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Black African American Poems | Examples of Black African American Poetry

Black August

I.

Hooded eyelids under heavy lashes
doin’ the rain dance like she’s Hopi 
Mariah’s a Scientist
I turned a leaf into gold in the silence,
                               full metal jackets
make
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Categories: black african american, allusion, august, black african
Form: Rhyme

People as Friends and kettles?

"My things as you."
People as Friends and kettles?
"My things as you."
The witness deprived 
Absorbent in deny
How in interchange 
Are we spoken
Misleading waste
Papers as snakes
Only in cuisines
Last, hander of things
Gone in time
Decade of take
Sales of ink
And all town
How to announce 
Tone?
And all are tow'n

Being towed in the time
 Time of all Involved as microcosm In discussion
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Categories: analogy, black african american,
Form: Free verse



Message To Minorities

Christ
lived 
under 
the 
Roman
government
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Categories: black african american, africa, america, bible, black
Form: Free verse

When would the turn part 2

Innn we've come,  honey rooms that don't fly
         Leaving me at bedtime
With
Windows as desks part
         
And Jest in time, you'll return the best part
    Knowing I'll beJust as fine
      
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Categories: black african american, anniversary, best friend, bird,
Form: Free verse

Lingerie touch

Here's a romantic epic poem based on your description, in the specified style and poetic devices:

Amidst the urban sprawl of concrete and steel, Where towering skyscrapers cast long shadows real, We find ourselves drawn to the lake's gentle shore, A tranquil oasis from the city's frantic roar.

Our indulgence begins with first-class flights, Gazing out at
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Categories: black african american, adventure, beauty, black african
Form: Ode



Flirty Room

Here's a romantic epic poem based on your description, in the specified style and poetic devices:

Amidst the urban sprawl of concrete and steel, Where towering skyscrapers cast long shadows real, We find ourselves drawn to the lake's gentle shore, A tranquil oasis from the city's frantic roar.

Our indulgence begins with first-class flights, Gazing out at
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Categories: black african american, anniversary, beach, beautiful, birth,
Form: Epic

black female warrior

black female warrior
(2/7/13) 
She was my black female warrior and she stood proud and tall
And upon her shoulders, her silk hair did fall
A spear in one hand and an axe in the other
No one would mess with her, not even her brother.
The strength of a lion searching for prey
She would not let anything stand in
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Categories: black african american, 12th grade, africa, black
Form: Rhyme

Insightful Praise of a Pretty Little Liar

Chiaroscuro ballerina,
Rond de jambe in chaînés
Jeté, jeté
Grand jeté

Mariana Victoria,
Your Seiren eyes speak in
Adamantine lies
Forbidden apple gates

Amina Afrikana,
Runes enjambed in chains
Adamantly denying
Grand opries

Bloomeria guro,
Your six-petaled cries sing
"Beaujolais, beaujolais!"
Forbidden pomegranates
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Categories: black african american, africa, allegory, black african
Form: Free verse

The Journey Within

I carry the weight of unspoken names,
ancestors carved in the marrow of me.
Chains once bound them, yet their spirit still walks,
pressing my steps with a rhythm of fire.

The mirror does not reflect only my face,
it holds centuries of silence and struggle.
Songs in languages stolen yet remembered,
rise in my chest like thunder after rain.

I walk between
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Categories: black african american, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Raise Again

They lowered the flag
And I showed my frustration
They try to blow my candle out
But I raise again holding my head high

I let my balloons fly also
Red, white, blue and black
The balloons all flying irrespective of colour
I raise again irrespective of my colour
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Categories: allegory, black african american,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberI Raise Again

They lowered the flag
And I showed my frustration
They try to blow my candle out
But I raise again holding my head high

I let my balloons fly also
Red, white, blue and black
The balloons all flying irrespective of colour
I raise again irrespective of my colour
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Categories: allegory, black african american,
Form: Ballad

Once Upon a Night

I look from my window—
the city is silent and serene.
I give another glance:
the light of bulbs moves slowly
through the twilight night.
Suddenly,	
the uproar of parasite cars
breaks the seamless silence,
conspiring against the beauty
born of that celestial scene.
The wondering, waning moon—
like a besought fortune—
shy and quiet,
approaches me.
Enchanting, she whispers:
Take my light
and ignite the darkness within.
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Categories: black african american, absence, allusion, beautiful, black
Form: Free verse

Pink Diamond

Is there a possibility 
found ground up homes posted
and supported keeping the world
just the way it is peace or pains
welcome on to the blizzard falls
I wish the mother of the past still knew 
this man places the sword downward
sleep and sneak around blames words
shined lights and coming towards many
how does this best meet up with
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Categories: adventure, black african american,
Form: Free verse

Proud

The essence in us is the same as the essence of the sun
Cast to be found and displaced
stake and brave to a common bound
new to a four-point barrel of rolls
because me this search point opening
bumper speed as slow to show eternal
for they came brain to some knowledge
In inspired to college for they are acknowledged
to brave
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Categories: black african american, age, america, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Hard times

Depression and change
moments of grace in cut downs
some could sleep in air and darkness
before the humbleness and conquests
places and faces to duties thirst
jumping and unlocked laughter's
tried and trying raised about luck
praise to dark arts and until sunshine
members of questionable team's clubs
forged in the deepest and quietest spins
some mothers bet it all to compete
fathers could choose
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Categories: appreciation, black african american,
Form: Free verse

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