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Black On Black Poems - Poems about Black On Black


Lift Every Voice
Lift ev'ry voice and cry While all our children die Raise up the deaf'ning sigh of misery Let all the people hear With ever-sharpened ear How we have lost our dignity and pride Long ago, we had community others desired Long ago, we had prosperity to be admired We never raised our hand To offer or demand Anything more than mere equality. But now, those...

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Categories: black on black, black african american, death,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Black On Black Crime
I remember, oh I remember when... Comedian Chris Rock once cracked wise about black on black crime on stage He had entire audience in...

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Categories: black on black, anger, black african american,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Black On Black
Black The shade of void; containing universes within universes. Black is the onyx eye of God; the obsidian mirror of prognostication the future’s revelations. Black is the beauty that highlights color; pigmentation swimming in the void; abstract muses, dreaming dreams; birthing visions. Black is the liquid zen; where I become one with the source. ...

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Categories: black on black, appreciation, art, color, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black On Black
Black The shade of void; containing universes within universes. Black is the onyx eye of God; the obsidian mirror of prognostication the future’s revelations. Black is the beauty that highlights color; pigmentation swimming in the void; abstract muses, dreaming dreams; birthing visions. Black is the liquid zen; where I become one with the source. 8-25-2021 The Color Black' Contest Info Chantelle Anne Cooke...

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Categories: black on black, color, philosophy, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Black On Black
Black on Black(2003) The word I heard sitting on 103rd was Black on Black crime crept up and busted ten caps!! "What's the Facts?" They were Black...It's a crime committed every day Especially in L.A....Brothers killing brothers What's really going on? Stop the violence increase the peace Empty rhetoric and cliques...Just something cool to say If we keep it up total...

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Categories: black on black, black african american,
Form: Verse



Black On Black About Blacks Blackness
I dont subcribe to the keep it real principles that got us calling effed up situations all good Neither do I allign myself with the masses of black upper classes that think whatever they think is how we all should See I simultaneously support your right to protest our women being portrayed as sex objects while defending the...

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Categories: black on black, black african american, confusion,
Form: I do not know?

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