Circle Of Friends

Tupac

2009-06-16T11:52:00.000-07:00

Tupac Shakur- June 16, 1971- Forever

Kisses

2009-06-15T10:57:00.000-07:00

the sun is kissing me
today
i need and love the attention.

2009-06-07T20:27:00.001-07:00

Today
I bought a just thinking about you because you're special card
For
Myself

Question:

2009-06-03T13:32:00.000-07:00

Do you write letters?

Send Me Flowers

2009-06-01T15:21:00.000-07:00

Please
Send me flowers
I am so sad

2009-05-29T15:43:00.000-07:00

I dressed my bed
In warm sheets
A smooth comforter
Supporting and massaging pillows...

And I missed you.

For My Birthday- May 17, 2009

2009-05-20T18:39:00.000-07:00

Natalee!

I am going IN.

I should drink this.

Pretty Plants

I am drinking this.

Where is my food?

Yay!

Delicious. What is it???

Pad Thai

Done.

On my way home.

Buy My Books

2009-02-20T12:19:00.000-08:00

Leaves

2009-02-18T09:11:00.000-08:00

You leave
Fingernail scratches to
Form soft
Creases
In my heart, while
I remember you by beige candle
Light
Moving away in
Waves of silken kisses and blows that
Bruise, then are left
Like the single earring
Which
Always
Disappears
It is only your last smile decorating my
Neck
Ever after
You leave

With A Piece Of Your Heart

2009-01-24T16:19:00.000-08:00

sometimes
i want you
to stand
in front of me
with a piece of your heart
on the outside of your shirt
so that i can
run my fingers over
its fleshiness
and absorb into my eyes
its beauty and sadness

for Amin

Sleeping

2009-01-06T10:58:00.000-08:00

please
don't speak
my head hurts
let me
slip under your loving gaze
let me
sleep

i will always

2008-12-09T11:23:00.000-08:00

have the biggest crush
on you
be infatuated
with you
like to
love you

2008-11-26T17:21:00.000-08:00

I am on the unseen side of the sun and I have been building from my dreams' design.
Miss you.

Gone Girl

2008-11-19T07:57:00.000-08:00

I am leaving
On tomorrow
I am going away and getting lost
Do not call
For me
I will be
Gone

So High

2008-11-11T22:26:00.000-08:00

I climbed
A short ladder
A long staircase
A mountain
To get here
Now I am
So High

A Dream Come True

2008-11-05T08:17:00.000-08:00

Barack Obama was elected President of the United States of America on November 4, 2008.
Let's CELEBRATE and WORK!!!

Barack Hussein Obama- First African-American President of the United States of America
44th President of the United States of America

VOTE!

2008-11-04T09:17:00.001-08:00

VOTE!!!

2008-10-27T13:08:00.000-07:00

It is deep
In the night
When we lie
In bed
Back to Back with
Different views
In quiet quarreling

my flowers are sad

2008-10-21T12:12:00.000-07:00

the grass is brown-green
the air is stinging cold
the sun's smile is narrowed
my flowers are sad

fall has fallen
hard on my shoulders
on these days
i am too lazy
i won't pick up flowers

My Little Cousin's Sweet 16

2008-10-07T18:50:00.000-07:00

The Exterior

Entering

Rhyon (The B-Day Gurl)

The Gifts

Self-Explanatory

But they weren't dancing

California Rolls

Uncle Randy

With Cousins Jordan and Aaryn

Stay Out

Rhyon was happy

With Cousin RaVaughn

Red Velvet (Cake that is)

The CupCakes >_<

The Warning

Saturday Fun

2008-09-30T07:51:00.000-07:00

Saturday
I can sit
With you
Alongside
The Platinum stream under a Golden sun

All morning
I can walk
With you
Through meadows
Constantly counting
Toe rings of
Sparkling emerald grass
One
By
One

I can pass
The afternoun hours
With you
Eating my candy kisses and caramel popcorn and
Placing your hand on my thigh
At the movie about
Melancholy love
I can cry

Saturday night
As reality becomes invisible
By inches and miles of fantasy
Dance on your lap
I can see through closed eyes

Note

2008-09-23T10:04:00.000-07:00

I couldn't go to school.

I had heartburn and heartache.

I'd over-ate and over-loved.

I couldn't learn.

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

2008-09-17T23:00:00.001-07:00

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

MyHeritage: Celebrity Collage - Geneology - Free genealogy

me-him

2008-09-15T14:59:00.000-07:00

(me)
with crossed legs
a between-beats heart and cloudy eyes
will watch
(him)
coming and going

Party Girl

2008-09-01T22:34:00.000-07:00

Pretty drunk girl
with the dancing feet
is on the floor with gazelles
graceful and free

Pretty drunk girl
with the singing heart
is in the corner
with strangled cello voices and piano c(h)ords
barely breathing a part

Pretty drunk girl
with the stuffed-looking lips
is against the wall
a flower
in a pale thin slip

Pretty drunk girl
with the famished ears
is rising from a chair
transporting through
still air

Pretty drunk girl
with the frozen eyes
is in the skies
with powdered blue doves
and hushed cries

The pretty drunk girl
with the frozen eyes
lived to party
and
loved to die.

Happy Birthday!

2008-08-29T19:06:00.000-07:00

Happy 50th Birthday, Michael Jackson!!!

Pride

2008-08-28T14:19:00.000-07:00

I am wearing my OBAMA t-shirt.

Remembering Aaliyah

2008-08-25T12:54:00.000-07:00

Aaliyah Dana Haughton
January 16, 1979 - August 25, 2001

Do you remember Aaliyah?

Sweet Summer

2008-08-21T10:32:00.001-07:00

Sweet Summer
goes down
gracefully
When Fall pushes her

Will you miss Summer?

Yasmeen @ Rock The Bells ^_^

2008-08-12T09:55:00.000-07:00

Me & my friend from college Gwebi backstage @ Rock The Bells Pretty tan.

Nas Live (I know it's blurry ^_^)

Me & Murs backstage @ Rock The Bells

In the Food Court

@ The Long Beach Shoreline

2008-08-04T12:12:00.000-07:00

Can you see me?

I liked this ;-)

Different view ^_^

False Starts

2008-08-02T12:17:00.000-07:00

i believed
my lovelier life
was beginning
false start

Cut

2008-07-28T10:46:00.000-07:00

You have a gaping cut.

1. Cleanse
with purifying tears
2. Bandage
with sealing kisses

Hollywood

2008-07-23T16:04:00.000-07:00

Me & two friends from Milwaukee were...

In Hollywood on Saturday Night. ^_^

It was very Bright .

Can you see the People??

Hello, Officer!!

Ebony taking in Hollywood sights =)

Cute.

A poem about

2008-07-18T11:14:00.001-07:00

My children
By a happy mother

My daughter
who bathes with a baseball cap on her head
Is delightful
My son
who colors the sky "sky lavender"
Is delightful
I give them
Giggling kisses

Shopping (Old Video)

2008-07-14T23:56:00.000-07:00

Fine Ex-boyfriends

2008-07-12T13:23:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, I call my ex-boyfriends.
Always, I want them to be happy, healthy, and fine.

Do you call your ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends?

after thoughts

2008-07-07T23:08:00.000-07:00

i sleep peacefully
in the grotto
of your wonder-rich mind
after a long day and train
of thoughts

Happy 4th of July!

2008-07-04T00:18:00.000-07:00

Happy 4th of July!

Shallow

2008-07-03T21:30:00.001-07:00

Last week,

I talked to my friend

About her mole

For two hours.

My friends are soooo shallow.

Greed

2008-07-01T18:05:00.000-07:00

I nibble on your smile or
Bits of your laughing
Words
I taste your goodness
I even swallow your tears
All day
I want
To consume
Your love
MY love

I'm thinking......

2008-06-27T09:36:00.000-07:00

about my next video. I don't quite know where I should shoot. You pick one, please ;-)

A. Melrose (Johnny Cupcakes, Bape Store, The Hundreds, etc)

B. The Long Beach Shorline Area/Pine St

C. Venice Beach (On Sunday Afternoon)

D. The Leimert Park Area/Crenshaw District

E. Santa Monica Promenade (Shopping)

F. Hollywood (The Improv on Monday)

2008-06-20T09:37:00.000-07:00

Who will believe my verse in time to come
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your
parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies,
Such heavenly touches ne'er toucht earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage,
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice, in it and in my rime.

-W. Shakespeare

I've Been M.I.A. Like The Singer

2008-06-17T09:06:00.000-07:00

Serious Peace People (My dude said I was too serious on this one)

One of my favorite places O_0

BJ's (Yay!)

BJ's Interior

Clam Chowder

It's a really nice place. If in Long Beach, check it out ;-}

Freedom (lol)

I hope you guys liked my Saturday Night Dinner Pics =)

Gone But Not Forgotten

2008-06-10T09:28:00.000-07:00

Aaliyah Dana Haughton
Forever

Hurt

2008-06-07T21:55:00.001-07:00

My head
Hurts
My heart and my hands
Hurt
I can't write
Anymore

A Man's Work

2008-06-05T10:39:00.001-07:00

Forgetting work
I sleep with the world and
Dream.
Forgetting sleep
He works with a dream
Awake

Blogger's Fantasy?

2008-06-03T09:49:00.000-07:00

My name is Yasmeen.

I am a writer.
I live in Los Angeles, California.
I am prettier in person than I am in photos.
I party in Hollywood.
My best friend's cousin is a R&B singer.
My cousin is a TV actress.
I have met several NBA players.
I have a caring boyfriend.
I am relaxing in L.A. for the most of the summer.
I am going shopping in Las Vegas, this September.

Do I lie?

Do you lie?

Hope

2008-05-31T08:35:00.000-07:00

I am dripping
hope
It is oozing from my pores
slowly
I am losing hope

Transporting

2008-05-29T14:34:00.000-07:00

i sat on a pretty petite porch

with the wind whispering to me while

the sun flirted

i watched the green grass glide

you sat beside me

to pass time

you filled space with easy smiles

now life is more lovely

because we are sitting on a porch

beginning our wonderful ride

before i go to sleep

2008-05-25T23:48:00.000-07:00

place the smooth palm
of my hand
on your right cheek
while i close the cave
that is your mouth
with the last kiss
that pleases me

My B-Day Yay! (My Adventure on Pine Street)

2008-05-20T10:41:00.000-07:00

This is my B-Day look, while posted @ my favorite resturant in Long Beach, California the World Famous Taco Beach ;-) Well maybe it's not World Famous.

They do have really great NACHOS, I love nachos =P

and Good Coke :->

Over my head.

Even the nosey waitress, but she was sweet though ;-?

So then I was ready to hit Pine Street!

Mariposa's! Good food & it also turns into a club.

Sevilla's

The Blue Line Station

On the corner of Pine & Broadway with a person celebrating Pride Week in Downtown Long Beach, don't you LOVE his belt ;-)

My B-Day Cake! (It moved around in the back seat of my Dude's SUV)

I hope you guys enjoyed my B-Day pics, I know I didn't get tipsy & shake my A** but I did have fun :-}

Because of Love

2008-05-15T09:09:00.001-07:00

i don't drink hot tea with lemon on lonely mornings and
i don't turn on the lights
i wake up and have sweet orange juice and cheesy scrambled eggs with you
until i am full and open
the vertical blinds
when the sun takes a peek at the den

i can't hear the scraping of silence and
i can't dance too fast
your ballad floods the room and i move slowly
like this
i crawl onto your lap and
never close my smile or
write
because of love

A Pre Rock The Bells Thang

2008-05-13T00:16:00.000-07:00

Peace (Dudes are all around me getting faded)

Me & The Pharcyde (They were very sweaty)

My soul was smiling.
I had fun.

On Mother's Day

2008-05-11T09:12:00.001-07:00

To: Stepmothers, Mothers-in-law,Foster Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, Surrogate Mothers,
Grandmothers, Great Grandmothers, Mothers-to-be, Mothers, and people who are like
Mothers

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

From: Your Children

discovery

2008-05-03T11:00:00.000-07:00

while relaxing on a petite porch
enveloped by may's hinting sunshine
i see the green grass on my mother's yard
i escape the porch
i place my naked feet in the grass

while standing in the blades of grass
touched by the light-breathing early afternoon
i see a smooth lane of sidewalk
i slip from the yard
i run down the sidewalk

while running down the sidewalk
indulged by saturday's leisure
i feel a breakout of small rain
i play in the rain
like children should
while i am 28 years old.

And...

2008-04-26T22:00:00.000-07:00

Redemption Song- Bob Marley

I love singing,

especially with my daddy.

Daddy, I love you.

Do you believe?

2008-04-25T18:51:00.001-07:00

7= lucky
7= completion
7= perfection
7= holiness

Personal Details?

2008-04-24T00:15:00.000-07:00

for niki.mac

On my fingernails- I can not keep polish on my fingernails for an entire day. If the polish on one of my fingernails is streaked; has a small bubble or the tiniest chip, I will take the polish off all of my fingernails.

On my closet- My closet is stuffed with pretty dresses and sexy sandals because I don't wear them.

My college friend plays the piano. I want to learn how to play the piano.

My best friend is a Hollywood party girl. Sometimes, I am a Hollywood party girl, too.

I am a dancer.

I am a perfect stranger.

I am a late-bloomer.

Do you write in the middle of the night?

2008-04-22T09:40:00.000-07:00

Do you write in the middle of the night?
Do you write during the day?
When you are sad, do you write?
When you are happy, do you write?
When you are vanishing, do you write?
When you are self-conscious, do you write?

I really want to know

2008-04-18T22:05:00.001-07:00

Did Kanye and Alexis break up?

Questioning Wednesday

2008-04-16T10:17:00.000-07:00

I just wonder

Do you ever

Think of me

Anymore

Do you

Do You (chorus) - Ne-Yo

How many ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends do you have?

How often do you think about any of them?

Beyonce and Jay-Z

2008-04-11T20:06:00.001-07:00

In New York, some people believe Beyonce and Jay-Z had a "commitment ceremony" on April 4, 2008.
Are they traditionally and legally married?
What really happened?
I don't know.
Let's ignore them.

This is not a poetry blog.

2008-04-10T09:48:00.000-07:00

I will be sharing pictures, videos, short stories, book reviews, music reviews, and movie reviews.
Because I live in Los Angeles, I must talk about celebrities on Fridays.

What do you want me to post?

Are you alone?

2008-04-07T13:23:00.000-07:00

Alone - Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour i have not been

As others were- I have not seen

As others saw- I could not bring

My passions from a common spring.

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow; I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone;

And all that I lov'd I lov'd alone.

Then- in my childhood- in the dawn

Of a most stormy life- was drawn

From ev'ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still:

From the torrent, or the fountain,

From the red cliff of the mountain,

From the sun that 'round me roll'd

In its autumn tint of gold-

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass'd me flying by-

From the thunder and the storm,

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view.

for jasmine

2008-04-05T18:46:00.000-07:00

I am looking for the luxurious meadow

Among the upright and stubborn trees

So I can walk in its grass

Of fine crushed emeralds and find

A lazy rolling lake beside

I liked the free verse of the wind there most

Until I met the happy dancing flowers

Tickling my nose with

Jasmine.

I am looking for the luxurious essence of the meadow.

I have lost the scent of

Jasmine.

Reach Out And Touch Somebody

2008-04-02T19:23:00.000-07:00

The other day I called my 15 year-old girl cousin, because I love her. I should not have called her. My cousin is really grandly rude. Her younger brother answered the phone. She was probably bothered. Her brother is thirteen and told me he's fifteen. He always tells me he's two years older than he is. The teenage boy laughed and had a smile in his voice, while we talked on the phone.

The rude sister got on the phone. I know she sighed. When I asked her questions, she answered in a few words and without enthusiasm. Sometimes, her voice was inaudible. My questions and her answers are unimportant.

Was she having a bad day? Is she clinically depressed? Is she arrogant because she's a TV actress? Perhaps, my 15 year-old girl cousin hates me.

Keep In Touch Tuesday

2008-04-01T08:33:00.000-07:00

Today, call or visit a special someone.
Talk to your cousin.
Have lunch with a friend.

I wrote this late last night

2008-03-31T08:43:00.000-07:00

i am a silly girl
stealing sugar
from your kisses
as you leave

i have a giddy heart
gathering graciousness
from your pictures
while you are away

i am a really child-like fool
who holds hope
when i can't hold you
on almost every night

Label-wearing

2008-03-28T00:14:00.000-07:00

Just one of the guys?

Do I look like a tomboy?

Which label or labels do you wear?

Moods Musings Monday Mornings

2008-03-23T20:36:00.000-07:00

Have you ever been really excited on Monday morning?

Are you looking forward to the new school or work week?

Are you mourning the past weekend?

Describe your mood on Monday morning.

Have you ever felt this?

2008-03-18T23:57:00.000-07:00

Drowning

I think of you mostly
In the bathtub
Surrounded by a warm blanket
Of water and soft pillows
Of bubbles
I close my eyes and then
You are the blanket
Touching every part of me and the pillow I can rest my head on
When I need to

I go down
Far
Down
Under the cover
To play like
I really want and then
I realize
I'm drowning

Weekend Glory by: Maya Angelou

2008-03-09T20:43:00.000-07:00

Some ditchy folks
don't know the facts,
posin' and preenin'
and puttin' on acts
stretchin' their necks
and strainin' their backs.

They move into condos
up over the ranks,
pawn their souls
to the local banks.
Buyin' big cars
they can't afford,
ridin' around town
actin' bored.

If they want to learn how to live life right,
they ought to study me on Saturday night.

My job at the plant
ain't the biggest bet,
but I pay my bills
and stay out of debt.
I get my hair done
for my own self's sake,
so I don't have to pick
and I don't have to rake.

Take the church money out
and head cross town
to my friend girl's house
where we plan our round.
We meet our men and go to the joint
where the music is blues
and to the point.

Folks write about me.
They just can't see
how I work all week
at the factory.
Then get spruced up
and laugh and dance
And turn away from worry
with a sassy glance.

They accuse me of livin'
from day to day,
but who are they kiddin'?
So are they.

My life ain't heaven
but it sure ain't hell.
I'm not on top
but I call it swell
if I'm able to work
and get paid right
and have the luck to be Black
on a Saturday night.

Was your weekend glorious? Share.

holding

2008-03-09T16:12:00.000-07:00

when i sit in a room
light or dark
it doesnt matter
if i can stare too long at the chair
you sat in or
the painting on the wall
you just took your eyes off of
i suppose that's why
i drop my eyes on the floor

i don't want to see

when i sit in a room
small or large
whichever way
i move
the weathered edges of our memories tickle me
i suppose that's why
i try to hide my toes

i don't want to feel

when i sit in a room
hot or cold
i can not decide what is worse
rejection is a too warm mint tea with fingers down my throat
i suppose that's why
i can't speak
loneliness penetrates my heart on the cool breath of your leaving
forever
i suppose that's why
i cross my arms over my chest

i hold myself together

for Mom

2008-03-04T16:45:00.000-08:00

She is the wonderful one
Like children and fingerpainting
Lonely delicate dreams were hers until
She gave them to me

I am her wondrous one
I am her child with delicate familiar fingers
I paint and embolden our dreams
I am never alone and she is never alone

The Leimert Park Book Fair

2008-02-29T09:14:00.000-08:00

This is me at the Leimert Park Book Fair this past summer, I know this vid is a little dated, but it's still very nice. I was out there working the crowd with my Mom, My Mother is my biggest supporter ;-)

I really love doing book signings and reading to children. I have read for thousands of children throughout the Los Angeles area. If you would like me to come your school and read send me an email and lets make it happen.

I'm Ready To get my Blog on ;-)

2008-02-28T10:58:00.001-08:00

Hello out there, does anyone hear lil ole me? Lol, Oh boy it's gonna take some time to get use to this blog stuff. I hope you like my page layout. I'm experimenting. I'm trying to see what will fit with my personality.

Lets see, I'm a Children's Book Author. I have written many books but so far only two of them have been published, they are, "The Day Marcie Didn't Talk To Her Friends" and "Ava Had A Bad Hair Day", two very good works of art I must say lol. Anywho, I will be posting pics of these works of mine soon, like probably tomorrow. I'm in the process of having my very own web site constructed and what not so please patient with me. I'm not up to speed as of yet.

You can purchase my books at Smiley's Books in Carson, California & Zahra's Books n Things in Inglewood, California.

2nd Street at 7:38pm

2008-02-14T12:27:00.001-08:00

Last Night on 2nd Street in Belmont Shores, California. I was at Super Mex, I Love Nachos, Don't You ;-)

Me & Tone Loc at The Avalon in Hollywood, Ca.

2008-02-13T11:39:00.000-08:00

Me and Tone Loc at the URB 150th issue Anniversary party. It's not like I'm a Tone Loc fan, my dude made me take this photo.