broken bonds and unbreakable bondage
And Then I Rose
Josiah I woke up this morning to you smiling at me then I realized it…
Sun Lessons
Part 1: Josiah What’s up JI know I keep calling you something different, I like…
Sometimes You Gotta Hurt Feelings, to Heal Hearts
even in relationships friendships sparked a connective camaraderie forged in the fire of external forces…
Relayed in Per Diem
and I leaned upon your shoulder then laid atop your lap melted by the oven-like…
The Evolution from a Complex
Dear White Woman I think I loved you to a fault a fault of self…
Displacement
I cut the air between us with a blade of grass plucked from the earth…
A Reach
I desired to hold your hand when I reached you didn’t know that I was…
Know Me Better
how can I forsake you was it not your conducting that created me your keen…
I See You Mama
I see you mama don’t be led astray by these deceitful people, nor let the…
God Process of Creation, Martyrdom, and Matriarchy
Russell created Young R.U.S.S. to experience WayOfLife God created human beings to experience God’s self…
Reflecting to my Son
reflecting on where has my life gone remembering everything that I ever did wrong sometimes…
Believed in a Dream
I don’t know which came first was it the dream or the belief, that one…
Osmosis Immortality
the ideas we love the idea of love people they are.. we are, fungible pieces…
Whose Feelings are These?
I don’t know if if if if I have e if I have emo if…
Peace Born of Yesterday’s Tomorrows
coming forth as you gave unto me in the womb of your light amidst the…
Fallible Makeup
Some think the system is perfect We know it isn’t and We will make a…
Lower Mind
I hope you..??… I’m hoping you don’t think me disgusting but right now I’m lusting…
Not as Crazy as I Once was
I know you may think I’m crazy I know this may sound irrational like projected…
Until They Can, I Will
I have to be what I couldn’t be for beings that have been but can’t…
Ra-Hotep
if not grace propelling love to create how would I be love creates peace creation
Got a Grip
you want me to come out a hard worker’s grip- calloused but callouses peel and…
Twin Flames
she travelled the world I couldn’t yet we connected spirits traversing space I journeyed her…
Special Touch
heat’s touch would melt me- both to, and to be- but for now, I exist…
Carry On
her branches, stubborn as rigamortis her foundation, deep as roots her trunk, wide as family…
Siren-ity
as the winds settle the feather lands as the air thickens the lungs expand as…
Lower’d Self
We- could be more. You- just like them meant to be, more are more but…
Is There, Is She? Then Where, When?
is there a sentient being out there coupled for me one named woman designed to…
If You Saw What I See
change is all around us but we refuse it you refuse me you refuse us…
Through Me, to You, and back/ You Two, Plus Me, Equals Three
I was always there helping you just look I was always there shedding light just…
More Through Me, to You, and back/ You Two, Plus Me, Equals Three
@itude
passion is my reason passion is my excuse passion is my triumph passion is my…
Advice
advice on love don’t! advice on feel touch advice on hearing shhh advice on seeing…
Even Still
I can’t swim but I’d jump in a body of water with you I trust…
Theorizing Sex
I wonder are asexual organisms lonely? do they look at the companionship, shared amongst their…
Dear Diary,
how do you court a ghost, phantom, angel, goddess, or spirit? with patience, surrender, or…
Untitled
I felt your fingers from beyond imagine my surprise the only touch my spirit called…
Jubilant Bridge
she’s so much a light- she causes me death, so that I may live. she…
Wonder
I wonder, do you think of me? if so, tell me…? if not, keep me…
Existential Namesake
looking at you is akin to seeing the unseen I can only see your name…
Unplanned Destiny
I wish they’d understand me I wish they’d understand it nothing goes as you planned…
Picture Perfect
Picturing Pictures within a Picture- though the Big Picture, never alludes me, smaller Parts working…
Bird Drawn
your words paint my disposition my intuition is spirit driven you give my spirit vision…
Untitled
painted poetry, and poetic paintings art plus art is, two in one, Heart and, two…
Dreamt
I dreamt, a deep and intimate dream I seldom speak of one of wholeness vulnerability…
Evolving Dream
Give a Beat · "Evolving Dream" by Russell Wardlow A once hoped for, and seemingly…
One last time
If I could just talk to herone last timeif I could just hear her voiceone…
Projection Deflection
If a person stands in their truth, they are seeking attention. If self diagnosed, they…
Riding the Emotional Hump
I’m inconsistent insufferable overbearing and insensitive at times I say I’m passionate but I may…
Rapped Tight Prose Verse
I’m tired of living this life I’m tired of living this life I had to…
Neurotic
I do NOT have it all together. I don’t know why nobody gets that. I’ve…
Friendliest Foes
Agreement often times creates ignorance and blindness it’s in the face of opposition that we…
Belly of the Beast
Deception, the etymology of her dialect she sang like sirens luring me blissfully into my…
Avarice Society
Why is it so hard for us to create healthy changes to our perception, thinking…
Fighting Odds
If the faculties I possess, which help me to identify my emotions and react with…
Peeping Through My Window Part 4
“Peeping through my Window pt 4” I’m a boy. From 2007, I left my group…
Peeping Through My Window Part 3
“Peeping thru my Window pt 3” I’m a boy. Relationships, where do I even start…
Peeping Through My Window Part 2
“Peeping through my Window pt 2” I’m a boy. We all gotta grow up sometime…
Peeping Through My Window Part 1
“Peeping through my Window Pt 1” I’m a boy. We have this patriarchal society that…
Pressure
Ran from too many lectures and pressures, back pressed to the fire exit doors Jump…
You Don’t Know How I Feel
You don’t know how I feeel …inside you don’t know how I feel …inside you…
E=MC^2
Life is your economy fueled by energy, empathy and economics on this journey the car…
Missed Fortune
When I was stuck, you was just a phase when I only saw myself, you…
Made for two
I said I miss herI heard she missed me tooimpossible bullseye;feeling kiddishdays you missed being…
Attracted to you
Full and luscious lips-cherry black as her African rootsdefined necklinegraced from a symmetrical jawlineconnecting a…
Your Love
I feed your love cuz I need your love I breath your love I bleed…
Mind Your Heart
How much can the heart bear? you can’t answer that with mind’s logic only heart’s…
Better if I Say it
Gotta get used to talking about myself if I want the world to know me…
No middle
I only feel when I’m threatened or stressed I have to go thru something to…
Cultural Wardlow
I’m a cultural war I’m a culture at war I’m a casualty of war I’m…
Grew up, I’m-prisoned
I grew up mother incarcerated father deceased I grew up as a foster child and…
Space
This space is made for me made for you made for two I’m made for…
P.O.W.E.R.
When it comes to matters of power, the human in us is first reluctant- That’s…
White Knights
The effects of colonialism in this country have not dissipated. The crippling clutches of capitalism…
Plucked Flowers
We’re all plucked flowers paying attention to the surface while the reality beneath is of…
Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex Wars
I’m overly stimulated yet numb if I get overstimulated, I’m numb prefer to be over…
Errday my birthday
I die so much daily living to reflect on the happening the next day surprised…
Entrapped
There’s never enough timewhen time is all you needthinking back,time and time againI’ve noticed,that time…
Need you to need me
I just want to feel useful like I need it I have this bottomless desire…
I’m off
I don’t feel good or normal unless something is wrong “what’s wrong?” ME! “huh?” what…
Chance
There you are looking so much better up close- than I imagined from a distance,…
Wonder-full
I’ve finally noticed sometimes it’s best to be really measured in your Who, What and…
Cost to Change
Money!That is the barometer of changeThose who have it vs those whom don’tThose that have…
Paint Poems
I paint moments and put them in poetrycuz if I rapped it most would attack…
Pros’ Poems
Don’t walk away from medon’t build a fortressand forestour fortuneforcingour forfeitforgive me for myinformal forumsforages…
Real Paradise
Within our SPIRITS Flowing throughout our bodies Which we can express thru our hearts and…
Fight or Flight Fright Night
You fight or flight change I fight or flight for change Though my fright of…
Color’dBlind
Stop saying you don’t see my color You are NOT colorblind Nobody is Why would…
Black Lives Matter?
It’s hard to remind black people That their lives matter So when it comes to…
My Mom is Harriett Tubman
She created her own underground railroadalluding abusive persecutionsacrificing dark man for sonescaping the enslavement of…
This isn’t Over
This is a callfor more to be invited This isn’t justa moment of excitement This…
Crash Dummy Love
I’m your experimentingesting your placebosyour punching bagabsorbing ever blowyour pinatawaiting for you to break medon’t…
Heads Up
If you love mejust knowthat I haven’t learned how to love myself yetbut I’m overly…
What’s Enough
She looks at mehoping I’ll change my mindbut I’m imprisonedshe’s chasing timeI’ve stopped wasting timeHer…
Fell for What
Scream when you fallbut on the way downscream out why you fellwas it a free…
Newfoundland
ashamedbecause I tried to be’white’at my best momentsthen by default’black’at my worstashamedbecause I aspiredto be…
less ain’t more
we need less white antics and more white allies less white advantage and more black…
glossed over
amongst your personal sacrificesI neglected to notice your gender and cultural crisesthe weight of being…
unfractured half
my fractured relationships with womenled me to an end I blend with new beginningsmy new…
in awe
inspired most by that which makes me great’er’inspired most by that which compliments my naturenow…
what if
what if we grew upthen grew apartbut never knewstill consumed by that old sparkburrowed inside…