Best Mamie Poems
To My Pal MamieYou are going home--to Jesus--your life will soon begin!
Earth's ties will then be severed--and Heaven entered
in the precious blood of Jesus that washes white as snow.
He'll bring you safe to glory...
the Blessed Word tells us so....
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Categories:
mamie, appreciation, blessing, death of
Form:
Rhyme
Knowing MamieMamie has a rather shabby coat, it is a mainstay
We all know it; green with tassels, a bit scraggly
It was her mother’s coat, she will never get rid of it
It still smells like her, she tells us.
Is she creepy? A newcomer asks me.
She has not...
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Categories:
mamie, women,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Let the World SeeMamie 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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Categories:
mamie, 9th grade, black african
Form:
Rhyme