Negros Poems - Poems about Negros

...Piles of garbage; sounds of carnage they motion Blurry images of malnourished children Struggling for breath and bread They evince; the struggles as we grow -of how we ourselves are adversaries t......Read the rest...

...Annie Lander I never took notice of Aunt Jemima photo as exploitation Nothing racial or stereo types (did you)? All I remember was the sticky bottle on our kitchen table, next to a stack ......Read the rest...

...i said to the waitress i'd like frijoles negros con arroz but i said to my wife i'm trying to have a con cessation with you not a solilo quy......Read the rest...

... From the grounds of the south during the sweltering summer of Negros in America*, came white violence and murder. The suppression and degradation of decades. Americans treated as......Read the rest...

...Si de pronto no existes, (If of a sudden you were no more,) si de pronto no vives,(if of a sudden you live no more,) yo seguiré viviendo. (I'll continue to live.) No me atrevo,(I do not da......Read the rest...

...The Call To Justice When the days turn sourer And the month turns dark With the years flinging to return no more Only the lonely already will thrive. When the hopes of the Negros grow faint B......Read the rest...

...Strictly assigned to confine, The world need my eyes to surely comply, I'm battling the gestures of 'don't try', Mouths wage confusions from deep reply, You're sensing it in conceated line, F......Read the rest...

...RAINBOW COALITION As part of the darkness All melentolin what's all the drama why do we allow predudice For when we all die we become dirt and dust Our souls has no color Our soul is the tru......Read the rest...

...My first amendment right was never fought for overseas! It was Martin Luther King who was beat to his knees! It was Fanne Lou Hamer who gave me permission to speak! It was a war on Sunday but only in......Read the rest...

...Translation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan for David Attoe Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’ Wittgenstein in Zettel laissez pendre la ......Read the rest...

...Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)......Read the rest...

...espiritu afin huyo sin razon embriagantes nubes grises bailado y entregado el odor della lluvia colgado alli como un huerfano los agujeros negros en el cielo mortal rieron en la cara abi......Read the rest...

...This country These people have pushed me to this edge The ledge was never that stable My people are beat in the head with labels I guess that's why my condition is unstable Our troops who......Read the rest...

...White Man’s Good Ole’ Days I’m the law in these parts; This here is my town son. You better learn your place; Listen up until I’m done. You can’t eat at the tables; You can’t drink at the b......Read the rest...

...I look all round me and I’m engulfed by shame I see people chanting freedom But they have nothing tangible to show they are free Because their freedom’s trail is unknown to them Shackles of......Read the rest...