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Best Slurs Poems

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


Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: slurs, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Deleted Poems and Farewell
I have deleted the 2 poems I posted earlier today, and instead I offer what will be my final write.  I have read the...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slurs, moving on,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Remarks of a Prig
I'm hearing rumors that are easy to believe
but none of them give me reason to grieve
You've been telling people their poetry sucks
Words from your mouth...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slurs, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Charlottesville
I saw Nazis march yesterday
upon the streets of Charlottesville.
And, with swastikas on display,
crazed clansmen chanted blood will spill.

I saw Satan grinning with pride
at racial slurs...

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Categories: slurs, america, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Roses Are Red Collab-26
These Limericks were written by many different PS poets who are all remaining anonymous.  If you would like to add one of your own...

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Categories: slurs, anti bullying,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans.  Each whispered song 
from...

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Categories: slurs, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Renegades Foreva
Renegades Foreva!

Renegade teenage rage babes 
thinkin’ they all grown, all knowin’ 
when they seedlin’s barely sown
bleedin’ teenage angst with teenage crankst
always rhymin’ and mis-timin’ some...

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Categories: slurs, growing up, rap, slam,
Form: Free verse
We All Have Words
We all have voices
They are strong and loud
We can use them to start 
Landslides and earthquakes
We can also calm the storm
Take that roar and turn...

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Categories: slurs, anti bullying, slam,
Form: Free verse
My Age
MY AGE

My age is nothing but a number, nothing but a slumber that I can’t wake from, this is what I’ve done. I’ve looked around...

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Categories: slurs, age, deep, for teens,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
No Bowing Before This Queen-A Collaboration
There's one who acts like a righteous queen
Prattling peacock, she loves to pose and preen
She is surly and gruff
Heckling slurs with a huff
And denouncing the...

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Categories: slurs, parody,
Form: Limerick
The View From Where I Stand
I’ve an anger which cannot be hidden!
A burning passion that comes unbidden!
My Soul desolated with grievous rage,
reacts with furious justified outrage!

Occasioned by the offences of...

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Categories: slurs, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Sleighbells Skewed
Sleighbells ring, he ain’t list’nen
frozen toes, they is glist’nen
Nick has got him a fright
on a damn frigid night
all because of orn’ry reindeer Dan

Gone away are...

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Categories: slurs, holiday, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Better Tomorrow
From my window, I watch children at play,
their color blindness encourages me.
They do not let skin shades stand in their way
playing there together, where all...

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Categories: slurs, 10th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Sonnet
Sour Grapes
I know the words you use to slander me.
Your slurs mar your own virtue, not my hue. 
You slam to smear cloud fuzz on your...

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Categories: slurs, character, marriage, memory, pride,
Form: Sonnet
The Empirical Veneers of Decency and Acceptance
The Empirical Veneers of Decency and Acceptance

It’s funny how perceived intelligence 
Is not necessarily a measure of true smarts 
How the genius, the barrister and...

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Categories: slurs, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs