Best Juneteenth Poems

I never heard or read that Texas slaves
were captive still, by masters so depraved,

till June nineteenth of eighteen sixty-five,
when news of freedom reached those still alive.

No passage of my school books ever claimed
there even was a day with such a name.

At forty-five, I had the chance to learn,
amid the news of riots, tear gas burns

of...

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June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, allied troops landed on the beaches, an
unpleasant day that started in the early morning hours in
Normandy, France, and turned the tides of World War II. The
effect was the beginning and the liberation of Western Europe and
tanglement from Nazi control.
Exhausted they'd given their lives and we remember them.
Each soldier has...

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Justice delayed from fringed time frazzled cry
Until the DREAM can heal itself and broken trust
******* shackled minds in the velvet shadows try
Evolving with a nation drunken in bloody lust
Trapped in tragedy of a blurred emancipation line
Edged to the margin of Reconstruction, it tells
Empty enactment lagging that Constitutional hell
Nattering historic lies, blood and tongue dispels
Truth against...

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July Fourth, Independence Day in the 
United States of America, a
Nonracial celebration of
Emancipation of all Americans from the
Tyranny of
England and the beginning of freedom for
Enslaved people. June
Nineteenth celebrates the abolishment of 
The African-American slavery and beginning
History of the Civil Rights Movement.



July 14, 2018


Juneteenth Acrostic Contest by Edward Ibeh
Fourth Place...

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Jubilant voices sang "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" 
Unity in celebration as the proclamation was made
No more slavery in the United States of American
Emancipation, worth fighting for was won
Tomorrows would be changed for fate intervened,
Energy of persistence in the face of adversary 
Enlightened the bond between races to grow stronger
Now we stand together and celebrate success
To...

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Juneteenth… Justifiably they say ignorance is bliss. 
               No, it’s nothing to be proud of.
Ultimately unaware and unfamiliar, living in Canada 
               I had no clue about...

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Woke up this morning with freedom
on my mind.
I’m perpendicular to the blessed ground,
well and alive—
It’s Juneteenth and it’s break-out celebration
time— 
It’s going to be a beautiful day God has allowed
me to survive.

Everywhere I’ve been, I’ve always celebrated
Juneteenth day—
From the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, to the
Caribbean, I would go;
From Freeport to Houston, to LA,...

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Juneteenth


June...back in nineteen-fifty eight, just sixty years ago,

Unknown to me, nine hundred miles away in the mid-South,

Never did I think of anything that would foreshadow...

Equal rights for me...denied to people of black color.

The waiting rooms and restrooms, solely marked as black or white:

Extremes prevailed with front and back seats taken on a bus;

Enjoying drinks from...

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Juneteenth - to celebrate the winds of change,

Usurping persecution, cruel and rife ...

No privilege allowed can e'er exchange

Each right that is endowed a human life.

Thus, as we raise our spirits to rejoice,

Enjoying, sweet, the liberties we know,

Every day reminds us, with hate's voice,

Now, as then, we have so far to go ...

Today we will remember,...

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Jubilation in the city of Galveston ensued when 

Union soldiers brought to the enslaved

News of an

Emancipation that had been proclaimed by Lincoln

Two whole years before the Texan slaves 

Ever even heard of it!

Equality, of course, was a long time still coming, yet Civil Rights came!

Nowadays, we should all honor June 19th, which is 

Traditionally celebrated...

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This time each year we now celebrate
          The conviction: love can conquer hate

Yet while our journey has come so far
          A horizon, peaceful, still shines afar

My heart-of-hearts detests the fights
       ...

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JUNTEENTH ANTHEM 

Justice without prejudice we pray,
Unsung heroes paved the way.
No cross, no crown, cries sing from the ground,
We can still hear them singing now today.

Every trail of blood that made our history,
Today bookmarks the end of their misery, 
No pain, no pride, our scars can’t hide,
Our song a forever symphony....

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"AFRICAN AMERICANS CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH"

Juneteenth, Juneteenth, Juneteenth
What does it really mean?
Slavery ending news, delivered two years late
155 years to date, black people still have to wait

African American celebration of freed slaves
Home of the free and land of the brave
We've suffered such brutality
Equal rights, still not a reality

From whence we came, some improvement
That has produced the least...

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JUNETEENTH—TRUE FREEDOM

J EHOVAH is Christ’s Father’s name, name He called … his God
U nthinkable from  Bibles Jehovah’s name, men have removed
N ame Christ said in John 17:3  …’He Had Made Known’ 
E very King James in Ps. 83:18 say’s … JEHOVAH” is God’s name
T ell me in your Bible please, his name you...

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That day when legal slavery ended
	A brief moment when justice seemed palpable
marked only the first chapter of caped cross burners 
and rageful lynch mobs
marked only the beginning of white terror
against black dignity
Equal justice under law

That day when the sky opened
	A brief glimmer when freedom seemed possible
stained only by the blood of generations oppressed
bruised only by...

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