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Equal Footing Poems - Poems about Equal Footing

Racial Discrimination
... Skin, a map of histories untold, a spectrum painted, in stories old. But eyes, they narrow, judge, and then they claim, a difference forged, in prejudice's flame. Words, like stones, ......

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Categories: equal footing, discrimination, poetry, race,
Form: Rhyme
Out of the Portrait
...I wish to wake up and see a new world, I wish to wake up and see a new system, A world free from ills and pills, A world free from corruption and misappropriation, A world free from war and air......

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Categories: equal footing, change,
Form: Free verse



A World We Seek
...“All minds and hearts connected with love and light of universal consciousness, in a flicker free continuum ~ what does life on such a planet look like?” - Unseeking Seeker Together as ......

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Categories: equal footing, desire, imagination,
Form: Free verse
New World, New System
...A new world, A new home for all, Everyone on equal footing, Even distribution of resources, None needs necessities, I’m not held by the pangs of hunger, My brother doesn’t dwell in shanties, T......

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Categories: equal footing, change, earth, humanity,
Form: Free verse
A Worthy Cause
...Freedom is unfettered living, It is unrestricted access to life's pursuit and treasures, It is an equitable distribution for all, Fair judgement and open playground, I’m not held bound, I belo......

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Categories: equal footing, freedom,
Form: Free verse



No Lurking Shadows
...What is this strange place we find ourselves in, Trapped in the open, we are free within, Free from the troubles around, Free from the troubles that beset, We stand here unfettered and unchained,......

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Categories: equal footing, change, peace,
Form: Free verse
In Every Poem a Surprise
...Every poem holds in itself, creeps, panic attacks... Spasms of surprises doubtful ecstasy... Rope poem, a little bit, deciphers signs... Erasing silences, exalting the sweet of acid of life.......

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Categories: equal footing, allegory, allusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Children of All Races
...“Jesus loves the little children All the children of the world: Red and yellow, black and white They are precious in God’s sight… Jesus loves the little children of the world.” ......

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Categories: equal footing, appreciation, blessing, children, christian,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Candlemaker's Office
...The Candlemaker’s Office was sparsely filled. The worn brass door knob — a patina countless hands slipping over its surface, polished and discolored ......

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Categories: equal footing, boy, childhood, family, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Women Flourish Now
...Women have begun to flourish in the past forty years. They are taking honors in directing, publishing, and writing. They are fearless in showing their voices. Women are not content to sit back a......

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Categories: equal footing, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 1970 Seemed Modern To Me
...Orange paisley in the seventies prancing in my mind Twisted up with lemons and avocados, fruit colors Also shown in mushroom canister sets and Tupperware On equal footing stark straight black an......

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Categories: equal footing, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Not Sure When Or How It Happened
...Don't know when or how it happened, Or even why, But I have reached an age where people see me as wise, Yet it seems like only yesterday that I was feeling most unwise, And acting accordingly. ......

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Categories: equal footing, appreciation, art, baptism, bible,
Form: Imagism
A Man's Lot
...A man's lot is not for a woman to bear, A man's lot is not for a woman to replace, A man's lot is not for a woman to excuse, A man's lot is not for a woman to direct, A man's lot is not for a wom......

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Categories: equal footing, appreciation, beauty, best friend,
Form: Romanticism
Red Wall
...Red Wall Give they money and ask me to bring Some tools, tables, chairs or ladders Near to the red wall with fine pieces of art To lift up those who are short To make them strong they are......

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Categories: equal footing, light,
Form: Free verse
Let's All Go Naked
...when we are without our clothes no one knows our rags nor riches no one knows our highs nor lows when we are without our stitches when we are all naked stark no one knows just who we are nor ......

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Categories: equal footing, life,
Form: Light Verse

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