everyone
Let alone a whale of fun
Once the fish seemed infinite in number
But the protectors began to slumber
Now the rivers are polluted foul
And islands of plastic are on the prowl
The ocean in life’s womb
No our mother lurks in gloom
But we can unite to turn the dirty tide
The clean the waters broad and wide
If we do not turn and repent
Gone will be the treasures heaven sent
And as we perish we will be wishing
That we could once again
Go fishing.
A Hurt Lover’s Lonesome Night
Late night hush
Silence transcends to heavenly stars
Eternal lights never knowing sleep
Countless secrets they keep
No horoscope, no divination could give insight
And Allmighty God chose not to speak that night
Just like yesterday
Or the day before
And before and before and before
But one day, some day, we hope for more
Ten thousand agonies of a heart broken
Emotions overflowing yet nothing spoken
Except for the screaming of her misty tears
And the sounds of creations that have been echoing for years
It is not that there is no voice
It is that we refuse to hear
And that is by choice
Who has not known woe?
Or felt the bitter pain?
That nobody could know
Let alone explain
And so she remains in her solitude
Cept for the infinite stars above
And thus we conclude
Keeping in tact the mystery known as Love
Summer
Spring will bring everything
Insects hum while birds sing
Flowers blossom in power
Forever is but a brief hour
Thunderstorms crash with lightning flash
Green is seen everywhere and in between
Love is on the scene
The glory of the story lies before me
Days stretch long
Making love is never wrong
In the depths of the forest I belong
Vibrant and strong
Kiss me with gentle lips
Hold me as time slips
Sunshine divine
Happy you are mine
Rock stars playing in cheap bars
Half price on secondhand guitars
Riddles pushed away
We’ll pay the piper another day
So wise in our foolishness
Mainlining pleasure seeking more of this
Writing poems that rhyme
In the eternity of time
The second hand of the clock ticking
You and me sticking
Closer than twins
With sweet sickly somber grins
Understand high hand wins
A double measure of pleasure to recall
And suddenly fall
While all of you and me
Are but a fond memory
And so in the subconscious you slumber
In infinite summer
Guard Dragons In My Garden
Guard Dragons in my garden
I beg your pardon?
What are you growing that you need,
Guard Dragons in your garden
A whole host of weed?
Or perhaps something stranger indeed?
Maybe because
Despite the appropriate laws
In that fenced in acre and a half
Behind your home
You have the rarest gnome
The one that can always make you laugh
You know the tiny imp colored green
The one wearing shades at every scene
Whether twilight or midnight
And pray tell what do your dragons eat?
Delicious licorice?
Or perhaps something more sinisterly sweet?
Lake a damsel in distress
Wearing a pink cotton candy dress
Oh I can guess
Why there are Guard Dragons in your garden
In the morning I hear them roar
In the evening I hear them snore
To them life must be one great bore
For all the champions of the sword
Have joined together in one accord
To flagrantly ignore
Your Guard Dragons in the garden
These knights their hearts did harden
And they have forsaken all nobility
And chivalry
And function simply as roughnecks
Having lost all the ladies respect
Except those seeking a cheap thrill
But alas such a lass
Always will
Sell out cheap and lose no sleep
But my mind ponders and wonders
What happened to the heroes of the downtrodden?
Despite being highly
paid
They are all afraid
Of Guard Dragons in the garden
Defeating Thanos With The Infinity Gauntlet
Thanos mad god of Titan
Saturn’s moon
Evil and diabolical
A harbinger of doom
One day with great regret
Acquired the Infinity Gauntlet
Six gems upon the glove
Time, Space, Mind, Reality, Power, Soul,
It gave the mad god complete control
Over all save Love
Thanos for his beloved Mistress Death
Sought to choke all of life’s breath
All the heroes of planet Earth
Fought to prove their worth
X-Men, Avengers, Defenders
Were simply pretenders
Even the Incredible Hulk
Went to sulk
Thanos smashed them like flies
As he felt the highest of highs
But Adam Warlock
Gave Thanos a shock
And the Silver Surfer true
Did what none other could do
Warlock distracted Thanos in rage
As the Silver Surfer with cosmic power
Turned defeat to victory in that hour
The Infinity Gauntlet was lost I am told
To find it again one must be bold
But the universe will remain whole
Unless it is found by Pip the Troll
