Lynching Poems - Poems about Lynching

...("The Heart of It #4", 2007, original oil) The Good Heart My hunch is probably everyone thinks they have a good heart Since we are all humans with some degree of empathy. But while it’......Read the rest...

...Can they take back the rights our parents earned? Take back the Lynching and all the houses burned? Can they move you to the back of the bus? And close their doors to most of us? Stop us fro......Read the rest...

...The Lynching Oh how it is, to be an oak tree, one time a nut and now mighty. One time blooming in the bright sunlight, now it is tarnished by winter’s blight. So hideous and putr......Read the rest...

..."HIGH TECH LYNCHING" April 6, 2023, a dark and sad day in Tennessee history Black men striped of their first amendment right to tell their story The Declaration of Independence, states that "all......Read the rest...

...We saw blood on the leaves Yeah! Blood filling the roots Our ancestors hanging from trees Their blood flowing out to the slave seas Chained crews taken To the cane fields Haiti toppled from t......Read the rest...

...Santa went out last night dressed as the Grinch. Partied too much got into a tight pinch. Woke with aching hangover. Mrs. Santa, boil-over, Bells ringing, threaten with deer's reins to lynch. ......Read the rest...

...OF SILENT SCREAMING PREGNANCIES… Creative silence Unlike the silence Of death Is life giving:- In creative silence The heart beats; Blood flows; Breathing abounds. In the silence of m......Read the rest...

...I Our cry, silenced. We watch the murder of our freedoms Like spectators at a lynching. Our Twenty-first-century forbearance rubbed out, Our twentieth-century sensibilities never happened. High......Read the rest...

...You know that they are many And you’re asking ‘if any?’ Those who could kill for Penny For it search Nook and Cranny You know that they are heady And for lynching The Ready, For every touche......Read the rest...

...Through faith, hope, and love, we will find true meaning. Whether it's slavery, the holocaust, or ethic cleaning; Whether by captivity, by extermination, or by lynching; Atrocities have haunted ma......Read the rest...

...__This is my body Like the last supper, I offer it to Judas Iscariot who smiles in the midst of everyone I am the texture of each word your eyes grab in this poem, ......Read the rest...

...That car swishes along the forest road. Who cares about a poor bird in the age of lynching? Its beak with berries in it freezes. Its mate hears wing-beats that never near. A bird love......Read the rest...

...hand on heart do you believe in the truth? honesty, love and in God absolute? do you speak for freedom and for fairness? to respect a human and forgiveness? did you weep when you heard of victim ......Read the rest...

... Chicago native Emmett Till would no longer be alive after he was lynched in the state of Mississippi in 1955. Till was on summer vacation in a village called Money. It's located in the d......Read the rest...

...“Lynching” Black man floating in space Knotted rope about his face Crosses burning White sheets chanting Black man squirming Blue knee choking Buildings burning Dark nights looming ......Read the rest...