Hood Teacher Haikus

Affirmation Hood Teacher Haikus

Tell yourself each day

You are beautiful for real

Don’t lie believe it

Waiting for moments

Where your life can be frozen

Holding onto past

Crumbs on the page means

You writing some good tasty

Meals make sure there’s soul

Tired achy limbs

Pulsing throbbing joints sore cold

Massage the pain gone

I can’t give up on

A child who never had love

Each class a chance TEACH!

Young boys want to be

Spitting images of papa

Except he left THUG

caliente en las calles

Right around corner from the spot

Don’t let sensations be ephemeral

Handle your business

Sun reflects hood fantasies of going jamon

Crispy skin juicy flesh

Sweat breathes to release

Be careful who you swap spit with

Anyone who got a brandnew comeup

Who is this blowing up jack

Getting smacked where you laughed and played

Quickly young days pass

When in doubt say no

Have rights against self incrimination

How clean are your prints

State of art probation

In and out clean smooth

Sat stuck while world was dancing around you

Soak skyline while time allows

Ducks to cross river coasts

Rebrand the hood before developers invade

Thuggish soldier status

May keep crackers at bay

Beware; trademark and copywrite

Each good idea before it becomes a tshirt

Cup or bumper sticker

Can’t make up or choose family

Somehow exists organically

Headed towards another circle around sun

Looking for a better spot to fish

Even most gutter granite titerre

Got a plan for reformation

Can show prospects of brighter mananas

Mission statement should be

Forever sustainable legacy left behind

Indelible baked salmon lunch special

Indisposable cursed first impressions

Kept a great mask grinning genuine

Hidden pathologies inevitable sickness

Passed from generation

Clean slate

Remain dusty customers

In pursuit of barrio bliss for Borinqueneers

Gold streets promised

Never delivered

apathy

Prayer For Passive Resistance

            After Charles Mingus

So lazy I barely move

So lazy I barely move

When I get nothing

I got a bad attitude

So tired I fall asleep

So tired I fall asleep

Don’t know I’m fatigued

When I hardly reach

So angry my temper steams

So angry my temper steams

Lord I need self motivation

To work on my dreams

So push me to be better

So push me to be better

Been raining so long

Sun will shine

When I get it together

Grateful Instead

No thanks for old favors

Chessboard magnets for bad attention

No strategies freestyles fate

Every action feels like ain’t

Any disclaimer means just what you said

Pigs prowl like predators

Sucker jive slick senator

Exchange dope for hope

Elders grow lonely seek company

Smoke traces same spots

Been traveled in circles

Just to get back to where we already seen

Always on the move

Used your last no more

Find another empty space to be around

What have we recovered

Every word uttered sounds like same topic

Context can change your communion

Unseen documentary like tinted windows

Won’t let you see inside

Hard to provide

When you won’t switch  habits leading to decline

No rewind button barely make tapes to record

What have you loaded up

Folded up tiny bits of wrinkled paper

Can’t wait on the next individual to get mind right

Never allowed to take flight

Wasn’t given proper clearance

Call it whatever you want

Get green light and go

Why are you waiting

Satan resembles blue and whites following you

Asking you where you headed

Cuffs before ID back of cars with no rights

Still wounded haven’t fully healed

Just because you can’t name it

Doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

Must be relentless in search of oasis

Script already written

How committed are you to your own breath

Past won’t let you forget

Black bruises on soul

Tried to fancy it up with dunks

Never can fake funk

Even wife will tell you

Glands excrete pestilence

Focus images

Trim your language

All natural local truth is free

Use enough to scheme another day

Adding up to prosperous future

Para Los Padres

Fathers’ Day Weekend 2013

Throwback isolation 4 walls
At your request for a moment to breathe

Cloudy emotions mixed up mental
Everyday celebrates your wonderful blessings

Just be thankful for all you got
in two blinks all that positivity can stop

Trips around origins signifies you been
Going in circles

Looking for what been lost
Cost of otherside fork
Too much you could never handle

Easy to ramble about close calls
Tight gambles house always wins
Easy to get locked on couch
Never head out
Even though beautiful days await

Hope you have been given foundation
Begin life’s legacy of healthy memories
Rising steadily overflow eye dams

Drip down invisible masks no livable past
Painful present with fatalistic future

Nurture opposite of pessimistic visions
Release your demons to escape
Lonely prisons

You will be able to hold your son’s hand tighter

Please gather the strength to become a better man
Lover scholar fighter
Soldier rock comforter role model

Not another so called leader whose message rings hollow
Years later no solid reflection to follow

Don’t run from your responsibility
Embrace the challenge

Amari wants to learn from you
Give him proper guidance

For thriving not just simple survival
Your presence and energy is vital

Be of sound mind healthy body developing soul
Forever in control aware of your surroundings

Keep good company proudly introduce your people
Don’t let your honorable history be a burden
A mystery allows you to turn from prior mistakes

Triumphs stand tall
Never slump chump

Essence got so much funk ritmo
Shake that good foot

Jump to grab a star from the sky to light up the earth
Cada cabeza es un mundo

Found my connection to multiverse
Keeping love in constant rotation

Your truest smile
Demonstrates infinite worth

Sale ahorita

Can never leave

Anticipation of too much to come

Want a part of the action

Even though bell ringing

I’m still here searching working on a masterpiece

Won’t cast a jinx black cloud

Trademarked frownys scowl across brown triangle

Love peace happiness

Bulldozed rose bush

Remember EVERYTHING you can

For time remaining

How much more explaining does divine

Has to remind you on daily

No failing admitting shortcomings long goings

Carrying dropping logs

Science building less destroying

Employing abilities in tune with faculty

Streak of independence

Abolish referendum asking you for more freedom

Seeking royalty within reflection

Please don’t get too twisted

So your movements are impaired

Life is dark project stairs

Where everyone stares at the ground

Sky is too bright

Even hurts to look at your shadow

Pour a gallon of your regret in the gutter

So you could regurgitate all the hate

Painful poison numb your own noise

Complex symphony glorious ghetto imagery

Broken hearted window symmetry

Jagged dagger sympathy

Grand dragon government wizardry

Hunger howl til echoes in brain

Heavy steady burden higher burning

Halfway learning leads to weak application

Wandering while rambling

Unfocused mission statement

Copy that carbon footprint

Matching unique finger

Be the suit not that hanger

Make the beat write the song

Construct a banger top pop chart

Chopped slopped

Spark after screw rolled a lil loose

Almost like a lil space in noose

Slight dash of lies with harsh truth

Candles won’t provide proper wattage

Only back to essence origin

Where we all started

Individual to collective

Stark difference illustrate perspective

Color shades dimensions

All the jails our minds kept in

Isolated direction

Without opportunity to network

Make connections

Look in eyes to acknowledge existence

Absolute miracles we are still living

Lift a glass burn for those gone

We always mourn but

Celebrate a chance to smile and laugh

Funny how fast our magical lives pass

Smack City

Smacked lifted

charged up non pg 13 version of explicit life

turn off lights but keep electricity flowing

enough to return in one piece

to explain origin of debauchery

taught to see stranger danger

as they plot long range

hard to rearrange pieces to fractured skull

when push pull factors have been negated

frustrated gentrification creeper faster

than dust on face hard to run race

when every move is watched

who is forgotten when only faded mural remains

emptiness riding on desolate train

kids gone blown past curfew

stuck molly in butthole

still channel surfing bad girls club

gangland teen mom

ring alarm media brainwashed youth

metaphysical parody oppression psychological

grey clouds pits stink smell

like harsh truth light henny

an existential abyss

doing more pullups than pushdowns

upchuck purging poisons

add antipathy for cold antipasto of apathy

laugh at our own demise

complicit with early ending

far from happy

good doctor said peace is absence of tension

backedup rage won't let page turn

when mirror reflects blank stares

gave 2 thumbs up for instant approval

stark perusal at bleak record on repeat

gravitational pull falling apart from center

half was a mistake

other you don't remember