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Ghettos Poems - Poems about Ghettos

The Shadows We Cast
...Beneath the sunlit dome of sky, Where whispers of winds and rivers sigh, Lies a shadow, a wound unhealed, The truth of mankind, long concealed. We stand, architects of dreams and light, Yet bu......

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Categories: ghettos, abuse, anger, angst, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Banish the Darkness - 2022
...“If someone besides a black ever sings the real gut bucket blues, it’ll be a Jew. We both know what it’s like to be someone else’s footstool.” -Ray Charles Author’s note: this is a companion......

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Categories: ghettos, destiny, hate, humanity, jewish,
Form: Free verse



MEMORIES OF WAR
...MEMORIES OF WAR In prison we turmoiled packed up cards to fall whilst they sucked genitals like bonbons a quartz on a table gleamed its knowing War torn ghettos with swollen stoma......

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Categories: ghettos, 12th grade, character, conflict,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Trojanesque
... After nearly a year Hamas released four October 7th hostages. Unfortunately, they're all deceased tossed away, like ballast, from a sinking beast. Will they be mentioned at the DNC will the......

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Categories: ghettos, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prominent
..." But such is the way of the hood where everything's misunderstood there is an Missouri man who never seen a black squirrel he now lives in Omaha There are Undercover dark brown ninja......

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Categories: ghettos, adventure, analogy, character,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member If we ask most Americans
...If one was to poll Americans nation wide and ask them if they supported apartheid. Most would defiantly deny and say, but their our allies.. If we asked most Americans do we need a wall, to bar......

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Categories: ghettos, america, perspective, rights, war,
Form: Political Verse
For It Is A Human Number
... In the dark corners of their minds, lies hidden secrets and falsetto, falsety and masquerade blind. Humming to transcendental humanistic deities. Beating you down to the beat of their......

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Categories: ghettos, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He Slept for Sixty Years
... He slept for sixty years then woke up with a start For the life of him he couldn’t tell things apart Ghettos still all filled with blacks War everywhere he turned Young folks......

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Categories: ghettos, change, irony, sleep, world,
Form: Rhyme
Logan Pass
...I’m a poet devoid of Cliff Notes dissection not my thing Don’t ask me to explain my words I’d rather hum and sing Explication penniless in ghettos of the word Where vagrants pu......

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Categories: ghettos, writing,
Form: Rhyme
On the run
...*On The Run* Hunted by my past, trailed by my shadow, Intoxicated by elixir of youth, I climb the ìrókò beyond the leaves. Wail of woes, dehydrated dreams Crushed in the battlefield of th......

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Categories: ghettos, anxiety, fate, sad,
Form: Free verse
Some History
...you like history here you go, a list of their history in short 740. BC The Assyrians cursed them. 579. BC The Babylonians fell asleep and remained for about 60 years. 70. The Roma......

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Categories: ghettos, history,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Aeriforms - Supernatural Scifi
...sometimes misconstrued in a fluorescent grove where malachite petals marry emerald blades verbose biting chews too close to the cheek among a confetti of bees amid undulating bumps of raw......

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Categories: ghettos, fate, flying, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Children of Abraham
...Children of Abgraham 9/16/2023 A Lesson for All Nations Years ago, before you were even here, ......

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Categories: ghettos, discrimination, freedom, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Signs of the Times
...Signs of the Times A dictator-ship sailing the seven seas A night-birds song on the evenings breeze An unorthodox relationship with anti-freeze The heimleck manoeuvre over a piece of cheese ......

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Categories: ghettos, anxiety, beautiful, corruption, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...Wake up! You awake to cliffside turn-tables--mountains crumble into the divots of the record; mountain goats float upon ethereal notes. They bleat in conjunction with dusty LPs. Soon enough, cities r......

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Categories: ghettos, 12th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: Imagism

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