Dehumanized Poems

Premium MemberUnmade, Fire and Ice lyrics, updated

...The demons come out to play, may they fall,  
As they seek their next prey.  
I was trapped on a merry-go-round,  
Lost in salt-trodden earth and pain.

Forgive me
For praying to God for you,
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Categories: dehumanized, anger, betrayal, dark, hurt,
Form: Lyric

REJECTED CHILD OF MARIANNE

...Rejected child of the Republic of Enlightenment,
In the land of human rights, my Africanness is a handicap.
In their eyes, I will always be the scapegoat for their failures.

I fled the tyranny o...
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Categories: dehumanized, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse


TO ALL THESE NEGROPHOBES

...They chained my ancestors so I would break free from the shackles of slavery.
They colonized my family tree so I would embrace freedom through dissidence.
They imprison my kin so I may wield my con...
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Categories: dehumanized, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnmade - FIRE AND ICE, part 1

...Let the demons play — and let them fall
As they seek their next prey.
Merry-go-round, lost and found,
Salt trodden deep in earth and pain.

Zombies crawl. An ass's stall.
I don’t need this bott...
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Categories: dehumanized, abuse, betrayal, mental health,
Form: Free verse

THE EMBERS OF MY MEMORY

...My heart of stone quenches its thirst in the dirty hands of misery.
The tears of my family tree run down the scarred faces of their history.
The pain of my color screams in silence the secrets thes...
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Categories: dehumanized, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse


I CHOSE

...I chose to write,  
For all those torn-off branches,  
For all those scarred backs,  
For all those dehumanized bodies,  
For all those centuries of persecution.  

I chose to read,  
To decon...
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Categories: dehumanized, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Making of a Genocide

...The world was silent as they died
The victims of a genocide
Armenian blood considered cheap
Dehumanized, their wounds cut deep
Starvation in a desert land
A naked, bleeding, hopeless band
The r...
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Categories: dehumanized, corruption, death,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLilith

...As a figure in history and legend, she is mythic 
but was regarded as parasitic and horrific.
She was demonized and dehumanized;
a woman so fiery,
known for notoriety and impropriety;
a mistress...
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Categories: dehumanized, gender, myth, symbolism, woman,
Form: Rhyme

THE CRADLE

...I am a child of war, misery, anger and suffering.
 I grew up with sadness, uncertainty and anxiety.
 I took refuge in solitude to avoid human bestiality and its hypocrisy.
 My distress illuminated...
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Categories: dehumanized, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse

OPPRESSION OF FURNITURE PROPERTY

...Their philosophers dehumanized our ancestors.
 Their missionaries demonized their humanity.
 Their merchants made them chattel.
 Whippings, rapes, amputations,
 For the training of wild ******* w...
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Categories: dehumanized, 12th grade, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Hope and Hope and Hope

...The imperfect walk of man, cared about in recklessness,
careening for the wall of death, can’t be protected -
no longer in his mama’s womb. Womanized, dehumanized,
faithless…AnD cared about. Those...
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Categories: dehumanized, angst,
Form: Prose Poetry

Unprecedented Upheaval

...Unprecedented upheaval provokes
an extraordinary energetic current,

we're ready to march alongside others
to the high walls of the palace of those 

who now wear the stolen crown,
the mandate...
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Categories: dehumanized, abuse, africa, anger, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Nazi's Used the Critical Race Theory Part Two

...Red China and the so-called American school systems are not the only ones who used the Critical Race Theory to its advance. Look back at Nazi Germany under their leadership of a madman who was steepl...
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Categories: dehumanized, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThe Worse Is Over

...I have been up and down the valley 
I have been honored and dishonored 
Good and bad times have been my lot
In my search for happiness and fulfillment 
I have been to hell and back
False accusat...
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Categories: dehumanized, adventure, allusion, blessing, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberKeep the Faith 2

...I attended a meeting with, supposedly a friend, and was introduced to
Despised, Dehumanized, Decreased, Diminished, Disregarded, and Devalued,                                               
who, by...
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Categories: dehumanized, faith,
Form: Personification

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