Best Emmett Poems

My mind cannot erase the memory of Emmett Till
I often dream about his badly-mutilated body –
The fourteen-year-old Black lad mercilessly beaten
To death … for ostensibly flirting with a white woman.
A victim of the era in which he lived, he was lynched,
But the men who killed...

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Body left dissipated, obliterated,
oh Emmett Till,
Investigators could not tell if it was a human or mutilated road kill,
his eye was gouged from his head,
barbed wire tied around his neck,
all because a caucasian woman,
claimed she didn't get proper respect

oh Emmett Till,
Money Mississippi was the place,
you were...

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Emmett Till Emmett Till
Why was it you they had to kill
Why did they drag you from your bed
Why did they pistol whip your head

What exactly did you do
To make them do this thing to you
Just fourteen years old from Chicago town
To stay with you uncle...

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Chicago native Emmett Till would no longer be alive
after he was lynched in the state of Mississippi in 1955.
Till was on summer vacation in a village called Money.
It's located in the delta region of the river Mississippi.
The fourteen year old was beaten and shot in...

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Fuzzy little balls of fur, 
 Sleep, stretch, then yawn.
Snuggle up to warmth, 
 and keep me up 'til dawn.

Eyes that are opening, 
 and at first they are blue.
Can't wait to see the final color.
 I love to gaze at kittens so new.

Each personality...

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Airy Wells and Emmett Street were working class kids,
Just shy of a high school diploma.
Airy’s mom had a habit of drinking too much.
Emmett’s father was fighting lymphoma.

Airy and Emmett had jobs after school,
And mostly just kept out of trouble.
While Airy stocked shelves at the dollar...

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So there was black kid
His name was Vincent
Chubby and innocent
Intelligent, but belligerent
Aged 13, he had his first crush
Abigail, a white girl
Pigtails and eyes colored like clam pearls
Only conflict, her family was racist
Her older brother, Nathan, would make threatening faces
He constantly chased Vincent from around her
However,...

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MOORLAND
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Moorland, wilderness, natural beauty, Nature!
Wilderness, from barren to verdant glory.
Natural, prime, if untouched, an untold story.
Beauty, as perceived by human-nature.
Nature, its larder for all and sundry!
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Emmett was a man of malignant mien
The crazy son of his saint of a mother
A callous hooligan, cruel but keen
Acumen and class matched by no other

Drawn to the drink, and the roll of dice
His devilish deeds brought him ill repute
The world knew well his vanity...

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an interesting form for sure
interesting and confused
form a quintain from the first line used
for those who like meter, impure
sure to keep me amused

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The Emmett has 3 rules:
1. the first line is 5 words
2. in order, each word from the first line becomes the first word...

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Talking to my friend Tom.
To tell him I found this emmet form.
My, it is only five words, not the norm.
Friend, it makes mine look like a marathon
Tom as you can see, similar my thoughts, torn!


The form can be checked out here http://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/emmett/...

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I hate knowing you won't be with us much longer.
For our bond has only grown stronger.

Your siblings for Heaven now have depart.
They will forever be in my heart.

I know now it was your disease
That took your siblings with such ease.

Feline leukemia is killing you
And real...

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The senseless, brutal murder of Emmett Till
       In 1955 haunts America's consciousness, still.

        He's a catalyst for the Civil Rights movement.
His casket left open, a horrific sight; watershed moment....

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Five lines can make poem.
Lines should not be vile
Can it bring a smile?
Make it simple, wholesome.
Poem is evocative, not a fake’s wile.
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Mamie Till Mobley demanded and open casket,
to let the world see,
the bloated, beaten body of her baby boy,
who was lynched in Mississippi.

His name was Emmett Till,
a 14 year old black boy, 
who came from the state of Illinois.

It was 1955, the Jim Crow laws were...

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