More Human Each Day

Posted bySynnika Alek-Chizoba LoftonPosted inmailbox weekly, PoemsTags:, , ,

Cocoa scented
skin wafts for
moments–an epic

simile–like my
man Reggie, twirling
a piece of raw

chocolate from
a Haitian cocoa tree.
The years fly by.

We grind. Build
to act, to protect,
to love, to resist,

to live, to leap over
burdens, like we
have surfed these

metallic waves
before. Liberated.
Cageless. Roses

forcing their ways
through cracks
in gray concrete,

or man’s social
pavement, like two
ebony ravens

beautifying any
landscape. More
human, like jazz.

Like Miles Davis
warming up,
playing the first

few notes of Nerfiti,
while applying
speed to Volvo

Parkway’s infinite
black back, stretching
from Battlefield

to Kempsville,
without blinking.
Your curly afro resists

elusive pressure
from the wind; regal;
Black; timeless.

We tattoo forever
with figurative
graffiti, intentionally

coloring outside
of the lines.

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Published by Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton

"Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton is an award winning poet, the president and CEO of Guerrilla Ignition LLC, host of a Nationally Syndicated radio show, and an educator, teaching literature at Chesapeake Bay Academy and English courses at Norfolk State University. Lofton has recorded more than one hundred and fifty CDs, albums, CD-singles, and mixtapes of poetry, including his highly praised debut, The New Breed. He is the author of twelve books and the founder of Riot Speech, a musical genre combining performance poetry with traditional musical forms, such as Rock, Jazz, and Hip Hop. His poems have been published in Experience Reality Magazine, Quay: A Journal of the Arts, UpStreet: A Literary Magazine, and, in 2014, Lofton has been featured in Blind Sided Magazine. He is a regular on Virginian television programs such as The Hampton Roads Show and Chesapeake’s Thinking Out Loud on WCTV. He teaches World Literature, British Literature, and Composition, while touring the country, performing at literary festivals, musical festivals, poetry readings, open mics, concerts, high schools, and colleges."

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