by Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of… Continue reading PHENOMENAL WOMAN
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Coming Across 520
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rvPxvn14b8 [lightbox href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rvPxvn14b8″]Open in Lightbox[/lightbox] I loved coming into the city on 520 when @mistadq was still a Prospect for the Wheels. Almost every day during this time we traveled from Tacoma to work in Redmond and Bothell, then at night to the club and from there back home. There were alot of people who gave… Continue reading Coming Across 520
No More Warmth
For those fleeting months in winter You held me so close That my heart almost burst From the possibility of it all And I went about everyday Happy and warmed By making our new life together But as summer has come Between us something Has grown cold And I sit alone most times Shivering and… Continue reading No More Warmth
Ben’s Poem
To see a man Is a wonder I have not known I have struggled And pushed to do so Yet I never have You can persist to much Pressure on a man Is like a ballon On an open facet I just wanted a love I just wanted a man To look at me with… Continue reading Ben’s Poem
Undefiled
You and I are the kind of lovers Who like to push at the edge? In the open? I stand in wonder with you Looking over the cliff Wondering when Wondering if If we could kill this And yet the abyss calls us Me to submission You to public ecstasy All is fair in our… Continue reading Undefiled
Defying Gravity
I live to defy everything The past the future Gravity pulls me downward But I wrestle To move upward Gravity gives peace no leave I gaze up to you Face to face I defy what would tear us apart I place my mouth next to yours Breath in as you breath out I can float… Continue reading Defying Gravity
Nothing Uncomplicated Really Is
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOBZ_dkGpJ4 [lightbox href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOBZ_dkGpJ4″]Open in Lightbox[/lightbox] “Least Complicated” I sit two stories above the street It’s awful quiet here since love fell asleep There’s life down below me though the kids are walking home from school So long ago when we were taught That for whatever kind of puzzle you got You just stick the right… Continue reading Nothing Uncomplicated Really Is
Death In The ER
Originally posted by M.G. DeQuincy Hall During my workday I learned searchers had found the body of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis in North Carolina, and I’d planned to opine about a mother who would sell her child into prostitution, the monster that would buy her and the sickening pervert eventually responsible for killing her. Querying news… Continue reading Death In The ER
Opening Doors
Just as my divorce became final I was sure all the doors in my life CLOSED There came to me In this land New men New life New possibility OPENING DOORS
How Brad Effects Me
Wild winds you blow hard In my soul Even when the distance Separates Severs Us apart My greatest fear Is how I will long for you When our time has passed How dedicated you are To turning My life Upside down And inside out.