ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
I am an artist living in NYC...most of my writing is for performance/spoken word, so keep that in mind as you read my work. [April 2009]
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (33) Caged Fences (Poetry) How I feel sometimes... [161 words] Chocolate Fantasy (Poetry) Female response to Midnight Satin... [173 words] [Romance] Congratulation Night (Poetry) My feelings on the day after President Obama's historical election... [111 words] Creating Love To Make Love (Poetry) - [276 words] [Romance] Games 1 (Poetry) Back & Forth Dialogue between He and She [78 words] Games 2 (Poetry) Dialogue between another He & She! [66 words] Games 3 (Poetry) A bit more dialogue between "He" and "She." It's quite telling... [62 words] Happy Holidays (Poetry) I was feeling a bit sad over the holidays last year, then I saw the news...made me feel worse. [95 words] Help--Emergency (Poetry) A mix of The Beatles & A Different World, but still unique... [234 words] Hysterical Madness (Poetry) It is crazy what happens when you walk through these streets... [602 words] [Drama] Imani (Poetry) Just a quick little poem about faith. [68 words] [Spiritual] Midnight Satin (Poetry) I wrote this poem from a man's point of view. I was daydreaming about a story idea and this popped right into my head. [372 words] [Romance] Missing You...To Chris (Poetry) A poem about my first love and how I lost him...had to rewrite this one several times. [299 words] [Drama] Mood Swings (Poetry) - [77 words] No She Didn't (Poetry) Well, the piece speaks for itself... [180 words] Passing Life (Poetry) Just a little something I wrote last year when I was feeling a bit sad... [164 words] Planned Lifehood (Poetry) Oh, if we could only choose the life we want to lead... [231 words] Rain On Me (Poetry) - [150 words] Rant 1 (Poetry) Just some poetic ranting... [427 words] Reconciling My Spirit (Poetry) Submitted for Dominique Morriseau's "50in50" series, with support from the Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, this piece is about how I feel living in a Black body. [235 words] Smack-U 1 (Poetry) Haiku...but, with flava... [19 words] Smack-U 2 (Poetry) Another one... [20 words] Smack-U 3 (Poetry) Well, one more [24 words] Smack-U 4 (Poetry) Last one...I think! [24 words] Soul Mate...Let Me Be Your Man (Poetry) Response to Chocolate Fantasy... (must read Midnight Satin and Chocolate Fantasy prior to reading Soul Mate...) [528 words] [Romance] Taking Time (Poetry) - [367 words] [Erotic] That Word (Uncut) (Poetry) This is why you should never meet an Angry Black Woman...please, do not get offended. This is what runs through my mind for 3 seconds after I hear that word... [464 words] The Other Day (Poetry) Well, I was taking a stroll the other day... [169 words] Violated (Poetry) - [217 words] Walking Across The Triborough Bridge (Poetry) I do this sometimes when I need to think, or when I need peace of mind... [232 words] Watch Ur Back (Poetry) A little something I made up on the quick... [45 words] With Those Eyes (Poetry) I hate being followed and watched by people who judge me solely based on the color of my skin...this is my story! [91 words] You Feelin' Me (Poetry) - [170 words]
Observations Jina Kaye
1
Whatever happened to the people who stood up for their beliefs? Whatever happened to manners? All that must have flushed down the drain when we let our hearts be ruled by pain.
2
Here I am sitting on the A train with people from different backgrounds. I hear children laughing; I see people running for a seat…and the woman next to me is sucking her teeth because I got the seat she wanted. She should have been on this train at 207th Street.
3
I have never known such sickening behavior. Come on, leaving dirty underwear in the restroom after you leave…it is not my job to clean up behind someone when all I have to do is take a quick piss. In my own home, that would not be a problem…but at Penn Station?! People must be tripping.
4
I have low tolerance when it comes to ignorant people. I understand that we are all ignorant of many things. It is just crazy to me how there are such intelligent, well-mannered and very down-to-earth people in this world…and for every one of us, there are three stupid, conniving, low-life assholes who make this place so much worse.
5
My -ism?! JBAK-ism…it is the study of being me and I suggest you do not study it. I can’t stand wannabes!
6
Life is often as beautiful as it is harsh. Might I say, however, that life is not always what you make it? Although we do have free will and there is the SECRET, sometimes shit just happens and the question isn’t how it happened but how will you cope with it? Once you have that figured out, then you’ll know His secret.
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