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Jesse Owens Poems - Poems about Jesse Owens

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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......Read the rest...
Categories: jesse owens, racism,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: jesse owens, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: jesse owens, america, celebration, culture, humanity,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: jesse owens, analogy, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: jesse owens, animals, funny, health,
Form: Rhyme

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