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Life People Poems

These Life People poems are examples of People poems about Life. These are the best examples of People Life poems written by international poets.

What becomes of a world?

The trees ache with a pain only those who have witnessed true horror 
The swinging rope moping for it had been turned to a killer...

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Categories: people, discrimination, family, funeral, metaphor,

Us be grateful for what?

Let them eat cake
But with no hands 
And a mouth sewn shut
Why us 
Why must we suffer with crumbs
And be grateful

To be grateful when slavery...

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Categories: people, discrimination, freedom, metaphor, prejudice,

Show, Don't Tell

In my experience
between the two
I'm not naming names
but what people say
and what they do
are not always
one and the same
as they don't follow through
life gets in...

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Categories: how i feel, people,

The choices we never got to make

A life of false happiness 
Or death by defiance
They claim we have a choice
But what kind of choice is a life of imprisonment or a...

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Categories: people, discrimination, freedom, history, peace,

Death by jealousy

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder 
That our differences make it subjective
But when it comes to black beauty 
We are the...

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Categories: people, beauty, discrimination, jealousy, joy,

Love Is All That Is Real

Destiny quivers,
 like the lips of young lovers awaiting their first kiss.
As I quivered before our first … although just your hand.
It was filled with...

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Categories: people, creation, destiny, god, inspirational,

The Red Geranium


When the pungent dust
and smoke settles
on empty streets
and on the rubble strewn,
bombed out blocks -
when all colour
has been bled out
of the land
leaving a shroud
of deathly...

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Categories: children, hope, loss, people,

You can't run from accountability

We know your game 
And we are not going to become slaves to it
We've seen you spin your lies like a spiders Web 
Your crimes...

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Categories: people, color, discrimination, prejudice, psychological,

The survival and demonisation being black

Acceptance equals survival 
Survival equals safety
Comfort equals invisibility 
And invisibility is vital 
For us to live a somewhat peaceful life
'Somewhat' because they even kill us...

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Categories: people, discrimination, evil, prejudice, race,

On counterfeit coins and notes

On fair ways of life what can wind not,
Counterfeit coins their way can find not.

Your shadows do if find the sun strong,
Sure, with me the...

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Categories: life, people,

A Qualitative Report on a Single Subject Ego Death

Hypothesis:
What is an ego anyways
Are we born with it
And from the moment we have the willpower 
we’re tasked with muting it
Or does it grow from...

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Categories: people, change, death, mental health,

To Know The Truth

Does life to anyone really make sense?
Or is all of mankind, really this dense?
God offers his wisdom and truth to man,
Yet it still seems we...

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Categories: confusion, god, life, people,

The strength we embody

They told us our skin meant exile
That our joy would be put on trial
Because it brings rain
But how can they hate the rain when it...

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Categories: people, discrimination, prejudice, race, racism,

Black joy vs the world

They hate us not because we’re bad but because we are everything they cannot be
Because while they stew in their own misery
Formed from their own...

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Categories: people, beauty, discrimination, joy, prejudice,

The lies they killed us with

They starved our bodies of love 
Then complain how our bones shake in fear
They strip us of our dignity 
Then glare at us when we...

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Categories: people, discrimination, history, political, prejudice,