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Afros Poems - Poems about Afros


Hallway
...Hallway Things the upstairs hallway desperately needs to make her feel like a hallway include: jugs of water with a hint of lemon and sarsaparilla (yuk!), heads of asparagus, afros,......

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Categories: afros, humor,
Form: Free verse
Woke is a New Slur
...Woke is New Slur “I guess, woke is nothing but a new slur against people like me, right? Let me tell you, friend. Like Ariel, I want black people to be where they will be accepted. I want us to ......

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Categories: afros, anger, appreciation, art, desire,
Form: Free verse



On Migrating To America
...Migrating to America In the age of Aquarius Envisioning the best from the Land of opportunity where it’s been said Streets are paved in gold Everyone has a white picket fence and A Chevrolet t......

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Categories: afros, america,
Form: Free verse
The Skin I Play In
...you say i'm beautiful for a dark skinned girl fascinated by how i can hide behind afros, braids, and kinky curls confused and yet, amused how my soul gently captures pain and sufferin' mesmeriz......

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Categories: afros, beauty, black african american,
Form: Free verse
I Like It Black and Strong
...Nefertari Amenities of the African lands Indigenous black beautiful roses Of the African soil Dark and strong In a black alluring archaic vogue an amara in black woman Sisters of samandzie......

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Categories: afros, africa, beautiful, beauty, black
Form: Ode



Premium Member Eden's Graffiti
...The old widower kept a tidy yard. Bright flowers -snowball hedges, a sparrow house and apple tree gnomes chasing ceramic frogs pinwheels spinning sunlight round and round silver dreams. He put ......

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Categories: afros, abuse, garden,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bald Is Beautiful
...It used to be a true sign of virility To possess a thick head of hair Today men walk around proudly Quite bald with a confident air I've seen more hair on a billiard ball Than on some macho ......

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Categories: afros, beautiful, humorous, men, men,
Form: Quatrain
Teenage Love 14: Teen Couples of the 1970s
...The 1970s were the grooviest years for all of the teenage lovebirds-turned-married adults. Young love has still been among all of the then-teen couples since the day disco music was born. It seems ......

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Categories: afros, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, on writing
Form: Epic
Crowning Glory
...they wear it as Afros, locks, braids and curls they wear them as wraps, as perms or relaxed swirls a woman's crowning glory in a chignon, a bun or a ponytail draping down short, long, kinky or ......

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Categories: afros, passion, people,
Form: Ode

Book: Reflection on the Important Things