Eye's

Your eye's do not see /
What is inside of me /
Open your ears so you can understand /
Close your eye's and listen /
Learn of your fellow man /
Only the minds intentions /
No mirrors to show reflections /
Have you gained full reception /
Now that i have you're minds attention /
jimmy j

This entire planet from land to land ,and tongue to different tongue sits at the top of Hells Kitchen .Do you not fell the heat under your feet .Don't you wish the leaders of this mess would get into a fist fight to the death so they feel what it is we feel sending our sons and daughters off to war.Wars with no results but death ...
Love
Jimmy

Civilization

Age of modernization /
Modern and new /
Toys of fools /
To brake apart civilization /

Children running with gun /
I pod I touch computer and more /
Inventions but life's whore /
We come to far with a fancy new car /

Expecting children to look away /
Why it was invented any way /
To stop our children from see ing /
Not to stop from being /

Mankind has made a mess /
If only at best /
No help for the rest /
To fail this test /
jimmy j


People are different , and yet the same flesh and blood called a body . it is refreshing . yet why do people not see that .....
love
jimmy

Space

Why does this space mean so much /
To those in this square to dwell /
With no place to go /
is it a place like no other /
Neither is of consequence /
Of one another /
It is neither Heaven nor Hell /
jimmy j



Apply yourself to what it is i write,often a poet writes in wonderment , making you wonder what in hell did he say.I had a English teacher on the south side of Chicago tell me her students under stood me well .A poet is not a beholder of words but a beholder of life. "UNDERSTANDING IS VOLUNTARY, IGNORANCE IS A GIVEN " jimmy j In honor of black history month i posted my poem Freedom , how few read it but can you imagine the road of freedom AFTER they were set free ,bleeding feet , hungry children , broken hearted but free , now what of the American Indian , you discover what was already his and yet you had the balls to name it .Ever thing what he called .I would have called it MOTHER ...BYE
Love
Jimmy

Drugs/No control

Insulated from the outside world /
Fornicating the drugs euphoria of being /
Not believing in normal feelings /
Higher and higher with no relief /

Just one more hit /
then i will quit /
A fools way to be /
Not believing the drugs control me /

Lying to family and friends /
What do they know , I'm not with them /
Looking in the mirror what do i see /
Only the ghost that stands beside me /

Voices in the wall , behind trees /
My eye's and ears available to these /
Mothers , fathers , sisters and sons , Money please /
I will tell you any lies ,just to appease /

Have to stay high , so i don't see the realization of me /
Always to be the drugs whore /
Till death or jail closes the door /
jimmy j


Drugs could be replaced by the words GUN , Power , Greed , And even the different GODS them selves .We use any excuse for stupid..
love
jimmy

$5.dollar whore

I'm a five dollar whore,of which i have no regret /
It gives me a 5 dollar hit /
And i thank you for it /

What about you , You 5 dollar TRICK /
You deserve what your going to get /
You white peace of shit /

A doctor you will seek /
You 5 dollar creep /

You have no respect /
No doctor to get a check /
Our bodies so meek /
Year after year walking the street /

Looking for a 5 dollar fix /
Find me a 5 dollar trick /
jimmy j


I wrote this for a friend now dead in 1998 .Make no mistake this was a good girl and a good locking one at that dragged down by the bitch of all bitches .DRUGS.........BB rest in peace .........
love
jimmy

Street Soldier

DEATH OF A STREET SOLDIER .......

Flowers which never have a chance to bloom /
Called much too early to their tomb /

Educated by the streets of hypocrisy /
Ruled by the violence of mobocrisy /

There is no beginning /
There is no end /
Today i have lost a friend /.......
jimmy j


I wrote this in 1999 about a gang member and my friend murdered in Detroit less than a thousand feet from where i sat often .... BUT TODAY I WRITE IT FOR YOU IN EVERY COUNTRY WHO MUST BURY FRIENDS ...
love
jimmy

Love's Color

Color of skin lay only in depth /
Man's true color embedded in one's chest /

In each heart beat love will shine /
No matter what kind /

Close your eye's , What do you see /
Open your arms know the touch of me /

A world of difference , yet all the same /
No time to let love refrain /

When life is all over /
And my body has been burned /

I will ask of you then /
What color I'am /
jimmy j



I combined two of my poems into one i hope you like it . Never make the mistake rap in poetry have their same roots and they need to give each other each their respects.So my rappers friends i give you a shot out .......
love
jimmy

Drama

A house where drama dwells /
Anger swells /
Violence expels /
An outside force /
Bullets shout out , no target of course /
A house is hit 37 times /
A baby dies /
Young mother cries /
I too shed a tear /
Of these neighborhood fears /
jimmy j


I write this as i read the morning paper and the death of a 9 month old baby asleep on a couch as her home HOME is shot up ..
love
jimmy

Many

Many people are much to black /
Many much to white /
Being i do not wear a outside skin /
Tell me the difference , you may now began /

When you bleed /
Is your blood another color than mine /http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
When you sit on the toilet ,what color comes from behind /
Is it a different color than mine /

With little money to spend /
Is not poverty both our dads /

What color is LOVE , Is it different for me than you /
Damn for both of us ,Sometimes leaves us black and blue /

The only thing i hate about the color white /
Reminds me of the powder i short /
The crack i put in my pipe /
Damn talk about a color ruining a life /
That one left me with out a wife /
love....jimmy j

I don't know of birds and bees ,flowers and trees , but i know of this life,people often tell children to do right while they do wrong .Teachers wonder why kids are disruptive. Teachers do their best ,Parents do their best but it REALLY is the emviorment that does the rest . I forgive my son a lot because when he is out i'm out. i see and hear what he sees and hears .The games now made for kids are often their bad teachers .They are like sponges taking everything in EVERYTHING .You live trough them now understand them yes you teacher and mom and hopfully dad...
love
jimmy

The Hood

Inviorment filled with drugs , thugs and low down cats /
Fields ,dirt hills , tore down shacks /
A vicinity full of deceit and pain /
People use a ironic phrase, That cheap is gain /

It's still potential in the central part of the hood /
Where money is instrumental and it starts with the GOODS /

Don't matter the ethnic group /
They come to the neighborhood for the stuff /
Wanting to get high while our children die many of us in jail /
Children in homes without a dominate male /

Many of you go to church on Sunday /
What about all the good well on Monday /

Fields ,dirt hills ,torn down shacks /
Where the goods is crack /
Children die from being smacked /

Schools that failed , motherhood that didn't prevail /
Yes cheap is gain /
The goods is crack /
Better know name /
Jimmy j and a gang leader named Rocky


I wrote this poem with a friend locked into a way of life,There should be a picture on my site of a young black man holding a steam roller back. The steam roller is time , place and matter .......wrote in 2002 i know that word is spelled wrong tried to find the correct spelling just failed ....
love
jimmy

Protect

Lil sister murdered behind a door /
Punk with a Glock /
Big brother in the holy land /
In the sand Protecting someone Else's Block /
jimmy j

Beauty

What beauty does man seek /
Fails to take a peek /
Comes in all sizes and color /
Does not mean to not be lovers /

To become best of friends /
Time to change world wide trends /
Not to follow the rest /
Put out your hand be the best /

Trust more , not less /
World love retreets /
Lost to repeats /
Black , white , red or blue take a peek /
Hold their hands as i hold yours /
Be a Eagle , fly to the highest peeks /
jimmy j

A try/Extortion

Wayne count aid charged with extortion /
Tax payers pockets , more of a abortion /
Tax dollars yours ,their trips and fun /
ass holes in power ,steal you dollars /
Who's the BUM /

Pay to play /
Nothing new /
Not to act like a sleeping fool /
Foreclosed on your home /
Hell even took my dogs bone /

Want to play on my grass /
feed my wallet ,to look like a bigger ass /
Stole your kids school books /
did you not look /

Vote for me they say /
Screw them on voters day /
Felt like you just stepped in shit /
Maybe you voted for a it /
Just been hit /

Corruption from top to bottom /
Smell so rotten /
political office a life long job /
Give a chance to working class slob /

They think they are kings and queens /
Smell , not human beings /
must be my dog humping my leg /
Vote for me /
My brother you just wait and see /
jimmy j

Poem

A poem , what is a poem /
The end of a rainbow /
A pot of gold /
A story told /
Sad ,happy and bad /
Both happy and mad /
Love of mom and dad /
Must be a truth /
No Clark Kent ,telephone both /
Love and sorrow /
Gets me trough each tomorrow /
About you my dear /
Yes you in a distant land /
One i never met /
New love don't bet /
LOVE
jimmy j

Words

What words gather in a poet's mind /
Thoughts he can not find /
Miss worded Miss spelled /
More truth than all telled

Not living in the past /
2012 , Not atlast /
Pattern to madness has been cast /
Preachers lies ,peaches and apple pies /
Asking for ties to pay your way in to everlasting cries /
jimmy j

World 2012

World in coruption /
Becomes eruption /
You call it revolution /
I call it Evolution /

Bombs take the place of birds /
God-ly cries ,Properganda lies /
Trust a hopty turned to rust /
No apple pie , Just the crust /

ghetto life , ghetto streets /
freeks playing trick or treat /
Guns in your face /
No not just America , earth this place /
jimmy j


Think

Society

Three murdered in Eight hours /
separate places Detroit no flowers /
fiddle Le De , fiddle Le Dum /
Why has culture and society turned so dumb /
jimmy j



The Truth of yesterday in my square , a place where they celebrate downtown while we go to funerals in neighborhood town.....My neighbor calls yesterday afternoon her house broken into as she shopped and this is normal on my block...
love
jimmy

Learned not

what knowledge has mankind learned /
What rivers have not been crossed /
How many lessons has he refused to learn /
What else must he destroy and burn /

Has evil indeed been restored /
Now on wheels further explored /
Are inventions the destroyer of time /
The future invention of more crime /

Riches ride with the tide /
Poor people no longer hide /
Most politicians lied /
Look to ancient Rome /

A no anger management home /
A man used a ass jaw bone /
Put you on crosses /
Look , look at the loses /
jimmy j

Fear

Pistols to bombs /
Killers ,louder means /
Being Inhuman beings /
Treason to life it seems /

Little Sally licking her lolly pop /
Pop , pop a stray bullet she's shot /
Little Asmara a camel ride /
A bomb he too could not hide /

No where to go ,nor to learn /
Earth , from sea to sea ,We burn /
No right , no wrong ,
Why so many go along /

Diddle Dee , diddle ,dumb /
Give to you my finger and my thumb /
We are not all so dumb /
I write this in sorrow /
I see no better tomorrow /
jimmy j

I write this at 5am . I wonder why i worry so much .Do you ever wonder how many mom or dads or both go with out what they need so their children can have what they must ... I think most don't care.We live in the age of the Flem Flam man ...
Love
Jimmy

NO Won

One had a gun /
One had none /
One would walk away /
One would stay /
Two mothers would weep /
One a funeral Parlor she would seek /
One her son visible trough bars as she took a peek /
Who WON
No one

jimmy j

I wrote this poem also decades back about a pre teen who killed a teenager in a park'
Yesterday a 9 year old was playing with a gun on his front porch ,saying he found it in his back yard (hard for me to believe) but the gun went of by accident ???? and shot a teen in his ass as he walked by . This all happened on Kilbourne st ,Detroit's East side . My friend Fezzy was murdered in a dope house on Kilbourne st decades back that poem is called Death of a street soldier should be on my site ....
Love
Jimmy

Naked

Stripped of material things /
Rebirth of man /
Touch me not /
Do you feel feel my pain /
Inflicted by a world of despair /
Mine and yours to bare /
Pricked by pain over and over again /
Blinded bu ignorance /
I feel , i feel for wisdom's solid ground /
Not to trust my eye's /
Every prick the pain of your lies /
Touch me not , i need you not /
Unless it's my heart you see /
The truth lays with in /
Not visible on the outside of me /
Look , look do you really see /
The truth of me /
jimmy j


I wrote this two decades ago , yet still feel the same...
love
jimmy

Think

What does a school kid think /
A world on the blink /
Country in need a water /
One's with out mother or Father /

Many go hungry /
Many only angry /
smothered with no hope /
Legalizing dope /

Some voting /
Streets toting /
smoking up Disney land
Even that they slapped this wonderful man /

Their creator /
a masturbator /
People discriminator /
a real prickerlator /

Earth , birth /
What worth /
Destroyed by man
Pricks of the land /
jimmy j

War made of man

Why all this talk of bombs and war /
Are governments but man made whores /
Playing this game kick the can /
Every government every land /

What right to make all the rules /
These ,these inhumane tools /
But fools , fools ,fools /
Adam a man's name , not bombs game /

What will you call the next Jesus Christ /
Trying that cross not once but twice /
Don't try holding your head high /
Not a EAGLE you can't fly /

Made up stories /
love and glory /
A bar maid's talk /
Wheel chair walk /

Young set out to die /
Propaganda mankind lie /
Hurry put on your suit and tie /
Kick the can lying ass man /
jimmy j

Mouth

" The mouth says many things ,The heart feels but a few "jimmy j.........

Off what you heard this day how much have you felt .That poem i wrote yesterday was published in Struggle magazine in 2000 . Also in Poets voice . and i believe a few more .I wrote it in the late 90's . As i wrote that poem i felt it ....
love
jimmy

Freedom (black history mth)

Boom,Boom , like thunder , a distant sound /
Lightning like flashes , grounds morning dew /
Closer and closer , MA , Ma ,I'm afraid of the storm /
Dearest daughter , that's the bells of freedom /
For our people everywhere /
Smell of gun powder, death abounds /
Rivers creeks running red with blood /
Stench of death overflowing /
Thunderous cannons shaking the ground /
Booms of freedom ,out distant friends /
The price of freedom a heavy tool/
Free from slavery's chains at last /
Slave to freedom the hard road to began /
40 Acres and a mule /
A lie on which we will grow old /

Hunger, pain and sorrow traveling the unknown road of tomorrow /
Droplets of tears, a babies eye's /
My breast run dry , i listen to my babies cries /
A hurricane twisting inside /
Hands blister from picking cotton /
Barefoot, hungry and cold,the masters cruelty prevails /
Many lay dead /

My women's treasure stole from me, the masters pleasure /
Burning in my mind as i travel the road ahead /

Whip still stinging in my sleep /
Help me my lord , get on with the fight /
Hatred everywhere , their eye's burning,the devils fire /
Decade after decade , in search of freedoms bed /
Till the day I'm not judged by color of skin /
But of the man I'am /

When life is all over /
My body has been burned /
I will ask of you then /
Which color I'am /
jimmy j


Do you feel , it is black history month and i ask you to send this EVERYWHERE YOU CAN , take it to school read it in every grade , Do you feel this walk out of slavery can you understand their pain . send it to every radio and talk show you know, make a school play out of it love it for its truth and then let me know...
love
jimmy

bombs away

Bombs , bombs go away /
Why is that the news everyday /
Iran ,Iraq Everywhere else they say /
Lets have a international bomb day /

The eight ball rack /
brake the balls it's a bomb attack /
Earth a painting in ABSTRACT /
WHY off tract /

Oceans , rivers , lakes to see /
You drop bombs to destroy these /
Mothers cry , children die /
As you please /

You see things in color of skin /
Hell even now in religions /
Bombs away you say /
You are but freaks in this my day /

Bullies yanking my pulleys /
The thug and bully /
What makes you think you re not the same /
One and all who cant refrain /

Violence is taught from the top /
All governments taught /
Don't blame mom and dad /
You too raised their lad /

earth gave birth /
You did the rest /
I guess you failed the test /
No peace , no rest //////
jimmy j

What does love have to do with it.Earth now a monetary place,You saddled a horse but did you ask him first...