Take Back The Streets
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There used to be a time I can still remember when
but times have changed they're not the same
we have to roll the rock turn back the clock
things are going wrong something's gone astray
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Categories:
gangbangers, children, city, how i
Form: Rhyme
Song of America 2024
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A woman speaks:
“I will live in a tent, or demand I pay no rent!
My name is Sally, I want everything free!
To God, I never will bend an ungraterul knee!
For my community…..nothin...
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Categories:
gangbangers, addiction, america, hope, how
Form: Dramatic Verse
Song of America 2021
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A woman speaks....
I will live in a tent, or demand I pay
no rent!
My name is Sally, I want everything free!
To God, I never bend a knee!
For my community nothing will I ever do!
For the...
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Categories:
gangbangers, america, conflict, courage,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Lift Every Voice
...Lift ev'ry voice and cry
While all our children die
Raise up the deaf'ning sigh of misery
Let all the people hear
With ever-sharpened ear
How we have lost our dignity and pride
Long ago, we had...
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Categories:
gangbangers, black african american, death,
Form: Quintain (English)
Forgetting Where You Came From, Part I
...Booker MaCline stared out with his young eyes
at the rolling hills and trees of great sizes,
West Virginia’s landcape, so much different,
the plane ride here every dollar had spent.
It was quie...
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Categories:
gangbangers, brother, change, family, growing
Form: Narrative
Hope
...Here I lay for all the world to see.
I am gutted,
Faded;
A dying phenomenon.
I used to be on the tip of every tongue.
Now I crouch in the subways of your minds.
Your children do not know me.
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Categories:
gangbangers, hope,
Form: Prose
Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For Sharon
...Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon
Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that says
Thirty-eight and Never...
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Categories:
gangbangers, absence, best friend, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
If Only
...M.I.A but I'm here
Chained to the ghetto
You'll never find me
Cuz we all look the same
Identified by the numbers on our EBT cards
We belong to the state packed away by section 8
Tell me what is ou...
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Categories:
gangbangers, urban, me, blue, me,
Form: I do not know?
My Hood Report
...as i roam my city streets i hear gunshots rein
i see junkies in search of crack it's an everyday thang.
standing on the corner begging for change at the store
chasin the first high they had once ...
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Categories:
gangbangers, urbanme, me,
Form: Verse