Long Juneteenth Poems

June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago

The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox Court House,...

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A JUNETEENTH PRAYER

Closing our eyes is easy…it’s probably the best way
to think, to hope, to dream…to make a wish…to kiss…to pray.

The quiet darkness behind our eyes is where we start
to heed the teachings of our...

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Juneteenth

Juneteenth let's go down history 
For years it was a mystery
Slavery had parted 
Let's find out where it started
June 19,1865 
Slavery had no longer been deprived 
We had been freed 
From picking cotton 
Being forgotten...

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(Apropos Of Juneteenth Celebration)

This is the day the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice and celebrate
Because we’re still here…marching on
With our eyes stayed on the prize.
Let us rejoice and celebrate
Because we’re aware that we are not
The...

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(Apropos Of Juneteenth Celebration)

This is the day the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice and celebrate
Because we’re still here…marching on
With our eyes stayed on the prize.
Let us rejoice and celebrate
Because we’re aware that we are not
The...

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Juneteenth

On this day in 1865 was the day 
That the slaves were freed 
It was out to an end 
And our lives sort of 
Started to begin 
Begin to make sense 
We became more 
Than...

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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, Texas,
to announce the end of the Civil war
and the freedom...

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I laid me body stomach down atop a grassy knoll...

here at Highland Manor Apartments
earlier today Juneteenth 2022,
(a pitch perfect spring day)
with serious intent to read
seat of the pants suspense thriller
The New Comprehensive
A-Z Crossword Dictionary.

Invariably, yours...

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We are not defined by weather
for it was summers touch that fated us
We met most certainly like comets in an October sky 
Unaware of love at first sight 
Dimmed by the light of a blue...

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We are not defined by weather
For it was summers touch that fated us
We met most certainly like comets in an October sky
Unaware of love at first sight
Dimmed by the light of a blue divorce
And single...

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Woke up this morning with freedom
on my mind.
I’m perpendicular to the blessed ground,
well and alive—
It’s Juneteenth and it’s break-out celebration
time— 
It’s going to be a beautiful day God has allowed
me to survive.

Everywhere I’ve been, I’ve...

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June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, allied troops landed on the beaches, an
unpleasant day that started in the early morning hours in
Normandy, France, and turned the tides of World War II. The
effect was the beginning...

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Closing our eyes is easy…it’s probably the most excellent way
to think, to hope, to dream…to make a wish…to kiss…to pray.

In the quiet darkness behind our eyes is where people start
to heed the teachings of their...

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Juneteenth… Justifiably they say ignorance is bliss. 
               No, it’s nothing to be proud of.
Ultimately unaware and unfamiliar, living in Canada...

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Juneteenth


June...back in nineteen-fifty eight, just sixty years ago,

Unknown to me, nine hundred miles away in the mid-South,

Never did I think of anything that would foreshadow...

Equal rights for me...denied to people of black color.

The waiting rooms...

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1.)	 Oh, darling, flower of mine;
It is summer,
Its summer time
Seasons of greetings
Joyous picnics and meetings
Family and friends gather round it’s
(Summer)Summertime

Chorus)  Woman I got the hots for you;
Darling, can’t you see I’m sweating too!
The sun...

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"AFRICAN AMERICANS CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH"

Juneteenth, Juneteenth, Juneteenth
What does it really mean?
Slavery ending news, delivered two years late
155 years to date, black people still have to wait

African American celebration of freed slaves
Home of the free and land...

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America is beautiful, great and wonderful
Eadem opera, she is ugly, pitiful and dreadful
In regards to the mistreatments of the Native Americans
The African Americans and other minorities
Yet, America is one of the best countries
In the world...

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America is beautiful, great and wonderful
Eadem opera, she is ugly, pitiful and dreadful
In regards to the mistreatments of the Native Americans
The African Americans and other minorities
Yet, America is one of the best countries
In the world...

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The Present Juneteenth & The 4th...

Beginning with the celebration
Of our Juneteenth,
We prepare a new perspective
For the 4th of July:-
Though this nation now stands stalled
On the brink,
That she is also our nation too, there 
Can be...

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It was a normal Day for me when I awoke, tend Massa' children cook breakfast and clean up and such. But I wasn't feeling the same. Something was different. I couldn't put a name to...

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That day when legal slavery ended
	A brief moment when justice seemed palpable
marked only the first chapter of caped cross burners 
and rageful lynch mobs
marked only the beginning of white terror
against black dignity
Equal justice under law

That...

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This time each year we now celebrate
          The conviction: love can conquer hate

Yet while our journey has come so far
      ...

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Jubilant celebrations ring out all over the

                United States of America each year on the

     ...

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Jubilance is too mild of a word to describe what the slaves must have felt.

Unbelievable would not be truthful because they anticipated freedom.

Northerners achieved surrender from Southerners, but the nation lost.

Evil took a break as...

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