by redclay | Oct 5, 2021 | Detention Center Writing Contests, fiction, Poetry
Poetry, Heard/Alexandria Detention Center writing contest, August 2021
Started off social wasn’t really drinking like
You saw you was my weakness
But you ain’t take advantage
I’ll slow sip your love and let it work its magic
I left my first addiction and ran to you
And for a minute I was juggling between the two
But your intoxacation was so strong
At my weakest point you made me feel so strong
All in my zone truly yours
Now let me get inside it was just me and you
I’ll drink you all night I’ll be sweatin’ when I’m through
See that’s just what you do
You cater to a man make a nigga feel special
That’s why I never left you and I never would
I had a lot of problems and you always understood
And when I went to jail you waited till I got out
I took you straight to the crib and drunk you all
Truly yours my precious patron
Now time rolled forward you got a lil older
I started to notice you got a lil colder
I would shrug it off like maybe I’m just tripping
Give you a lil minute then I’m right back to sipping
I was Ray Charles boo I couldn’t see the ending
You found another sipper but he don’t drink you same
He mix up with cranberry he a real lame
You say he different and I don’t wanna change
I guess all the drinking just clouded up my brain
Truly yours my precious patron
And sometimes I still reference you in my discussions
You left my mind stuck like a million concussions
And sometimes I hate you just for being
Wishing you was gone and I could continue breathing
Then I get to thinking like am I still in love with
You and wonder if that’s the meaning
But hey my thoughts twisted and I guess I’m still
A dreamer yes I’m still a believer
Pray for peace but keep a nina
Keep it shaking like a seizure
And my feelings still strong
But now I know you never know what you got till
by redclay | Oct 5, 2021 | Detention Center Writing Contests, fiction, Poetry
Poetry, Heard/Alexandria Detention Center writing contest, August 2021
Sometimes I lay back and cry still
Love kills time heals and I haven’t had time to
I mean for real you still be on my mind still
And they say you live and you learn
and since you left I haven’t lived
The world gonna turn and for your love I will give
and our past dictates every decision that I make
The effect is quite prolific
And our union was explicit
And since you left I been feelin distant
Moment came but I missed it
I just want peace, I don’t want problems
It’s like you gave up cuz things got tough
Either that or the love I gave you wasn’t enough
Felt the pain of your blows got the scars and it shows
And my heart’s on my sleeve and I wear it like clothes
Easy come, easy go I guess that’s how it goes
And it’s like I’m stuck in that moment and I’m froze
Icebox where my heart goes
Relationships won’t start those
Because my insecure intuition parts those
But it’s like you never missed it
Found you another but my heart’s in a prison
Waiting for you to release it
Or maybe I’m just trippin
See, the lessons that you gave me was cold to the touch
And I ain’t a quitter so I’ll never give up
You got peculiar expectations and I’ll never live up
And honestly that makes it worse
So I’m on the road to riches sexin every woman on its course
Hoping that I’m forgiven for misleading women
Offering it all and I didn’t have intentions
And I’m not blaming you it’s just one of my imperfections
And yes I have many and you thought that they were precious
And I just want to be the one that gains from my progressions
And yes, I get the message
So don’t worry about me coming for your boo and try to stretch him
Cuz you know I be the one to see slim and get to lunchin
And I know it’s not becoming
But for you the limit’s nothing.
by redclay | Sep 23, 2021 | Detention Center Writing Contests, fiction, Poetry
By Sascha Carlisle
Poetry, Heard/Alexandria Detention Center writing contest, August 2021
If they let me code Heaven
It’d be a dope place
You could taste the finest fruit
Or try out every plate
Like TV you’d see everything
Everyone ever did
Find out from the unrequited love
What made her ticc
You could hear how your heroes
Brought themselves out of bed
Experiencing lives
Of those that are dead
Paint your placebo
It’s your work of art
You get what you believe in
At the end of your part
I’d chitchat with Adam
About how he cyphered words
Or ask Thoth how he managed
To transcend this Earth
Watch and don his crown
As he reigned in his day
Caste the gods being Brahma
And reshape the race
Go fishing with Fuxi
Observe all his ways
Stargaze with ZoroAster
Putting time into space
Moses a big one
How’d he merge all those hoods
Meditate as the Buddha
Learn what he understood
Jesus my homie,
For what did you fight?
With Muhammad hit Ghazawat
Excite a nation of might
Party with Genghis
And philosophize
See Mayer come up
As his Rothschilds rise
As reality blands
Through all this knowledge
I’d explore possibilities
Go down every ridge
Adventures with the boyz
My girl and no jail
Puzzle together my best life
Hop in and sail
Close with a thousand years
Of ecstatic bliss
Nirvana then comes
And I’d hit the switch
An atheist heaven
A final release
To feel the conclusion
Eternal peace
by redclay | Sep 23, 2021 | Detention Center Writing Contests, fiction, Poetry
By Avis Parks
Poetry, Heard/Alexandria Detention Center writing contest, August 2021
You say that you are a king,
that wants to just be able to enjoy your kingdom,
you say you want a special lady to become your wife to be your queen,
the queen of your kingdom
your queen that will have your children,
your princes and princess.
You want for them to be able to enjoy life in the canyon.
You want to be a king that sits on the mountain
as your able to wanten
as the water flows down the river.
Like a fountain as your queen is able to watch the flowers bloom
while the sweet scent of her perfume
blows across your nose
as the wind blows down in that directions
of where the children are playing.
The king & thy queen,
enjoying the view of your children as they are growing.
Is there anything else more so she your queen may ask you,
on such a wonderful, beautiful day
as the evening starts to fall and the sun starts to set.
Do you king she you queen ask believe
that thiers some people that poor
while you sit here complaining that you just want a little bit more.
What more is it you need when you’re the king.
Mr. King, did you even stop to realize that this was only your dream
and not your queen’s dream?
You dream, Mr. King, of making that your only made her your queen, Ms. Queen!!!
Apart of you team also to have her to redeem to her Ms. Queen
((Freedom))
Just being able to become someone’s queen
Now you say your and king.
So stop to start.
In really be the king.
Just so she can be able to really wear her ring.
So what do you say?
Mr. King let us hear you’re the lion’s raws
We also want to hear yours
so what more say let us hear yours
Mr. King, you raws!!
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