Inspiring Moments: The Poetic Courage of Victor Micah James: A Kaleidoscope In Poetry

By Michael James Allen

Inspiring Moments: The Poetic Courage of Victor Micah James are nearly 250 original writings of the 21st-century African American poet Michael James Allen, educator and philanthropist. He posits that poetry removes the stigma of political correctness and the societal moral code of what is
appropriate or inappropriate. Moreover, poetry permits the poet to go from the abyss to luscious green valleys to the mountaintop and write poems that address all topics regarding humanity, from love, hate, apathy to lust, promiscuity to living, death, and dying. Poetry is sublime, of excellence, grandeur, or beauty to inspire great admiration or awe. Removing any bias when readers delve into
each poem, the intent is to make you laugh, cry, and think deeply about the meaning of each poem.
Some of them will challenge and perplex you, and some will make you wonder, like “Suicide 1993,” a
poem about the author’s mother who committed suicide. Or “Blackness,” which deals with discrimination and slavery. Others will provoke you to reflect on some aspect of your life, past, present, and future. So, find that special cuddling and serene space! Indulge! Enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BooxAi
• Release date: Nov 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9789655786279

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Inspiring Moment - Abortion

Wednesday, January 13, 2021, Baltimore, MD - Home - Man Cave

I am human

At 24,

Yet many weeks

are needed for sure,

My organs are there

Designed with care

Yet, in extreme cases

I could no longer

Be here.

There are some

Who says it right,

Others who say

It is wrong

To destroy my

Soul and body,

The first ten weeks

There are two types

To take away my

Precious life,

Both medical

And surgical

Must it be by aspiration

Or dilation and evacuation,

They have no idea 

Of what I could be

Or how God was going

To use me

To be all He wants me to be

8:24 PM

Inspiring Moment - Abyss

Friday, October 6, 2017, Linthicum Heights, MD - Superior Vision 939 Elkridge Land Rd (Work)

The 10th Year - Abyss

The abyss! Hell!

How much longer must the coals burn?

Where is the rain?

Who on earth cares about my soul?

It doesn’t matter if I am growing old!

The abyss! Hell!

Ten years of no-touch!

The burning within is hot.

The mind is scorched.

Loneliness is a dagger.

Pricking the brain.

Where can love be found?

Must I die alone?

The abyss! Hell!

Ten years of no-touch,

Torching me by intent,

Orchestrated schemes,

Plotting my destruction.

Shall I go down like mother?

I am too strong for that,

Nothing in life will cause that setback.

The abyss! Hell!

Ten years of no-touch,

She laughs in her night,

And during high noon,

She tells her kin,

She desires want,

But not willing to pay the price.

Hostility is her anchor!

Scorn is perverted!

Laughter is devious!

The abyss! Hell!

How much longer must the coals burn?

Where is the rain?

Who on earth cares about my soul?

It doesn’t matter if I am growing old!

What good is it to have a home

Paid for that you own?

When no one is home.

It’s like living in prison,

With no connection to a phone!

Silence in the night,

Mute moments at noon,

Tongue cut off much too soon!

The abyss! Hell!

Ten years of no-touch.

She laughs in her night,

and during high noon,

She tells her kin,

She desires want,

But not willing to pay the price.

Hostility is her anchor!

Scorn is perverted!

Laughter is devious!

The abyss! Hell!

How much longer must the coals burn?

Where is the rain?

Who on earth cares about my soul?

It doesn’t matter if I am growing old!

Ten years of no-touch!

Ten years of no-touch!

Ten years of no-touch!

Ten years of no-touch!

The abyss! Hell!

The abyss! Hell!

The abyss! Hell!

8:45 AM

Inspiring Moment - Achilles

Wednesday, August 18, 2021, Towson, MD - Hip Hop Carry Out Towson

Achilles my weakness

Tortured running

Path of mind

Yet the force

Does not renege

Playing my fiddle

Pull down

Fighting the up

Yet knowing

The struggle

Will not stop

No one knows

The abyss

Or the strangle

Hold

Yet daylight

Is midnight

No laying

In bed

But dream

If what

Could be

Just a tender

Moment would

Break the dark

No one but

God sees

My head

What’s feeding

My soul

Yet I must

In earnest

Not to succumb

Achilles my weakness

Tortured running

Path of mind

Yet the force

Does not renege

This sea of

Drought

Dust under feet

Drawing me to

A defeat

I dare not

Claim what

Rips my soul

The inner strength

Knees fighting bold

6:18 PM

Inspiring Moment - Adolescence

Sunday, February 25, 2018, Linthicum Heights, MD - Superior Vision 939 Elkridge Land Rd (Work)

On a journey

Hard years

From puberty

To adulthood,

New pathway life!

New discoveries!

Potential dormant!

Hope aspiring!

Great adventures!

New perspectives!

Kaleidoscopic Vision!

Some black-white,

No gray area,

Not insight!

Naive living!

Brilliant minds!

Raw talent!

Period of life!

Challenges daunting!

Channeling anger!

Overcoming!

Social status must!

Friends are gods!

Aloof moments!

Glitches of love!

Fitting in needed!

Education important!

Some do care,

Others living debonair,

Visionary dreamers,

Gold is attainable,

Silver in reach,

Settling for bronze,

On hard road!

Magic numbers,

Transitional stages,

Between 13 - 19,

Up/down phases!

Maturity roadblocks!

Dangerous game tags!

Brain under development,

Sexual maturation,

Strong emotions,

Love and infatuation,

Testosterone and hormones,

A contentious fight!

Leaving some broken!

Others calling night!

Experimentation!

Sexual orientation!

Meeting of minds,

Discoveries find!

Mood swings helpless,

Normally feed-in,

Overcoming the hurt,

around the bend,

Personality changes,

Without a doubt!

Making through the labyrinth!

Coming on top.

8:40 AM

Inspiring Moment - Age of the Politically Correct

Sunday, September 5, 2021, Baltimore, MD - Home - Man Cave

We March to the

Politically correct

Never ceasing

To detect

There are hidden ploys

Of personal agendas

People seeking more

It’s wrong

To speak

words of harm

When you do

It sounds an alarm

Those who

Endorse this

New day

Have forgotten

How honesty

Will pay

Shoot the messenger

Delivering the plan

And Action Groups

Are ready to demand

When the wind

Drift in

New sand

Carrying fake news

As if a pre-plan

Hearing new voices

Giving new choices

Say it loud

Enough

And kick up

New fuss

Not seeing

The disguise

How the

Instigators have

Planted lies

To reap

The dollar value

Of cunning alibis

With swift deliberation

and subtle communication

New laws are

Given implementation

And when masses

Find out the passages

Uproars are

Now blasted

We March to the

Politically correct

Never ceasing

To detect

There are hidden ploys

Of personal agendas

People seeking more

It’s wrong

To speak

words of harm

When you do

It sounds an alarm

1:30 PM

Inspiring Moment - Airport

Sunday, February 25, 2018, Baltimore, MD - BWI Airport - to San Antonio, Texas

Energized people,

Coming to from,

Chained to luggage!

Terminal buildings,

Numbers are gods,

FIDs are essential,

Transition routes,

Speaker system king,

Wi-Fi a must!

Food stalls important,

Satisfy the gut,

Souvenirs wanted,

Reminder where been,

Something for loved ones,

And special friends,

Boarding passes,

Without humans!

Dispense from machines,

Computerized technologies,

Generates with ease,

Carry on bags,

Limited in size,

Stewards courteously kind!

9:37 AM

Inspiring Moment - Alone

Monday, July 9, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Moreland Memorial Park Cemetery – N.P Cooke Funeral

Alone!

Rise at sunset

Lay down at dawn,

Mind in twilight,

Distant from iPhone!

Who is there?

Do they care?

Island midnight

Alone!

Moon dancing,

Sun high

Noonday lullaby,

Feeling insecure,

No love near,

No heart cheers,

Castaway island,

Longing for home,

Bridging nowhere,

Blitz no more,

Reaching skyward

Opening new doors!

Fear not optional,

Shoulders broad high,

Believing, trusting loving

Alone,

Winds from left,

Cold from right,

Laying alone

Night after night!

Heart pulsating,

Pressure control,

Living life boldly,

Carrying my load,

Not counting days

Living a life,

Reaching for success

Always in sight,

Keys in door,

No one home,

Longing for companionship,

Living alone,

Cords of optimism,

Holding together,

Keep me light,

Floating like feathers!

Alone!

Rise at Sunset

Lay down at dawn,

Mind in twilight,

Distant from iPhone,

Who is there?

Do they care

Island midnight

Alone!

2:12 PM

Inspiring Moment - Alter Ego

Wednesday, October 25, 2017, Baltimore, MD - Rotunda 711 W. 40th Street - DTP Tutoring Center

Who’s there?

To whom am I speaking?

Why should I say something, You?

Who me? No, I!!

I am a pacifist. No, I am a fighter.

No, you lie!!

Who me? No, I!!

I am a gangster and hard as a rock,

No, I am as soft as cotton and will not knock,

I smile every day and every hour,

No, I frown because of the beatdown!

I long, and I lust and like kinky things,

I don’t think impure thoughts or scenes!

Who me? No, I!!

Who’s there?

To whom am I speaking?

Should I say something, You?

I like chocolate breasts!

No, I like red bone!

I desire a hot-looking girl.

No, I desire a fellow.

I like to dress conservatively.

I prefer the erogenous.

Who me? No, I!!

Who’s there?

To whom am I speaking?

Should I say something, You?

I praise my God

I praise my devils

I walk in the light of darkness

I walk in the darkness of light

I prefer to be alone

I will instead be with the crowd

I have proclivities and fetishes

I dare not think something amoral

Who’s there?

To whom am I speaking?

Should I say something, You?

6:30 PM

Inspiring Moment - Amazing

Tuesday, February 27, 2018, Baltimore, MD - BWI Airport - from San Antonio, Texas

Have I told you?

Amazing!

You are loved

Amazing!

You are adored

Amazing!

Speaking you say,

Nothing but everything,

You are motion in silence!

You dance salaciously

With dignity!

Pride dresses you!

Have I told you?

Amazing!

You are my heart!

Cause my soul to cry,

waking me in the middle night,

Fantasizing at dawn!

I am drooling at dusk!

I am panting at midnight!

Eye mesmerize,

Spell me!

Amazing!

Lips glossed sweetly!

Pulsates the blood!

No-touch,

Glares and glances,

the secret weapons you are!

Under the covers!

Not the sheets,

No sex!

No-touch!

No desire!

No lust!

Watching, not a voyager,

Not a Peeping Tom,

Amazing!

It makes me want you!

Never having you!

Calls my name,

Not driving me insane!

Just a dream!

Have I told you?

Amazing!

You are loved,

Amazing!

You are adored

Amazing!

Speaking you say

Nothing but everything

You Wake me up

Amazing!

Whew!

Everything I dreamt,

All that I want,

The inner you from

without,

Feeling the essence

of touch!

You tickle my soul!

Drown my melancholy!

You bring me hope!

Draws me in

I see!

I hear!

I long!

Amazing!

Have I told you?

Amazing!

You are loved!

Amazing!

You are adored!

Amazing!

7:20 PM

Inspiring Moment - Ambition

Sunday, August 18, 2019, Baltimore, MD - Home - Man Cave

How I live!

What must I give?

Shall I be sieved?

Reigning on

This island

Deprived

Or is this

A menagerie of

Bogus lies?

Who said

I must be here

Incarcerated in

My fear?

Who shackles me

In my kind

Seeing not

A kaleidoscope

Of a world

That is and isn’t

kind!

Bad hombres

Exists

And mujer to,

Should not

Dim the tide

Of seeing the new!

Walking this

Elephant

In fields of

Green,

Yet seeing

Horrific scenes!

What strength

Must I pull

To keep up

The pace?

Is there a way

Not to lose

This race?

Strongholds tempting me

Calling my name

But I am holding my

Ground

Protecting my claim!

Ingratitude bastards,

Like vultures flying

Overhead,

Wishing me nothing

No success

But dread!

Must not let

Anyone

Cripple my soul,

For I have Vision

That courageous and bold,

Fighting my demons,

Meeting fate,

Picking my premise,

In this debate,

See my syllogism strong,

Know I will

Overcome any wrong.

How I live!

What must I give?

Shall I be sieved?

Reigning on

This island

Deprived

Or is this

A menagerie of

Bogus lies?

Swift days

Long nights

Yet flying high

Ad a kite,

Not let the

Strings

Entangle

My hope,

But mentally

Keeping

My boat afloat.

Keep on dreaming

When the odds

Seem tight

Be willing to

Die for the

Cause

That I fight!

Let not enemy

Family or friend

Destroy the

Ambition

That lay within.

12:07 PM

Inspiring Moment - Anal

Wednesday, July 3, 2019, Baltimore, MD - Home - Man Cave

Precise beyond measure

Provides deep pleasure

Some people don’t understand

Others receive reprimand

The daily joy

A thing toyed

Aligning in a row

Going at it 

As the gratification grows

Phew! The mind beholds

Not caring

What others told

Moving forward daily

With a heavy load

Retentive about

What goes in

Fussy about outcomes

To the very end

Anal

The satisfaction it brings

Euphoric pleasures

Makes one sing

At the end of the day

Or larking night

Will not give in

Without a fight

Twisted mind is called

Like a graffiti artist

Will not give in

Will not take away

An entrenched lifestyle

Day after day

Most misunderstood

Putting it in

Never wanting it out

Creates a mystery

Causes doubt

Anal

7:29 AM

Inspiring Moment - Anchor Sure

Tuesday, January 7, 2020, Baltimore, MD - Prometric (Work)

Could I operate

In fear

Or keep the faith

Because fear is a bear?

Or bear my assault,

It makes me strong,

Even when my world

Falls apart!

All things have gone wrong!

The anchor sure,

Against my floor,

Yet tempting 

To pull me

Far from shore,

The currents trouble

Bent with force

My anchor holding

By mental choice.

The surf prevails

Over my bower,

Directing to me

What it won't allow,

The strength required

To stay afloat

Refusing the force

To sink my boat.

The materials

And substance made

Standing upon them

I refuse to fade!

My joy anew,

The faith beyond,

Keeps me from

Dusk to dawn!

I dare not say

is an easy task,

Troubles come

But not to last.

The winds repent not,

The sounds surreal

Forces me

Not to appeal,

Resolve intact

Thought my boat

would rock

I have past

Many, tick-tock!

Could I operate

In fear

Or keep the faith

Because fear is a bear?

Or bear my assault,

It makes me strong,

Even when my world

Falls apart!

All things have gone wrong!

The anchor sure,

Against my floor,

Yet tempting 

To pull me

Far from shore,

The currents trouble

Bent with force

My anchor holding

By mental choice.

1:52 PM

Inspiring Moment - Angels and Demons

Wednesday, July 3, 2019, Baltimore, MD - Home - Man Cave

I hear the voices,

Angels of light,

Demons of darkness,

Calling my name,

Angel guiding me,

through the fire

Demons stretching bob-wire,

An insidious cornucopia,

Of sinister delight,

Engaged in a battle,

A combative fight.

I hear the voices

Angels of light,

Demons of darkness,

Multitude of decades,

Angel protective liberty,

Demons setting blockades,

Taunting my mind,

Spewing lasciviousness, unkind,

Shrills echoing pain,

Labyrinths designed to drain,

What warfare this,

Strangleholds amidst!

I hear the voices

Angels of light,

Demons of darkness,

Sleeping in my bed,

Angels melodious melodies,

Demon’s songs of dread,

Tossing and turning,

Soul on fire burning,

Screaming in noon light,

A horrific flight,

Help me, please,

Give the keys,

Don’t let me drown,

Deliverance will abound!

I hear the voices,

Angels of light,

Demons of darkness,

Angels giving guidance,

Demons giving lies,

Railing harmful alibis,

Sleepwalking nights,

Boxing gloves on,

Challenging day born,

Heart riptide racing,

Try to control pacing,

Scream, scream, scream,

It’s all a dream?

I hear the voices,

Angels of light,

Demons of darkness,