Long Ebonics Poems

   Soak in the palmolive snake oil tonic.
The cool stalk of my ebonics on hydroponics.
Get stuck in the matrix of my convicts, of hooker phonics.
Get high off of my knock off water on...

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It`s always inspiring to be strong in appearance,
Brave to catch up the essentiality of the sun.
How marvelous the wind blows to beat the sensations as one.
Yes, the pride is deep for BLACK skin to have...

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Growing up in care I never had my family by my side
I was damaged and lost as a child
Hood up to hide my face and I would never smile
But Hip Hop saved my life

Heard the...

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$hawty Got $wag

Shawty got swag,
Shawty mad dope.
Face all cheesin’,
She real turned up.
Goin’ to da club,
She steppin' wit her peeps,
Lookin’ so ratchet,
She’s straight up hoochie.

No racks in her pocket,
No stacks in her wallet,
But she all into...

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Some sez m a loss caz, I contain ta many flaz
Just becaz m not subjec to ya lawz.

Lizen t ma speech, m hear ta preach 
Ma wordz, well byond ya reach
Wot ya hearan iz more...

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My speech ain’t elegantly refined,
my words don’t dress up none too properly
Simply cloth words with no aristocratic design,
just plain, unassuming ghetto vocalese
Though I’m very familiar with
the Queen’s English tutorial
I don’t engage much in heavy conversation
that’s...

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Steal away the idol children
Work ‘em to death,
give them no pay
Carry their cries 
	      on a plaintive wind

Pilfer their graven image mind
Then fill it with empty thoughts
of caste assimilation

Melting pot...

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My children be over my sister house.
Oland got scratched by his cousin with a twig in my mother’s front yard.
My children are grown now.
Why is it study going on y’all?
The illegality of removing my children...

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In the Bible the book of James reads like a Shakesperian play
With words that are archaic and not used as much these days
James writes of his concerns about how to lead an ethical life
How one...

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Who you are is who you are!


Who you are is who you are and you  should be  respected as yourself and  because God made you  that way so  it is...

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*written for Verlena's Contest "EBONICS, Let's Do Some Slang"


SHAWTY,

Yir' boy fin' ta' told ya' bout some lessons in what the Man call Ebonics.
Cus' I gots' this!
Like the young fellow named Carmello on the New York...

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He’s the devil in your tormented dreams
The shadowy, nightmarish silhouette imp
of a thousand horror newscast,
who muzzles your petrified screams
Keeping those silent eyes
glued to the vile, video killing screen
Black Plague monstrosity figurine
showing you a million different...

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Ebony and Phonics


Talkin’ Jive, slippin’ inta the ethnic eccentricities
of survival, hip-hop, rap, the blues, Ebonics.

Ebonics, the melding of Ebony and Phonics
into a language that could be spoken
within hearing of the overseer.  Genius
spoken here, clandestine...

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Peace

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.”
    ~ Attributed to Francis of Assisi

How many years
Of Sunday sermons taught me
How easily
I can get away with it all
How terribly unfortunate
Some Jew took the...

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Who gave this world the right to judge me?

 

Everywhere I look, all I see is the jury,

But I'm not getting a fair trial.

 

Before I've even left my house,

you've hung, drawn and quartered me.

...

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Whatcha gonna do if’n Famous Jameis goes pro?
‘tain’t nottin ya can do ‘bout it, Coach Jimbo
Dontcha know, da freshman Heisman winner’s caught da eye
Even da Giants’ Eli ain’t a-rankin’ too high

Butcha ya got ta give...

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As Adam’s gift emit into her statuary,
The echo in her spine, screamed and cracked because of the screw
Her Ebonics layer was smooth and soft
As her mouth thirst for a missile
As the as massacre descended into...

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Ebonics, Lets Do Some Slang

I knows I'se yo' life a' chillin'
 yo' bro's gamin' da ladies and spillin'
Dat blod on dez streets bout' town
 sit yo' nappy azz rite on down!

Lak I'se yo' bes' frien'...

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These the kinda words not used by folk in college. I hope I'm ebonically 
correct, when I skool you in Street knowledge.  

4gt the spelling just take your mind  to the projects. Wea...

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A male
A Black male
A thug, a gangsta
pants sagging
stupid swagging
And that's exactly what people think I am:
stupid.
But I break the mold.

When people hear my voice
without seeing my face,
When people see my words
in letters, on screens
what race...

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