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Best Bigotry Poems

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


The Bigotry That Remains, Part Ii
...But there exists a much broader hate,
half the species, you see, do not rate.
I’m talking, of course, about the men,
how we’re seen as less next...

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Categories: bigotry, america, culture, discrimination, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member We All Belong
I was told that I should die, because of the color of my skin.
It didn’t matter what I thought or even what I believed in.
I...

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Categories: bigotry, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mankind's Greatest Mystery (Inspired By Chris Higgins)
If 2012 prophesies prove true
And Earth’s life cycles again renew
Mysteries of man will be more than a few

Challenges may await future life forms
With intellects far...

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Categories: bigotry, dedication, inspirational, mysterylife, may,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member People of Mystery
Should doomsday prophesies prove true
     and our planet’s life cycles renew
          mysteries...

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Categories: bigotry, future, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Silent
Those who die unjustly
because of bigotry
because of prejudice
because of unadulterated hate
are never silent
their blood cries out
like the blood of innocent Abel
the anguished cries
"I can't Breathe"
"I'm...

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Categories: bigotry, discrimination, judgement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Grand Opening On Mlk Day
St. Milt’s Grand Opening today
Come and celebrate with us
On Martin Luther King Day
Worldwide choirs and gospel music
Singing MLK’s best loved hymns
Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simon 
It’s...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bigotry, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Am I Not Human
A Monoku by: Ink Empress 
  The ink of my skin doesn't define me nor does it construe my poetry.

Am I not human to...

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Categories: bigotry, appreciation, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Labels
You tell me that my love is not real
You tell me that my love needs to be more concrete
More box that I should fit into
More...

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Categories: bigotry, pride, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Divided Nation
Confined in one boundary, living together
showing different reactions in changing weather.

Stabbing each other, hoping to reach same destiny
creating a stumbling block as the way, what...

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Categories: bigotry, africa, patriotic, peace, people,
Form: Couplet
Joan of Arc, For God and Country
Joan of Arc – For God and Country

On the feast of the Three Kings was born,
a baby girl, in 1412, under the sign of Capricorn....

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Categories: bigotry, christian, courage, destiny, hero,
Form: Rhyme
America, Why Did You Stray?
America, why did you stray from the old way.
A constitution put forth, the foundation of our land,
barely recognizable what was originally Jefferson's hand.
Tarnished and smudged...

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Categories: bigotry, depression, devotion, education, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Absolute Truth, Judgment and Lies
The Damnable Sin of Self-righteousness.
All of our leaders have their different views of human rights.

Our leader has repeatedly resisted calls to assume the moral leadership...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bigotry, america, children, emotions, immigration,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Naked
My blood trickles
through the tip of my pen
as my soul is exposed
yet once again.

Naked, my words
slowly open the door,
and step into the world
largely ignored.

Fearfully, they
confront...

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Categories: bigotry, fear, words, write, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Way Back When I Was Ten
A canopy of innocence, invisible to me
hung over playful joy shielding all that would come to be.
The world was mud and grass and trees, oh,...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bigotry, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
The View From Where I Stand
I’ve an anger which cannot be hidden!
A burning passion that comes unbidden!
My Soul desolated with grievous rage,
reacts with furious justified outrage!

Occasioned by the offences of...

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Categories: bigotry, anger,
Form: Rhyme

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