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Best Black Person Poems

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


We Worked Long Enough
I laugh out loud
every time I hear a politician say,
that the best way to enrich a black person's life,
is to give them a job
Give them...

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Categories: black person, slavery, society, truth, work,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Fifty Shades of Black

What’s the color of forced migration pain?
Ask a black person in America,
and you’ll get fifty different slave answers

What’s the silent sound of invisible chains?
Fifty killahurts...

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Categories: black person, allusion, color, slavery, truth,
Form: Narrative
Standing Together
I been through hell.


Man I even been chain and sell.


But I stand tall because like a black person I will not fail.


I have the heart...

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© Dion Bess  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: black person, lifepeople, people,
Form: Rhyme
You Have To Prove
Someone once told me that my dreams wouldn’t come true
And for some reason I believed them too
So I just stopped trying
And ended up all alone...

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Categories: black person, black african american, faith,
Form: Narrative
Oppressor and the Oppressed
Oppressor and the oppressed.

Who is the oppressed and who is the oppressor?
Who has the right to beat a random person on the street?
Who has the...

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Categories: black person, bird, character, corruption, future,
Form: Free verse



What If There Were No Black People
As the world shifted and divided from whites, Hispanics, and Asians and of course African Americans due to pointless killings from the men in blue,...

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Categories: black person, care,
Form: Free verse
Has Heaven Gone
Serenity was stuck in between The Crowd...
Destinies skin turned Black; Yet Strong and Proud.
The Whiten and Blacken Memories of Harsh Comments stood.
Faith becoming taunted by...

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Categories: black person, beautiful, freedom, growth, imagery,
Form: Blank verse
Black History Poem
One of the black greats, Huey P. Newton
Would've been better if he had stopped shootin'
One of the founders of the black Panther Movement
It was going...

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Categories: black person, black african american,
Form: Couplet
Black and Proud
Why is it that we as black (we being the black people who do it) have this sad tendency of thinking that white is the...

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Categories: black person, africa, race, self, society,
Form: Free verse
Look At Me
look at me, what do you see, look at me
when I look at you, I see a pinkish looking person
but you prefer to be called...

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Categories: black person, confidence,
Form: Chant Royal
Spreading Happiness
South Africa is the first  
Place in Africa where you  can find more Excellent
Roads , rail ways , ports and Airports than some
European, Asian, American,...

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Categories: black person, 12th grade, evil, freedom,
Form: Acrostic
Prohibited Poetry
Test icles
Female dog
Oral stimulation
Wood
Rectal insert
Bulb of the vestibule
Raccoon
Box
Ipipi
Del dool
Dike
Cigarette
Akkineni
Mouthification
Analingus
Fornication Under Consent of the King
Fudge factory worker
Gay
Ejacu late
Fleshy folds of skin
Handwarmer 
Black person ethnic slur
Pene
Rose thorn...

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Categories: black person, america, baptism, culture, family,
Form: List
Justice Or Just Us?
when we go to jail we get a legal aid lawyer
who  tells us to take a plea even when we are innocent.
when we go...

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Categories: black person, angst, black african american,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Media Slime
A bug trapped in amber. 
Fossil flowers in a stone. 
Sabre tooth caught in tar.
Iceman asleep in a glacier.
Nature doesn't care!

Nature makes no judgements, 
cares...

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Categories: black person, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Starry Stone Hone
My mind was once tranquil lavender...
an equal blend of blue and red.
Sometimes a tone darker or lighter
depending upon the issue at hand-
Recently its blooming only...

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Categories: black person, america,
Form: Free verse

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