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Injustice Poems - Poems about Injustice

Injustice
Locked up in a cage. But the beasts are allowed to roam. The lights are dimming and the darkness grows thick. It is like a mirror on the wall. Reflecting everything in which you desire but can never have. Those who takes gets. And those who gives loses. The scales have broken. And you sit alone. Crying on your throne....

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Categories: injustice, 10th grade, allegory, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Innocent
What they did to tamir rice Cold as ice I'll give some advice Think twice Think thrice An innocent paid the price Which led to his demise This is a matter of black lives Our final goodbyes We look to the sky As we wipe our eyes A burning rage on the inside So then...

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Categories: injustice, black african american, color,
Form: Free verse



Emmett Till
I have a story to tell One that doesn't end well So I advise you to take a break For this will cause your heart to ache A fourteen year old boy Used as a decoy To manipulate and destroy A message sent to employ A hatred to kill joy He was a child A boy who...

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Categories: injustice, black african american, boy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oath Breaker
With one hand laid upon the Holy book The new Judge raises her other hand high. She swears an oath that millions before her promised: Faithful service, unbiased justice, no compromise. I, Hannah Duggan, do solemnly swear That I will...

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Categories: injustice, judgement, political, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member TWO TIMES FIFTY DAYS
Wow! 100 days! Thunderstorms of injustice; Human rights are drowned:- ...

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Categories: injustice, allegory,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member The Court of injustice
40 years passed ...

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Categories: injustice, irony,
Form: Free verse
The Wicked Live On
In twilight's hush, where shadows play, A paradox reigns, in endless sway, The good perish, while the wicked thrive, In this land, where virtue's brief, and vice survives. Patriots fall, like autumn's leaves, Assassinated, poisoned, for their noble deeds, Their voices silenced, before their time, As darkness feeds on justice's prime. Bola Ige, Barnabas Igwe, Marshall Harry too, Ogbonnaya Uche, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and more,...

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Categories: injustice, anger, anxiety, betrayal, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The face of youth
that look of innocence and expectation that a future with promises awaits their anticipation of clear blue skies and hope that tomorrow will be brighter that look of unadulterated naivete on the eve of realizing what shape we've left the world for future generations problems of injustice and inequality worse than ever that look that drills right through your soul and asks what you,...

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Categories: injustice, future, hope, innocence, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A FLIP-FLOPPING ANALOGY
Escaping their bowls, Poor fish flipping and flopping; Dying free at last:- Let us flip-flop injustice, As we live lives free at last....

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Categories: injustice, allegory,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member INJUSTICE
I pray for the day when the world is blessed so see the importance of being unprejudiced, honorable and fair… Blessed to understand the words of Martin Luther King Jr. who said: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...

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Categories: injustice, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cubby's
At Cubby's, the neon hums/ A beacon in the night/ A place for solace/ But now a source of plight/ I stood there, a truth on my lips, unplanned/ Asked the clerk to be kind, to lend a gentler hand/ But shadows lingered/ Where light should've been/ Through masks of smiles, deceit crept in/ Their whispers turned to chains/ Forged in lies/ A verdict handed down/ Under...

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Categories: injustice, betrayal, corruption, evil, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shelters of Silence
"In the USA, vacant homes by thousands thrive, while countless homeless struggle to survive. In a land of plenty, such homes stand bare, as lost souls grow, wandering in despair."...

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Categories: injustice, poverty, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silent Killer
Originally published in Out on a Limb, An Anthology for Friends June 2020 “There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.” - Joseph Pulitzer There is something that few recognize, But is transparent to...

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Categories: injustice, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Dream That Chose Me
The dark rooms of my mind take me to a new place every night, This place beams of sunshine, with beautiful sight. This feeling is indeed real, but far from reality, Still, this place thrives my personality. This is a dream, but I did not choose it, it chose me, It is a new era in a different country, Where it...

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Categories: injustice, 12th grade, courage, deep,
Form: Political Verse
Forced To Relive The Trauma Of A Manipulated Unfair Trial Seven Times A Year
Dear Reader, How does one pen the unspeakable? To endure injustice not once, but repeatedly—like a cruel wind that circles back to shred what little is left of a tattered soul. The echoes of a manipulated trial, the mockery of fairness, reverberate through me like a wound that refuses to heal. Nightmares are my inheritance; they come cloaked in...

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Categories: injustice, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

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