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Best Segregation Poems

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Premium Member I Live For the Day - POTW - A Visual Video Poem
POTW 12th May 2019

Thank you for visiting my third Visual Video Poem, more or less a continuation of my previous poem – ‘The Dreamer’
(I invite...

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Categories: segregation, hope, inspiration, motivation, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme



Racism, a Disastrous Element
RACISM, A DISASTROUS ELEMENT
I look at the world horrifically,
With depression and disgust,
As the masses enjoys in poverty
And fear.

I look at the world horrifically.
Every places, full...

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Categories: segregation, racism,
Form: Free verse
Who Am I
I am black and I have the ability to glorify the King
I am great and in believing in him, I have authority over all things
I...

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Categories: segregation, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lines of Separation
During the Civil War, the Mason Dixon Line 
Divided North from South, separating families
In 1961 guard towers were erected
On the Berlin Wall, separation strategies

Although the...

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Categories: segregation, history, social
Form: Rhyme
My Funeral
Remember me like the holocaust 
Many die without having the chance to live
Millions of them without a funeral
Bury them with a casket full of bouquets

Remember...

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Categories: segregation, age, betrayal, death, death
Form: Free verse



Black History
The past
I am a black prince
Who use to rule over a kingdom 
But now my people and me are enslaved 
Force to pick the white...

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Categories: segregation, black african american, education,
Form: Free verse
Man Made and Manufactured
The human synchronized synthetic sympathetic empathy I robot schizophrenic mechanism
My lifelines technological I think therefore I am and showing potential
Experimental experience my influence controls the...

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Categories: segregation, creation, future, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Is White
Lost in a Land of Gold and Honey


What is white?
 
What do you call white?

White can be a mixture of races like shepherd pie.
A mixture...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: segregation, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sad Seasonally Affective Disorder
SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder

Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become...

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Categories: segregation, conflict,
Form: Light Verse
Purge Our Consciences
From my lowly bachelor’s house
Proudly christened ‘Embassy Fair’
I woke up to the chirping of birds
On the trees above and across the vale
And the riverine bushes...

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Categories: segregation, prayer,
Form: Free verse
The Color Purplish
The man on the porch looks out
over his property and towards his daughter.
Nervousness seeps through her plum-dark flesh.
Each eye contact signposts a wicked meditation.
Women are...

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Categories: segregation, culture, film, women,
Form: Free verse
The African Cry
Mama Africa, 
Land of my ancestors' birth;
Source of all mankind, 
the once Shangri la of mother earth.

Stir up the spirit of the Mau-Mau in vibrato...

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Categories: segregation, angstfreedom,
Form: Rhyme
Abominable Alliance
Thru horrendous acts of lore within the aperture of the Earth’s core
Lays Evil of a wrathful whore to which you find stimulating and abhor
Within frozen...

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Categories: segregation, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Withdrawal In a Dream
How different this place
this sanctuary feels, here
inside one’s head. Where
insidious illusions fondle
a subvert mind, and obscenities
resonate within the confusion,
when fidgety creatures, assume
guardianship of my preternatural
situation,...

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Categories: segregation, angst, depression, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Content of Character - In Memory of Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Why can’t we be judged by the content of our character?
Are we now racist, because of white privilege and black lives matter?
This is our new...

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Categories: segregation, racism,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs