Douglass Poems - Poems about Douglass

The Black Experience

...Black History Month began as "***** History Week"
Our holiday was adopted at a time when the country was bleak
Created in 1926 by noted African American Historian, Carter G. Woodson
Today, we cele...

Ongoing Elege

...ONGOING ELEGY

The words you’re about to read are part of an ongoing elegy that began in 1999
after 12 students and one teacher were killed in the halls of Columbine.

We immediately looked to o...

Clan Douglass

...The noble house rom the Scottish Lowlands
with the green, white, and blue bands.
The green for the salamander 
resting on a bed of amber. 

Although, factually, our monuments are ruins,
The kil...

Rebuilding and Rebuilding

...He understood what I now know
But did not at first
For I had not seen broken children before

Now that I have I understand
They can be tainted and tortured
into submission before they reach sch...

Where Angels Fear To Tread

...I was a picked on, 
bullied, browbeaten, buffaloed boy
from Buffalo New York.
I grew up on Buffalo’s lower east side,
the ghetto by another name.
The Frederick Douglass towers.
Formerly the Tal...

After Columbine

...It was 20 years ago…the year was 1999
and we thought the world would change….after Columbine

We hoped something would be done
after children were gunned down with their books
We thought the wor...

A-W

...Americans, Algerians, Australian aborigines,
Corrupt leaders of the world involved in illegal activities.
Bloodthirsty bullies brazenly bombing bystanders,
Militaries full of corrupt army commande...

A Theatre of the Absurd

...Theatre of the Absurd

Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd,
there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown,
an ego-maniac who makes his own staff clap for him
and who fast is bringing a nation...

Douglass-Dog-Lass' Story

...I was Douglass
A good person
Better than the day that gifts a friendly sun
A humble fellow
Humbler than the trees that regard the regal ride of the
wind.
Oh, wealth
You all I desired, then
Wh...

Black, Not White

...Black! a word that always tend to stir
From ages hath caused a birr
after decades of raging war
they still  shir!!

Black exist in all, a part
be it the color of eyes, skin or heart...

Granddaddy

...What an honorable man.
Dependable.
Dedicated.
Up Right in his stand.
A beautiful man who is the gate keeper for us all.

He has provided the love.
Support.
Also wisdom to his young prince.
H...

Let's Lead the Way

...Over 200 years of oppression
Now days are we paying for our transgressions
Doing slavery we used our bravery
Breaking the chains doing the inhumane suffering and pain
While being disrespected by ...

Fallen Leaders

...THEY WERE AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL THEY WERE MIGHTY AND THEY WERE STRONG.

THEY FOUGHT FOR EQUALITY AND FOR JUSTICE THEY PUT GOD FIRST IN EVERYTHING.
THEY DO.

THEY STOOD UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEV...

Bondage

...Empowerment
Inticement
Power
Promotion
Selfishness

Greed for more Michael Douglass in tow
Control
Warhol
Acid
Mitigation

Solitude
Alone
Shady
Pilgrims on the highway out of control
...

My Heritage and Culture

...We have come a long way we have been fighting for centuries and decades to get 
where we are.

Jim Crow and the Segregated south couldn't keep us down.

We fought to be equal by marching the str...

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