Long Naacp Poems
Long Naacp Poems. Below are the most popular long Naacp by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Naacp poems by poem length and keyword.
Watering Gaian GraceOne of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating
Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements
Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and reflection,
song and dance
liturgical and fire-circle
contemporary-indigenous wisdom
Is to explore together
how and...
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Categories:
naacp, caregiving, community, earth day, education, health, integrity,
Form:
Political 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:
naacp, assonance, black african american, books, muse, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Maybe It Was EleanorEver wonder where big ideas come from?
Memories of FDR
from newsreel clips -
a lion-headed striking man
with rakish grin,
jaw jutting proudly,
signature cigarette holder
clenched in his teeth
tilted ever upward...
soaring to the heavens
as he cruises by
waving to admirers
in...
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Categories:
naacp, feelings, history, international, philosophy, political, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
WANNABE ACE ROTHSTEIN THE CARNIVAL BOSSYOU CLAIM TO BE ACE ROTHSTEIN A BOSS
COMMITING HIEST ON DISABLED ELDERLY
PERSONS BREAKING INTO MOBLE HOME
GOLF CARTS AND MEDICATION BOXES
RETRIEVING ANTIDEPRESSANTS HIGH
BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICINES HEART
MEDICINES AND VIAGRA PUSHING THESE
MEDICATIONS...
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Categories:
naacp, freedom, remembrance day, spoken word, vacation, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
The Angry Soup of Racismain't it a shame
when hate lynches
a 14 year old Colored boy
in 1955 Mississippi
and blows away the dreams of
four innocent little Negro girls
in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama
yeah
bus that to your segregated thoughts
as I interracially...
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Categories:
naacp, angst, care, old, care, hate, old, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Multilayered - the Cause Is Civil RightsMULTILAYERED: THE CAUSE IS CIVIL RIGHTS!
How time has changed.
I am a colored woman by DNA living in a country of diversity.
I can remember my first day of school when my teacher asked me to self-identify.
...
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Categories:
naacp, america, change, conflict, discrimination, how i feel,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Thinking of Charles BukowskiI love to read Charles Bukowski
My Brother, Bill could have written like him
Sitting at a rust-leg old table in that fractured rectangle
above a liquor store
...
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Categories:
naacp, brother, family, life
Form:
Free verse
A Black Man's PerspectiveLife in Africa was full; years in the bush, a treat.
Music made us happy; drums sounded for dancing feet.
A loving life with family always made us smile.
Living together freely, we never knew defeat.
Greedy slave hunters...
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Categories:
naacp, africa, america, black african american, freedom, slavery,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Growing Up In the SixtiesAs a young teen I sadly confess, I dreamt of becoming an actress.
A class assignment drew me to Warner's in D.C., where I
brushed up against black history..
I stumbled into a meeting of the NAACP.
The...
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Categories:
naacp, high school, history,
Form:
Light Verse
Chocolate CityFar from the throes with foes who dip acid,
but
still wiping flows from my nose, cooked by oil-based pros. The intensity grows, when it's mixed with White Whoes', and you come out yo' clothes, 'cause you're...
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Categories:
naacp, adventure, america, angst, black african american, city,
Form:
Rhyme
Progression Pt3: a Brief Summary of Black HistoryRosa Parks, sit proud,
Head high with no retreat,
Do not be forced to the back
This seat is more than just a seat,
Let them drag you to the jail
Mistreatment all the world can see,
Spirits stir, blood boils,
N.A.A.C.P.
Dr....
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Categories:
naacp, black african american, education, historyworld,
Form:
Rhyme
What Can'T I DoAs a Kid, I never wanted to be viewed as Black. There were always negative connotations that came with that.
Death and Evil, things like the "Black" Plague.
The Representative of Darkness and the Loneliness of Shade.
I...
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Categories:
naacp, black african american, deep, slam,
Form:
Free verse
When They Exhume My PoemsWhen I die
I give the Pulitzer Board
Permission
To exhume my lyrics
And some overweight ME
Will put my verses on a slab
Going thru my stanzas for tone
looking for assonance and
Consonance in my bones
As my family waits...
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Categories:
naacp, assonance, death, eulogy, i miss you, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Ymca Black AchieverIf you know your history you know that the black achiever is one,
Step down from the NAACP for youth student in high school,
My mom said now a days they are doing remarkable things,
At the...
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Categories:
naacp, art, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Caveat ScriptorIt's not a prerequisite, of course, but if a piece of writing is any good, chances are it's probably offensive to someone. (Paraphrasing John Irving-A Widow for One Year) So, writer beware...
Words are a writer's...
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Categories:
naacp, humor, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Let's Be Frank On This RagThis is what the local examiner preaches
Lynchings, or killing someone by hanging, historically were mostly used by whites against black men in the South beginning in the late 19th century, according to the NAACP.
Below...
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Categories:
naacp, betrayal, color, conflict, gospel, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Gramps Is Not An AcronymMy gramps was a long-staunch Baptist of the sort S.B.C.,
Until his local congregation got beholden to the R.N.C.
Gramps was a hoot – on a Friday he joined the K.K.K.,
Saturday, he quit because...
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Categories:
naacp, character, grandfather, humor,
Form:
Couplet
Trump Not Very Smart Horn HaikuTrump Not Very Smart Horn Haiku
We were implicit
What Trump does was illicit
And not exquisite.
Made our lives a wreck
Did not play with a full deck
Should further inspect.
Trump seems so scary
Gave us a coronary
Is not smart very.
James...
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Categories:
naacp, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form:
I do not know?