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Best Black Art Poems

Below are the all-time best Black Art poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of black art poems written by PoetrySoup members


Black Art
The world clouded over the side walks started to crack
      Motion became sickness as the sky from blue went black
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Categories: black art, corruption,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Backhand
"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it...

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Categories: black art, child abuse, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Puppeteers
Wars and crimes,
Hunger and thirst,
Sad for the world,
My heart bursts.

Holding onto hope by my fingertips,
Drinking polluted water by sips.

Blood of the wounded,
Blood of the dead,
Blood...

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Categories: black art, political, pollution, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin
"The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin"



Guns ...

are for p*ssies
you know, short for 
pussilanimous plural

Words …

are sharper 
more cutting
more lethal 

clean 
concise 
quill slicing the...

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Categories: black art, courage, muse, strength,
Form: Free verse
Cactus
She hugged me and bit my earlobe
                  ...

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Categories: black art, fun,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe
**Trigger Warning**



"I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe" 

I knew Anne.
you’d think 
with a name like hers
she’d be able to find her way 
out...

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Categories: black art, dark, love, poets,
Form: Narrative
Statuesque Radiance
It was wonderment.
The mesmerizing expression rolled off her tongue in waves. 
To my puzzlement I was in a state of allurement.
Her vibes were sent to...

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Categories: black art, adventure, beautiful, creation, desire,
Form: Concrete
Laments of Love
Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,
May thy candle burn quickly before thy night…
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart,

For the slings and arrows deploy...

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Categories: black art, longing, lost love, love
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Tethered Spirit Unfurled - the Scarlett Witch, Wanda Maximoff
From ashes of Sokovia, a twin sister rose,
With powers of chaos and psionic flows,
Wanda they called her, tethered spirit unfurled,
As women before her, she reckoned...

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Categories: black art, appreciation, hero, judgement,
Form: Free verse
It's Never Thee End
It’s never thee~End


I don’t mean, to seem so hungry, to see you~ 
or have every thought~ be of you
My only gate, is the one standing...

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Categories: black art, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Preface
Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent...

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Categories: black art, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member We'Re Here, and You'Re Not - the Nazi Dream
 We're Here, And You're Not! (The Nazi Dream)

No man is born perfect (at least I'm that smart),
Though I'd never exclude you, tone deafness' black...

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Categories: black art, anxiety, betrayal, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After Shocks - Revised
It's after the 'landslide?' Thieves stole the election!
This traitorous scum bag's a Russian invention,
But 'Charmin' (1) for Putin (that's on a good day!)
For the dark...

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Categories: black art, hilarious, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moth--
Moth
In a kingdom full of ants
The splendid spider spidering
Deep into that darkness frogging
Death shall bring candlefish
It threw its ghost against the grubs

Deep into that darkness...

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Categories: black art, analogy, appreciation, insect,
Form: Free verse
Cleopatra
Sun’s splendor orange ball spread
O’re granite giants and tame vales 
Wild wind’s daring waft he rode
How mystic, oh fate; ired dragon 
By ired hero’s hand...

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Categories: black art, analogy, humanity, introspection, love,
Form: Footle

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