Police Brutality Poems - Poems about Police Brutality

Rampant and endemic police brutality... flourishes against United States citizens of color going on three years post George Floyd short lived heightened awareness when #blacklivesmatter in conjunction with 1619 project wrought upwelling of progressive surge hinting at positive transformations. Despite random throw of dice proffering gifting, blessing, et cetera yours truly as Caucasian agony, grief and particularly anger roil these lovely bones life,...

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Police Brutality We’ll shoot. Don’t move. Don’t talk or We’ll disapprove. Don’t reach. We’ll kill. Comply, Listen, Be quiet, Be still. Four in the morning wake up. Forget the horrors, don’t sip the death cup. Get ready for work, put down the sharpened knife. The first call will be in, gone is another life. Typical day, it’s a suicide who blew off half his...

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We’ll shoot. Don’t move. Don’t talk or We’ll disapprove. Don’t reach. We’ll kill. Comply, Listen, Be quiet, Be still. Four in the morning wake up. Forget the horrors, don’t sip the death cup. Get ready for work, put down the sharpened knife. The first call will be in, gone is another life. Typical day, it’s a suicide who blew off half his face. Nothing...

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when i saw it i was sad angry hurt shocked, and sought my sanctuary 082420PSCtest, When Plans Don't Go To Plan, Silent One Per rules: No caps, little to no punctuations...

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I Love. Start by saying "Hello" to strangers Even on Poetry Soup II Love somebody who seems "arrogant." Or eliminate everyone who is not humble enough like you....

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Dissenters dominate the streets, The public dominion of demonstrations. This POTUS threatens military domination. Just forget the pesky First Amendment. Sowing seeds of civil war The best path...

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GLORY TO OUR LORD AND SAVIOR Yeshua HaMeshiach Thousands of miles away, my drums beat with America - the ear drums as much as my heart rhythm: news of abuse A mild term for what some (a minority, surely) police do When they can get away with murder, or "crucifying a man" - But when I am called...

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I I tried not to mention the crime Siblings, it is high time America stopped self-flagellation, Self-hate, self-abnegation II I feel for him, brother George ("of the earth") I came close, but saved by a different birth To feel the accusing eyes: "Me, the evil one" Only because I stayed in school, joined the run III Black America wants to drive, play ... like us Tired of...

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Freedom is America's middle name; one is missing ... FORGIVENESS LORD, please be with USA now, you are the NOW God. America needs U "Others" feel hated, berated, executed by cop, or racial bias. Bless us YOU know us! You blessed Pilgrims and Puritans, Quakers & Penn Do it again LORD. Many like Rhonda are weeping ... U heard...

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Agony, grief and particularly anger roil these lovely bones life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness exempts those graced with darker skin tones. Rather than raucously riot, I craft emotions courtesy poetry mine feeble attempt to agitate and protest sublimated thru scathing poetic indictment lame contrasted against violent protests. Peaceable methodology, (viz printed word) versus war preferable mode to conflict resolution opposed to explosive uproar angry frenzied mob scenes...

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Prejudice, inferiority and abuse maligned, hashtagged, and dogged heels of peoples uprooted peoples south of the equator, or elsewhere whose epidermis strongly hinted fifty plus shades of ebony. They found themselves in debasement within complex edifice housing facade of equality ofttimes receiving punishment their sole supposed crime accentuated, heightened, perpetrated courtesy born swarthy complexion even if prominent features (think European) quite apparent. Two hundred and thirty three months into twenty first...

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Good morning Hood morning Never a good morning in the hood but let's discuss the mourning. Im talking tear shed cross on a sidestreet, oh he knows Black boy knows Black boy morns Black boy says good morning to his mommy before he leaves for school Black boy walks, walking dead Black boy freeze Black boy hands up Black boy stop resisting, unarmed black boy Knee...

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a knee, a neck, a symbol, a tool the segregationist would be proud fighting to breathe is a fight where Vegas is covering all odds let's lay our money and him down the spittle, the pool on the ground does not need to be explained, cleaned or vilified this is America dammit where change is not always the objective where the unwritten...

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"Beware Of the Ides of the men on black" The judges and jurors of our fates, blink. Every time we will, they will reform it They even gave them new uniforms But they preferred the black 'It suits them mos' And more guns,lesser humanity. The Leaders of tomorrow are forbidden from seeing the morrows. Put on rags, glorify poverty; Just maybe, you...

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long after a full moon had thrown its arms around the sky I stood with Al Stone ignoring the futility in our lives adolescence gave way to manhood or so we like to believe our ideology stifled from a serious lack of dreams with the care of a midwife removing a child from the womb a marijuana cigarette was born then...

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