Liquid Courage(I'm an alcoholic)

This glass gives me the courage to face, yet again another disappointing day

This glass makes ugly men look good

So I can get laid

This glass makes the world around me disappear

This glass keeps my head on my shoulders, and my mind clear

After a couple of these glasses I can tell no lies

Nothing, but the truth

 

Probably not needed to be said

Most of the time I can’t remember what I said

 

I don’t think these glasses go to well with my meds

 

But anyways

 

Come between me, coke and captain

Something is bound to happen

I’m an alcoholic

Quarantine (stop the spread of the ignorant)

Natural selection normally would have sought you out, and eliminated you

Technology, advancements in meds, through and through

Luckily for you, saved you

What would the world be if natural selection was allowed to run freely?

I imagine a world very empty

Why do we spend billions to keep these dumb asses alive?

Money, aid, technology, and dumb ass signs

 

I read one in the airport

“Don’t walk in back of engine is hot”

 

Yep that was a real sign

Sign of the times

Where ignorance is the bliss people wallow in

If I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again

Allow these dumb asses to defend themselves

They have been alive way too long with our intellectual help

Let’s save this world for a smart person, one moment at a time

For those who think, and use their minds

Quarantine us

Help stop the spread of dumbness

Before they multiply

Be more of them and less of us and

God forbid they are closing in

Being stupid should be one of the deadly sins

I’m concerned

It seems anymore

Dumb people are adored, even felt sorry for

Unfortunately, being intelligence will be like the Raven

Never more

 

No Virginia, there isn't a Santa Claus

No Virginia, there isn't a Santa Claus, and I have all the facts to prove its so

There are more disasters, heartache, and chaos around Christmas time, more than you will ever know
The news...

and my environment around me tells me so

Unemployments rates are high. People can't live, can't afford to pay their bills

Holiday causes the depression, effects are people poppin pills

Drinking alcohol

Homeless people can't deck their halls

No Virginia, there isn't a Santa Claus and you're dumb if you believe it

People are still dying needlessly by the minute

No one knows what it means to be giving

People are pushed to their kindness limits

People are too strained to be happy living

No Virginia, there isn't a Santa Claus and you'd be a fool to consider it

Texting made our kids illiterate

To grownups they are no longer considerate

Change is something needed after all is spent

In the past is where the good old days went

Hatred replaced trust

New and innovative replace creativeness

Now to people ignorance is bliss

Charity...hit or miss

No Virginia, there isn't a Santa Claus

When a quality education is offered to very few

When you lose the friend you once knew

Because you're being yourself and staying true

Wake up Virginia, there is NO Santa Claus

I guess you never read the Clause, it’s in fine print

Where it says the world’s problems cannot be solved with the remedy of store bought presents

Where bells jingle, don't keep people from being evil

Presents don't help strong people help the feeble

Will presents from the store feed the nation’s poor?

Can presents replace love absent?

Heal the world of the love we're lacking?

No Virginia, there most certainly isn't a Santa Claus

 

Words

I stand in bewilderment

Consumed by my ardent thoughts of you

You allow me to articulate the continence of my soul

in such a profound way

You have a talent for unlocking abstruse emotions

I have inside me

I would cease to exist without you

My existence would be bleak

It would be an existence lacking color, taste,  lacking intimacy

Occasionally, you glide off my tongue

With the most careful and precise intentions

At times

 I am left pondering

How I could have stopped you from inflicting harm

Once in a while

You’re unsure and apprehensive

And sometimes you’re exuberant.

Radiating confidence

Even I am impressed with

But it is when you say

Nothing

It becomes alarming

Lusting

You don't love me...
This I know
...I don't love you either
This I know for sure
Doesn't mean I'm ready to let you go, but
Your in strong lust of me,
can't stay away
I'm in strong lust of you
Stayin detached I pray
You can't live without me...
even if it's only occasionally

J Withdrawls

I gotta ween him
outta my system!
My mind and body
miss him
Has my whole being twisted
Wondering how I missed it?
My thought
my emotions
I gotta get a grip and...
He was so strong
yet so gentle
Fucked my body
made love to my mental
I was so complex
yet he made me so simple
Damn
I miss him!
Don't worry
"I'll find sombody like you," said adele
but
Her lyrics can go straight to hell
Cause there will never ever be
Another you
I played
I lose!
What now to do?

Definition

Define

Define the confusion my body has of you with my mind

I wish I could sing
I wish I could sing melodies, so ear pleasing

I can't sing, so my poetry sings for me

It sings of intimacies, our bodies clinging

to one another

My insatiable desires for you make me not want another

It sings of highs I get of your touching

bumping, griding

Blowing me outta my mind and

a stallion in bed is hard to find and

But your not mine

Your not mine

I share you from time, from time to time

you are mine

the other time you're hers

makes my body hurt

my body tho, not my mind,

because my heart right now is untwinded

from the feelings I have in- side of you, excuse me, or was it the thought of you in-side me

You seduced me through and through,


I compare them all of them to you

and they fail.

What's a woman to do?

Higher Heights

I hold my head to the sky

Don't wanna live life taking a piece of the pie...

Fuck it I want the whole damn cake

I want all mine and eat it too...

I wanna a love I never knew...

I hold my head up to the sky

 
Observing the birds

Hoping one day I can fly

Take to fight

climb to new and higher heights

Rid myself of obstacles

Distorting my  sight

-written by Luchetta(Cookee)Manus ©

Evolution

Change is inevitable

Good or bad

Go with the flow

It's your persistence to stay committed

to who you truly are

in a life play where you're the star

setting goals and raising your own bar

Making learning experiences outta of your messes

Change is evolutionary

Can be a lil scary, but

only for the visionaries

who dare to defy the odds

Pioneers of uncharted territory

For personal satisfaction and inner glory

Leaving legacies in their life story

Playoffs

Wisdom is the strength, which gives me harmony


knowledge applied, is ignorance denied


Works like armoury


Keeps negativity far from me

I choked

Making decisions

Lacking precision

caused by my heart's blurred vision

as serious as the Bills slippin

making the super bowl

never wining it

91, 2, 93, and 4

Played the life game

I made all my major failures in a row

Only God and Heaven knows

I need to swallow my fears

Dry my tears

Cant waste anymore years

Today's not guaranteed me

nor is tomorrow

sure things in life are death, taxes, and sorrow

I have enough to conquer today than to worry about yesterday's problems

Leave God to solve them

People have opinions

They can say what they wanna say

They cant destroy my identity and who I am

or change one letter in my name

Written by Luchetta(Cookee) Manus

Shadow

Hi

Hey

I'm over here!

Somewhere tucked away in the back of the room

Hidden

Clouds of gloom and doom hovering over me

Saturating me as I stand weeping

No one truly loves me

Hey

Notice me!

I have dreams 

Which flow as long as streams

I am valuable

Just like you

I matter!

I'm in the back of the room

Overshadowed by crowds of chatter

And others with egotistical importance

They are more important than me

Too shallow to see

What I see in humanity

To see what I see in me

Maybe instead of being swallowed by the majority

With their hypocrisies

And false realities

I will stay separated

Just my thoughts and me

In the back of the room

Fatherless Woman

I look like him
Speak like him
Share the same love for cycles as him
Yet I don't know him
He knows my name
I know his name
We smile the same
Yet, I don't know him
He's out in the streets
In and out of bars he creeps
Cheap alcohol
Cheaper women
Sleepin
He made me
The unwanted baby
Our resemblances are uncanny
My parents didn't plan me
He was never there
Growing up was unfair
All I wanted was his love
for him to care
To him, I wasn’t a name, maybe child number 3
No emotional attachment to me, or nurturing shared
God said "Be fruitful and multiplied."
My dad literally complied
He stayed long enough to make me
Never had a father to call mine
Never stayed around for the tears I cried

The Peanut Gallery

Love me

Hate me

Toss a quarter in the air

50/50

Whatever fate maybe for me

Destiny awaits

I don't want a piece of the pie, I want the whole damn cake

Poorly struggling for what the rich make

Destiny calls

Whispers of negativity causes me to stall

It's looking like no one cares at all

Hecklers wanna see me fall

But, my God sees all

Lord, hear my cry

Help me keep my heart protected, head towards the sky

If I listen to them, I'd die

THE SECRETS OF MEN (MEMORIES OF stepfather)

 

Poem title: What I learned about a man

 

What I learned about a man, I learned from my father

Can't trust a man to tell the truth

Lies they throw farther

Mentally beating you down

Words hurt worse than murder

Spiritual death, worse

than the physical

Names hurt ya

Destroys your mental

Sticks and stones, break bones

and so does his fists

Childhood nightmares I will never miss

Wishing my memories into the abyss

What I learned about a man ,I learned from my father

How he used and mistreated my mother

Told her with deceit that he loved her
after fighting was over

Chaos, identities lost

How the household was cold

Love was scarce and old

as the smiles we never wore

fake

Kept inquiring minds away

He raised the standards high, as we tried to meet them

It was impossible, made us weary, tired

As he continually raised the bar of perfection a lil higher

an obstacle never conquered, requirement  never met

our imminent defeat and regret

His anger rarely ceased

I learned women are unworthy

A man can leave a woman thirsty and hungry

for attention

Compliments never given

Being a woman is worthless living

Men superior

Men are to be feared

I learned a father can make his children feel inadequate

I used to always wish for magic

Wishing upon stars

to take my pain far

I learned growing up the pain

nothing changes

it stays the same

Mental survival taken in vain

I picked men for relationships who acted the same

I work diligently to

Raise my sons to be better men

Going against the grain of fabric given

Hoping they'd treat better their women

For me I pray that I will make better choices in men

Have true, love, strength, and positive attention

Hoping for the one

So that these haunting dirty, father secrets, don’t  delayed a good man and one day he will come

Dysfunctional cycle would be broken, over, and done


 

 

           

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

JUST THINKIN

I played this over and over again in my head
the things which were said
I had given all I had
Behind living eyes, I seen death disguised
You believed in a lie
entrapment
I don't think you ever meant
to slip
the Judas kiss
mind's torment
There are rules
we had forsaken
Moments taken
Can't bring back, too far gone
lonely journey, noway home
Not Avoiding temptation
needing redemption
spiritual divisions
restored blind vision and ambition
We sold what shouldn't have been
sold a story, which will be never uttered or told

My first feature at the poethall

My first poethall featureCookee

I think, So I am

I could never maintain silence. Silence is for the weak who are not strong enough to assert the importance of their opinions. Every person is valuable upon birth and given talent(s) to exchange with the world. It all starts with a simple thought and a made up mind to express it. It is in our thoughts that we move mountains, make changes, and alter history. Thinkers are the inventors of the impossible,the pioneers to tread in the places of the unknown. We are truly blessed as humans to posses a mind to think beyond instinct, which the animal world is limited to. We are the partakers of free will. We possess the power to have dreams and create the reality to usher them into exsistence. Humans are amazing!
Thinkers are incredible!
Leaders are invincible!

Better Half

He completes me

He's everything I'm not

I'm the mouth, he's the voice which talks

I stand, he walks the walk

He stays in my thoughts

constant

 He's self consistent

belligerent

kinda of brotha a sista can get with

no good men around

that's a myth

in him,

I have received companionship's gift

The View ( New Years)

On one mountain top

Surveying the horizon

Momentum which won’t stop

Seeing future mountains

I MUST CLIMB

Peace attached to my mind

gotta conquer more mountains

I see in the distance

Perseverance

Staying focused

A close up

Expressing myself

Expression is

MY THERAPY

MY SOURCE OF RELEASE

Fighting many small battles

Aiming to win the war

Calling on the Lord

To make it alright

Weeping endures only for a night

Joy comes in the morning

I’m in mourning

Drum rolls for a funeral

R.I.P my past

Should have done this sooner

Now it’s better than never

God made me very clever

THE END IS THE ONLY THING WHICH MATTERS

In life there are sunny days and bad weather

Though the storms rage

I stay steadfast and I say

God gave me strength to find my way

Wake up

Is this is my new day?

Optimism waits