Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are a Girls Best friend'sMarilyn Monroe - Diamonds are a girl’s Best friend
Diamonds, Rusted or shiny, are my best companions when times are tough
When my crystal tear drops from My Deer fawn eyes
Sparkling champagne with a bottle of red wine would do just right
On rainy nights of such gloom
Diamonds, rusted or shiny, are my best friends when my days...
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Categories:
beauty, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
BLACK DEFORESTATION
BLACK DEFORESTATION
Like innocent trees rooted and growing
In a black social forest, we’re being chopped
down by roving lumberjack officers of the law,
as if we were arboreal-like diseased black growths:-
Ironically, such deforestation, is a view of jurisprudence
Along this forest trail, least traveled by the blind goddess
Of justice, as she forgivingly hugs guilt with minor reprimand:-
While it...
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Categories:
black african american, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose
Melanin GlowBorn from the sun's ancient kiss,
A gift wrapped in golden brown bliss,
I carry the stories of ancestors proud,
Their strength echoing clear and loud.
Melanin flowing through my veins,
Like rivers of cocoa after the rains,
Each shade a testament to divine design,
From ebony deep to honey wine.
They tried to dim this sacred light,
But stars were born to shine...
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Categories:
black african american, black
Form: Free verse
Drooping Flowers, Blaze Of Grass, And UsDropping Flowers, Blades Of Grass, And Us
Like flowers droop
but refuse to die
from the heat,
like tanned fields
subsumed in the struggle
to survive and keep
the flow of transpiration,
like the trodden blades of grass
pushing through sidewalk holes
to capture the cosmic energy
that fuels them onward
the victory they seek
to be free,
we, like all of nature,
must continue to travel
the jubilee road...
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Categories:
analogy, black african american,
Form: Free verse
The Caged Bird Still SingsWritten By: D. Collins 7/7/25
I know the names of some of the greatest to ever dawn black skin.
Dr. Charles Drew, Miles Davis, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.
Generations from now their achievements will be overlooked.
Due to coordinated efforts to remove them from history books.
There were the Buffalo Soldiers and Tuskegee Airmen.
Maya Angelou and descriptive writings...
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Categories:
black african american, inspiration,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
KundaliniThey told me it coils, waiting—
some snake of light
at the root of all this flesh.
But what stirred in me
was quieter than myth.
Not fire, not ecstasy—
just a flicker behind the ribs
when I wasn’t asking
for anything at all.
It didn’t climb,
it drifted,
slow and unsure
like the memory of a song
you’re not sure you dreamed.
No chakras flared.
No visions came.
Only my...
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Categories:
black african american, absence, adventure, age, allah,
Form: Free verse
USPS Stamps Poetry Contest
To have your picture on the face of a stamp,
Is a honor reserved for the ones who cultivated change
Among the mèlange of inspiring faces,
Lays the face of someone who served on the basis,
Of freedom
Behind a small black and white picture,
A mighty face lays
With eyes of a fighter,
eloquent hair, neatly parted
The words,
Black white
Trust danger
Defiance hope
All...
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Categories:
black african american, freedom,
Form: Ekphrasis
InvisibleOnly those who’ve seen beauty can truly speak of it,
And only those neglected can feel its sting.
When the world sees you as a threat—
Judging from a glance, no words spoken—
They turn away,
Despising you instantly.
To be unappealing in a world drawn to allure
Can break a soul and leave it weak.
...
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Categories:
beauty, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Golden Shovel Meets Blind Goddess of Justice… after Langston Hughes
You know how they do. They say that
we run, that we fit descriptions, but justice
ain’t blind, she just sees who she wants. Is
it any wonder we hold our breath? A
body ain’t a body when they label it a threat. Blind
fold her, watch...
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Categories:
america, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Of Trials And TribulationsOf Trials And Tribulations
We’ve encountered worse,
And have always overcome:
We’re red-cap ready:-
...
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Categories:
black african american, abuse, america, black african
Form: Haiku
Black Pantherblack strength
sleek, powerful
raised black fist fights injustice
from the mountains to the prairies
freedom, justice for all!...
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Categories:
black african american, freedom,
Form: Verse
Untitled 3You are great
Don't you dare deny that
Look how the sun smiles when you wake up
Look how the moon shadows your every moment
Don't be skeptical
Made for Heaven
Designed with imperfections
Present the world with a new canvas
Attain the Armor of God
~Reborn
...
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Categories:
black african american, appreciation, beautiful, black african
Form: Free verse
God's Philosphy
Hope and revelation is within
You can see it around thou, You can feel it within thyself
The pearly gates open withn thou, Thou understands and knows it
Because his hope is stronger than the obstacles in his path
Only divine intervention,
only faith can lead his hand through the valley of the shadow of death....
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Categories:
black african american, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
FALLEN SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE SOILWeep Africa, weep on.
The battle with death is one we dare not to fight,
For the call from the great beyond is outside the scope of our existence.
Just as our known hero Ngugi Wa Thiong'o has fallen,
Like countless unknown heroes forgotten to time,
We shall all follow this path of no return one by one.
Fight Africa, fight...
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Categories:
black african american, africa, appreciation, bereavement, black
Form: Free verse
Categories:
black african american, africa, america, bible, black
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Black African American Poems
Read wonderful black african american poetry on the following sub-topics:
family, history, inspirational, life, love, proud, slavery, wakanda
and more.
Definition | What is Black African American in Poetry?