Best Darkie Poems
Ex Drover, Me...Ex Drover, me
As the cleaner sweeps the street,
And the saddle leather squeaks,
cos he's riding ol Darkie,
an his mind is with the herd.
He remembers the cold nights,
Leaps from his swag at ......
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Categories:
darkie, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
Uppity Darkie...
Light minded people say I’m an uppity darkie
They color me bad,
with a black face, felt pen Sharpie
Vanilla voices downright don’t like
the audio sounds of this mouthy darkie
They ......
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Categories:
darkie, allusion, prejudice, racism, truth,
Form:
Bio
I Rode Shotgun...
I rode shotgun
with someone
who look just like me
Had the same skin color
as far as I
could steering wheel see
I rode shotgun
with a racist someone,
who hatefully......
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Categories:
darkie, anger, hate, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Bio
To the Darkie...dinary phenomenon.
Colorism is mutable with a unity
Breaking barriers of pigment seclusion
This revolution will be televised
True beauty can never be defied
It is not in our pigment
But in our inner being
Let sophisticated wisdom go viral
Let the "Darkie" be televised.
Tin-tin®......
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Categories:
darkie, color, racism,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Born and Bred...
Goshen ghettofied,
born and bred
Yeah, I’m the teen darkie
with the big nose
and the nappy head
Rolling with my homies
on an asphalt bounce,
with the music on blast
Yeah, we’re the......
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Categories:
darkie, identity, perspective, racism, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hateful Exit...
A racist white man’s vehicle broke down
in the middle
of the blackest pride side of Motown
He scratched his red neck double chin
in Appalachian drawl dismay;
perplexed at havin......
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Categories:
darkie, humorous, parody, racism, wisdom,
Form:
Light Verse
Justice Is Colour Blind...A blot they want to wash, detergents do not work
Ineffectual, institutional and cover ups a stir
Excuses abound, squirming hierarchy found
"Its just a darkie, why so narky"
The corridors would s......
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Categories:
darkie, political, race, racism,
Form:
Rhyme
Miss Claris...Out of the hills of St. Catherine and the plains of Linstead
emerge a warrior princess…
A victor not a victim of her circumstances, struggles or plight
Miss Claris
With warm, loving, industria......
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Categories:
darkie, family, grandmother,
Form:
Free verse
Screw O'Clock News...(Tucker’s Wet Dream!)
It seems ‘twenty-four/seven’ Republicans choose
to subject us, our nation to “Screw O’Clock News”
as if Truth’s all that exits their Trinity holes!
What they say is pure g......
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Categories:
darkie, humor, political, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Every Next Day...
Was born to be a mule,
got barn weaned in the August hay
Didn’t know ev’ry next day
was gon be like my first Labor Day
My Louisi-Ana, ebony twin fetter friends told me,
I was go......
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Categories:
darkie, emotions, grief, history, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Fool's Goad...
Little lemmings,
beware of the Yukon yodel
Don’t ear swallow the Arctic shiny yellow
Fake eureka disclosure: It’s jingle hollow
So, enamel blowflake please,
place not your panhandle h......
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Categories:
darkie, allusion, muse, wisdom, word
Form:
Rhyme
Strangled Justice...
Just another siren roadkill:
A low-down,
rabid raccoon resisting arrest
at high noon
A feral noted asphalt death
So says the official pol-pol report
In a Terminator monotone
was th......
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Categories:
darkie, allusion, death, grief, sorrow,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Before You Leave...
Third level CCTV audio recordings
of the last occupants illegally departing the
quasi-safe, Area 4, Sector 9 quarantine zone
— Seventh vol. of the Ghetto Chronicles
We hate to se......
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Categories:
darkie, humorous, imagery, society, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Darkie Me Shy...
Can she see
the beryl words I keep
hidden inside?
Precious words I want to say,
but I’m too
darkie me shy
I cover my cocoon feelings
with an awkward “hi”
Whenever she Madame ......
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Categories:
darkie, feelings, innocence, longing, romantic
Form:
Romanticism
Inheritance...Mother England surrogated me
And O her white breast was sweet
Honey on my tongue muting misery
While banana trash tied my feet
She stripped me naked in her bed
No culture clothe me from winter......
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Categories:
darkie, historymother, england, me, mother,
Form:
Quatrain