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My Happy PlaceThere is nothing I love more
Then going to Home Depot
For I feel as if I can soar
Rushing down the aisles
The sweet smell of lumber in the air
Crushing everyone in my path with my cart
I have...
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Categories:
black african american, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Finding My SoulmateSpending the rest of my life with you
Olways satisfying you
Utterly in love with you
Loving you unconditionally
Making you fall in love with me
Always going on adventures
Telling you all of my secrets
Eating...
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black african american, abortion, abuse, allah, anger,
Form: Acrostic
My cup of teaMy cup of tea
Takes me on the streets
Where I see the rain dance
And the sun romance
My cup of tea
Sets me into mystery
I pry on the beating sea
Its breath,helps me see
My cup of tea
Is my passion
It...
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Categories:
black african american, aubade, beach, best friend,
Form: Alliteration
EnoughOnce again, the system fails us,
Everyone defends the guilty one.
Our purpose and lives are taken,
B.L.M is just white noise to the nation.
Breonna Taylor never received justice,
America treats our lives as a fungus.
White kills black acquitted...
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Categories:
black african american, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
ChangeA toxic aroma fills the environment,
Our unjustified deaths can be prevented.
Recently I was pulled over by a cop,
Fear overcame me as I came to a stop.
The change we need is on the ledge,
Voting is how...
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Categories:
black african american, change,
Form: Rhyme
CrisisThe NBA was on strike,
Everyone is in the fight.
Racial injustice rages on,
It’s urgent for change to come.
Black man paralyzed with seven pops,
No actions are taken to make a stop.
White man gets the special treatment,
While...
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Categories:
black african american, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Against MeSame America same problems,
Don’t say there’s not a problem.
America sees black as a threat,
Living life is America’s biggest upset.
Will I ever truly be free?
I ponder that like birds in trees.
We take a stand and America’s...
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Categories:
black african american, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Justice and EquityJustice and Equity
Justice and Equity is like a blindfolded man going into a war zone
He knows he will not die knowing anything, hearing all the loud silence around him.
His brain-blowing like the wind in...
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Categories:
black african american, 12th grade, africa, black
Form: Free verse
IT'S IN OUR BLOODThere are many of us who say we had nothing to do with the theft of land out from under the Natives who were here before us…that we didn’t break any promises, we didn’t lie...
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Categories:
black african american, native
Form: Rhyme
TwilightTwilight brings news of you my dear
Your existence ends all my fears
Oh!its been years
Temperatures have begun to smear
My needs have made me age beyond years
Dimming lights are my hope
They are my hope for happiness...
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Categories:
black african american, allah, america, anniversary, best
Form: Rhyme
THE BLOOD CITYYou are a blood city ,
The city built over the blood of the innoncent people.
The people who were betrayed by their leaders.
They were sold cheap ,
They were Illitreated to death,
They raped...
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Categories:
black african american, africa, america, appreciation, black
Form: Narrative
Beaten downBeaten down for centuries
Splattered in newsprint for all to see
It has been that way ever since
they came from Africa on hollowed ships
Enslaved, raped, hanged, broken
Traded for sins unspoken
Successful towns burned to the ground
Wiped from the...
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Categories:
america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
WHYI live in a World you created
I am the color you made me
Why then am I persecuted
Because Satan exist
...
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Categories:
black african american, abuse, africa, black african
Form: Free verse
He Came To Them In Sheep's ClothingOne day an evil man came to them in sheep’s clothing,
To lead them into his evil ways he was hoping.
So treacherous and evil was this ravenous wolf,
Feeding off of their ignorance while he played golf.
So...
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Categories:
black african american, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
TRIUMPHANTBorn into poverty , unholy society , sobriety the key to my life savings.
Daddy can't put the cider down ,Mama smoking that nicotine like her life depends on it.
She left with a man twice the...
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Categories:
black african american, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
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