Best Reparation Poems

A bent knee ...

Cloaked in black nylon, a briny drop from
The smooth cheek, contingent baptism
For a closed hand, it's precious cargo,

Now consecrated by circumstance and
Fate, moments before this it was but
The root-stuff of weeds and worms,

Now the sacred repository for all words
Unsaid, all emotions unspeakable,...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Reparation
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014


Why  can't we 
get paid?

We want 
our
reparation,

for 
lost wages
of
our labor,

since
the
Atlantic Slave
Trade- began

Reparations
for pain 
and
suffering,

from being 
auctioned 
as 
commodity,

to
racist
White men -

We were sold 
off,

to 
different 
slave owners,  

displacing us
from our 
mother, father, 
sister, 
and 
brother, forever -

We demand
to be 
compensated,

for our
separation 
from 
family -

We want reparation
for
false imprisonment 
as slave's.

Why can't we 
get paid?

What we want
is
Retroactive Reparations -

It's the only 
way

that 
we can
catch up 
financially,

to 
the descendants
of 
white slave owners,

who profited 
from 
our hard...

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The groans of ancient years still echo in my bones. It is a pain 
That lodges in the weariness of Africa. Curled in her, the strain 
Of old world history. Out of her given darkness triumph shines 
The light of all cities, world clamoring, and...

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1.Tolerating troubles, untroubling others
is right reparation.
2.Reparation suits deserving, if
others trying, futile.
3.By feeding renounced, others
ignored maintaining Tapas?
4.Destroying hostiles, protecting friends
possible by reparation.
5.Accomplishing desires of men
endeavors to Tapas.
6.Ascetics prefer self-reliance others
suffer by desire-nets.
7.As intense-fire brightens   pure-gold
ascetics endure sufferings. 
8.All beings worship who
possess pride less soul.
9.The...

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When I was a male child
I prayed to an eternally mute dualdark goddess,
Gaia was our name
for each Other's
secular
sane
sacred
sacraments to share passion.

And so I heard bird songs
praising each day's anticipated Gaian glory,
everybody playing cooperatively nice,
or at least role playing
something less than bipartisan uncivil shame
and blame war,
laborious...

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Tell me, is it not pathetic
that we keep on drifting
away from our loved-ones as the
time beats us out.

You were in a marathon.
Did something go wrong ? Why,
why did you run faster than others
to become a sole survivor of the massacre ?

Life would want to know
your...

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Many white Americans still struggle with the issue of racism in the 21st century.This started with the Confederate monuments. The Confederate monuments do not have the same meaning to black Americans. While white americans view these works as a part of history, a past that...

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In prayer I offer a Rose of Reparation --- to adorn ---
her sorrowful Immaculate Heart, as I remove a thorn...

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Come by here, Lord,
Kum   ba 'eah;

Come by here, Land,
Kum   ba yeah;

Come by here, Love,
Kum ba yah;

Oh, EarthSoul Mama,
come by here!

Someone's singin'
Someone's swingin'

Someone's in pain
Someone's dyin'

Someone's laughin'
while Someone's weepin'

Someone's prayin', LandedLady,
Kum ba here.

Each of us contains
a therapeutic difference
Between bad news trauma
from suffering...

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Everywhere the white man put his foot
unerringly on unwary locals he stepped
'til they became downtrodden
unable their customs to accept
physically mentally financially
from top to toe stern to stem
to his own advantage
he used abused and exploited them
no matter their culture
what floats their boat but gets my goat
Government-approved
he...

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