a love poem…

wrap a bouquet of flowers in a love letter poetry or prose words from the heart with a box of chocolate kisses would be nice and reese’s cups to remind me of how your chocolate hugs my peanut butter a few chocolate drizzled strawberries and a mix cd cause i love it when you make... Continue Reading →

Make the distinction…

niggas & flies niggas & flies, both I despise one eats shit the other one lies... never confuse a black man with a nigga... cause a nigga will get you with those good intentions and that even better dick making promises like I'm not going anywhere making you think he is in control of the... Continue Reading →

Love

love love sweet like the honeysuckle of my youth when I imagined knights in shiny armor on horseback switch to ninja's on ducati bikes switch to mr. tall dark & handsome in a big car with a career not a job and a 401k not just cash on hand and when I say benefits I... Continue Reading →

Dancing with Insanity

For love -- I would tickle the feet of a panther till he purred like a child rubbing the belly of an old woman on the beach in the mist of morning awaiting the dawn of a new era of technological breaking through daunting wooden drawbridges to sand castles built by imaginative dogs learning new... Continue Reading →

dreaming

some days my world seems like a series of nuances and idiosyncrasies, coping with the resident trouble maker, my imagination, and pondering another breath or a gasp for fresh hope can i float can i float can i float or drown in the flood of inspiration held in by my damn reality   -Turtleberry 2007

Tabitha

My legs burned. I rubbed the rippled indentations on my calves. There was nothing soft or plush about this floor. It was more like a Brillo pad rather than a teddy bear. This wasn’t anything new to me. Too numerous were the times I had rolled around on this floor with Angel, almost rubbed my... Continue Reading →

Dear me…

Myself and I have decided that we are tiered of sitting silently back and watching you run us in circles.  Now I know myself and she can be a handful.  But I don't think that is any reason to keep her locked away.  You should really let her out every once and a while.  She... Continue Reading →

untitiled

i raise my glass to the pain of not knowing and gulp to fight the fear i have to ask i clean the mirror in hopes of seeing myself clean when i need to windex my eyes... bleach my mind my soul trapped inside a cell inside this shell worn by my heart battle scarred... Continue Reading →

Sometimes

he said he felt like i didn’t love him, like he was just my friend a friend with the alarm code to my heart & the key to my soul… if only he’d turn it saw our future through a telescope growing together, taking each day as it came me, ready to abandon the script... Continue Reading →

Dear Happiness,

We seem to be having the typical turtleberry romance... where we dance around the subject and sometimes ignore the feelings until we can't anymore and fall head first... only for it to be too much too soon or not enough or just not what we thought it was. I want you to know that I... Continue Reading →

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