
POETRY

We are here,
joined by a common urge to relay messages:
biologically, physically, verbally, digitally
dare I say telepathically.
I dedicate the yellow name to the force of public offerings.
Among me is a crowd of permanent students like myself
As I continue speaking to you, I am speaking to me, always.
More and many to come in the spirit of service.
When Announcing Your Name
Please
speak with conviction
fall in love
with each syllable said
with the tone your voice carries
and the base it drops
Say it like your mom and her mother do
You will rise to the calling of your name
Place intention there
Tune into that
Religion
Claiming my God Black
One which spreads wide across
Omniscient Consciousness
a sixth sense stream
genderless, formless,
bound to no planet
nor mass of land
The energy wave that spins my earth
And any all more
Higher me
Shapeshifting
a deity named
reflection
Spans of mass I have imagined
In this fleshly me made perfect
And my spirit feels God Grander
God the spirit of your God plus mine
And any all
from any time
Combined by the mind
to Co create
Mind full, Breathing
At last I taught myself breath though at first I believed it came naturally
Suffocated in hardship I discovered just how involuntary breathing could be
I fell in love with the wind and learned to ride my frequency by way of the will to discern
inhale then hold on and exhale to go on
In this exercise we are made alert
now to watch twice as hard
listening double the message
speaking wholly with half of the words
Documentation
The bottom of a staircase can hold years worth of feelings
And
the footsteps of all holidays passed
The sacred kiss of images lives long in that way too
Captured memories, portals we dive into for the puncturing sensation,
nostalgia