"shug" poems
two hustlers in the music scene
**** life & the means to swing
rap in the way it used to be
making sweet magic & history
gone are the days we used to wake up in a purple haze
kissing second cousin falling in a daze
like a mouse that's stuck in a maze
shattered dreams things don't seem what they mean
stick a fork in me cause I'm done
soon I'll be off to run
as a young homeboy in the hood
busting sweet rhymes like I knew he should
wouldn't care in what they said or did
busting out with a cherry bomb under a garbage van lid
***** ain't nothing but meat on the bone
I'll **** it, I'll **** it, I'll leave it alone
Sound the alarm cause I'm out shooting blanks
Two hoods in the hip hop scene
producer Shug Knight can get awful mean
Falling head long at the seams
Living in the land of mean
The freaks come out at night out of sight
Riding in there Benz popping on Depends
shattered dreams evil schemes things don't seem what they mean
See you on the flip side squeeze
I'm going to pray to God it will knock you to your knees
The bees sugar is honey and honey is sweet
I got these cool rhymes buzzing from my head down to my feet
Biggie & Tu may have bitten off far more then they could chew
Nothing knew both had high top mansions
Silver dollars with no ransom
They both had left a legacy
See the new movie out going down in history
R.I.P. my friends see you in heaven looking down
For now I'll still listen to your tracks with no frown
Jun 17, 2017
Jun 17, 2017 at 2:10 PM UTC
Tupac Shakur in my opinion was the greatest poet of our time,
nursed from his calling a real rap star...
He left our world far too soon yet he is never forgotten
he lives in the hearts of his adoring fans
to sleep to dream through steel unawares
the chosen vessel pressed through the ****** of time
a vestibule toward a couple left long ago
barbed wire fences latent refusal of meager defenses
there's glory in the escape
hearken the minutes the hours set in tone
embrace the water gone alone,
in certain begotten place we may steal
take a look at the twilight upon the hill
there tormented cause to regain
an instant tight injury minus the flame
embark on a revolution so very plain
mark the man willing to explore
the plains of the dunes on the Cape rejoice
laughter the panther rest its nearly gruesome head
blood forsaken blood the chamber torn to death
deep onto deep the pages have turned
you are the final nail until my coffin
look long in the garden Johnny Rotten
nature knows what's embraced every single day
crushed cement with a red rose
stand the flight of pain
Tupac's final flame
heavy is the light left to St. Peter gone in flight,
Tupac witness to, "Keep Your Head Up"....
march of the wooden soldiers
rap invades first into the intellectual embraces the day
with words given into a sought after hemp learn to relax
The Smurf's and Strawberry short cake kids
in the company of the cabbage patch kids
boil royal thirst is done,
memories of the coast that screams
fry doe and everyone screams
in the company of a heightened remedy
boxed in the light of eggs and potatoes
Momma dearest momma show forth your flame
into eager desire was Tupac's drill
meet the marching orders from a blast from the past
Shug got his in prison with a good reason
Tupac was my hero so here we go
Nov 4, 2018
Nov 4, 2018 at 6:50 PM UTC
But he hijacks your mind, you see -
you start thinking
in pithy vignettes
and seeing ancient injustice
in a drunkard's bloodshot eyes
The universal
in the particular -
God, aye! Sheep
as avatars
for all society
and majesty in language
as it's spoken, and heard.
Then you imagine him
hiding other poets' books
behind his own
in Waterstone's in Dumfries,
and remember -
he's as human as you,
thank ****
Jul 27, 2019
Jul 27, 2019 at 6:53 AM UTC
the hand that took a hold
on the shape
to stimulate
the other’s growth
is more able to cherish
than the one that
took a hold
on the shape to
keep the fleshly desires in place
realization
like E.T. phone home
thank you woman of God
to **** the alienation within space
and bring us back to sense
you loved best
you allowed me
and us
to grow
Jun 20, 2020
Jun 20, 2020 at 6:07 AM UTC