Best Melanin Poems

The spices release their scent to ease my heart,
numb ~ yet tracing glasses brimming with tears,
aching for a touch of chamomile wisps,
beneath a sky that reeks of regrets
and words unspoken ~ too afraid to rephrase,
   like smoke incensed with sulfur,
   like...

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Melanin
Girl, your melanin is POPPIN’
You woke up like that
You’re flawless
Yo’ skin is mixed with caramel and chocolate
As dark as night
Or as light as honey
Yo’ hair is so big and curly
You turn heads when you come into a room
Everyone becomes blinded by your glory
You’re feeling yourself…
Feeling...

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The thickness of your melanine
Like some hot beverage
So strongly black 
I crave.

The enchantment of your literature
Makes me loss my virtue
Alluring in your words
As i dance my way through
My pelvis twisting soothly
To your music..You are the music 
The melody of your harmony
As it penetrates through my...

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Wash away the sins of the father
Release your head from the sand
Try to start again
Or ignore the reaching hand

Who are you to judge over a body? A way of life?
A face growing weary and thin?
Restless, are we still so cold?
Are we a plague to ourselves,...

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Cold Rains Wash Melanin

Mix
Spectrum
Get pure white
Color of peace
Touch of true bliss
Takes you on autumn cloud
Drifts to the grey horizon
Splits in VIBGYOR of the rainbow
Cold rains wash the melanin away
Sky loses colors becomes blank as white.

January 22, 2018....

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#African_melanin
From a distance, I was captured, in me a flame lit, curiosity stroke my urge, in my body, suspense strangled me, dying of heat, waiting to be quenched of my yearned thirst, 
a chocolate pigment, velvet and silk in one cloth, 

I see what nature...

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The problem is in our upbringing,
We were told, "the only pretty is pale".
It's the fault of our upbringing,
We measure beauty in colour scale.

Why does he even like her?
She's ugly (she's dark).
Tree's beauty is in it's flower,
Not in the colour of it's bark.

Now we teach "only...

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A fertile submission 
in a dark nest and 
yet it is believed that beings
must be next to each other to touch.

In my hive, he prayed for my nectar.
With a steady hum buzzing through the forest.
I stuck out my tongue, angry that the poems
I imagined on...

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They told me darkness was a curse—
a stain upon the soul,
a mark of shame in the mirror of the world.
But they lied.
For it is in the womb of night
that galaxies are born.

Darkness—
the divine mother of all that lives.
Before the stars first breathed,
before light dared to...

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MELANIN MORE-
I am not black, more closely to bronze, brown, or tan
Mine nationality, creed, and kind
I am a son child of a living God
Bronze brown
Melanin
More
Royalty free standing Holy
Non-European
Bronze brown
I am a son child of a living God
Mine nationality, creed, and kind
I am not black, more...

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In realms of ink and solitude I dwell,
A poet's soul, an ancient tale to tell.
Within these words, my heart bleeds sincere,
Of being a poet, black and without fear.
Like twilight's symphony, my rhyme awakes,
A melodic dance, where beauty takes shape.
Freely I divulge the thoughts that reside,
In...

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Born from the sun's ancient kiss,
A gift wrapped in golden brown bliss,
I carry the stories of ancestors proud,
Their strength echoing clear and loud.

Melanin flowing through my veins,
Like rivers of cocoa after the rains,
Each shade a testament to divine design,
From ebony deep to honey wine.

They tried...

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Black, black
Born black
Head to toe black
Back black, side black, cock black
Every inch black

Midnight without a star,

Black Friday, black Saturday, every day black male

Black out from home
Black in the pen
Ba, ba, black sheep off the streets

Whack, whack stocked against black Jack

Black hair, black beard
Pirate, attack black
Rat-a-tat,...

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IN A PERFECT WORLD!

What one can only but wish to be her reality 
A lit tunnel of happiness
Eyes glistening on her melanin
Cocoa-butter one with its bud 
Like Eve I knew you are complete as I am of your flesh 
No treason,
The garden of Eden yet...

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