Underground Railroad Poems - Poems about Underground Railroad

... (A lone voice whispers) What a year to be alive to see poetry still thrives Want some new readers? Well, I asked this once when I was institutionalised Before in The Great In-Between ......

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... “And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that equaled them.” Samuel Clemens in his younger years when he wor......

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...Nascent poetic tribute to black history month... crafted before onset when people of color got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days depending if leap year occurred. Though I yam Caucas......

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...Within the frame a sepia scene a dusty porch a rickety chair the fabric of your dusky face creased with ceaseless sunbaked woes your old pair of getaway feet gives a different walk of life......

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...They tried to deny me and you… who we are and who I am… as the beloved of I am who is… but you can’t deny creation… Out of the darkness of creation I have come......

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...We stopped in Cincinnati to see the cousins; that was a mistake. We are still throwing them out of the car, they can hitchhike home. We had never been there, and frankly seeing them was great. But......

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...Black History As this month comes to an end I want to begin First of all I want to thank so many I will name a few although there's plenty Martin Luther King Had a dream Yes he did That we......

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... “Tubman” What colours a heart courage? What colours a mind belief? What colours a soul unity? Underground we carry torches from......

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...Rainbow leaves have begun Their carpeting of the earth’s floor Leaving weird-looking naked branches; Their abandon nests no longer with tenants. As their waters approach crystallization, Pond ......

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...Tribute to Dawn of Day: Stories from the Underground Railroad From Tennessee Virginia Mississippi Kansas Wisconsin To free states in the north and Canada I grieved upon the grave of the......

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... Born in the Goshen ghetto, bound by an Ashkenaz forged umbilical chain Beloved mother was Jim Crow lynch poor, adored father was the Uncle Sam same Third-generation slaves, pauper fre......

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...She Goes Back By Lillian J. Jeffrey Whispers flow like a river she will be sold sold or rented like a cash crop Born on a Maryland plantation her mother works the big house Harriet r......

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...She Goes Back By Lillian J. Jeffrey Whispers flow like a river she will be sold sold or rented like a cash crop Born on a Maryland plantation her mother works the big house Harriet r......

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...She Goes Back By Lillian J. Jeffrey Whispers flow like a river she will be sold sold or rented like a cash crop Born on a Maryland plantation her mother works the big house Harriet runs ......

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...To Rivers Running To Freedom (Apropos The Underground Railroad) With eyes wide open And souls burning, While they rested We were running— Running dreams To visions like rivers: Cascading e......

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