Urban Geometry

Rehabilitation

2009-11-27T22:05:00.001-08:00

Of past lives gone
To wish them away
Awakening to a better day
A cleansing of hate
And anger and crime
The new life is born
Migration of time
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Dark Essence

2009-11-21T10:32:00.000-08:00

Darkness whispers
To a sullen state
Pulling a vision from within
Forcing more silence
Beating a reticent drum
Thoughtful confinement
Responding in kind
Beyond the door lies
A creative mind
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Closer to Her

2009-11-14T07:59:00.000-08:00

To control destiny
And find a place
He looks her over
Sleeping grace
He imagines Heaven
A breeze through a willow
To long for reincarnation
He would be her pillow
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Colorless

2009-11-07T07:36:00.000-08:00

To lofting winds and shallow puddles
Winding through time and substance
A man softly hovers
Unaware of the winter chill
Against himself he huddles
The seasons blend and fall in line
The animals forage for life
As coldness whips the air
Thoughts of long past lovers
And darkness falls upon the land
It has only just started
Before the clearing snowfall passes
And colors have departed
A settling calm weaves upon us
We awaken to a new warmth
Having made it to yet another day.
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Encounters Past

2009-10-27T09:46:00.000-07:00

To see the years slip ever faster
Once upon a time
And as I had now wandered past her
Scent awakening my mind
To once a beautiful encounter
Moves by without a glimpse
And leaves me silent staring lonely
Shift in time with just a hint
Of what it was
And what it isn't
And what it shall not
Be again
©LUTHER SPELLS

Endeavor Defeated

2009-10-21T05:40:00.000-07:00

Of elusive pursuits
That often slip away
Chasing after them
So much to say
Freedom escapes
Upon each open door
Enemies focus
And dreams are no more
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Found Love

2009-10-18T08:58:00.000-07:00

A lonely alley awaits
The struggling thoughts
She wonders as she seeks
A path to reach her calm
Quiet in her peacefulness
Dreaming
A new love will come
One with tenderness
For her to submit
And finally allow herself
To be the fruit
Of his conquer
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Talisman

2009-10-10T21:52:00.001-07:00

For all I have accomplished
And all of which I've failed
To end up where I am today
From where I have been
I question of where I was put
Could it have been
This rabbit's foot?
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Falling Up

2009-10-04T07:47:00.000-07:00

From where I have been
To where I aspire
And where I am now
I will not retire
To reach my unlimited
Goals of my ascent
Where only the top
Could end any descent
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Into The Light

2009-09-21T09:57:00.000-07:00

To a place that knows me well
We meet among the pines
Where once my weary body dwell
Behind the structured lines
We settle down upon the log
And dream of anguished times
A quiet man; a lonely dog
A sharing of the rhymes
Envisioning the darkness
Of cloudy memories past
Rejoice together peace at last
And exit from the fog
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

All Along

2009-09-12T21:48:00.000-07:00

For as long as time
Has my world been cursed
Searching for the one
To quench my thirst
In the alleys beyond
And pastures before me
Through spaces I have gone
Unable to see
When all along present
I failed to envision
What has come to me last
Was where I was brought
Upon first.
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

One Chance

2009-09-05T21:32:00.000-07:00

How I have fallen
With just one glance
Our eyes meet softly
The spark ignites
We venture madly
To seal our night
Cornered by circumstance
Devoid of light
In silence I revel
Given just one chance
To live the love
Of this perfect romance
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Blue Darkness

2009-08-31T22:40:00.000-07:00

Through tears of painful burning
A fog of pepper mists
Swirling in the hot night
Among cries of helplessness
Blurred vision not returning
To see the blue through darkness
And quenching thirsty yearnings
I learn to love the taste
Of what was once a weapon
Whose anger now erased
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Escape

2009-08-29T14:29:00.000-07:00

Again I find myself among the mire
Deep within the jungle as darkness settles
Dampness thick in the air
A lone man pedals
Alarms sound wildly as I go
Stench of garbage flows
Dim lights glare
Shadows long and ominous
But for nothing there
And grueling hatred follows
A man who flees his past
He slithers through a puddle
Strewn with broken glass
Focused on his ends
Hoping on all hope
To find the final glory
Untie his binding rope
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

But...

2009-08-24T17:26:00.000-07:00

Pushed aside unconsidered
Kept in silence alone
But for a word given
And not allow me to speak
I sit in quiet solitude
Beaten down and weak
For all I have to offer
Disregarded for others driven
I wait my turn in earnest
Beneath this box I live in
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Visions

2009-08-18T10:03:00.000-07:00

Pressing past my past

Envisioning what's to come
To feel the new beauty
And hope for it to last
I see so many futures
Yet I am troubled by the pain
That comes from simple living
In efforts yet to gain
But beyond the many failures
Come peace from up above
And save us from our hateful lives
With small tokens of love
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Dictionarily Challenged

2009-08-16T03:52:00.000-07:00

I wander alone among the unknown
Seeking the meaning of what is not shown
Have I stumbled upon something anew
Known by only a few unable to view
Shall I summon a source literary dark horse
Found purely by force on a twisted course
Refer to the guide as I take this short ride
Reveal this new side attempting to hide
Needing this release I call the police
Search for my peace hoping to cease
Open the book to have a good look
Wondering aloud
Copse?
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Word Justice

2009-08-16T02:04:00.000-07:00

Enter a world where
Nothing is known
And words thrown out
meaningless
For simplest of things
Are best to describe
Actions shown
Leaving no doubt
Not forced confusion
Or subtle black ops
Don't make me have to
Call the copse
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Impending Freedom

2009-08-08T21:50:00.000-07:00

Waves of peace roll over
The end of pain in sight
An entrance to a new world
Freedom from this fight
A sea of life before me
An ocean of hate behind
At tunnels end I see my light
I've searched but now I find
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Destiny

2009-08-01T22:09:00.000-07:00

To see what is ours
But not to reach
To hold fast the dreams
We struggle with fate
And hope it is kind
Our youth we will teach
Their peace we should find
Erase all the hate
Through the windows
Of the mind.
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Emerge

2009-07-26T09:57:00.000-07:00

Carefully he wonders
Her fragrance abounds
Knowing her presence
Feeling her sounds
Reaching within
Emerging with passion
Gives love to his sweetness
In tenderly fashion
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

The Devil Within

2009-07-21T05:08:00.000-07:00

It drives my thoughts
And moves my soul
Tells me things
I should not know
Takes the things
That bring me peace
Allows the beast
To be released
Alas this freedom
Living alone
Expose its face
Inner voice shown
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Misplaced Words

2009-07-19T08:54:00.000-07:00

He stumbles as he reaches
For words to speak for him
Memory dim
Of what the past teaches
Darkly grim
Wishing to awaken
He can now rejoice
But quickly retaken
By his inner voice
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Thoughts...

2009-07-11T22:06:00.000-07:00

To the shelters I prowl
Watching them toil
Pushing their needs
Planting their seeds
But to wonder aloud
As I set to recoil
I have to imagine
What are they thinking
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Personal Space

2009-07-09T08:16:00.000-07:00

She was new to my world
A virtual stranger
She knew not the extent
Of her impending danger
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Lost Boy

2009-07-06T10:26:00.000-07:00

As a wisp of warm air
He slips past the gate
His deepest secrets
Locked inside innate
To share with himself
His wondrous dreams
Where under a bridge
His life always beams
For there he will go
And bring forth his joy
The stranger is now
Long lost as a boy
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Brutal Stranger

2009-07-05T12:45:00.000-07:00

This weapon for love
Strikes effective
Not selective
Brings her to a new
Objective
He fills her void
But travels softly
Reflective
Of past loves
In the range her
Memories once of
This brutal stranger
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Unfamiliar

2009-07-05T08:32:00.000-07:00

In slumber it seems
I am living in dreams
The walls unfamiliar
The people obscene
But awaken to hope
Of the home that I know
A place of kindness and love
Where beauty can grow
But fate takes my arm
And pulls me to danger
The more it does harm
The more is the stranger
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

The Stranger Awaits

2009-07-04T21:54:00.000-07:00

On the block he is marched
In the cover of night
To the holding quarters
Under the light
He feels the rage of his porters
Prepared for the fight
And the stranger who waits
To instill his fright
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Infinite Lock Down

2009-07-01T07:27:00.000-07:00

Into the sun a man stares
Focused on the horizon
Waiting
He dreams of the places
To begin his arising
Futile chases
Cold faces
Another locked door
Freedom nevermore
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Betrayal

2009-06-29T11:28:00.000-07:00

Carving out a path to freedom
To have it denied
Friends who seek to save me
Leave me behind
I fight to understand
Where loyalties lie
Why so many should have to die
But I see in reflections
Returning in their eyes
Sending back my pain
I am but blue rain
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Colorless

2009-06-28T08:25:00.000-07:00

How blue is the rain I cannot see
I ask as the walls keep it from me
Colors exist on other levels
Where I am not allowed to witness
Only steel and concrete
And wooden tables
Where I am to confess
I see black and white
And continue with life
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Inherent Pain

2009-06-27T22:01:00.000-07:00

The thunder of boots in a darkened hall
Sounds of screams through a cement wall
Thoughts of no one hearing a call
Knowing again my defenses will fall
But through this fight I have only you
In my thoughts as all I can do
To shutter the sounds of inherent pain
I close my eyes to keep myself sane
Through roaring downpours of my blue rain
Crashing the ground in my throbbing brain
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Before Assimilation

2009-06-21T16:06:00.000-07:00

Complexities define me
For none know my next move
I need what soon I will see
Until then I leave no clue
Will she stand beside me
Or cross a busy street
Her scent evokes a wildness
For which I must compete
For will I take her briskly
Or move upon the next
Each time it becomes risky
Or now I could reject
To go upon resistance
Walk away in simulation
Let her feel safe
Before assimilation
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

We Are But One

2009-06-21T07:42:00.000-07:00

Through the gates we are led
Our souls now dead
For here we suffer conformity
Through brutality
Injustice and destiny
With decimation
Comes Revelation
And ultimate assimilation
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Fires of the Tormented Soul

2009-06-20T16:50:00.000-07:00

Don't look in my eyes
As I hold you still
Ignore the fires
That burn at will
Remove the gifts
You have for me
And slip the lists
You would foresee
As best you know
You've never seen
An average Joe
You've been wiped clean
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Scars of Injustice

2009-06-20T16:11:00.000-07:00

Gently I move where I can see
A clearer view of my eternity
Windy gusts across a plain
Delicate flowers that ease my pain
Upon mountains I climb above
To shower below my intentions of love
And softly I endeavor to caress
The cheek of humanity to fully undress
A nature of life that goes within this
To smooth away deep scars of injustice
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Undone

2009-06-20T15:16:00.001-07:00

Times dictate reactions
I see her there
Can't help but stare
Building internal factions
Drive me to her
But she sees her focus
I move with care
And realize my motive
While she moves unaware
That I am where
My instinct has control
My actions are not my own
I struggle to care
But chill to the bone
Enter the home
Blind from the stone
Put her to rest
As only I can do best
But gaze in the mirror
And snap to my test
Envision my horror
Reached my final quest
For this I must run
Immune from the rest
Again I digress
This can't be undone
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Evolution of Freedom

2009-06-20T09:51:00.000-07:00

Silence the only sound I hear
From beyond the razor wire
My loneliness becomes so dire
Love becomes so dear
And hidden things now near
Soon they will appear
In shadows of darkened halls
While peering through the walls
No longer will I fear
To what this has evolved
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

The Price I Must Pay

2009-06-19T11:08:00.000-07:00

Frost upon the grass
Gazing from my hole
Seeking comfort
But knowing not my role
Of purpose or of sorts
Comes deep within my soul
Not unlike the courts
Where others come to rhyme
And life will take my time
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Intrusions

2009-06-19T08:52:00.000-07:00

Lost in a storm of powerful words
Tossed from walls to visions
Captivated by the heards
And touched by their incisions
Behind these sounds I can endure
A lifetime of conclusion
Of this I surely can be sure
By deep and dark intrusions
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Beyond the Wall

2009-06-17T09:45:00.000-07:00

Beyond the wall lay years of loss
Unreturnable forever
And at what steep and deadly cost
For what has been endeavored
But soon I will break down this pain
And venture back to freedom
For all of those who have been slain
For those who would believe them
A creeky gate with rusty keys
An escort to the entrance
And withered souls so worn as these
No vision of repentance
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Reflections

2009-06-17T08:49:00.000-07:00

I see myself through shattered lenses

Shards upon my past

Sitting among lavish denziens

Hoping it won't last

Men have taken to abuse

My kind and gentle nature

I choke them but they still refuse

Poetic nomanclature

But as I struggle to escape

These chains of mans injustice

I form a state they can relate

From all of their destruction

I look within to see my soul

Reflections of my face

And sit here in my quiet hole

My sins I will erase

Forever...

2009-06-17T07:44:00.000-07:00

Bitches fight for love
On bruthas who don't give it up
They put themself through hell
Then need help from above
But the boyz they crave are hollow
Beaten shells of selfishness
Locked in cells of misogyny
Forever they will wallow
But soon will come salvation
A bright and loving star
A man to answer all their dreams
With depths of warmth afar
Into their lives he will return
To give them pangs of pleasure
And slowly beating drums of passion
Forever they will treasure
This man will take their darkest sorrow
And turn it into beauty
Their souls from which his hand will borrow
A saga to end with fury
For his love will be encircling peace
Wrought with pain and struggle
But in the end the pain will ease
Eternal sleep to snuggle.
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

For Soon I Shall Come

2009-06-16T07:21:00.000-07:00

My appeal is in tact
Soon will be fact
To you I will find
To return your kind
And stuff into place
My eternal disgrace
To warm your dark soul
And fill your vast hole
A warning to some
For soon I shall come
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Curvature Of The Sublime

2009-06-15T13:20:00.000-07:00

I sit alone surrounded
By four walls grounded
My boys pounded
Alarms sounded
Soul hounded
For I imagine my escape
Steel and tape
Backroom rape
Windows agape
I slip into the night
Eluding the fight
Knowing what is right
Briskly in flight
Holding tight
I slip away
Nothing to say
I cannot stay
But society will pay
For this is the way
The plan I lay
And death to demons at the light of day
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

To Stand Trial

2009-06-10T22:43:00.000-07:00

It went unnoticed my abilities to reason
Competency is now cause
To regress for their treason
But with retrials come victory
And valor defeat
Of misgiven convictions
And disgraceful retreat
For soon I will conquer
The justless system
And crush all of those
Who forced my conviction
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Cleansing Souls

2009-06-10T20:39:00.000-07:00

He questions of my words of peace
How I had done my deeds
If I did clean of where I'd been
Or where I sowed my seeds
I say to them I cleared my paths
But doubt rings in their words
Of painful shadows clearly cast
Where screams are never heard.
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Furiousity

2009-06-10T19:12:00.000-07:00

There lies within my mighty soul

A path to rich defiance

Where men who recreate my role

Yet struggle for comliance

I sit here waging battles fierce

Armed with tools of honor

My armor they shall never pierce

I lay my love upon her

With waves of curiosity

She fights to gain her freedom

But with my furiosity

I force my way between them

She lay silent gazing up

I gently close her eyes

She sleeps now in eternal love

As I'm plagued with racist lies.

Forces of Hatred

2009-06-03T09:32:00.000-07:00

Racist endeavors to keep me down
Got no purpose; got no ground
Words of hate
Still emmanate
Fill the air with rage
Defy me to regenerate
I cannot turn the page
Clearly seen within their words
Agendas filled with hatred
Flying free among the birds
Stoned to the ground deflated
Devils seek to kill my soul
Rip it from my being
Among the things that they have stole
Of what I am not seeing
But I digress these racist pigs
Shall not demote my choices
I counter their most evil tricks
And shall defeat their forces
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Ghosts of Defiance

2009-06-01T20:17:00.000-07:00

A passing wind untangles me
And roots to higher grounds
Of taking into custody
And slipping out of bounds
I fight the tyranny of youth
And struggle to outgrow it
I witness the barrage of truth
And forcefully bestow it
But deep within my soul of souls
I dig for self reliance
And journey down into a hole
To slay ghosts of defiance
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Oppressive Fluid

2009-05-31T08:16:00.001-07:00

It has been called a substance

Exhibit twenty nine

To scientifically report

The fluids would be mine

But what of science and the law

Be fully circumspect

I looked and knew of what I saw

A loss of all respect

Convictions of a racist band

Of devils in disguise

I offer each my willing hand

And look them in their eyes

For one fine day I will arrive

To greet these evil men

Who endeavor to deprive

Beg mercy will they then

Seek Freedom

2009-05-31T07:50:00.000-07:00

It is but a fleeting thought

To take for granted such nature

Of freedom and liberty to go

Upon our way for life

Without benefit of empathy

To take from others unaware

To witness their despair

Evidence take away freedom

A single strand of hair

Years will pass with thoughts of when

He could have left behind

This incarceration within a pen

His freedom he could find

Working Man

2009-05-29T09:33:00.001-07:00

I struggle to create
But others do to take
My fashion is copied by group elite
And racist cover copies
Alas my ideas worth to many
But to me they offer none
For taking what was been done by me
Shall see you to your end
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

They Know Not

2009-05-29T09:12:00.000-07:00

The pain and suffering we must endure

Their hatred of us for it

They know not of our tireless struggle

And step upon us anyway

For they have not been to where we go

Or seen the agony in our eyes

They see beyond our twisted fears

But neglect our fleeting cries

Our blood means nothing to their lives

They sentence us to years

My pain oozes from my pores

And sweat devours my tears

My freedom is of no consequence

I melt away from years

Trash Day

2009-05-29T08:46:00.000-07:00

It's trash day in the neighborhood

Me and Lemuel take our walk

He points to where he laid her down

And bit her clean pink gut

I lift the cover heavily

We toss the bags inside

We envy for her lifelessness

Beyond the walls she rides

Rain

2009-05-29T08:31:00.000-07:00

The saddness of a rainy day

I plead for where I go

I summon for a passing ride

They see invisible

To them I do implore my rage

Splashed and weary wet

Lean into her now broken vent

She moves aside with ease

I hold her tight against her door

She begs me Mister Please

Lights flash behind us now

She loses time from me

We open up the speeding door

She quickly disappears

Her tumbled mass a speed bump now

And I lose ten more years

Longing For Her

2009-05-29T08:20:00.000-07:00

Longing for the love that sends me here

Longing for her touch and an ice cold beer

Longing for the grill and her chicken fired

Longing to be free from this hell mired

Longing for the love I inject upon her

Longing to devour as I lay beyond her

Longing to be free and send her away

Longing for another satisfying day

Beat Down

2009-05-29T07:57:00.000-07:00

A missent glare
Beaten down
Cameras watch
Domed mirrored stare
Bloodied strikes
Payment pending
Mens heads pool
Crushed and bending
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Of Shadows Cast

2009-05-29T07:39:00.000-07:00

When we are coming up
And serve the rules of men
Before us
We develop our own
Place our trusts
Bury the tools
We share and hone
Go forth and find
Our Mother's kind
At mailroom lines
And troubled times
For those behind
That venture trying
Befall the same
Their fathers trials
We come to pass
Of police blasts
Didn't do nothing
But shadows cast
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Swift Racist Justice

2009-05-29T06:06:00.001-07:00

Of courts and judges I summon a plea

Why the system has focused on me

For I have done what any man would have done

And forced by my race to go on the run

Witnesses and rats an unlikely foe

And justice for blacks unbearably slow

But my brothers in arms have shown me the way

And for ratting me out they shall all rue the day

Alphonso Dzee have reckoned their stature

When I am released they shall witness the rapture

Parole Mentor

2009-05-29T05:44:00.000-07:00

He gives me knowledge for when I get out

But tells me to chill as he shows me his doubt

For his time is mine as we live out our lives

With positive hopes as the end soon arrives

Before a board of racists we face

Twenty five to life our unfortunate dates

But alas years go by in increasing haste

And our time we make up for what we would waste

Terminal Brothers

2009-05-29T05:28:00.000-07:00

I met brother Lemme when I first arrived

He spoke of the years he's had to survive

The injustice of evidence thrown in his face

Humiliating searches in the darkest of space

But under his wing and guidance from age

We share together our focus of rage

Where we are taken from our prime of life

And forced to endure this oppressive strife

For it was not our own that got us in here

But rather an unfounded racist fear

That our lives are worth less for the color of skin

Of which defines the trouble we in

Thin evidence of hate we see in the court

Our unfair detainment they never report

Breakfast In Bed

2009-05-29T05:14:00.000-07:00

For I am here and cannot depart

My morning is spent; my meal where I start

Through the slot on a sectioned steel platter

The cart in the foyer a noisy loud clatter

Bacon and eggs religious disgrace

Is all I can get from this miserable place

But I save the meat and devour the eggs

And use the bacon on my enemy dregs

For we lack any weapons against all our foe

But unlikely treasure like this can put on a show

For lunch I am led to my own cavity

And throw my bacon with depravity

For inmates get pork while others get feces

Officers of law the unlucky species

Lemuel

2009-05-28T18:04:00.000-07:00

We are but children when we arrive
See each other through babies eyes
Under a wing we need our shelter
He tried to feel, he finally felt her
For years he made his way alone
Took her for his very own
She loved him dearly but was taboo
For her to do what she would do
He helped her see her inner sanctum
When he was done she truly thanked him
But Lemuel knew what he must muster
Fold her up into the dumpster
Biting fear injustice lingers
For Lemuel it will ring years
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Law Librarian

2009-05-26T10:57:00.000-07:00

She thinks she stands above me there

Her pen lodged firmly in her hair

With stern reproach she holds me back

Unaware she changes track

And releases me unto the books

Of legal knowledge with glaring looks

She points her finger to beware

Not knowing I'm about to share

The warmth and tenderness that she lacks

In subtle backroom fierce attacks

Prison Halls

2009-05-26T06:32:00.000-07:00

Though I sit incarcerated I am free

From the perils of life that have entangled me

Apart from the evils in which I was caught

Above all the wrong this existence hath wrought

But still encircled by the hatred of many

I fight to the death the injustice they send me

For devils prevail within thick cement walls

To batter against me in dimly lit halls

I fall to the feet of no man of this prison

But rage at the penalties of which I am given

And if a day comes when I am then challenged

A fate shall befall him a brutal last balance

Racial Invisibility

2009-05-26T05:27:00.000-07:00

It's tough for a brother to get some love

From a system of people not sent from above

Electronic passage awaits eons of time

For some racist collective to release my rhyme

I sit in a rage of violent contention

Develop myself a new means of invention

To combat injustice and blind deliverance

Like a child left alone in obstructed envisions

But return me my faith in a flawed awkward system

Belief to my sense that my work will be with them

And send me on high to drop upon masses

Of levels of love across multitude classes

Joy Ride

2009-05-25T08:30:00.001-07:00

I seek to drive away my pain

To step off the curb into the lane

Pull the car and ask to use

Without leaving any clues

They fight to stay but I am stronger

We quickly make them breathe no longer

I cruise to freedom I see the light

And drive on deep into the night

The man is unaware to see

His witnesses lie next to me

Into the town emerging from the fog

I'm free at last another cog

In a wheel of doubt and unjust pursuit

And taking an unlikely route

Where nobody can see what I have done

With vengence a mask and a gun

They will seek when I retreat

As I disappear out to the street

Incarcerary Warmth

2009-05-25T08:03:00.000-07:00

We lock in tight and see each other

He is new; he is my brother

His graceful stroll along the tiles

The man walks him the first long mile

He is greeted with charm; greeted with cheers

Greeted by many beyond his years

I know right off he will be mine

In times as this we are inclined

We toss aside stigmatic fear

A black man knows what he must endear

To make the step for worthy lust

And survive a world racially unjust

To the yard we go to make our measure

Discovering our implied shared treasure

Lights out now we make advances

With the Man awake we take our chances

Of agonony screams our first encounter

I dream of her and how I'd pound her

We roll away; we've made our connect

For each time more lest they detect

The rigors of love in concrete cells

Such is the pain of Luther Spells

Chance Encounter

2009-05-25T07:38:00.000-07:00

She gazes across the crowded store
I see her child run free
But of a glance I take the boy
And set him far away
To create a panic as I go
And liberate her from her pain
I take her to my loving lair
And give to her my warmth
She struggles to regain her breath
I close the passageway
We mingle amongst the leafy bush
She slowly fades away
As I arise and briskly flee
I remember the boy that I set free
To leave in wonder; to risk the pain
I released the boy in subtle candor
And left to find my next chance encounter.
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Canal Street Slag

2009-05-25T07:17:00.000-07:00

My thirst consumes me as I venture out
Within my vest I begin to doubt
Do I crave berries; do I crave stout?
Do I have the tools to pull this out?
Under the porch in the neighborhood
Community tools for the greater good
Retrieve the gat and pull my mask
Burst the doors I hear them gasp
Empty the drawer into my bag
Grab my drink and quick to slag
Meet my boyz out on the streets
Share with them my bountiful treats
Left behind two bloody shells
Teach them to say no to Luther Spells
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Geometric Mathematics

2009-05-23T12:33:00.000-07:00

In the Universe there can only be

One to see one which we

Set free and watch flee from thee

But words are just a mans disease

A means to please

A vice to squeeze

In all creation there lives

Only one that gives

For shivs to wake us from our slumbers

The universal voice of numbers

Ones and zeroes can be our heroes

To light the sky of by and by

And bring us nigh with a mighty sigh

Alas we speak and not of Greek

We hear a creek; A bird's beak

It mutters asunder of ritual thunder

Cool cucumber it calls our number

Snap

2009-05-23T11:12:00.000-07:00

To which we most depend upon
Has suddenly been rendered gone
And from the dark we will prevail
To cast beyond this lofty tale
Of brothers once begot of fear
In heat of night; in dead of year
We go about to seek our bounty
Open now within our county
The things we have once been denied
On whom we could not have relied
Yet here we see with baskets pleasure
And slink away; we hold our treasure
None will try to stop our journey
Lest he end up on a gurney
Slashed beyond the values worth
Drowning in a sea of mirth
And gurgling blood the only sound
To wish oneself had not abound.
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Jugular Lessons

2009-05-22T11:48:00.000-07:00

We wonder through our means of science
For which our blood would have reliance
Across the throat of worthy flesh
Held to the face a wire mesh
He comes upon my teathered act
And watches as I make my pact
The screams of love silence his wonder
Her warmth within I sternly plunder
Beneath her head I lay a flower
Her burning hair I will devour
But still he waits to make his move
To see the acts upon her groove
She reaches up; she takes a breath
He finally smells the scents of death
He moves to take my power from me
I raze his throat; He drops to drum me
With furtive stealth I go off in harkness
And disappear into the darkness.
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Scathing Pains

2009-05-22T11:39:00.000-07:00

To whom do I owe this debt of love
To what I owe from far above
Of where we climb to be withheld
And honor be listed as we are felled
Rejoice he says as we are beaten
Our last meal yet to be eaten
I see my path a darkened hall
Windowed cave received by all
To strap into my seat of shock
And hear the ominous turn of the lock
A call to beg for someone's mercy
No luck to find here in New Jersey
But hear me when it comes to pass
I went with valor; I went with class.
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS

Instinctive Beginnings

2009-05-22T11:33:00.000-07:00

A man can never be so bold
To bring upon for I behold
The day with which we come asunder
And open hearts with joy and wonder
Alas I share with you to see
New ways to open up and be
The men we wish to follow on high
But bring us but a hollow sigh
©2009 LUTHER SPELLS