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Best Coretta Poems

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Dream of Peace~~coretta Scott King
We could have run
And tried to hide.

But I promised Martin
I'd stand by his side.

The fear of death, hatred and pain.
He could oppress by peaceful change.

We...

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Categories: coretta, black african american, history,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Coretta Scott King
Was a civil rights leader, born Coretta Scott,
On June 18 1953 her and MLK tied the knot.
She shared the same dream as King,
Many people knew...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coretta, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member If I Had a Time Travel Machine
Get me inside quickly and as fast as you can, 
please turn the time travel dial to September 1963
Get me to a post office in...

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Categories: coretta, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Woman of Honor
Erma Bombeck, Words of Wisdom.
Coretta Scott King, Peace and Reason.
Rosa Parks, Stood Victorious!
Betsy Ross, Our Nations Seamstress.
Mother Mary, Bore Jesus in Bethlehem.
Harriet Tubman, Lead Slaves...

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Categories: coretta, adventure, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Moments of Prayer
How's my Coretta?
Oh God, I rest knowing love.
Thank You for our life!


     For Abe Lopez contest...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coretta, faith, family
Form: Senryu



Relationship Epidemic (Females)
I'm now in the 3rd chapter of the Relationship Epidemic as I focus on the role of the female
They say one man's trash is another...

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Categories: coretta, girlfriend-boyfriendwoman, women, girl, life,
Form: Rhyme
This Poverty of Mine
THIS POVERTY OF MINE...
Improves upon the amount of time it takes you to conduct an opera that 
tells about how to live this life.
Moralistic conceptions...

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Categories: coretta, abuse, allegory, analogy, body,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I'M Gonna Write
Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: I'm Gonna Write
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: August/1988

I'm gonna write about 
my grandmama -

I'm gonna write about 
my mama -

I'm gonna write about
my love......

What I'm...

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© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coretta,
Form: Light Verse
Black Female Warriors
(2/7/13)

She was my black female warrior and she stood proud and tall
And upon her shoulders her silk hair did fall
A spear in one hand and...

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© Louis Rams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coretta, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member King
Morehouse grad who reached the heights.
Activist for civil rights.
Rhetor, rebel, reverend.
Toiled to segregation end.
In nonviolence believed.
Nobel Prize for Peace received.


Lincoln's words inspired his theme
Uttered in...

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Categories: coretta, america, celebration, courage, leadership,
Form: Acrostic
Mlk From Wikepedia Article(Http://En.Wikipedia.Org/Wiki/Birmingham_Campaign)
MLK recruited teens to march in demonstrations in Birmingham, AL. Due to ADULTS 
would not be influenced to march by his speeches. Fire Water hoses...

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Categories: coretta, black african american, historymarch,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Natural Woman
She writes like Maya
She sings like Aretha
She dreams like Coretta
She reads like Oprah
She speaks like Barbara
She plays like Serena
She rocks like Tina
She rolls like Donna
She...

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Categories: coretta, celebration, flower, inspirational, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If I Had a Time Machine
Get me inside quickly and as fast as you can, 
please turn the time travel dial to September 1963
Get me to a post office in...

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Categories: coretta, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Making Tim a Killer
{EXTRA PRODUCTIONS}

Dedicated predestination escapades 
Celestial especially preresequites
Difiniti extro-skeletons mini+thins
Cherry skoal impeding doom death throes
Throwing caution to the wind Jethro JJ escalations
Remastered Reproductions Catasphore' Confuscious Anthropology
Follow...

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Categories: coretta, 1st grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Burlesque
Where I'M From
Where I’m From…..

I am from bar-b-ques and live family feuds.
Walks to down town Paterson laughing at women and men who allow their selves to be...

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Categories: coretta, lifefamily, family,
Form: Bio

Book: Shattered Sighs