Long Dehumanized Poems

"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces, John Ruskin, 1853

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I had no friends and was totally striped of personal pride and self respect.          ...

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SLAVERY AND REPARATIONS
I am a descendant of slaves - from India!
Anyone who demands REPARATIONS shake & quake at my words
Competition? So, we have competing tales of bondage?
The Jewish people's perhaps the longest & cruelest,
With smaller...

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“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; each to his passion;                 what’s in a name?” –Helen Hunt Jackson....

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Red China and the so-called American school systems are not the only ones who used the Critical Race Theory to its advance. Look back at Nazi Germany under their leadership of a madman who was...

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message in a bottle
Message in a bottle 

This poem is 

this poem is
for  the Silenced 
voices that no one hears 
drowned out by constructed distractions 
of empty noises 
  
This poem is 

this...

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Their philosophers dehumanized our ancestors.
 Their missionaries demonized their humanity.
 Their merchants made them chattel.
 Whippings, rapes, amputations,
 For the training of wild negroes who can be forced to work at will.
 The expression of...

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alienated and separated has become society
disenfranchised and distant are now the state of families
all of those systems designed to make us feel connected
have fallen short and now we feel rejected
we're just a bunch of numbers...

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They were hated, berated, and degraded                             ...

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Nigeria. 
The country of my birth. Beautiful in youth. Wrinkled as the years pass by. Through no fault of hers. But by the doing and undoing of her children, consciously and unconsciously.
Blessed by God. Impoverished...

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I attended a meeting with, supposedly a friend, and was introduced to
Despised, Dehumanized, Decreased, Diminished, Disregarded, and Devalued,                 ...

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The world was silent as they died
The victims of a genocide
Armenian blood considered cheap
Dehumanized, their wounds cut deep
Starvation in a desert land
A naked, bleeding, hopeless band
The relocation just a ruse
A Death March of rampant abuse

Few...

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I chose to write,  
For all those torn-off branches,  
For all those scarred backs,  
For all those dehumanized bodies,  
For all those centuries of persecution.  

I chose to read, ...

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BELIZEAN BLEND

In the beginning it was the Yucatec, the Mopan and  Kekchi  as well
Who came from the steppes of Asia where nomads dwell
They fished and farmed milpas, in paradise; away from hell
Some building...

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MOTHER GHANA
I was told about your retrospect, after that scene, I burst into tears. I learned they came to genuflect like angels and took away your possessions. They dehumanized your progeny like animals. They dragged...

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Like a bolt from the pit of hell you appeared
And stealthily like a thief in the night
You entered into our lives 
Disguising as our familiar foe
Masking your deadliness in controversy
And like the serpent in the...

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bars and cages of flags ,colors ,creeds .
in Egypt they've been saying we want to make Egypt great again .
can't help but look at the irony gullible red and white and blue patriots and the...

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The record-keeper compiled a big book
Assuring us that he wasn't a crook
If we'd let him in he'd take a small look
So they'd ensure that we were off the hook

I soon recognized to my frustration
Fate took...

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Children having children, promoted by our liberal laws
Congress taking tax money and playing Santa Claus
Third generation dependents don’t work, don’t even try
Sit home, collect assistance, stay home and multiply

Politicians have no conscience, the damage that...

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NonViolent messiahs
and bodhisattvas
are not born to scorn
or demonize
or even demote
or excommunicate
win/lose competition games
like capitalism
and patriarchalism
and systemic racism
and sexism
and totalitarianism
and fundamentalism
and dogmatism

All politically privileged
undemocratic
sometimes self-righteously punishing
authoritarian parenting shame
and teaching individualistic blame
and governing with rod and staff
and...

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I've got dirt in my nails and 
bloodshot eyes
A heart like a lion who won't 
rest inside
I'm not proud of where I came 
from
My past is a foil of me
I don't believe in this 
conformity
Where...

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“I Come From A People”
Written by Kim Tipton Scott

I come from a people...

Forced to labor from sun up
‘till after it had gone down
and from the fruits of this 
involuntary servitude
cotton...tobacco...and cane
an entire country was built
with...

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It comes to you in the post
the first day you’re born
certified and normalized your invoice of sale 
in Christmas cards sent you
while you’re at school
authorized, depersonalized 
let’s all hope you do not fail

It falls on...

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I am Sam Nujoma
The father and defender of my homeland. 
The man who surrendered his youth, 
To fight for my youth. 
The man who gave birth to a Nation,
And the nation gave birth to my...

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If hell is the place
to deprive men of their human nature 
the battlefield swarming with dehumanized souls 
is hell; and is in the real world, 

hell is the hungry stray dogs licking blood on corpses
and...

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"Perhaps.
"Peradventure."
But uncertainty overshadows sureness,
And uncertainty transforms into a furnace,
And the furnace swallows you completely
While you scream..and while you writhe...weakly.
Are you demoralized?
Are you dehumanized?
Has the fire changed you?
Are you dead, or made new?
"Perhaps.
"Peradventure."
What a great mystery...

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