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Blackface Poems - Poems about Blackface
NO FEAR OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT SALE LEFT OVER FROM MY NEIGHBORS JAN 6TH PENN COVEN WISCONSIN KKK
...AFTER GARGANO CRIME FAMILY OF MADISON WISCONSIN BLEW UP MY FACE WITH A CAR BOMB MY LIFE WAS THREATENED THEY BEGAN TO EXTORT MY LIVELY HOOD IMPERSONATE ME PAYING WISCONSIN CITY OFFICIALS TO FRAME DISA......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
blackface,
allah,
Form:
Naat
Black Poetry Day
...My black is majestic my black is smooth Even when I was banished from public pool Even if I was portrayed black face fool I was a raven flying above you. I am much more than kinky hair Thick t......
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Karen Jones
Categories:
blackface,
appreciation, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Dance
...Fields that once were ripe with crops Now play host to blackface and cheviot Where the children ran and played Among the bluebell and the thistle Now screams the wind in bansidhe wail Looking fo......
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Andrew Mcintyre
Categories:
blackface,
allegory, betrayal, longing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Irony
...I won’t hold my breath for the day you stop butchering us. We already have enough issues trying to breathe with you around. They said one should never bring a knife to a gunfight, can you ask them wh......
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Dylan Dhinsa
Categories:
blackface,
12th grade, abuse, political,
Form:
Free verse
Terry Twinkle
...Governor Terry Twinkle ** ** not his real name (ha, ha) Over us did sprinkle Some clumsy, inadept sprinkle How'd he win the governorship? His opponent's racism he ri......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
blackface,
leadership, political, race, racism,
Form:
Burlesque
Blackface
...Blackface By Valerie Odom March 24, 2017 Blackface White man down Black paint Yell our race, stand in the crowd While you screaming “All Live Matter” Our men being shot to the ground Bla......
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Valerie Odom
Categories:
blackface,
black african american, bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
No's
...No’s Talking to themselves in the third person Detached, separate, ominous—a stilted nuance that does want to know Abrupt attention spans lashing out as the deadends foreclose Cutting bac......
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Dm Swanson
Categories:
blackface,
political, urban
Form:
Free verse
Cinematic Yearnings
...Sundays, my mother and I watched movies on PBS. Jezebel, Sabrina, In the Good Old Summertime Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland. I practiced their detached look of desire In bathroom mirro......
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Raina Fields
Categories:
blackface,
black african american, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Men O' the Black Seam
...When we turned eleven our schooldays turned to memories. The descent into the clanking dark commenced as chalk-dust abandoned our nostrils. Reborn as the men o’ the black seam when we turned ele......
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Tony Bush
Categories:
blackface,
history, life, loss, on
Form:
Blank verse