Black Color Poems

These Black Color poems are examples of Color poems about Black. These are the best examples of Color Black poems written by international poets.

tar ink
ready olives
oil slicks, carbon, nightlife
jazz, tunnels before light
ebony pitch
ravens 

© Trina Layne  

What shades of colours do we paint
while walking on this earth?
Do we leave behind a masterpiece?
or a squiggle with no worth?

Will the colours that we

© Christine Watts  

The world in black and blue,
no visible outline, the colors 
blur. Headlights bright red,
and the people covered
in smoke as I stand in the back-
alley surrounded

© Diana Morales  

Out of all the colors of the rainbow I choose blue
True roses are red but I don't think violets are blue
It's a dominate color and

© Keyonda Aldana  

We know your game 
And we are not going to become slaves to it
We've seen you spin your lies like a spiders Web 
Your crimes

© Layla Riley-Hill   

Wild streams of rushing hues
daub black ink smudge skies 
fireballing ambience 
stuns night peepers dazed eyes
blazing forest scorched shades
mute charcoal moon’s deep cries

© Howard Kerr  

To be black 
Is to live life freely
Despite being trapped in a cage without a key
Ignoring the hate from society 
As their bodies radiate envy
Trying

© Layla Riley-Hill   

God said: “Go, and have dominion over the Earth”—
Not over each other.
But you crowned yourselves kings of skin,
Painted whiteness as wisdom,
And turned melanin into a

© Chanda Katonga   

No your burdens are not for us to carry 
We know your game 
You fake a smile 
Bat your little eyelashes 
Pretend you care 
Then

© Layla Riley-Hill   

He was barely an adult when he was entered into the system
He was an educated law abiding citizen
But due to the fact he was black
It

© Layla Riley-Hill   

when I
young I

was well
and tell

my friends
split ends 

my hair
not fair

but clean
not mean

I wash
and brush

my locks
like ducks

to say
like fay

I sing
and swing 

and fly
not cry

to dry
not fry

under
hot

© Clifford Villalon  

              yellow and black flash
       

© Heidi Sands  

There is a beautiful little village
Down a long rainbow coloured country lane
Known to only a few
Where  collective colourful characters reign

The residents of Rainbow Village
Are

© Deb M   

In the womb of stars where time was spun,
No race was born, no flag was won.
Only light and dark in sacred dance,
The pulse of cosmos,

© Chanda Katonga   

 enigmatically enlightened 
                   embodied essence of

© Ghairo Daniels