Civil Rights Poems - Poems about Civil Rights

In the light of the South where the sun burns bright, We march for freedom, we march for right. With each step forward, we push through pain, Dreaming of a world where love will reign. The streets are filled with glimmer of hope, As we gather strength to help us cope. In the face of hatred, we stand tall, United we rise,...

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They're knocking at me door In the middle of the night They're knocking at me door Giving me an awful fright. They taking me To a camp where Ashes fall like black snow. I'll not be overjoyed By goose-stepping boys With boots to their knees, oh hey, And brown shirts and billy clubs Cheese grater belly rubs Coming to take me away....

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The march and Chant We Shall Overcome and we can We must be on the mission shall On Dr. King’s Birthday, we must do more than just reflect on his accomplishment and establishment A call for action Civil Rights call Dr. King’s vision is still among us His Legacy reigns Stand Up with Head Up It’s dignity and Reality We have abilities and assurance We...

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At the park, there’s a man built of black stone He stands shamed with an indifferent rifle that yawns at the sky His stallion is frozen in gallop, to be forever majestic In the sweltering day, the man stands In the shivering day, he finds no reprieve Lore tells; that an anchor dropped at the edge of the raven’s ocean And...

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CRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN LIVES DUE TO THE FACT THE ARSON MURDERER OF 9 CIRO GARGANO ARRIVED IN MY TOWNHOME WITH HIS JAMAICAN IMPOSTER...

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Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories - Daniel Henry Rodgers Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time. Through seasons it molds ...Once hushed now bold We rise like a chorus harmonizing ...In this vast of an eternal fold. For I am Harriet Tubman ...leading souls unseen. A beacon blazing hope, through history's mainstream. Through the tranquil, moonlit ...I had a lucid dream. From...

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Five Score Years ago Abe finds an end to racism? Signed Proclamation ‘till the nabe divided all King’s dream of Emancipation we fall Unite civil...

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There's nothing positive about racism However, this cancer dehumanizes everyone This bacterium kills all good pisum sativum All necessary ingredients that distinguish a human From something worst than a sinful animal. There's nothing good about racism The racists are the naughty scums of the es The vile predators that thrive on controversial Issues, the narcissistic skunks, and the bogus kites That won't fly during...

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Mamie Till Mobley demanded and open casket, to let the world see, the bloated, beaten body of her baby boy, who was lynched in Mississippi. His name was Emmett Till, a 14 year old black boy, who came from the state of Illinois. It was 1955, the Jim Crow laws were very much alive. They said he was flirting with...

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In 1963, Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. What he asked for should not have been a far reach. Dr. King was rather unique And boy did he like to speak He spoke on equality and racism And spread his message through activism He was one of the most prominent activists during the Civil...

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Do you realize that your "LIFE IS IMPORTANT": SO BE IT AND SO IT IS!Will you in your understanding realize and try to have some "Happiness" and have "GOOD INTENTIONS" for your fellow human beings? Bad intentions for your fellow human beings ,no matter what their "Religious Faith" sends "The One With Bad "Intentions...

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I shall weep for fallen angels I shall weep when there are no more my thirst cannot be quenched from empty wells I shall weep for fallen angels their deeds will leave this story to tell ships to heaven can’t run ashore I shall weep for fallen angels I shall weep when there are no more...

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RIGHTS A poem by Jerry May We all like what we like, but that's no reason to hate, But our idiosyncratic prejudices can't decide others fate. Regardless of anyone's beliefs, preference or likes, Everyone needs without exception to have every human and civil right....

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MASKED How dare you demand I wear a mask. My civil rights are all I ask. Force me to do so and I’ll sue. What else is a citizen to do? Soon she coughs and sneezes – Droplets float, on gentle breezes. She infects young and old, thinks it’s just a heavy cold. Hospitals treat victims by the score, while Covid-19...

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It is a strange dream in which an animal rights advocate is swamped with questions from Chief Justice Roberts. A vicious dog, trained to attack humans with politically incorrect audacity to trespass against his white supremacist Master, has been imprisoned and sentenced to death by euthanasia. Thompson Gould Page has finally appealed past redundant losses to Roberts' Supreme Court on grounds of cruel and unusual punishment of the entire...

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