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Nat Turner Poems - Poems about Nat Turner

Acknowledgements

...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3. Sally Aline Mae Beller 4. Charles Edward A. Berry 5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó 7. Joh......

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Categories: nat turner, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List

She Goes Back

...She Goes Back By Lillian J. Jeffrey Whispers flow like a river she will be sold sold or rented like a cash crop Born on a Maryland plantation her mother works the big house Harriet r......

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Categories: nat turner, anger, devotion, hope, passion,
Form: Alliteration

She Goes Back

Categories: nat turner, courage, freedom, loss, spiritual,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

She Goes Back

Categories: nat turner, courage, dedication, journey, pain,
Form: Alliteration

Spirituals and Drums

...My ancestors walking in the night using oil lights and moonlight for guides while being instructed to Wade in the Water to camouflage their scents like disguise The Sweet Chariot awaited so they co......

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Categories: nat turner, art, bible, black african
Form: Verse

Fallen Leaders

...THEY WERE AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL THEY WERE MIGHTY AND THEY WERE STRONG. THEY FOUGHT FOR EQUALITY AND FOR JUSTICE THEY PUT GOD FIRST IN EVERYTHING. THEY DO. THEY STOOD UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEV......

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Categories: nat turner, education, history, philosophy, tribute,
Form: Narrative

Death Is Nothing: the True Story of Nat Turner - Part 3 (Finale)

...We started going house to house and freeing all the slaves, then killing all the white folks left with hatchets, knives and chains, we only used blunt objects to conceal our wave of smoke, I......

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Categories: nat turner, historyhouse, me, day, house,
Form: Rhyme

Death Is Nothing: the True Story of Nat Turner - Part 2

...I heard a loud noise in the heavens, God what can it be? The air around me shimmered then a Spirit came to me, I couldn't move a muscle due to hard work in the heat, the Spirit then began to......

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Categories: nat turner, historygod, work, god, work,
Form: Rhyme

Death Is Nothing: the True Story of Nat Turner - Part 1

...The original version of this piece is too long for me to post in its entirety, so it had to be sectioned off. Of all that I've written, I am most proud of this work due to its historical accura......

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Categories: nat turner, historygod, me, old, work,
Form: Rhyme

Home of the Slaves

...Land of the free Home of the slaves The blood, sweat and tears of my ancestors resonate Amongst the soil where they were slain I’m hearing their struggle I’m feeling their pain I can’t imagine being ......

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Categories: nat turner, allegory, black african american,
Form: Verse