Melanin Poems - Poems about Melanin

...Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation... Maternal grandfather of mine long since passed among the living; He left his Motherland before onset of Holodomor, a policy of the Soviet Union......Read the rest...

... In my diary of destinies, your song left a sweet scar. In the silent savagery of time, fate falters, floating like a feather, yet my soul still sings your name. In ivory and ebony hu......Read the rest...

...They met at the foot of the tree when the temperature was minus zero degrees, the wind was blowing, the trees were shaking, and her body was subdued in the cold. She has been living at the foot of th......Read the rest...

...Black is the new poetry my dear Authored by our ancestors so I could have a voice that is heard beyond the volume of fear The ink has always been dark so see with your ears Black is the new love, ......Read the rest...

...I am Africa, the cradle of mankind, Where ancient footprints in the sands of time entwined, The birthplace of humanity, divinely designed, In my esteemed valleys, where life first aligned. I am......Read the rest...

...Birthday feelings Another year is back no longer can leapfrog this day Where my body squeals on me from time to time Melanin, flawless, caramel skin transparent for you to view my friends, Face ......Read the rest...

...Melanin Underestimated Some celebrated Interesting Censorship......Read the rest...

...She sweeps her lawn almost every day She wears a vest that blocks my way Tomorrow, I swear I’ll greet her anyway She stares through her window opposite my kitchen ......Read the rest...

...My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month Which acknowledgement ought to be year round, similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic unconditional acceptance and ......Read the rest...

...It's a mystery to me. The meaning and identifying particles of DNA that ancestors passed along to me. It's been said we have many colors on our paint bed, but still I can't fit in with any that lack ......Read the rest...

...Light skin, fair skin All clamoured for by Creams to the rescue Fading creams, toning creams All bleaching creams Women and men, old and young all clamouring for light skin. Looks enhancers......Read the rest...

...Politesse pleases me... thank you very much for letting me clutch your attention courtesy sharing following thoughts thru reading my poem analogous to invisible electronic, fantastic, kineti......Read the rest...

...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,......Read the rest...

...I ask myself a rhetorical question regarding... the durability, longevity, and tenacity of *****sapiens, after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity. How did the human species ma......Read the rest...

...Our black is Yahuahs definition of beauty.. Not a beauty we must become but the righteous beauty of our creation. It's strength not from the clouds but it comes from the powerful image of our c......Read the rest...