Best Slavery Poems
Below are the all-time best Slavery poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of slavery poems written by PoetrySoup members
Save Our Children From SlaverySave our children from slavery........
Our beautiful children are forced to hard labor by some of the evil people on earth
And they kill their soul....
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Categories:
slavery,
Form:
Light Verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Northern SlavesIn the silent breathing of night,
treading through
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...
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Categories:
emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Please~PLEASE~
Please pick me up!
Never mind I'm gonna fall, anyways
Please show me how to tie my shoes and sing a song!
Don't worry mommy,...
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Categories:
slavery, absence, abuse, anger, cousin,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Pirate Bay```Pirate Bay the Haiku```
pirates fierce and mean
drowning fish, sea to sea
parrots on their butt
```Polly Wants A Cracker```
bloodthirst & brutal
Quartermaster...
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Categories:
slavery, adventure, anti bullying, boat,
Form:
Haiku
The DaddyIn the rundown little house where her family currently lives,
the fourteen-year old glances obediently at her glaring daddy,
nodding her head in quiet compliance
to his usual...
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Categories:
family, slavery, , cute,
Form:
Narrative
SlaveLike a herd of cattle, placed on a ship.
Upon my back, I felt their whip!
Ripping into my flesh, excruciating pain.
Forced across the big water on...
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Categories:
courage, death, slavery, perspective,
Form:
Quatrain
We Worked Long Enough
I laugh out loud
every time I hear a politician say,
that the best way to enrich a black person's life,
is to give them a job
Give them...
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Categories:
slavery, society, truth, work,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Give Me Liberty Or Deathpink and sparkles spout
above liberty statue
cloud tauts happiness
fireworks all around applaud
hands clap on soil and sea
the swirl of nations,
a landing party of dreams...
but some from...
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Categories:
slavery, america, freedom, independence day,
Form:
Verse
Caveman SpeakingYou ask me why I live in cave
Caveman not want to be a slave
I take a chance and look around
I see that people act like...
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Categories:
slavery, change, crazy, life, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Waves of Lost MemoriesON THE WAVES OF LOST MEMORIES…
These salted memories tell stories
The oceans and seas gave birth to.
Over the tempestuous waters
Echoes from the bellies of slave ships
Ride...
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Categories:
slavery, america, black african american,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Gift of RepentanceThank you Lord for drawing me near
and opening my eyes to see;
The sin in which my heart was enslaved
...
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Categories:
slavery, blessing, christian, freedom, growth,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the...
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Categories:
slavery, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form:
Rhyme
Everyday Is Labor Day
Got kidnaped from my African village,
tossed on a big, long ship that sailed far away
Stripped of every decent human privilege,
forced to work on short sleep,...
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Categories:
holiday, slavery, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Quatrain
Caveman SpeakingYou ask me why I live in cave
Caveman not want to be a slave
I take a chance and look around
I see that people act like...
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Categories:
slavery, change, confusion, crazy, education,
Form:
Rhyme