Every body wants a revolution!
Something to fight for
Something to say I belong to something
A struggle of what's right
A fight for what's wrong
Everybody wants a revolution!

Bush wants a revolution,
Castro had his day
And now the Devil wants his day.
The world has a revolution
Against each other
Brothers against brothers
And pretty soon
We'll have revolutionaries all over the place
Fighting for a cause
For some cause of another
Until we run out then
What now?


(C) 2003

In my heart
I do believe,
our love is true
And it won't depart
No matter what we go through
You are my soul mate.
Lifetime partner yes,
Until the end
But I guess
You know that my lover, my friend
My African Queen everyday
Love has found us
In every way.
Truly soul mates for life
Soon we will
Be together a husband and wife
My African queen
My soul mate.


(C) 2000

I look at you from different eyes
Seeing you like this
In a much different light
Than those eyes of yesterday.
You are one beautiful person
Shaped into a beautiful being
God's wonder of creation created
Fashioned, formed and put together
Like no one else
But you
Yes you as I look at you.
And it wasn't until now
I see you as something better
Than you are clearly then.
But you are here in the now.
And until now I see a beautiful being
Like no one else.


(C) 2003

Enter: night

Bring on the night----
Where those dear play,
And where freaks come out anyway
Go ahead, bring on the night.

Bring on the night---
Where travel is often and much go,
Where the travelers are on the go,
So bring on the night.

Bring on the night---
The creature of the night reign,
As they come out like stars with flames,
Yes, bring on the night!

Bring on the night---
Of every drug dealer and dope head
The hookers walking like the dead
Yes, bring on the hight.

Bring on the night---
Every baby's mama hanging tough
Late night creepers who think they're rough,
Just bring on the night!

Late night watchers watching so,
Bring on the night!
Creepy crawlers crawling you know,
Bring on the night!
Day turned trippers,
Bring on the night!

Coffee drinking tippers,
Bring on the night!
That's right bring it on,
Bring on the night!
Bring it on!
Bring it on and on and on...


(C) 2002

Maybe
Somewhere up there
Skyward
High
Beyond the distant clouds
And stars
And moon
Maybe
Somewhere up there
Where planets hang in place
The Heavens above
Where Earth meet sky
And all in between
Of what there is
Sky.

(c)1999

to Tice, Sherry, Pat, Simone, Marieta and Ms Queen


Girls to the end
No matter what
No matter how,
We are sisters to the very end
End of good times,
Sad times,
Mad times,
Low times,
We are sisters
Joined to the hip
Even in times of trouble
Times in need
Or just being there
We are sisters girls!

9 July 2000


Copyright (C)2000

In memory of Martha K. Newton and Amanda P. Newton


and then I looked around.....

I stepped back and breath
Taking each breath like there's no more.
The rush of memories flood my mind
The tears started to flow
And my heart heavy with grief.

I wanted to ask "why Lord why"
But it only comes back in whispers
Like a raindrop falling from the sky falling.

There's a time to morn
Remembering the times of our lives.
God knew what was best
In times like these----
Like times like these we need a Savior.

Remembering you---
I took a breath
And you've gone away
Sailed away to the sea so distant.

Remembering you---
I took  a breath
And now you're gone....
22 Aug. 2013

After the rain stops,
And the thunder rolled,
And the clouds turned gray
By the voice of God
And His handy work
Shown
There's after the storm
And after all there is
After all the world
Noticed what's a new
Just after the storm.

Copyright (c) 2002 Kenneth R. Jenkins

To every child born and unborn

Small faces,
Faces of future places,
From war torn countries
To a land that's free,
We celebrate these souls.

The future is yours little ones
And before your life is done
We celebrate you
Your whole life through
We celebrate these little souls.

To those ones who are here
Strong and healthy little dears,
To the ones who aren't born yet
We won't forget
You as well those little souls.

Small still voices of our times
The youthful hearts so lovely and kind
We hear you from the distant cry
And when we think of you we know why
You are our dear little souls.

o write a verse poet,
to kinder the soul,
to soothe it so,
until we can feel,
every verse put to paper,
then from each stroke of your pen,
tell us what's on your mind
taking us to worlds unknown
to lands unconquered
to places undiscovered.
tell us what's on mind
o great one,
tell us so that we may know
coming directly from
the poet's pen......
22 feb. '97

In Memory of Vetta M. Jenkins Mims

One word is so hard to say
To someone like you in every way,
A word that no one wants to whisper in the wind,
Or shout out to the masses,
A word you just can't say to a family member or friend.
But today we say goodbye to you
One last whisper of words expressed so
That we will gladly say but yet know
How we really feel right now.
As painful it seems we collectively come together
To whisper such words
The hardest thing to say as your sun sets looking eastward
Waving to you as you exit this earth
A word of expression---

Goodbye!

(C) 2008

Void is the Earth with no life
There was no form thereof.
Then with His Mighty voice,
He spoke with great power
And with His love
"Let there be light..."
Thus there it was
In the beginning.

Copyright (c) Kenneth R. Jenkins

To Mary J. Blige

Sister, you're gone through hell and back,
We know from what we heard but you know the facts
Of the drama playing like a daytime serial on TV
Or like a bad card being dealt dishonestly.
The bad breaks you've gone through and making bad press
And suddenly trying to get from under such mess.
"No More Drama" is your new theme song
And those around you who did you wrong
Are no longer parts of that "Young and Restless" life of hell
Or sometimes "Bold and Beautiful" days that just say, "oh well!"
The drama is finally gone
It's time to turn off the sad pitiful song
And start living again for once in your life my friend
Break away from the sadness and let it finally end
For this is your life
Now live it!!!!
April, 2004

In your eyes

I see a different light

Maybe another you

Perhaps something about you

I see a certain you

A far side of you

The best side of you

And that's all I can see

Of you from inside out

Outside in...

(C) 2006

to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen

The common man gets up in the morning
To work in. order to feed his family,
The common man struggles to make ends meet
Not letting his family go hungry,
The common man prays for his family daily
From any hurt harm or danger
That's what the common man does.

The common loves his wife and kids,
Holding things together everyday.
The common man works sunrise to sunset
Does what he can in every way.
The common man is peaceable to his fellow man
Not in war with his neighbor
Being the kind of man who loves----
Yeah, that's what the common man does.

The common man believes in God
And all His wondrous things He do,
Prays with his family daily
He tries to be true,
True to his family and his God
That's common man as you see
And that's what he does.

Now that you know what is a common man,
And what a common man does and do,
I guess you can see my point of view
Then clearly understand
About the common man.

In case you haven't seen one
Look around and take a good look----
And you'll surely fine and understood
The common man and his purpose
Yes that's what the common man does.

Brown
Black
White
Red
That's the skin I am in
My skin that I am in.
Look real close
What do you see?
A human being in the skin I am in
In the skin I am in.
My hair may have braids,
Corn rolls, picked out , picked over
*****
Straight
**** bald headed,
That's the skin that I am in.
Northern
Southern
Eastern
Western
No matter where I am from
That's the skin that I am in.
Take a closer look at me
And tell me what do you see?
A human being in the skin
that I am in
That skin I am in.

Beautiful faces
From every shade of color
From every span of the globe
From every walk of life
From every generation
From every faith,
From all types of places
From every nook and cranny
Of every place,
These are the beautiful faces
Of God’s rain bowed shaded
Globe
That spins around and around
On this planet
Called
Earth.

Just in case you get this message
Be sure to tell it to the sister
Who’s down and out
Who lost their way,
Who no longer have hope
And now don’t care anymore.

Just in case you get this message
Be sure to tell the brother man
Who’s lost his job,
Who’s lost hope,
Whose manhood is gone
And now he doesn’t care anymore.

HOLD ON!
Your change is coming
So, HOLD ON!
Your change is coming
So, HOLD ON!
HOLD ON!
There is hope for you!
There is hope for you!
There’s hope for YOU!

We live moment by moment
Time after time,
Allotted to us one day after day
Until you’ll surely find
Time slipping away slowly
And before you know it,
It’s gone!

We are appointed to die
God says so and it’s His rule.
This something one can’t deny
For you have to know like you’re in school
The lessons of life being applied
Even times like these.

We continue to live moment by moment
By the grace of God,
We are living in this world
Moment by moment in time.

We live moment by moment,
Time after time
Only allotted to us one day at a time.

Money, money, money

Give me money, money, money.

Money, money, money

Give me money, money, money.



I would die for my green paper

But they better pay me right with my green paper.

Mama needs to buy food with that green paper,

Daddy needs to get his kicks with that green paper.



What about the preacher man?

He needs that green paper.

And the baby mama needs that green paper

But the baby daddy won’t give up the green paper.



The rich man lives off the green paper

The poor needs that green paper.

Everybody’s going to need that green paper

You know you need that green paper.



Rev. Ike preached about the green paper

To buy more stuff with the green paper

But when he died, he couldn’t take it with him

And so, the green paper stays here.



Can you spear one or two of that green paper?

I need it to eat

I need to live

That green, green paper.



There’s some who will steal it

Rob somebody for it

**** somebody for it

That green, green paper.



The Good Book says the love it

Yes, the love of it is evil

But there’s so many out there

Who will die for that green paper.



Money, money, money

Give me money, money, money.

Money, money, money---

Too late it’s over for you---

Click, click BOOM!

27 May 2021

A social commentary



Please stop shooting

Please stop shooting me

Please stop shooting us---

Bullets flying everywhere

Killing others like they don’t care,

Even when you’re in they are or not in the cross hairs

Of an enemy that don’t care or swear

To get rid of us all

Once and for all.



If you’re black you die!

If you’re brown, you die!

If you’re gay you die!



One by one they die,

Be prepare to meet your maker, why

Because we don’t want you here.



On the streets runs red blood

To every person in my neighborhood

Plain and simple you don’t belong here!



Here’s my gun in hand

Ready to **** everyone from my land---

You don’t belong here.




Hate spills out on the streets,

To every person we do meet---

You mean nothing to me!



The hell with your religion and such,

The hell with you because of how I hate so much

The sight of you so I **** them all!



This my gun my oath to ****

Die if you must but still

I don’t want you here!



This is hate heard out loud

From with guns shooting proud,

Because you don’t belong here!



This is my gun my sworn duty

To **** as much and as many,

Simply you don’t belong here!



They killed Malcolm X and Dr. King

Because they wanted the same thing,

And you have no right here



Too many of you cluttering up my space,  

Too many of you taking away from us this human race,

Because you don’t belong here!



This is my gun my creed

To get rid of people like you with speed,

And don’t belong here!



The lies you tell of our children in school

The lies and breaking of rules---

Because you don’t belong here!



Your skin is too dark for me

Only my whiteness can set me free

Because you don’t belong here!



Please don’t shoot

Please don’t shoot me!

Please don’t shoot us

At the end one by the graves of those died!



One by one of those dying while bullets fly,

Flying all over the place

Killing every soul and sweet little face

And they don’t care.



The voices echoed in the air,

Of those who died while death don’t play no favorites or play fair,

Defining God in His face

How dear them!



Please stop shooting me

Please stop shooting

Please stop

Please...

Silence.



June 2020