Tribute to Malcolm
A tribute to Malcolm
Malcolm Jamal Warner
Was his name
Heaven sure did gain
An angel on earth
Now he's up in the skywatching over us
To us, he was the big brother we always wanted, you know
He was Theo from the Cosby show
He was an all-around outstanding guy
We never questioned
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Categories:
malcolm, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
He was 54 years old but that was still too young to go.
He starred as Theodore Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show'.
He was asphyxiated and he drowned.
It's sad because he's no longer around.
He was a very talented man and that's certainly true.
He starred on 'The Cosby Show' from 1984 until 1992.
Malcolm had skill and charisma and
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Categories:
malcolm, celebrity, death,
Form: Rhyme
You cannot silence, what demands to be heard
Not only did they colonise land
They colonised history too
They decided to make history a blank canvas
To start anew
By painting over the colour in white paint
Hiding the accomplishments of tge black race
They say slavery was in the past
We need to move on
But continously teach us about the holocaust
And when a black
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Categories:
malcolm, discrimination, history, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
MALCOLM X FORWARD
Reflection past with an after effect prove
Civil Rights powerful
A voice of meaningful words
“BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY THEORY”
Knowledge and Wisdom of principles
Set the stage for foundation
I had the honor and pleasure of having Malcolm X’s Widow, Dr. Betty Shabazz as my Professor on the subject of IN SEARCH OF WELLNESS class at CUNY MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE
Malcolm
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Categories:
malcolm, appreciation, care, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
Malcolm seemed nice
Young Malcolm was meek, rarely riled,
asking for korma, quite mild,
they all thought him nice,
until ordering rice,
that was where Malcolm went wild.
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Categories:
malcolm, humor, word play,
Form: Limerick
A NOTE FROM MALCOLM
A NOTE FROM MALCOLM
My advice is free, and time’s not billable
Try speaking French and I will soon know
Don’t claim a local or a provincial accent
It really does not sound as if heaven-sent
Nor a comment heard such as il fait beau
As the accent is always on the last syllable
As a teacher, these things do really matter
One
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Categories:
malcolm, language, rude,
Form: Rhyme
Malcolm X In America
One of the greatest scholars and speak so clear for a messaging so rugged but his future so clear
Day is his night and sunset be his fright
As human as could be ,it only is right
Marching as a man is all we could see
One turn of his cheek was the ending of me
Untold story we
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Categories:
malcolm, africa,
Form: Free verse
Malcolm
I’m pulling this Earth towards me,
as I’m as heavy as the stars,
I feel so out of place,
home only in my scars.
It is a wish, that someday I’d belong,
until then, smile wide and hope I’d be strong.
If only anyone knew, how all of it felt long,
I’ve lived too many lifetimes to die young.
I feel as if
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Categories:
malcolm, deep, depression, friend, hero,
Form: Prose
All Lives Matter
Raising the slogans won't make it any better.
Dare to accept the truth,
All lives matter.
Does that sound better,
Islam is the way out,
Quran is the light out.
Read it I promise you will later have no doubt,
As from it I have learned
All lives matter.
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Categories:
malcolm, change, courage, creation, faith,
Form: ABC
Malcolm Has Immobilized a New Truth
Due to his parents’ deaths Malcom mobilizes a new truth
Laughing and cavorting, moving in a frenzy
He is covering up his sadness with faux mirth
His essence cloaking abject melancholy
Laughing and cavorting, moving in a frenzy
Creating an illusion of complacency and acceptance
He is covering up his sadness with faux mirth
The ones closest to him pretend to believe
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Categories:
malcolm, death, grief,
Form: Pantoum
Malcolm X
Born Malcolm Little, Malcolm X,
Formerly known as "Detroit Red," was fiery and complex.
An American Muslim Minister and Human Rights Activist
He became disillusioned as Elijah Muhammad's loyalist
Date written: 08/22/2019
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Categories:
malcolm, celebrity, people, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
A Little Phone Call Malcolm and Donald
A Little Phone Call Malcolm and Donald
by Bob Moore
Hello Donald
That Afro-American President, lived there just before you
agreed to take these Middle Eastern fellers from Naru
they are a bloody handful, getting worser every day
when you gonna send a boat, and take them all away
A deals a deal out here in Oz, even
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Categories:
malcolm, patriotic, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Double Tanka Re: Malcolm X
a. Perspective of Malcolm X
in the ghettos
like the reservations
white man builds
a separation of skins
hearts and minds
b. My Perspective
Malcolm Little born
to roll uphill
against all odds
a boy transmogrifies
into variable X
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Categories:
malcolm, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Tanka
Malcolm
Bullets pierced the night.
A Mother's Cry pierced the calm.
His life stained the streets.
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Categories:
malcolm, death, sad, urban,
Form: Haiku
Malcolm X
It is not as simple as merely changing one's name
You must understand the cauldron before that came
And the hustler's hair caught fire burning into red anguish
And the water is disconnected to out the wish
Something about a mother's prayer and father's faith
Like all the islands were one Caribbean state
Jamaica and St Kitts came together beautifully in
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Categories:
malcolm, black african american, prayer,
Form: Verse
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