Prejudice Poems - Examples of all types of prejudice poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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A Cup of TeaMum, you make me sad with your eyes
Please tell what troubles you
I am fine, you imagine things
But mum if you are happy,
Your eyes should be happy too
I am going to make you a...
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Categories:
prejudice, cry, depression, fear, heartbroken,
Form: Ballad
I Know She is a FreakThis person was one of the new Proautonomists.
I feared them so I stayed out of her way, fearing her.
She wore her screaming hair in a bunched up wad
It looked like fireworks, spreading out and...
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Categories:
prejudice, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Blinkered by plasticPlastic everywhere,
my sight filtered to see it,
but up close snowdrops!...
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Categories:
flower, pollution, prejudice,
Form: Haiku
Black in the DayThanks for making us tough, ever so rough
Black in the Day, Black in today
They still do us harm when caught unarmed
Still trying to hold us back, still mad because we’re black
No matter how much we...
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Categories:
prejudice, black african american, change,
Form: Narrative
Don't Hold Your Breath -- AUDIOI wish I could have lived long enough to see all evidence of prejudice and racism in only dusty history books.
And FYI: I'll be posting a bunch of my AUDIO files over the...
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Categories:
black african american, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
A True to Life Blind Fool -- AUDIOBigotry and prejudice aren't quite as systemic as they were pre-1970, but they're worth every possible effort to eliminate altogether.
FYI: I'll be posting a bunch of my AUDIO files over the next few...
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Categories:
prejudice, black african american, hate,
Form: Narrative
Tcha Limberger, now Belgian and BELONGINGSpanish Violinist, living as Belgian,
Using the Italian for his collective nightmare:
The Ignored, Disposable Humans who make music
Even after the Nazis, "I Silenti"...
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Categories:
prejudice, absence, abuse, allusion, community,
Form: Bio
Beyond DeprivationPrincipled or vile, honorable or depraved,
we all view the same stars,
suffer the same dread.
The richest minds among us were
all once bedwetters.
The puerile erect walls like Trump’s fortification,
they imagine iron and concrete impervious to the
ghosts of...
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Categories:
prejudice, america, anxiety, community, hope,
Form: Free verse
CHALLENGED LOVE(A true story 1963-2020)
He and she were of different colors
In times of racial strife and intolerance.
He was black and handsome.
She was blond and pretty.
But others only saw them as threats
To their "rights" of superiority.
They only...
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Categories:
identity, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Indignation 1-6-21How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history,
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...
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Categories:
prejudice, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Hey Mitch McConnellHey Mitch McConnell...
about all this talk (I hear) about indefatigable (Phila/ Philly-buster)
Police sirens wail doth punctuate the air
ear splitting soundclouds blare
another typical arrest
(guilty until proven innocent if ever)
so much for Black Lives matter protests
biased accusations...
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Categories:
prejudice, abuse, adventure, america, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Bluebeard - InaugurationDid you know? Did you see? Did you hear?
Did you think? Did you hope? Did you sneer?
For today is the day
that Bluebeard goes away!
Bid adieu to his mountainous rear!
...
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Categories:
prejudice, corruption, farewell, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
India Pakistan borderacross country border the hatred games,
played with bullets for political aims,
their history, their culture much the same,
mislead, misinformed their passions aflame!
year after year, generations of blame,
their families bear same ancestral name,
history forgotten from whence...
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Categories:
prejudice, angst, conflict, future, history,
Form: Rhyme
The Prisonerspirit adventurous
beauty in a conventional world
The jailer dangle the key of isolation
as her maverick desires
is tagged essentric.
bared, stripped off curiosity
she is a phantom
caught in scarlet embrace
a heart once clear as crystal
dims in the...
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Categories:
discrimination, identity, judgement, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
CrisisThe NBA was on strike,
Everyone is in the fight.
Racial injustice rages on,
It’s urgent for change to come.
Black man paralyzed with seven pops,
No actions are taken to make a stop.
White man gets the special treatment,
While...
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Categories:
prejudice, black african american, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Prejudice Poems
Definition | What is Prejudice in Poetry?