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Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens Poems - Poems about Jesse Owens
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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Nick Trim
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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Caren Krutsinger
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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Charles Henderson
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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Lu Loo
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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Bonita Mercado
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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Kai Michael Neumann
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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Uriel Wisdom
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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Mary Rotman
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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Jesse Pickens
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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Patrick Cornwall
Categories:
jesse owens,
animals, funny, health,
Form:
Rhyme