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Darkie Poems - Poems about Darkie

Premium MemberYOu WHO DON'T KNOW MY NAME My SpokenWord

...What's in a name,
what say you man of the high mountains
Euro pleasing
 I am not who you say that I am
Elohim my first Father my true love 
My bridegroom He created me 
But yet you have renamed...
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Categories: darkie, analogy, change, destiny, discrimination,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Fate

...Fate!

She rowed in moonlit night and I 
Was staring in the darkie deep 
She smiled and at once I enthralled
She with Her mystic eyes peep

She harkened come and sit  with me
You standing at ...
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Categories: darkie, adventure, angel, bereavement, dream,
Form: Ballad



Premium MemberScrew O'Clock News

...(Tucker’s Wet Dream!)

It seems ‘twenty-four/seven’ Republicans choose
to subject us, our nation to “Screw O’Clock News”
as if Truth’s all that exits their Trinity holes!
What they say is pure g...
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Categories: darkie, humor, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme

Darkie Me Shy

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Can she see
the beryl words I keep
hidden inside?

Precious words I want to say,
but I’m too
darkie me shy

I cover my cocoon feelings
with an awkward “hi”
Whenever she Madame ...
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Categories: darkie, feelings, innocence, longing, romantic
Form: Romanticism

Every Next Day

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Was born to be a mule,
got barn weaned in the August hay
Didn’t know ev’ry next day
was gon be like my first Labor Day

My Louisi-Ana, ebony twin fetter friends told me,
I was go...
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Categories: darkie, emotions, grief, history, sorrow,
Form: Narrative



Revoltee Protestation Amnesia

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America was born in protest violence,
but Lady Liberty now has
postpartum memento — 
A colonial, hypocritical condition called:
Revoltee Protestation Amnesia

Wavy umbilical vanished...
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Categories: darkie, america, history, philosophy, political,
Form: Narrative

Fool's Goad

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Little lemmings,
beware of the Yukon yodel
Don’t ear swallow the Arctic shiny yellow
Fake eureka disclosure: It’s jingle hollow
So, enamel blowflake please,
place not your panhandle h...
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Categories: darkie, allusion, muse, wisdom, word
Form: Rhyme

Strangled Justice

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Just another siren roadkill:
A low-down, 
rabid raccoon resisting arrest
at high noon
A feral noted asphalt death

So says the official pol-pol report
In a Terminator monotone
was th...
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Categories: darkie, allusion, death, grief, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Verse

I Rode Shotgun

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I rode shotgun
		with someone
who look just like me

Had the same skin color
			as far    as I 
could steering wheel see


I rode shotgun
		with a racist someone,
	who hatefully...
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Categories: darkie, anger, hate, truth, wisdom,
Form: Bio

Hateful Exit

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A racist white man’s vehicle broke down
in the middle
of the blackest pride side of Motown

He scratched his red neck double chin 
in Appalachian drawl dismay;
perplexed at havin...
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Categories: darkie, humorous, parody, racism, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse

Before You Leave

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Third level CCTV audio recordings
of the last occupants illegally departing the 
quasi-safe, Area 4, Sector 9 quarantine zone
— Seventh vol. of the Ghetto Chronicles 


We hate to se...
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Categories: darkie, humorous, imagery, society, wisdom,
Form: Epic

I'M That Darkie

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You know me,
or maybe you don’t
I’m that black cat
sitting in the back
with the big white eyes
glowing in the dark
If you’re one of them uncool rats
who love making light
of other ...
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Categories: darkie, allusion, culture, perspective, truth,
Form: Bio

Born and Bred

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Goshen ghettofied,
born and bred
Yeah, I’m the teen darkie
with the big nose
and the nappy head
Rolling with my homies
on an asphalt bounce,
with the music on blast
Yeah, we’re the...
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Categories: darkie, identity, perspective, racism, truth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Uppity Darkie

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Light minded people say I’m an uppity darkie
They color me bad, 
with a black face, felt pen Sharpie
Vanilla voices downright don’t like
the audio sounds of this mouthy darkie
They ...
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Categories: darkie, allusion, prejudice, racism, truth,
Form: Bio

To the Darkie

...dinary phenomenon. 
Colorism is mutable with a unity
Breaking barriers of pigment seclusion 
This revolution will be televised 
True beauty can never be defied
It is not in our pigment 
But in our inner being
Let sophisticated wisdom go viral 
Let the "Darkie" be televised.
Tin-tin®...
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Categories: darkie, color, racism,
Form: Carpe Diem

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