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Best Nonwhite Poems

Below are the all-time best Nonwhite poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of nonwhite poems written by PoetrySoup members


Black History Month
Why is it called 'Black History Month'
Black means void of light
why because we are nonwhite
this should be voted out
because the name Human Race 
carries more...

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Categories: nonwhite, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Premium Member Custody of 2020 Eyes
Monks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humble proletariat folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other positions...

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Categories: nonwhite, games, gender, health, poverty,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Terrorist Deserts Into Bountiful Rivers
I'm continuing to read Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
although now with Antonio Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the [WinWin Creolizing-Bilateral] Conscious Brain."

Right now,
Dr....

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Categories: nonwhite, africa, body, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Identity Crisis
He says he saw "(this nation's)
Identity sold and robbed by immigration..."
And I remember
My first day teaching at the border school
First one there that August morning
Cows...

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Categories: nonwhite, america, immigration, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Exegesis of Original Intent
The ugly head of the Original Intent issue
co-arises with what were our ForeFather Patriarchal Patriots
thinking and feeling to leave out prohibitions against antiChristian degeneracy,
and to...

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Categories: nonwhite, body, destiny, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member This Empire Wears No Loser Clothes
You look in your monochromatic mirror
and see a Lincoln Republican.

You read,
"You can fool some of the people some of the time,"
but not all the bicameral...

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Categories: nonwhite, confusion, culture, games, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Let's Be Kinder
In his essay "Let's Be Reasonable" 
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;

This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and coldly...

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Categories: nonwhite, health, humanity, integrity, math,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Appreciated Americans
My latest President
also appreciated Americans
he may never meet
or hear
or smell

Not to mention out to get
ever better tasted,
with or without informed consent,
not so vulnerably seen
or transparently...

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Categories: nonwhite, bullying, culture, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Earthtribal Abortions
All of the men
and most of the women
I have known
whose most important life-affirming value
is not to be for Earth's climate health
and is to be adamantly...

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Categories: nonwhite, abortion, christian, culture, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member When Profound Feels Sacred
My youngest
of three AfricanAmerican adopted sons
has profound nonwhite
nonstraight
nonverbal cerebral palsy.

Profound
in at least not being privileged
or victimized
by internal LeftBrain dominance,
violent micro-aggressions,
zero-sum competitive thinking

Either positively True and...

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Categories: nonwhite, health, integrity, nature, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Sacred Herstory
As ancient matriarchal polytheism
of local, domestic economic circles
gave way to patriarchal elite empire-builders,

Transcendent monotheism not only overwhelmed
immanent herstoric polytheism
but this had the further historical effect
of...

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Categories: nonwhite, earth, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Taking Back Cooperative Power
All regenerative energies,
like sunlight
and Permaculture Design
and Restorative Justice
and love
and compassion
and empathy
and contextual intelligence
and multicultural mediation
and non-violent communication,
are interdependently One,
in original embryonic matriarchy.

So all degenerative entropic...

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Categories: nonwhite, earth, health, light, math,
Form: Political Verse
Snow Is White
Snow is white
He was born in a rather narrow-minded town that had
strict rules for acceptable behaviour, no bars, no restaurant
serving alcohol and no public display...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonwhite, anti bullying, blue, confidence,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Another Bloody Weekend In Chicago
Another bloody weekend in Chicago
   104 shot, 14 fatally
You know all about George Floyd
   But those 118 tragedies? -- null &...

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Categories: nonwhite, city, cry, death, how
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things