Racism and Hitler
...If you are racist, unpleasant and nasty,
you're thought of like Hitler and just like a Nazi,
cus they believed mankind had race hierachy,
even when Jesse Owens crashed the party.
That's how p...
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Categories:
jesse owens, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Traveling the Buckeye State
...We stopped in Cincinnati to see the cousins; that was a mistake.
We are still throwing them out of the car, they can hitchhike home.
We had never been there, and frankly seeing them was great.
But...
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Categories:
jesse owens, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Noises
...freeway traffic
many honking horns
Geese yaking
the busy bee
drilling a hole in
my window sill
sleeping with one
ear tuned to a babes voice
the new mother
a hushed quiet
the ball trai...
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Categories:
jesse owens, dedication, emotions,
Form: Haiku
The Tale of Two Air Heads
...I had two cousins Mike and Ike who were air heads that stole
using their slippery butterfingers to snatch up anything in sight.
They thought they were clever smarti...
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Categories:
jesse owens, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Thank You
...Thank You!...
It's Black history month, so we come to celebrate,
all the hues of brown that made our nation great!
From Fredrick and Harriet to Mandela, and Muhammad Ali, because of the stan...
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Categories:
jesse owens, america, celebration, culture, humanity,
Form: Ballad
The Champion
...The Champion
Controlled by remote desires I trip the laurel fuse of longing ancestry
My Mom had been chosen to compete diving from the high platform of
Hitler’s mania for ‘Kraft’ ‘Freude’ livin...
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Categories:
jesse owens, abuse, peace, political, war,
Form: Free verse
Indian Blood
...Indian Blood
Im a Indian
with a bow an arrow of Venom
with a wall of heads of pilgrims
with colmbus head in a container sealed in
wearing the shoes of jesse owens
with usain bolts magneticall...
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Categories:
jesse owens, america,
Form: Free verse
The Call of the Alpha Male
...Robin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon
Hear the c...
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Categories:
jesse owens, funny, hero, humorous, men,
Form: Light Verse
The Diamond Found In the Dirt
...Let's take a trip back,
It was 1992
A young lady had a baby,
she didn't know what to do
She didn't have any
money
Fortune
Luck
Or a house,
Just a baby boy,
Not even a spouse,
As the years...
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Categories:
jesse owens, analogy, black african american,
Form: Free verse
What To Do If a Dog Bites
...I was running from the man
Or the cops if you please
I hopped over a fence
Landed funny, scraped my knee
Looked around and saw a shack
Hoped for comfort and ease
Like a hooker in church
Sw...
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Categories:
jesse owens, animals, funny, health,
Form: Rhyme