TELLTALES Tales…telltales Awake I dream tales Trying to figure me out And my complexion fades into pale Old, forgotten is stale My knees-walking is frail I breed success but leaving you means my whole emotions would fail. Love, hate, both sicker than ill Some fight for the peace But war sustains to kill You seem […]

They say as fathers we are supposed to lead by example But what happens when we run out of options to give an example Like, all she needed was for you to say “Jenni, make sure to brush your teeth before you go to bed. And John, a smelly feet is disgusting so Always keep […]

{EB} SWORD POET’S DUET. EL-ICE: {A DUET} FROM A TOTAL WOMAN Him: The, presence of fear and insecurities in love Makes a lotta ppl look for the impossible; Her: It directs the heart to ask questions of which the responses They have got no business but it is passable. A bad past & history Her: […]

{EB} SWORD POET’S SOLO. PRESTON: TEEN THINS’ You probably shudda told me about it all right before I crossed twelve Before these seemingly black threads started appearing around my pubic… Before these auto-sequences started counting Before these drains started to pour on me in my sleep I guess “WET DREAMS” is what it’s called. You […]

{EB} SWORD POET’S SOLO. PRUDENCE: COMPASS -Paradox is the title of our song -Parallel lies our destiny -Yet in our separate lives -In our claustrophobic corners -In the serenity of our lonesomeness -We ponder; and his heart says to mine -Could this be…? -Look into the water and tell me what you see -He said to me -And […]

{EB} SWORD POET’S SOLO. LEON: MA WARDROBE SECTION I feel worried ’bout the way i do my selection… you know, my clothes in the wardrobe section… i pick and dump and pick and choose and, there are a lot that i hardly touch, or feel or even wear. So i started to feel sorry for […]

{EB} SWORD POET’S SOLO. LEON: IT IS LIKE {LIE-K} A LIE It is always a lie when they tell you that they can tell Cos they really can tell not… And God forgives us, but until our sorry asses go to hell, What we did or did not would not even come this close to […]

{EB} SWORD POET’’S SOLO. LEON ONE FINE BROTHER What has ever gone wrong with being fine? Can’t a fine black brother walk with Godly strides, With his head held high When he approaches a fair sister to offer a glass of wine? What has ever gone wrong with being so cute? Must he be arraigned, […]

WORD POET’S SOLO. LEON SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT [Meters in rhyming lines] So, people talk about what spoken word is not without the rhyme And that means I can’t say you is a criminal if there aint no crime. Now you’re feeling complete but I won’t even do your mistress even if it’s for free-for […]