Coming Soon ( Dec.2012) ...My New Kindle Book :

  " The Year of The Dragon in Harlem / Haiku and Other Poems To Read While Being Stopped and Frisked"by Daniel Carlton

2012 ..The Year of the Dragon

           Stop and Frisk in full effect

        Look for it on Amazon  ...here are a few samples:

 Send in the dragons

Funky fire breath and all
Blow some flames
Like Coltrane and sh*&^%(T
Until our fried minds
Force us to rely on our third eye
To truly see through the smoky haze
Fly over the city
Fill it with beats from the strength of your wings
We'll dance to that.. rhyme and reason be damned/
Until our partners are simply the last one's standing
Freed asses and minds reunited
Lay eggs
Like dangerous poems
Hatched only when we learn to sit still long enough
To dig it all
From sublime mind states
And when the scribes reflect back
On the "Year of the Dragon"
They will unanimously agree
That it wasn't a redefinition of anything
It was the return of magic
When we needed it the most

copyright 2012

On a clear Fall day/
Its almost easy to forget/
Yesterday's sorrow/
Dreams disguised as leaves
A tapestry
For tomorrow

copyright 2012

At the barbecue/
The dragon turned out to be/
Vegetarian /

The Dragon smiled/
Its fire warmed up  cold streets/
Folks ran regardless/

Inside the dancer/
Wings are always in motion/
A butterfly's truth

Copyright 2012

Long poems/Haiku /Musings/ Almost songs/Call and response...and so much more

picture by Benja Kay