Black Family Poems
These Black Family poems are examples of Family poems about Black. These are the best examples of Family Black poems written by international poets.
buying a carBuying a car
I have read and published some of my old poems
what I write these days is more about the everyday
Gone has the mermaid in...
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Categories:
beauty, birth, cinderella, family,
WINTERS IIIWINTERS HOUSE
Black, bare in despair
alone to nowhere
On a corner crossroads to everywhere
Sits a house half-forgotten
a house full of itself and memories
Dark and...
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Categories:
family, abuse, allegory, art, bereavement,
DIVOCThe Dark Night of the Soul
is when she sits in isolation
in her bedroom because her physical body is a biological threat
to her family.
Her baby who...
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Categories:
anxiety, dark, death, family,
A dream of a rainbow coloured FamilyA dream of a rainbow coloured Family
In the ocean there is a raging storm
And a lot of boats
With rudders that are shattered,
Compasses lost,...
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Categories:
family, anger, conflict, humanity, inspiration,
The Ancestor's breath
Bones unearthed so roads may go places
Our people were not permitted to know,
Rise up, open up, open up,
The medicine is in the land,
Is in the...
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Categories:
black african american, family,
Categories:
family, angel, death, food, happy,
You're Not A Community, Part IYou hear it all the time these days,
people talk of communities,
but then when you heard what they say
you can’t help but think it’s funny,
they don’t...
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Categories:
community, confusion, family, friend,
My KryptoniteShyness, more than usual, had been my core kryptonite!
Innocent me! Like a panda bear, in my boyhood! Bright!
Girlish, the grown-ups crowned me! An inauspicious floret!
Praying:...
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Categories:
addiction, childhood, family, life,
REMEMBER I FORGOTTEN MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY-Oh, I have forgotten
The smell of my mother
She has risen after her 39 years of life
I wondered if I ever told her...
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Categories:
analogy, bereavement, childhood, family,
GriefLike a bruise melting from blue to black, grief shows up slowly,
Appearing in the steam of coffee once shared, a laugh similar,
Yet as scabs heal...
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Categories:
family, analogy,
Ed Gerellenpoe Was No Fool
“Gerellenpoe’s Department Store” - Cincinnatti’s largest and most prestigious ‘five-n-dime’ in 1883 -
Carried almost everything a human being could want - and if you’d...
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Categories:
family, mom,
POWERFULYou are powerful, I see it in your walk, puissance;
proud and strong as the mighty oak.
Your words speak with the strength of our people;
your shoulders...
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Categories:
family, appreciation, black african american,
Lonely
She sits by the window watching a big black crow, as she is looking out over the fields of snow. ...
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Categories:
family, day, joy, old, snow,
UNTITLED
The memory of the lost ring,
Arise the heaven blue to sing,
"Focusing the right cling'
Can straight your ring wing.
On the movement of dark ark,
Allow mammoth of...
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Categories:
7th grade, celebration, family,
One FamilyOne day in central Africa a long time yonder
A woman and her family started to wander
Away from their home lands
Wanting a better life was in...
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Categories:
family, africa, life, remember,