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Skin Color Poems

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


Where the Ocean Kneels
Inspired by the 2024 U.S. "Cosmic Cliffs" stamp (Scott #5828), featuring a James Webb Space Telescope image of the Carina Nebula.

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Categories: america, beauty, color, devotion,



Neon, Kaleidoscopic
Sundown reflects splashed tones
Her skin, blushing again --
Lamp post glows through her frame.

Our first kiss in the rain
Speaks  of neon rapture
Like bright dew on...

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Categories: color, kiss,

Premium Member Country side
**The Country Kind of Love**  
In the beginning, there was a love that blossomed in the heart of the countryside. We would lie in...

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Categories: abuse, city, color,

White Supremacy
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...

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Categories: angel, character, color, history,

Time lost is actually time stolen
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...

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Categories: color, discrimination, innocence, prejudice,



Still, I Rise in Color
for the ones losing hair, light, and hope—this is you.

They said I was nothing special.
Just a crawling thing,
skin too thin,
eyes too tired,
body too slow to...

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Categories: color, appreciation, beautiful, cancer, change,

The Color of Karma
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,...

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Categories: color, evil,

He wore a hoodie, she had an attitude
He wore a hoodie, she had an attitude 

He wore a hoodie
So you immediately assumed he had a weapon
He wore a hoodie
So you immediately assumed...

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Categories: color, discrimination, prejudice, race,

If the walls could speak
If the walls could speak
I wonder if they would spill all the hidden secrets
Would the foundation crumble under the weight of letting it all go
Would...

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Categories: color, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,

blondes
i’ve been compared my whole life
to girls who look prettier
girls who dress nicer
girls who have tanner skin
blonde girls.
blondes are the prettiest
blondes dress the nicest
blondes have...

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Categories: 11th grade, color, hair,

Modern day versions of lynching
They kept finding different ways to lynch us

Oh we're still spectacles 
They just watch from their smartphones
Watching as we struggle
Watching us be tackled
They don't see...

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Categories: color, education, racism, truth,

The skin I have vs the skin you have
The skin I have Black Vs The skin they wanted White It was like a lifelong competition With only one condition Whiteness wins And well...

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Categories: color, corruption, discrimination, history,

The many funerals of a black girl
How many funerals of ones self can someone have before there is nothing left
Don't answer 
It's rhetorical anyway

Funeral number 1
A piece of her hair
A symbol...

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Categories: beauty, color, daughter, discrimination,

aquamarine
I dreamt of a siren 
with crystal skin and quaint braided hair. 

her eyes, slow swirls of undying azure,
coiled around, her salt-sweet chorus 
tightening at...

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Categories: beauty, blue, color, lost,

Star boy
Star boy

They say heaven gained another angel when someone dies
But when it comes to the death of black lives
We say the universe gained another star
Because...

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Categories: boy, child, color, discrimination,


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