Block Poems - Poems about Block

...One generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)... offers his interpretation of critical race theory I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated, erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, in......Read More

...Merry Christmas, and happy new year! Kids are getting their wish on a day they can’t miss. The snow is Knee-deep, And schools are closed this week! We all know how life goes, snowplowing shou......Read More

...A thin-lipped nun blows her whistle. An acre of concrete ground stops playing, acting-out our brief make-believe lives. Reality is a cold wind chewing at pale knees, gray shorts and blue skir......Read More

...She stood in the shopping cart Barely a year had passed Mama, with all her hopes Believed she could outlasts ...despair She did not utter a sound Mama hid behind a brick column Her final wor......Read More

...("Snake II", 2015, original block print) Gaslit In these times of constant parading The emperor in his new gown Sets the fashion for the whole world Everywhere you look People blindl......Read More

...Hook: I spit my truths in my rhymes the depths of my mind put my life on the line my wrongs to be right what more do they want my rap is not for everybody, Hun I said my rap is not for eve......Read More

...Writer’s Block Blank white screen staring Black bar blinking, please just…just… Stop looking at me! ......Read More

...Raymond Miles heard what sounded like a super sonic boom in the air while he eye witnessed jet airliners fall to the ground on the freeway. His family watched cars piling up on the freeway totally......Read More

...I want a silver tree because I did not get one in sixty-three She was adamant about it, my great granny Fee. We gave her one for Christmas, feeling lots of glee. Didn’t remember they were ugly, sa......Read More

...Will you come, Oh merciful Lord? To touch and heal my bleeding heart. When I sob in suppressed agony, Ease my heart so torn apart. I entreat with a voice distressed, To the one w......Read More

...Give children a voice let them shout out loud. Don't try to silence them by hiding in a crowd. Give children a voice listen to what they say. Don't just block them out and tell them to go a......Read More

...As you walk through life don't follow the trend Become the trend setter. Don't follow the well trodden path that other Have followed. Make your own path and push aside all the obstacles Tha......Read More

...No one dead is reaching out to you That's my voice that you hear when you're remembering all the opportunities you let go This is the lonely road and not only are you driving it but I watched y......Read More

...In the images of falling statues, witness the arrival of a new era. In history books we learn, unlike other tribes resisting their removal, the Cherokee waged a nonviolent struggle. Natives were i......Read More

...The moon covers the sun. The moon moves on. Circular, and spiraling. A mental block covers me. Square, and spiraling. And the block is only seen from a distance. The block is only s......Read More