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African American Poems - Poems about African American

The Spiritual - Material Nexus known as THE TRUTH
The Spiritual/Material Nexus is Biology and its material antithetical responses to "The Laws of Nature". That process is fundamentally "Cooperative"; a symbiosis based on "Trust". The successful Social Organism, "Civilization", operates the same way. President Trump never speaks "The Truth". A "Faithless" Government is a failure calling for immediate remediation or abolition to safeguard our Individual values. ...

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Categories: america, black african american,
Form: Didactic
My Children Each Morning You Can Sit in the Presence of The King
It’s a privilege to come before Heavens King. He’s enthroned on high where Angels sing. Those gone on before us, the truth they now know. The answers to the question. Where do the bad go? Open my eyes Lord Jesus so your truths I can see. I desire to know what you have destined me to be....

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Categories: african american, 10th grade, beautiful, black
Form: Rhyme



Father Please Grant My Children and Grands Full Coverage of Your Storm Insurance
Storms are troubles that are a part of your life. They pass through from nowhere, in their wake is strife.. Pain and suffering may result and sometimes loss. There is coverage left for you, at the foot of the Cross. Nothing to put down, Someone already paid your cost. We'll find peace & comfort where suffering took place. A plan from...

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Categories: african american, 9th grade, anxiety, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member FREEDOM TRAIL
Civil Rights fight is where the need for freedom began An end Society says Race once again Thrown in the face The upward battle No settle The Blockade No sitting in darkness under a shade No hidden words Having a mind to excel The need to prove Inspired and determined to move Don’t need permission Created from above Freedom to think of Society doesn’t want races to interrelate There is a...

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Categories: betrayal, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Devils we call lovers
Maybe devils are people we call lovers — the ones who are our weakness, our mistakes, the ones we lie for, the ones we would kill for. I have done the most foolish things for love — a little feeling yet it shakes crowns, collapses empires. My king — you reign in my heart. Please, do not overturn the skies above my head. Kiss me slowly — I...

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Categories: african american, africa, best friend, black
Form: Rhyme



My Children This Book Pulls Back The Curtain of Our Limited Senses
When you don't know what to do. Open this and it will speak to you! Don't listen to a Religious man. Get a translation you can understand. In Luke's book 24:45 you will find. Jesus had to open the Disciples minds! Without God, you won't understand. This book is His spiritual rescue plan. We're born spiritually dead, alive in flesh. About God and this...

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Categories: african american, 8th grade, bible, black
Form: Rhyme
To My Children The Bible God's Interactive Puzzle
It is a collection of 66 different books. Each an important puzzle piece, just take a look. God took a complete puzzle and tossed it in the air. It fell down to the earth, scattering everywhere. Most important piece is God himself That most will ever see. John 15:4 says "You must abide in Me!" The book Genesis tells how all...

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Categories: african american, 9th grade, atheist, bible,
Form: Rhyme
The Being Who Never Leaves
I never learned to look at shop windows without searching for the walking shape of your footsteps. The umbrella abandoned beside a rusted bicycle resembles you more than any living body. On the wet pavements, an old woman feeds the pigeons with the same patience you once had for all the things I forgot. Someone plays Bach in an alleyway, and the notes...

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Categories: beauty, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost
Wondering worlds look back, and validates the earth's self-esteem Visually realizing while people are traumatized, wondering what happened to their dreams. So there minds, which constitute for lost time, for people who's sitting around, trying to make a sound Perplexing to the idea while wondering if the earth is flat or round. Thinking that the frequency is going to...

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Categories: black african american, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Our Excuses Will Condemn Us One Day
I hung out on six avenue and they teased me all the time. Saying you're afraid of you mom, but I was more afraid of crime. I found myself sometimes, doing things to just get along. That's what we do, blame others, when it's us that's doing wrong. I see young men on street corners, hustling to make a...

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Categories: african american, 12th grade, abuse, black
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ABORTED REALITY
Stolen and re-rooted here, We can no longer be as Their virgin forest— Raped and impregnated By heirs of their slavery, And rechained with infertile Emancipation ejaculations:- With this climax, Need I seek to excrete Anymore aborted reality? ...

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Categories: allegory, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member TO BEING ON BOARD
TO BEING ON BOARD * I can remember when It was blackboards, Which have been replaced By their whiteboards; Loaded with selective Brainwashing videos: Primarily coded to entertain Rather than educate; Particularly, if you’ve not chosen Teaching as a labor of love:- When asked how could I, at 83, Teach without a whiteboard, I simply replied that I was A live retired living blackboard: Programmed by...

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Categories: african american, allegory, america, analogy, black
Form: Prose
Premium Member DEEP BLACK THOUGHTS
DEEP BLACK THOUGHTS * (Apropos Of Civil Disobedience) Majority rules; civil disobedience is for whites only:- Civil disobedience— rights of the majority; not of lesser Blacks:- Not being a Black, Thoreau claimed rights to civil disobedience:- Now, episodes daily praise Whites for civil disobedience:- We Blacks remain dared to be disobedient; claiming civil rights! We’ve won civil rights; let’s continue in oneness— beating their divide:- In the...

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Categories: african american, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Senryu
Premium Member OF FULFILLING AND SEALING LIBERATION
You can’t grasp liberation With butterfinger hands; Rather, you must grasp her With an iron-fist grip; Clasping her here forever:- Thus, let us get to being about Fulfilling and sealing our liberation, Rather than just rapping about it:- Rember, liberation is not given, It is faithfully fought for and won:- And the best part of the fight is, It's not with those weapons given us To freely...

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Categories: allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose
A Father and Grandfathers Prayer
Father please speak to my children & grandchildren's heart. In the fourth watch, before their day starts. As they move about throughout their day. Bring believer's alongside them as they make their way. Only those that are walking in Your truth. The elderly with wisdom and passionate youth. From each of their memory, let it not get away. The reason why Jesus...

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Categories: african american, 12th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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