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Coffled Poems - Poems about Coffled


Raising of the Flag, 1962
...Proud I am children, proud for sure, proud of day and proud of night I can finally turn the key in my own door No latent echoes filled with omnious warnings Measuring out my freedom in abbreviated no......

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Categories: coffled, history, green,
Form: Free verse
Union Songs - May Wrongs
...These two men died with a rope dangling Them from a tree Like they were ******* in southern Captivity. Why could they not make labor day in May? The proper way to commemorate a life Is on the day the......

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Categories: coffled, on work and working,
Form: Rhyme



Bankers
...Bankers from their benches to cicumvent in webs Anxieties of the dwindling bread in vicious schemes Nation-states invent, becomes by promise celebs Kindled on uncrowned hearts, now dries up dreams. E......

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Categories: coffled, business, political,
Form: Acrostic
Martin Luther King (From Pages)
...Lord, I hear Selma And I see them coming one by one Your dusky children with their dusty seat Walking until they can get a seat At the front of your glory Lord, I know the trumpet don't sound th......

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Categories: coffled, history, peoplelonging, me, morning,
Form: Free verse
Mosaic Memory
...Frightend children under the baobab Of elders discourse playing At the deep edge of rites Of passages With no Atlantic dream. There is a beauty here Before the other world began Forgetting i......

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Categories: coffled, black-african amer
Form: Free verse




Book: Reflection on the Important Things