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Best Discrimination Poems

Below are the all-time best Discrimination poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of discrimination poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: discrimination, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of----

Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...

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Categories: abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Dear Men
Dear men,
Explain to me why I stand alone. 
Women are quick to uplift their father, sons, and brothers
Quick to maintain the home,
But when she needs...

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Categories: abuse, anger, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Floating
The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame.
The first one went closer and said:I know about love.
The...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence, analogy, discrimination, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We the People
We the People
Will disagree
On taxation and prosperity
On liberty and duty

We the People
Are every color of Christianity
Every Jewish prayer, every song of Islam
The puritans, the atheists...

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Categories: discrimination, freedom, history, society,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member There Is a Star With My Name On It
Come walk with me,
for the path cares not,
the age of your feet.

Look at the butterflies on petals,
their silence does not care,
the language you speak.

Listen to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: discrimination, humanity, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Q Tipping
I remember when
Q was part of a Tip
now Q is a one way trip
to crazy town
It’s a place where thoughts flip
and up is down
Where every...

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Categories: abuse, america, angst, discrimination,
Form: Political Verse
I Am Strong
I am strong

You may simply disregard me
with your arrogant throng
You may treat me with disrespect
I'm still here, I am strong

Why don't you like it when...

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Categories: character, confidence, discrimination, hate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Be Free, My Brothers
Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
     cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
          no...

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Categories: discrimination, africa, america, black african
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Charlottesville
I saw Nazis march yesterday
upon the streets of Charlottesville.
And, with swastikas on display,
crazed clansmen chanted blood will spill.

I saw Satan grinning with pride
at racial slurs...

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Categories: discrimination, america, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Refugee
Running from an economy full of hate
hunger will place him behind bars unless he relocates
war and crisis lingering with the hope to end soon
have pocketed...

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Categories: discrimination, adventure, africa, death, depression,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Just An Observation
We oft expect of others,
In most given situations,
What we ourselves would do,
For it's our inclination,

To think that we are all the same,
So we think they...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: discrimination, judgement,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Poem For Michael
Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical...

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Categories: abuse, angst, discrimination, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Angel Bones
Angel Bones

Two Hundred fifteen angels  (Narration by an elder)
each buried in a shallow grave
The monsters said the Angels were savages
that they were there to...

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Categories: abuse, angst, courage, discrimination,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Quenching My Thirst For Knowledge
As I sat thinking the other day,
A flow of thoughts brought these words to say.
Some were fleeting, some longer lasting, 
Like the evening shadows the...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: discrimination, education, introspection, longing,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs