Best Confederacy Poems
They Be Descendants of the ConfederacyThey Be The Descendants Of The Confederacy
By Roy Merritt
Way down here in the land of cotton
A great many people are mean and rotten
A great many of them are foul you see
They be descendants of the Confederacy
They love that flag the Stars and Bars
Fly it from...
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Categories:
confederacy, character, history, political, prejudice,
Form:
Lyric
A New Confederacy At Long LastOnly now coming down from its mast
The flag of a terrible past
What pain we endure
To see racism’s cure
So will we have peace at long last?
Author's note: There will be much more to do before we have economic fairness for all. Racism is...
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Categories:
confederacy, discrimination, money, political,
Form:
Limerick
ReconstructionLincoln never imagined
today’s white victim zeitgeist,
pouting persecuted supremacists,
their clenched jaws and fists.
Civil war rages in limbic memory.
Encoded somewhere,
the panic attacks and mirages.
Nobody is qualified because everybody is responsible.
So many whites have graduated from the struggle,
showcasing their diploma from the mill.
Lincoln never imagined
modern virtual...
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Categories:
confederacy, america, discrimination, freedom, hate,
Form:
Political Verse