Inspirational Black African American Poems

OF WE AND THEY/EVEN US AND THEM!    *

In the beginning
We were the architects
Of God’s designed world;
Then came them—
The devastating forces
Of its Garden...

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         AN UNMOCKED ALLEGORY
(A Message In And For Each Day Of Ourstory)
 
Granny said that all things...

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You smell like sweet roses,
 But I've smelled the sweat of the weak.
 My sight is as keen as an eagle's eyes;
 I see the...

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Born 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...

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Dropping 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...

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THE PRESENT JUNETEENTH:  A 2025 Juneteenth Flashback


Beginning with the celebration
Of our Juneteenth,
We prepare a new perspective
For the 4th of July:-
Though this nation now stands...

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Emancipation: Delayed But Not Dismayed
      (Apropos Of Juneteenth Celebration)
[As Relevant Today As When First Posted, 2021] 

This is the day...

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Lovely, happy hair,
Rowed, and growing in beauty;
God’s sweet locks I bear:-

Hued as is the night,
Moonlight beauty reflecting
Ebony delight:-

Locks admired so much,
Gardened rowed short or shouldered,
Just...

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TO BEING ON BOARD     *

I can remember when
It was blackboards,
Which have been replaced
By their whiteboards;
Loaded with selective
Brainwashing videos:
Primarily coded to entertain
Rather...

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Father please speak to my children & grandchildren's heart.
In the fourth watch, before their day starts.
As they move about throughout their day.
Bring believer's alongside them...

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Just look carefully at you and me,
Innocent victims of bigoted inequality,
In a nation physically built via bigotry,
Of the sweat, the blood, and death,
Of our ancestors...

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The winter of our discontent is over,
the Merciful God of the oppressed
has seen to the de-icing of our hued souls;
and the blossoming essence of our...

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In the womb of night, we contemplate
the dawn of the day when we shall all be free
of the mind games played to put the liberty
of...

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Come tenacious muse
goddess within
as ourstory month
fades away from them:
 
Bid us bleed
nourishing words
rhythmically flowing
like a spring stream’s
soothing waters;
 
Let our pens canvas
ecstatic images
satisfying the senses
exploding...

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Granny said that all things have a seed
and that every seed produces its own
thing to be reaped:  good or bad:-
 
At the time, it...

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