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A Slave's Plight

...The air on board was foul and putrid. Chained together at the ankle in coffles, evil dragged me and others with scabbed lips on board. Humiliated under the sun, we were stripped naked ......

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Categories: coffles, black african american, slavery,
Form: Ode

Loxodonta Loxodonta Africanus - African Elephants

...Worn down by migration's perils; Worn down by Neolithic spears - They survived. Though sabre-tooth gnashings stayed them; Though Dire-wolves pack-savaged them - They survived, they survived. ......

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Categories: coffles, animal,
Form: I do not know?

Easter 1963

...Every fragile flower Weaves a different sense of power But the old gardener His hands and fingers soil stained Wears the same disguise Over his disdain for the poor and trodden mass The beleagured h......

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Categories: coffles, history, political, social,
Form: Free verse

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