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COLIN POWELLFirst Black American Secretary of State, COLIN POWELL, (1937-2021)
Served in the G. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter administrations,
He said, “Success is the result of hard work…and learning from failure,”
His hobby was restoring old...
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Categories:
black african american,
Form: Epitaph
Burning DesiresWith all of our desires,
Why does our relationship seem?
So, in and out, in and out,
A wash basin kind of love,
Sam Smith title, Fire on fire
Will burn out like Lits candles...
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Categories:
black african american, anger, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
MLK Way TodayAs we look back on the path blazed by Jr MLK.
Seeing the progress wondering what he’d say.
The work has begun and the game changed.
But there’s lots more minds to be rearranged.
People...
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Categories:
america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
SNOWBOUND PONDERING
White snow, furiously freely falling, carpeting the hued ground;
A freezing allegory of racism and xenophobia that’s still around:-
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black african american, allegory, america, betrayal, black
Form: Couplet
Beautiful Black GirlBeautiful Black Girl
Beautiful black girl your shade is divine, your silky lacquer skin looks so rich against mine. You are so beautiful, in time you will know it, you will be refined.
I lived so...
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Categories:
beauty, black african american,
Form: Free verse
A POETIC LITANY OF POEMS CELEBRATING MLK DAY
The Man…The Spirit
His name was Dr. Martin Luther King;
He was a peace-loving human being.
HIM
Preaching peace and love–
A mountain top of a man:-
Martin Luther King.
THE HUMAN DOVE
He came bearing a dream for humanity
Teaching nonviolence, peace,...
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Categories:
black african american, high
Form: Alliteration
Just as She Was - A tribute to Cicely TysonJust a wisp of a girl, dainty as a rose
Dark as the color of bitter-sweet cocoa
From her short hair to her perky nose
A black queen from the Big Apple’s ghetto
As a girl, she often sucked...
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Categories:
black african american, celebrity,
Form: Epitaph
TO ACUTE AWARENESS
Let us not wallow in a quixotic stupor;
Becoming their silly food-stamped serfs:-
Maudlin beings drained of all our vigor—
Doomed to old slave quarters berths.
...
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Categories:
allegory, black african american,
Form: Quatrain
A SIMPLE VIEW OF DEATH AND DUMBNESS
Death is not a due destination deserved;
rather, it’s a God privilege that’s reserved.
Yet, you yellow-bellied bigots feel frightfully
free to stalk and murder us—
Prey to be hung, shot, kneed, or by any means
to stop the...
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Categories:
black african american, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
OF CONTEMPLATIVE ESSENCE
As said by the wise ones, wisdom dwells
In contemplation; there we must seek her.
So it is with the musing mind; always seeking
To nourish itself with seeds of guiding wisdom:-
Thus, so it is and must always...
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black african american, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose Poetry
The night I DiedTwo shots in my back is what got me
I never knew he had a gun, aint see it coming
I hit the ground face first, and i heard running
My back felt like fire oh it was...
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Categories:
bible, black african american,
Form: Free verse
1959A super seismic year
Eargasmically one to revere
Sweet pulsating sounds
Bebop starting to slow down
Yes! A new, a brand new, from an "OLD"
A new form that is undefined but it feels good to the soul
A new...
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Categories:
black african american, appreciation, beautiful, birth, black
Form: Rhyme
YASA YAAM
Your a howling light
A breath of inspiration
Such a wondrous sight
A miraculous creation
Your conformity is right
A beatific reputation
An angel in flight
My splendid salvation...
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Categories:
black african american, africa, beauty, black african
Form: Acrostic
Boyhood Nostalgia
Waterfalls here and there sprout (A)
From the bottom of the mountain (B)
Monkeys and apes are gamboling (C)
Comfortably, somewhere on the leafy soil (D)
On trees top, snacking from the wild fruit (A)
Gathered, seemed as they had...
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Categories:
black african american,
Form: Rhyme
INAUGURAL PRAYER FOR BARACK OBAMADear Lord, as I sit here watching the Inauguration
Of the 44th president
Of the United States of America
A black man, heaven sent.
Thank you Lord for Barack Obama
Michelle and the girls
Thank you Lord for this man
Who is...
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Categories:
america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Black African American Poems
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