On March 25th 1983 MJ debuted his iconic moonwalk at the Motown anniversary dinner ...

Christopher Poindexter ...

And never let them tell you
That silence, isn't beautiful ...

For silence is what happens
When words fall asleep ...

And you must carry the belief
That one day they will
Wake up inside of you ...

With all my heart I saved love to find you #JafarAlamPoetry

A problem well understood is a problem half solved ... 

And then create an equal degreee of urgency for what task we have lying ahead ... 

What we have to overcome ... 

Yesterday I was awarded a 4th degree Black Belt ... 

I am truly humbled, greatful, and indebted to all who've helped me on this journey ... 

I'm seeking perfection, knowing that I will never reach it ...

Toni Morrison ...

Love is never any better than the lover ... 

Wicked people love wickedly ...

Violent people love violently ... 

Weak people love weakly ...

Stupid people love stupidly ...

But the love of a free man is never safe ... 

There is no gift for the beloved ... 

The lover alone possesses his gift of love ... 

The loved one is ... 

Shorn ...

Neutralized ... 

Frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye ...

Thought Of The Day ...

I aint no life coach or nuthin ... 

But if your list of regrets 
Is longer 
Than your list of accomplishments ... 

You're doin it wrong ...


- Jafar Alam

Outwardly I share words and laughter with people ... 
But there's a world within me that's full of dreams ... 
Which I don't share with anyone ... 
And I wonder if those who say they know me ... 
Really do ... 
#JafarAlamPoetry

Yes Please !!!

With The Fam ... NYC Circa 1991 ... Actin A Fool ...

Gettin My Swim On With My Cousin ... Circa 1990 ...

Check The Source ...

On The Protests In Venezuela:


“What’s going on down there in the valley is not our fight” 

Polo said, while drinking a beer in the slum of Petare overlooking eastern Caracas ... 

“It’s rich people trying to get back lost economic perks ... The slums won’t join them”



- Jorge Polo (Bus Driver)

You Are The Product Of Yourself ... By Pablo Neruda

Don’t blame anyone ...
Never complain about anyone or anything
Because fundamentally you have made what you want in life ...


Accept the responsibility of educating yourself ...
And the courage to accuse yourself of failure ...

The triumph of the truthful (real) man
Rises from the ashes of error ...

Never complain about your poverty, your loneliness, or your luck ...
Take courage and accept, that in one way or another
They are the result of your actions and the evidence of what has to be overcome ...

Do not be embittered by your own development
Nor impose it on another ...
Accept yourself now, or you will forever continue
To justify yourself like a child ...

Remember that any moment
Is good for beginning
And that nothing is as terrible as to be untrue to one’s professed principles (to halt) ...

Do not forget that the cause of your present is your past ...
Just as the cause of your future is your present ...

Learn from the strong ones ... 
From the bold ones ...
Imitate the brave ones ... 
The lively ones ... 
The victors ...
Those who do not accept situations ...
Those who overcome in spite of everything ...

Think less about your problems and more about your work ...
And your problems
Without nourishment
Will die ...

Learn to be born from pain
And to be greater than the greatest obstacles ...


Look in the mirror at yourself
And you will be free and strong
And you will cease to be a puppet of circumstances
Because you yourself are your destiny
And no one can replace you in the building of your own future ...

Wake up in the mornings to see
And to breathe the light of dawn ...


You are part of the life force
Now wake up, struggle ahead and make up your mind
And you will triumph in life ...

Never think about luck ...
Because luck is the excuse
Of the failures ...

Rabindranath Tagore ...

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms ... 

Numberless times ... 

In life after life ... 

In age after age ... 

Forever ...

Amiri Baraka ...

Machines have the morality of their inventors ...

Saul Williams ...

Your belief system ain't louder than my car system ...