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Best Black Race Poems

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


Saluting Our Heroes
Jamaica is our island’s name,
A land blessed with so much fame.
And for the part that our heroes  did play,
We pause to reflect and salute...

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Categories: black race, celebration, change, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme



Never Forget
February is the month that we celebrate our black race,
People from the past who set our pace.
Those who should have been placed in our history...

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Categories: black race, black african american, historywoman,
Form: I do not know?
Beautiful Africa
Dainty queen undevoured
Bride of the rising sun
Beautiful Africa, 
The savor of thy fragrance
Calls my tongue to sweet ballads!

Your velvet skin carved in black gold
On your...

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Categories: black race, adventure, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let Us Celebrate
Let us celebrate
This is not time to denigrate
Nigerians rise and jubilate
Cause we are poised to rethink and meditate
  
Let us roll out the drums
This...

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Categories: black race, celebration, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When They Exhume My Poems
When I die
I give the Pulitzer Board 
Permission
To exhume my lyrics

And some overweight ME
Will put my verses on a slab
Going thru my stanzas for tone
looking...

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Categories: black race, assonance, death, eulogy, i
Form: Rhyme



First Black President of America
The sun is rising on the wings of history
The emergence of a hero in the black race
His star glitters in the sky
His vision strong in...

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Categories: black race, art, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Nigeria My Homeland
The fairest land among other earthly spot
She is blessed, dark and more beautiful than what other folks thought
Surrounded by numerous river for bath and food
Her...

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Categories: black race, africa, feelings,
Form: Light Verse
This World of Colored People
"This World Of Colored People"


This planet Earth of ours is inhabited and overrun with so many "Colored People!"
They are everywhere one turns and try as...

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Categories: black race, color, earth, humanity, people,
Form: I do not know?
For Mum
Abhorred by the black race
but sold out to grace
spine and thorns over the crown
face with smiles like clown

never perceived the astuteness 
of understanding
for the eyes...

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Categories: black race, absence
Form: Ode
Premium Member Prejudice Against Blacks I Have a Cure For That- Part 1--
question?

In this perfect world of hatred!
Why is it that some races compete Supremacy
 tensions rise is hotter than fire
Well within all of this
Have them in...

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Categories: black race, america, bullying, discrimination, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Our King Is Insane
Clad in his double-breasted royal toga
Filled of nothing but pride and anger
His face as grim as a Pallbearer’s
His gaze dreadful and fearful like that of...

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Categories: black race, allegory, angst, history, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Let the Drums Speak
Listen the drums are rumbling and the pots are bubbling
Listen, the drums are rolling and pretty girls are dancing
Listen the drums are speaking and my...

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Categories: black race, africa, age, business, education,
Form: Narrative
We Are the African Selfie
On this great patch
unfading black race stand-
Symbols of grace abide in tribes of heroes-
We represent a prosperous palms of an ancient land.
We are the African...

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Categories: black race, africa, art,
Form: Bio
For Africa We Creed
For Africa of tomorrow we creed,
for the love of our father's land we
must fight a fight worthy of praises.
We have learned to mask the sun,
we...

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Categories: black race, africa, age, america, art,
Form: Ballad
Africa
AFRICA
 Africa! A land flowing with milk and honey.
Devoured by greed and the love for money
Where corruption thrives and war is a common place
Where will...

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Categories: black race, allegory, places, africa, children,
Form: Ballad

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