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Inspirational Black African American Poems

These Inspirational Black African American poems are examples of Black African American poems about Inspirational. These are the best examples of Black African American Inspirational poems written by international poets.


Melanin Glow
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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Categories: black african american, black



Premium Member Drooping Flowers, Blaze Of Grass, And Us
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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Categories: analogy, black african american,

Premium Member THE PRESENT JUNETEENTH: A 2025 Flashback
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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Categories: black african american, allegory, america, analogy, black

Premium Member EMANCIPATION: DELAYED BUT LET'S NOT BE DISMAYED
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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Categories: black african american, allegory, america, anniversary, black

Premium Member GLORIOUS HAPPY HAIR AND THEE
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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Categories: black african american, allegory, beauty, black african



Premium Member TO BEING ON BOARD
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Which have been replaced
By their whiteboards;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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Categories: black african american, allegory, america, analogy, black

A Father and Grandfathers Prayer
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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Categories: black african american, 12th grade, 6th grade,

Premium Member YOU, ME, US
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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Categories: allegory, black african american,

Premium Member A MEMO TO SPRING HARVESTING OF HUED GRAPS OF WRATH
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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Categories: allegory, black african american,

Premium Member IN THE WARM WOMB OF NIGHT
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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Categories: black african american, allegory, america, black african

Premium Member To The Tenacious Muse Goddess Within
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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Categories: black african american, encouraging,

Premium Member UNMOCKED ALLEGORY: A MESSAGE IN AND FOR EACH DAY OF OURSTORY
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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Categories: allegory, black african american,

Premium Member Our Love Remains
In our Hearts Burn…A Love of God and Country that...through it all...has not diminished! We Press on, Amen!


There comes a time when…we…

must pause to diligently...

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Categories: america, black african american,

Premium Member IN THE CHANGING TIME A'COMING
Indeed, the truth will always be self-evident

and beyond all lies;

Though they laid down the 5th to ensure deniability

of evident charges,

Over the trials of history—his-story—true crime...

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Categories: allegory, black african american,

Premium Member IN THE SEASON OF TRUTH
“…ye have been with me

                    ...

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Categories: allegory, black african american,


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