I wrote Words from the Underground in order to speak out and give a literary voice to the stories that lie hidden within the inner city streets of urban America. I’ve been out there over the years. Back in the day, I craved the allure of the street life that promised easy riches and high [...]
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Lessons from the Streets
Posted in America, ancestors, change, choices, community, expressions, future, hope, inspiration, poetry, poverty, reading, writing, tagged change, community, inner city, poem, poetry, urban, writing on July 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A while back, maybe a year or two, I started working on some poems that told the story about life in the inner city and the urban streets. I began to conjure up poems and vignettes about the streets in the fashion and style of an Iceberg Slim or Donald Goines. I started crafting [...]
A Memorial for You
Posted in ancestors, change, Christian, deliverance, encouragement, faith, memorial, miracle, praise, reflection, sign, stones, testimony, warning, witnesses, works, tagged change, faithful, glory, praise, work on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“. . . And these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.” Joshua 4:7 NKJV The children of Israel needed these stones. They didn’t need them erected as an idol. They needed these stones to serve as a reminder, a memorial of what God had done on their behalf. These [...]
