How can we understand each other's color,
When we use the same flavored word?
It's impossible to say it any duller,
And through our glasses the meaning is blurred.
To you something bright as the sky,
Will always strike me as navy blue.
With a fire truck we could try,
But to me it is simply maroon.
Something as distinct as a rainbow,
To me, a blurry line of tones.
Something as beaming as the snow,
Might quietly sit with the stones.
All I ask is that you don't judge me,
When my eyes can't shine like the moon.
Believe my words over what you see,
Because color is what drives every tune.
I once believe love
Has two color black and white
Why I'm seeing gold.
Like light refracted through a prism,
Continuous, yet some see schism.
The loudest voices, incomplete;
Ironic, for they’re not discrete.
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for the Bite Size Poem no.45 Poetry Contest
sponsored by Line Gauthier
written on 06/05/2022
Oh Lord, I feel sad for the world today,
My heart aches for injustices worldwide.
Bullies are losing it, will love have its say?
Nevertheless, I know love will win in the end.
Love's the most powerful force in the universe,
I believe healing will come when we let love in.
We all are brothers and sisters although diverse,
God is love, he sees no color; he's color blind.
Alexis Y.
03/01/2022
It's not the color of Your skin
that redeemed and pardoned me from sin
The color and shape of Your nose mattered not
I was killer enemy of me, but You forget me not
You caused colorless rain song to soothe each soul
and showed the lovely rainbow, each shore as school
Where would the world be sans the Savior?
the Creator deemed us all fit for His favor
I know the color red was shed for humanity
Thank You, Jesus, the color of holy water is the Almighty.
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I have a dream
intoned Reverend King
So many folks then
smiled and beamed
But things are no more
what they once seemed
a color-blind society's
no longer esteemed
All life is precious
Why must we see just Black or White
There is evil here at work
I pray it fades into the night
May we all get blind to color
This is my wish for all of man
If we put our faith in God and show love
Then I know we can
May you find true love and peace
And feel God’s loving grace
I pray the wind stays at your back
And helps you keep your pace
No more, white this or black that
Let’s all start living life as one
With Jesus in our hearts
I know we’ll get it done
August 1, 2020
Heart Truth Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Chantelle Anne Cooke
God Is Color Blind
Written: by Miracle Man
7/6/2020
Jesus died on the cross showing His love for each,
like Him, we can love the person but hate the sin.
Showing brotherly love should become our outreach,
lets stop judging people by pigment of their skin.
Social justice begins with valuing the masses,
not influenced by ethnic or cultural ties.
As people, we must learn to respect all classes,
failure to do so will surely bring our demise.
I look in the mirror to see I'm white
I think that it is such a pretty sight,
I stand proud as a peacock
then see we don't have a lock...
All of the world's colors gives it its might!
For "What is White?" contest by Debbie Guzzie.
Color Blind April 1, 2017
Color blind, just a little child
No hate to show with love inside
I’m not alone I have a home
Different colors on their own
I like the sun; a happy day
Living with love, don’t go away
Be my friend, there is no hate
Color blind, feeling great
I have no fear, be my friend
We can walk together till the end
Dream of peace, dream today
Hatred gone or so they say
The war goes on for you and me
Be my friend color free
Color blind, just a little child
No hate to show with love inside
Gerrard McGeachy
I approach her with the same
Love I approach my family with.
Her skin is black.
I try to speak a few words in her
Native language to welcome her.
Her skin is brown.
I married a Chinese/Hawaiian
and our child is beautiful.
His skin is yellow/brown.
I write poetry about the Native
Americans to celebrate them.
Their skin is red.
I fit in with every race because
My color contains all colors.
My skin is white.
© Connie Marcum Wong
Note: In honor of all the recent innocent deaths.
Color blind
Two little boys are playing in the mud.
Both covered from head to toe.
They play as friends with just the thought of mud.
When they finished they dumped water on their heads.
One of the boys look at the other and said" your mud didn't come off"
I am a man-
No matter the color
No matter the race
No matter the time or place
I AM A MAN!
I am CoLoRlEsS-
No matter if I am WHITE
No matter if I am BLACK
But this is a fact
I AM A MAN!
I am human-
No matter who we are
No matter the boundries
I am color blind you see
And I AM A MAN!
No matter how you are
Rather black or white
Dark or light
A brown or gray,
I AM A MAN!
Colour Blind With an Open Mind May 18, 2016
Everybody deserves their right
Freedom now without a fight
Everybody will walk free
Loving their country, you and me
Greet a friend, walk our street
Freedoms way with the right to meet
Children grow with laughter and fun
What a dream, the revolutions begun
Colour blind with an open mind
Religion free, save mankind
Children together the way to be
No flags to fly walking free
Join the people with an open sea
No more of them, just you and me
share the world, begin today
Every child has a better day
No more tears, stop the pain
Welcome tomorrow and do it again
Everybody deserves their right
Freedom now without a fight
Gerrard McGeachy
The Unrealistically Color Blind Gals and Guys
The guy over the boundary
Across the river must be a fool
To say that without imagery
No poem is a poem
But how will I create an image
Of the good will I have in my heart
For you all
And the best wishes i expressed
For my love just yesterday?
The guy over the line
Across the web must be a crack
To say that without metaphor
In poems a poet can get the truth
But how could I believe a poem or him
When I find truth seven layers deep?
Another gal from another country
From an odd place from an awkward proposition
Must be a nut to say
As a poet I must be real in my poems
But how could I when I see
Reality has many dimensions
And people like her understand only one
Which is in black and white
Or Withered and discoloured
The coloured ones she takes as my imaginations
And blames me whereas she
Might be unrealistically colour blind
Once i was like her when i lacked love
My love taught me to imagine
To put colour a little bit
So that we can see each layer and
Understand every part
To make ourselves wise
To make our hard and mysterious life easy.
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