Best Minority Poems
Below are the all-time best Minority poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of minority poems written by PoetrySoup members
Dear MinorityToday I decided to write you a letter.
Honey I know that life is hard, and sadly it won't get better.
The world is not a friendly...
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Categories:
minority, america, appreciation, confidence,
Form:
Rhyme
From Majority To MinorityAs they say, “Where there’s smoke, there is fire”
In this case it is certainly true.
For a people who once ruled so many
Find themselves in the...
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Categories:
minority, black african american, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Its a Part of MeOur lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...
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Categories:
minority, emotions, introspection, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Ballymurphy MassacreMartin Luther King junior was the inspiration
For the Northern Ireland, Civil Rights association
Protests were held and they marched peacefully
The unionist majority tried to stop them...
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Categories:
minority, ireland, murder, soldier,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
minority, political,
Form:
Narrative
I AmLo and BEHOLD. I AM THE universe, parent to the GALAXIES. I am that BITTER UNFAMILIAR taste in your mouth. I am the LIGHT...
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Categories:
minority, character, courage, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Lives MatterBlack Lives Matter
They gave me a college education
But left me unemployed
But they say
Black lives matter
I won 7 Grammy awards
I didn't get a ceremony...
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Categories:
minority, history,
Form:
Verse
50 Fallen Stars50 Fallen Stars
There's a plague of insanity among us
Is it blind ignorance or just the blatantly ignorant?
A whole new land of despair and those with...
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Categories:
minority, allusion, america, anger, art,
Form:
Verse
Who Is the Reader of PoetryAre you educated?
Have you injured heart?
Have you purified brain?
Do you believe in truth?
Are you alone?
Do you seek problematic truth, solvable truth, real magic?
Are you a...
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Categories:
minority, feelings, history, identity, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Shock To the System
When the majority is accustomed to having their say,
it's a shock to the system when it's no longer that way
Dwindling numbers has turned the majority...
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Categories:
minority, allusion, anger, perspective, social,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Sonnet For a VeganSonnet for a Vegan
No, No, No I won’t eat meat,
Breeding Animals to slaughter and eat.
Lambs, Chickens, Turkey and Cow,
Killing for food seems wrong somehow.
We treated...
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Categories:
minority, animal, death, food, how
Form:
Sonnet
The Painful FactsThe Painful Facts
The nervous system originates in the brain.
Nerves send and receive signals to feel pleasure, fear or pain.
A baby’s diaper rash causes crying, pain...
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Categories:
minority, holocaust,
Form:
Rhyme
Autumnal Days In America
It’s autumn time in America,
the colors are changing ...
(it’s alt right to gasp in whited disbelief)
as poplar majority, quaking Aspen leaves
slowly fall off
the John...
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Categories:
minority, allusion, autumn, perspective, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Political CorrectnessPolitical Correctness
By Franklin Price
6/16/2016
Political correctness
Is what it's all about
Makes me want to pull my hair
Run around and jump and shout
I ask myself what's happening?
Where...
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Categories:
minority, political,
Form:
Rhyme
'white Privilege' Does ExistAbandoned as a child believed to be no more than five, the matron of the orphans home, was...other than my mom...
The first to have to...
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Categories:
minority, discrimination, racism,
Form:
Narrative