KB Poetry, Prose & Essays: December 2019

Sunday, December 8, 2019

A Life Of Lacking

A Life of Lacking

BY: KB 10.28.16

Just think about how many blessings

We miss out on

because we are fixated on what we want

not fully realizing that what we want

in comparison to His abundance

is anemic, feeble and gaunt

just think about how we must grieve The Holy Spirit

presenting God’s gift to us

but we refuse to see and hear it

Just think about how many blessings

We miss out on

Avoiding a life most rich

Saying and acting that we know more than God

Constantly choosing to live life off blessings road

Begging from ditch to ditch

A Kiss

BY: KB 5.15.16

She blew me a kiss

I could see was the perfection in her make up

She blew me a kiss

Her lips beckoned me

Speaking an inaudible call that only my heart could hear

I want so badly to hear the words

I can’t help but draw near

A Hug

BY: KB 8.4.16

Let me hold you

Enfolding and engulfing you in the warmth of my arms

Let me hold you

Pressing your body so close that our hearts beat in unison

Let me hold you

In a mutual exchange of safety and security

Let me hold you

A soothing balm absorbing and easing all life’s pain

Let me hold you

A silent “I love you”

A Heavenly Place

A heavenly place

by: KB 5/26/16

A heavenly place

is in your embrace

a righteous, soul healing, binding

that restricts all my inner demons

a soft whisper that soothes my soul

A heavenly place

is in your embrace

where I want to retire and grow old

A Good Woman

BY: KB 6.14.15

A good woman doesn’t want perfect

Only a fool would even try to set that high a goal

She just wants your honesty

And someone to have and hold

A good woman doesn’t want perfect

She wants and needs fidelity

Someone that she know will be there

Loving her exclusively

A good woman doesn’t want perfect

She wants someone to have her back

Not just talking about it but being about it

She’ll see it in how you act

A good woman doesn’t want perfect

She wants to know and feel love

She looks to you to be treated

Like a gift from God hand delivered from above

You know what?

I got a good woman!

A Good Woman Loves Hard

A Good Woman

BY: KB 7.5.16

A good woman loves hard

And gives 100%

She knows no other way

A good woman loves hard

Don’t you dare step to her

If you have no intentions on following through

If you toy with her emotions she’ll only grow to resent you

A good woman loves hard

Show her that you care

A good woman loves hard

Despite her conflicted emotions from past hurts show her that you’ll always be there

A Good Read

BY: KB 7.30.16

You are my favorite book

I want to read every night

You are my favorite book

That I want to memorize chapter and verse

A Force

BY: KB 6.22.16

Love is a fluid force

It cannot be stopped

It can be diverted and delayed

It can be blocked momentarily

Its force will eventually build up and burst forth

And it will carry on to its destination

Washing over you with an abundance of hope

A Fight

BY: KB 4.30.16

We had an argument

A disagreement

She wanted things her way and I wanted mine

Now she’s looking hurt and crying

Me, in my stubbornness am rendered deaf and blind

I try to replay things said and done

Asking how can I be so mean?

Unnecessary pride, entrenching me

Fuel to defile my queen

Bitter words of long harbored resentments

Verbal brutality

We had an argument

I see the intense pain and hurt in her eyes

I ask myself how my unspoken expectations

Transform my gift into something I despise

I acknowledge my wrong and apologize

Extending a peace dove

Embracing my queen so tight as we make sweet apologetic love

A Dreamer

BY: KB 11.26.16

Some say I am a dreamer

Mentally reaching beyond my means

I say to them that they don’t know the power of love

Things aren’t always what they seem

Love is an amazing force of nature

I would choose love above all else

Because loving is a Godly call

A Chance

BY: KB 9.3.16

I would not be true to self

If I had not shared my heart

I would not be true to self

If I had not spoken those three words

I would not be true to self

If I live like or act like

What I spoke aloud wasn’t true

I would not be true to self

If I denied myself the chance of loving you

A Beautiful Noise

BY: KB 7.9.16

Love is usually a silent understanding

An unspoken connection between two people

A nod

A look

A touch

Today I need you to love me a little bit louder

Let’s make a beautiful noise

Poetry & Essays

I wanted to create a forum for my poetry and short stories.

My poetry is the ultimate free expression of my inner most thoughts. My written word is all me without constraint of social norms and political correctness.

My pen name for writing is Muslim in origin and taken from both male and female Kifah (f) - struggle or fight. I chose this name because, like Miss Sophia in The Color Purple "all my life I had to fight"
Jari (m) I chose this name because it means powerful, brave and it speaks to my nature of being me in a world that constantly tells me that I am not allowed to be.

I am both masculine and feminine and I am a brave warrior who is un-apologetically me!

I am a writer to my marrow; it's part of my DNA, a generational gift. My grandmother wrote the most beautifully detailed journal that we found after her death. My mother is a published author - several nursing and nursing management articles. Now, I too have reached a place of maturation where I feel it's time to share my gift with the world.

This page will contain essays, poetry and short stories that covey the real and raw emotions of love and life through my lens. Who am I? I'm a lot of things to a lot of people so I'll try my best to utilize the various labels: Christian, Counselor, African American (Afro-Irish, Native) female, lesbian, co-parent, sister, aunt, lover, friend, writer, etc....

I wrote many of these pieces for my Senior Year Project for New College in 2006. It's been a long journey since then and I had a previous attempt at posting my work; the task became daunting and I all but stopped writing altogether...now, I'm back with a vengeance. I write new pieces DAILY.

The many facets of my life will ALL show as I continue to write

Poetry & Essays

I wanted to create a forum for my poetry and short stories.

My poetry is the ultimate free expression of my inner most thoughts. My written word is all me without constraint of social norms and political correctness.

I am both masculine and feminine and I am a brave warrior who is un-apologetically me!

The many facets of my life will ALL show as I continue to write