Jim Crow Poems - Poems about Jim Crow

...Soul's laugh soul's cry Soul's live soul's die But what of the soul's of trees Sipping soil in which we bleed Nature uses our body to feed Colorful tears shed are leaves Falling like a ballet......Read the rest...

...My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month Which acknowledgement ought to be year round, similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic unconditional acceptance and ......Read the rest...

...Slavery is not the end of atrocities Suffered by minority communities The every day systematic sway Of bricks piled against you like A wall of pain So many bricks The millions murdered for sim......Read the rest...

...You see the ones obsessed with race, these days they’re as common as fleas, convincing themselves that pigment makes you all that you’ll ever be. That something as dumb as color defines the pers......Read the rest...

...We are all colored, What is this; Term in the US in contrast with "white" Colored Middle English; Coloured was first used in the 14th century; Binding to be anything non Caucasian, European ......Read the rest...

...when we look at ourselves as extraordinary Black people of color we can surmise that we've endured more than any others separate but equal, Jim Crow and slavery Black folks have taken a licking fo......Read the rest...

...Hello. I was born after the Civil War and met my fate after much civil unrest. You may have never encountered me, but some things you might already know. My name is Jim Crow, and I was born and lived......Read the rest...

...I wonder who’ll be my running mate In this election cycle When he has the vote of the party Who will he give the title Pence has experience and he very well known He’s honest, religious, and c......Read the rest...

...(Note: This poem was written shortly after the 2022 Olympics and after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos rode their rockets in a new space race for billionaires.) Races By ......Read the rest...

...June nineteenth one hundred and fifty years ago Juneteenth hint: three hundred and sixty six days after eighteen sixty four. Major General Gordon Granger led the Union Soldiers to Galveston,......Read the rest...

...In the land of sunshine and sandy shores, Where palm trees sway and seagulls soar, There lies a state with a troubled past, A place where prejudice was cast. Florida, a jewel in the Southern cr......Read the rest...

..."HIGH TECH LYNCHING" April 6, 2023, a dark and sad day in Tennessee history Black men striped of their first amendment right to tell their story The Declaration of Independence, states that "all......Read the rest...

...Mamie Till Mobley demanded and open casket, to let the world see, the bloated, beaten body of her baby boy, who was lynched in Mississippi. His name was Emmett Till, a 14 year old black boy, ......Read the rest...

...I am the pain that resides Deep, so deep inside Inside America, the great I am the American heartache From a deep, old long ago Copious fields of cotton across Georgia Through and beyond J......Read the rest...

...My nascent poetic tribute to black history month more apropos and alternately titled: praise to thee people of variegated melanin color, whose immense understated improvements and enhancemen......Read the rest...