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Categories:
slavery, abuse, africa, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
slavery, america, bible, birth, black
Form: Free verse
Hatredtaken from home
as young as the age of five
told you don't have a name no more
and your parents aren't alive
flogged and whipped
abused and assaulted
attempts of escape
then years of trauma resulted
changed the way you spoke
being...
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Categories:
slavery, abuse, anger, hate, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Is It Knot a Noose
Why call it tying the knot
Out of a knot some husbands have got
...
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Categories:
freedom, husband, marriage, slavery,
Form: Couplet
Chains of Empire
They came with flags, with ships so grand,
To claim the soil, to seize the land.
With words of trade, they spoke of peace,
Yet bound us tight with chains' increase.
Our fields, our homes,...
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Categories:
slavery,
Form: Rhyme
The Day the Chains FellThe air smells different now
cleaner, somehow.
Like a breath I’ve never taken before.
June, 1865,
a warm wind brushes against my skin,
and I stand taller than I ever thought I could.
No more the shadow of a master’s whip,
no...
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Categories:
freedom, history, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Born From ThisWho were these people?
Those who committed such casual cruelty?
It wasn't a minority either but the majority.
There are too many accounts of pain and sorrow to be otherwise.
Was man another species altogether then?
Without empathy,...
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Categories:
slavery, america, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Dinner ScrapsDinner scraps, primal deathtraps.
Life’s meal is the class struggle,
and some of us are left starving.
We are the movement of the masses,
a sleeping colossus running on
corporate time.
Dinner scraps, merciless steel traps.
We are measured only as commodities....
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Categories:
slavery, class, freedom, life, political,
Form: Free verse
THE MAKING OF US IS NOT RIGHT FOR US-part 1THE MAKING OF US IS NOT RIGHT FOR US
I am not for that
Though I do not remember giving of suck
From my mother’s breast
I was not made to be drinking, ingesting cow’s milk
THE MAKING OF US...
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Categories:
slavery, abuse, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
SheShe makes her way onto the streets.
Her lashes are fixed on.
Neon pink her lipstick is.
Her blush is “Sudden Dawn.”
Thigh-high is the dress she wears,
and high-heeled are her shoes.
Her smile is forced, but unconcerned
are men she...
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Categories:
slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
allusion, baptism, hyperbole, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Technologies SlaveIn modern times, it's plain to see.
We are a slave to our own technology.
It's more than a habit, it's quite an affliction.
To see such mobile phone addiction.
We scroll and swipe, but at what cost?
The art...
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Categories:
addiction, city, people, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Threads of TomorrowFate weaves the fabric of our fleeting days,
Like tangled threads beneath a weaver’s loom,
I pull the strings, but do they shift or stay?
Or does the hand that guides belong to doom?
I wonder who decides the...
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Categories:
slavery, anxiety, cancer, conflict, confusion,
Form: Quatrain
Jesus Message To Black MenI see your suffering
How Satan is treating you
But hold on
and
I will
give you
Fruit
from
the
Tree of Life
...
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Categories:
slavery, abuse, africa, death, jesus,
Form: Free verse
The Glorious MachineIn the past we had to rip them from their mothers
screaming, crying ... afraid
and remold them in our image
antiquated traditions to be discarded
minds and values to...
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Categories:
native american, scary, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Slavery Poems
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