Long Black african american Poems
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Dragon Stew
On an early morning just before school
My tummy is churning my head hurts too
My feet are cold my forehead is hot
I have a runny nose and a tongue with blue dots
“Mom come quick!” I helplessly...
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Categories:
black african american, 4th grade, 5th grade, adventure, anxiety, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Grand Priorities
What fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
The Angry Black Woman
She stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at odds with her...
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Categories:
africa, anger, beauty, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
I do not know?
Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
Wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...
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Categories:
black african american, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Rhyme
How Resilience Are You
The question is; What does Resilience Means?
It is having the capacity to recover Quickly from difficult circumstances and situations. You are able to spring back into shape, not allowing misfortune and challenging conditions stop you.
In...
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Categories:
appreciation, black african american, destiny, future, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
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 respect
crafted with the following words
mostly written January 23rd, 2023,
cuz I, (a...
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Categories:
black african american, abuse, africa, age, america, anger, betrayal, black
Form:
Free verse
The Lament of a Black Man
Who am I? Am I even human? What is my place in this world?
I am confused, sometimes I do not even feel like a human being.
Like a boat in a stormy sea, I aimlessly drift...
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Categories:
black african american, death, discrimination, hate, power,
Form:
Free verse
L'Overture
L'Overture
Lest we forget
Words often mouthed
For the dead of bloody war
Forgot not those great ones
Whose battles were on the home front
Seeking only equality of voice
Ray Charles to you was a singer
Backwards and long ago he was...
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Categories:
black african american, encouraging, freedom, french, history,
Form:
Free verse
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...
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Categories:
adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
A Letter From Me
ME dear FATHER you already know,
But you need to be briefed,
On a tragedy I believe you must not know.
There’s a deadly dance with violence killing teens in America’s Black Communities.
Use to be,
Good Christian mothers,...
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Categories:
black african american, conflict, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Ill Keep Both Coins
There is more than one value of a Browned-Coin
and no matter how hard it may be to accept and appreciate their worth
I unlike you
have decided to keep both coins
Shiny and Darkened
Today
I choose the Browned-Coin...
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Categories:
black african american, character, spoken word,
Form:
Prose
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
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 enhancement of webbed wide world
worth more than paltry words
of yours truly can...
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Categories:
black african american, 12th grade, adventure, africa, anger, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Black and Blue- -
I am a Son of an African American
I run
my turmoils taints the history books
yet people give me evil looks
I run
I choose
Yet I am
Black and blue, this is my physical hurt
Been given a name...
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Categories:
analogy, anxiety, appreciation, black african american, bullying,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Poetic Litany of Poems Celebrating Mlk Day
The Man…The Spirit
His name was Dr. Martin Luther King;
He was a peace-loving human being.
HIM
Preaching peace and love–
A mountain top of a man:-
Martin Luther King.
THE HUMAN DOVE
He came bearing a dream for humanity
Teaching nonviolence, peace,...
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Categories:
black african american, high school, inspirational, metaphor,
Form:
Alliteration
What Is My Ethnic Name and Who Are the Namers
I arose a proud African lineage from far Mid Northern, Southern, Western;
Stolen, Trick,...
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Categories:
africa, america, black african american, change, confusion,
Form:
Ballad
Watts Is Burning
Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014
Run children run!
Run sister run!
Run brother run!
Run for your guns
We ain't backing down
Not this time -
Run through
the
poisoned
black smoke,
that
permeates
through
Watts -
Run pass
the
looting,
Run down
the
land mine
streets,
Run pass
the house
that's
no longer
your home -
Run...
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Categories:
anger, black african american,
Form:
Light Verse
Watts Is Burning
Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014
Run children run!
Run sister run!
Run brother run!
Run for your guns
We ain't backing down
Not this time -
Run through
the
poisoned
black smoke,
that
permeates
through
Watts -
Run pass
the
looting,
Run down
the
land mine
streets,
Run pass
the house
that's
no longer
your home -
Run...
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Categories:
anger, black african american,
Form:
Light Verse
Race the Finals Spoken Word
I wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a
team
And that
Because we have run
through the preliminary trials as selfish individual, goal seekers
we have barely made it to the finals,...
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Categories:
africa, black african american, change, courage, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Shakurspeare
They say I write magic
like I was granted a wish from the genie in Aladdin
An stole Kazaam boom box an secret patent Latin verses from canibus
While using cannibus as incense listening to BOB Marley...
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Categories:
black african american, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Blunder
The walls are imprisoned in silence,
A heavy, powerless silence, shattered
By voices, tears, and crowded souls.
Justice hides in the corridors of greed,
Crimes are sentences uttered in the halls,
The innocent are moving targets,
An age-old burden on the...
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Categories:
africa, america, black african american, confidence, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Coms
C.O.M.S
Colors
Black, brown
Something that has been an issue since the beginning of time
Colors unite
Colors causes actions out of spite
Colors are all different shades
Colors has been one of the leading causes of death for decades
See i...
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Categories:
anger, black african american, color, deep, growth,
Form:
Rhyme
Part 2 - Earthbound Angels Made of Stone - An Epic
Those evil thorns of bitterness
That couldn't bear to see
This child so loved and so adored
By their father
Captain Lee
Until one day in early May
When she went out to play
In fields drenched in morning dew
Above...
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Categories:
abuse, angel, baby, black african american, death,
Form:
Epic
Reflection Mindset
I I’m constantly rehearsing
On my versing
Never sliding or swerving
My Rhymes play
Like a wordsmith
I’m Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult
Remembering to stay humble
And claim my guilt and my fault
The Wisest Man once said what’s...
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Categories:
bible, black african american, god, growth,
Form:
Free verse
EarthCommonSense
I wonder what
and whom
makes my transracial family tick.
Quick shadows of lopsided smiles.
Slapping white walls as you step by.
Are these tics
that make you tick somehow?
I know what ticks you off.
Disrespecting your sacred right
becoming lover you.
Yet...
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Categories:
beauty, black african american, earth, earth day,
Form:
Political Verse