Emancipation Poems

Did You Cry for Me? Note to a Slave Holder

Did you cry for me
when none but the crows
were both black and free
in the cotton rows?

When you saw me hung
did you cry for me
as my body swung 
from the lynching tree?

In the infantry,
combat knew no race
Did you cry for me
once I knew my place?

I've spent my last years,
as your property
I owe you no tears -
did

Emancipation of The Afterthought

Emancipation From The Afterthought

Fastidious Faustian bargains that never seem to cease
Delirious young drug addicts who never seem to sleep 
Insidious theories of conspiracy
about the recently deceased 
Deciduous canopies of melancholy that fade by finding time for peace 

Berated by the belligerence of a youthful propagandist 
Conflated schools of the illiterate surrounded by a contrabandist 
Sedated

EMANCIPATION: DELAYED BUT LET'S NOT BE DISMAYED

Emancipation: Delayed But Not Dismayed
      (Apropos Of Juneteenth Celebration)
[As Relevant Today As When First Posted, 2021] 

This is the day the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice and celebrate
We’re still here, marching on
Our eyes stayed on the prize.
Let us rejoice and celebrate
Because we’re aware that we are not
The children of Sisyphus:

Everybody Is Destroying Haiti

Anmweyyy, anmweyyy
Everybody is destroying Haiti
Please stop, stop, quit. At last, give the country
A break, a rich season. There are too many bandits, vandals
Too many lootings, thefts, too many crises and scandals
On this impoverished and exploited island
Give Hayti a chance to live better. Give our land
A break with too much violence and injustice
Ayiti needs peace, love

Homemade Apartheid I

They reside on the other side.
They bathe in fertility.
They own yard-keepers and servants;
Dogs, cats and charming plants.

They breathe the camphorated air like us,
Swallow the transparent dust,
Cross over and fall in the muddy rivers
Like our siblings living under the tiny tents.

They reside on the other side of town,
Over the mountains.
They bathe in tranquil fertility
Of the country-side.

They

Emancipation

I am a hostage inside my mind, A wall of 
crippling deformities
I want to emancipate myself from you, to
rid these tortured thoughts that burn
words of poisonous acid, deep into the
darkest corners of my mind.
But how, without killing oneself

Dreams and Emancipation

i followed where the birdsong led
landed onto heaven's paradise



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation

Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation

Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty.

Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twenty seventh two thousand and twenty four as stated in a previous poem before undergoing cataract surgery cause mine deux (mind you) ponytail donation of at least by donating at least

Let's Break All The Chains

Let's sever all the chains
Through all types of pains
In order to get there
Let's take the trains
In order to get there
We must fight for our rights
We are not afraid to turn days
Into wonderful and starry nights
In order to enjoy better journeys.

Let's break all the chains
Together
Through various unbearable pains
Let's take the trains
Together
In order to reach the mountaintop
Ladies

Forming the centre

Will you form with me at the centre.? Any colonials
Good and true..'Will you stand? To confront tyranny?
Here there is a place for you.! all you will need is courage..
And the will to see it through..Will you stand and form
The centre? as they think we still can't do.? Have you seen
Their ramparts cracking? as Hoody drops

A Revolution In Progress

Revolution is a long word that no one should use lightly
A revolution does not take place too often or daily
In 1804, Haiti, formerly the Pearl of the Antilles
Had a major revolution, which was a turning point
In the history of humanity and the entire universe
An independent country was born under gunpoint
So to speak, where African slaves

Quit Blaming The Innocent Victims

Keep on blaming and cheating
It is annoying, and disgusting
You always have an excuse
You always want to amuse
Keep on criticizing
Keep on castigating
Put your conscience in the mirror
If you can find it. Check the corridor
To see if it is not running away from you
Pay all debts that are due and overdue
Put up
Or shut up
Slavery is over. Racist

Emancipation

Finally
Our God Almighty
We are free.

Copyright © December 2023, Hébert Logerie, all rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.

Nothing Positive About Racism

There's nothing positive about racism
However, this cancer dehumanizes everyone
This bacterium kills all good pisum sativum
All necessary ingredients that distinguish a human
From something worst than a sinful animal.

There's nothing good about racism
The racists are the naughty scums of the es
The vile predators that thrive on controversial
Issues, the narcissistic skunks, and the bogus kites
That won't fly during

Existentialism Emancipation Proclamation Manumission

Existentialism emancipation proclamation manumission...

Flourishes amidst freedom 
once invisible (alice in) chains shucked
when soul no longer kept linkedin 
to jane's addiction 
with corporeal duty, entity, fealty... 
while formerly shed body electric 
gendered as former googly eyed hotmail 
actually a prodigy, whose outlook 
arouses suspicions regarding him 
as person of pinterest living social 
in a webbed, wide

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