Long Ghetto Poems
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Faded In Xoxo Oxox Fadin' OutA special dedication to Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" song in her album "Beyoncé", which came out in 2013.
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I took a cat nap...yah put on your classic, clever-mini cap
drank that sorrow sap, my companion...
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Categories:
ghetto, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan
33. on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime un homme est maintenant en train d’aider/ la police avec...
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Categories:
ghetto, america, conflict, culture, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak VinerWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes....
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Categories:
ghetto, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Understand Where I StoodGood boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood
The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
I exaggerate too much and so too much,...
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Categories:
ghetto, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage, dedication, deep,
Form:
Free verse
AlohaHello? Are you there today?
Have I scared you away?
Spent my whole teenage life,
Preparing for this day of strife
To say my goodbye's
To your love-me-not lies
Oh well, oh well
I'm not saying farewell
Where do you dwell?
In...
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Categories:
ghetto, deep, desire, emotions, encouraging, feelings, grief, growing
Form:
Lyric
Earth Day VoicesVoices of creation speak Type A and Type B,
and polyglot dialects through Z,
somehow under what lies in shadow
from B through Z
Anyway, Type A conscious I am alive
in this indoor moment
awake but not directly sun-absorbing...
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Categories:
ghetto, culture, earth, earth day, health, language, light,
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Political Verse
So-Called Positive PoeDownstairs I go
Elevate me, you know
I'll get over the luv floo
Over the bad days too
Acting like a weirdo
A clown with an upside down frown... I'm a positive Poe
I'm out of my mind
I can't...
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Categories:
ghetto, deep, universe,
Form:
Free verse
A Ghetto Conversation
Hey bruh,
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing...
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Categories:
ghetto, culture, prejudice, truth, word play,
Form:
Verse
ShakurspeareThey 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:
ghetto, black african american, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Bad Boy Gone GoodYour life is a sandwich with many layers
Your knife slaughtered me as you bewitch my mind with thought-slayers
Coming undone by this bleeding hate-love relationship
You tease me with insults that make me wanna cry, but...
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Categories:
ghetto, deep, depression, happiness, boy,
Form:
Free verse
History's Sad SongHistory's Sad Song (Revised)
throughout my life
I've heard many a sad song
relating to the lyrics
that seemed to play too long
way back during the Crusade
where religious debt was paid
by the bloodlust of so many
could not ye God...
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Categories:
ghetto, introspection, life, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Kaos In -Part 4-Kaotic kleverment gets me in double trouble
You're juzz jealuss cuz I can make a sky full of precious slangs and beautiful rubble
You wanna bet I'm the opposite of a crazy witch with a...
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Categories:
ghetto, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
To Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize WinnerAs soon as I heard
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted to wake up Hughes and Dunbar
And Baraka and say we...
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Categories:
ghetto, assonance, black african american, books, muse, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Gateway TownGateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay.
T.S, Eliot,...
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Categories:
ghetto, allusion, city, class, longing, racism, slavery, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
RevolutionaryI went from ghetto living
And the ghetto kind of days
To being up out of it
And to seeing better days.
Now the truth stays
And my mind plays,
in a blessed way
defying the lie defining me
in my...
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Categories:
ghetto, america, freedom, god, hope, humanity, independence day,
Form:
Free verse
Adept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second languageAdept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second language
When alive colorful turns of phrases
uttered courtesy my father or mother
whose ability to describe a situation
perfectly verbalized and couched by
a dialect of High German including
some Hebrew...
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Categories:
ghetto, 6th grade, adventure, america, anniversary, celebration, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
The Aura of Time: the Depressed Thumb Toe Though***Do me a favor, readers...also, read the second part of this lyric. If you don't, I'll be disappointed...I worked hard on this song. I wrote this all night...took me from 11 PM to 2:30 AM...
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Categories:
ghetto, angst, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, freedom,
Form:
Lyric
The Pasquinade of LifeI am the Mozart of my name
And I wait for you my Je’amour
To paint the parfai’d affair
And cross the fur elise of time
O vogue of vogues
Love is written in visions of glory
Even where the vogues...
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Categories:
ghetto, freedom, love,
Form:
Free verse
Used Lighters and Used Condomsused lighters and used condoms
street life oh street life
we are living in the ghetto
we are the victims
of corruption
we are the rejected stones
street life oh street life
we must survive
you will not want to...
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Categories:
ghetto, abuse, africa, courage, humanity, sympathy,
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Epic
My Precious PossessionThe sounds of shades
Degrading negativity
Destined to be compatible with a clever bard-artist someday...downright anxious depression fades
Upgrading positivity
Together, we will rise
In harmony, in perfect weather, in unison in everyone's eyes
Guys and girls will...
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Categories:
ghetto, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Who Is Christopher Carson BurtonWho is Christopher Carson Burton?
Who am I?
Do I know?
Do anybody know who I am?
I'm just a regular guy a nobody.
A regular guy who grew from ...
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Categories:
ghetto, black african american, how i feel, life,
Form:
Bio
Do the Math
Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ...
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s dignity
I got 59 stripes to show
what was done to...
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Categories:
ghetto, america, history, math, truth,
Form:
Narrative
The Essence of Me
Born in the Goshen ghetto,
bound by an Ashkenaz forged umbilical chain
Beloved mother was Jim Crow lynch poor,
adored father was the Uncle Sam same
Third-generation slaves,
pauper freed allegedly
But royal blood their ancestors
sweaty tears did bleed
From...
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Categories:
ghetto, identity, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Bio
The Eyes of Stanley Tookie WilliamsNovember 2, 2015 11:42 am
The eyes of Stanley Tookie Williams
What I visualized is a man
A man that committed crimes
Stanley Tookie Williams was the name
His tragic game in the fallen streets was being a gang banger...
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Categories:
ghetto, black african american, conflict, death, forgiveness, murder,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Off Tracklet me be honest
i can’t help but do my white girl dougie
and my half assed twerk
when i hear i tight beat
because my mind is hooked
on hip-hop and this culture
so stereotyped with hood...
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Categories:
ghetto, analogy, anxiety, art, autumn,
Form:
Free verse