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  • Watch “Toni Love – Old School Love 8/1/12 @ WCL Philly” on YouTube

    I have been writing poetry since the third grade. My teacher was so impressed with my poem that she had me read it to the entire class as an example for them. I can still remember it. My writing continued but didn’t really take flight until my college years. The cultural influence of New York…

  • Meet Me…

    “Fly into my love…” Phyllis no one could have said it better I want to melt like glue on the pavement in the hot weather when you are near me I want to stop time and tell the job, the bills, the kids and the static to hush.. I want to ride on the next…

  • Just a Little Thank You Note… Original Poetry 5/3/84

    Just a Little Thank You Note…. I just wanted to thank you for the sweet pain of a first love affair thank you for the soft melodies that made me forget that we had no protection if these three months hadn’t happened, there would be no Miles, no Klugh, no Spyro Gyra no Marsalis, no…

  • Toni’s Memoir (Pain is Inevitable…Draft) Page 1

    I was put on display, positioned to be the star; the one to crawl out of the pit. The one child who would make my daddy proud that any of us were born. The savior. Such a heavy burden for a little five year old girl, and at that moment I had no knowledge of…

  • My Angels always show up for the after-party…

    It’s just a part of my reality now. I’ve accepted the heartache that wells up inside my soul when the Mother’s Day commercials start to pour in. Even though I am a mother, and I get my props this time of year from the media (and boy how that makes me feel valued!), I still…

  • Foolish Me _ Original Poetry 2/21/85

    FOOLISH ME Look what I done gone and did!  I sent you my poem       MY POEM   Submerged in bittersweet pain full of my down to earth ancient free to be me feelings loud and raging so you would know how you hurt me just how much I hurt and how to be human…

  • Finally Over_Original Poetry 1/9/1985

    Finally Over When I lost you I found myself and I hurt I pained for too long thinking of how foolish I had been to believe in you But my hurt turned into poetry and dance and I wrote and danced until I filled up the emptiness inside of me The void that set inside…

  • What If…Original Poetry _ 1985

    What If   What if you looked around and saw nothing but people of color People who stole nothing but kisses; raped nothing but that which encompassed education; killed nothing but your troubles when the weight was too heavy to bear.   Wept for no reason but to rejoice in the celebration of a new…

  • God Has Answered

    It’s so amazing when you can look back on the major events in your life and see where God has not necessarily answered your exact prayer, but gave you exactly what you needed. I wanted so desperately to have another boy. My son was so easy-going, mild-tempered, played happily by himself, ate whatever I put…

  • I want some old school love… Original Poetry

    I’m yearning for some old school love. That sweet love that kept you up on the phone all night. Not thinking of short verses for his Twitter page but long, drawn out sighs and movement from lips to thighs sweet nothings that fill your ear and make you want to disappear into the abyss of…