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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Mixing in the MoonlightMixing in the Moonlight
Dear darling, gaze ye at the blood red moon.
Ancient light that calls with its bright red tones.
Fret not, on the breeze there will be no tune.
For the loss is great, witness...
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Categories:
angst, baptism, discrimination, prejudice,
Form: Sonnet
Black KnowledgeWhite people are not
your problem
Satan is
your problem...
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Categories:
prejudice, america, bible, black african
Form: Free verse
Judge Not The Thoughts Of OthersCritical thoughts not said out loud.
Rumbling sounds heard through the crowd.
“Who are we to judge him?”, one said.
Discerning thoughts all in my head.
Judging is not the task at hand.
He walks and talks and takes his...
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Categories:
prejudice, creation, introspection, judgement, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
Outer Beauty
In a world consumed by fleeting time,
Where outer beauty reigns, a paradigm,
There is a truth that we often forget:
A beauty deeper than just the skin, I bet.
Such a tree with roots embedded in the ground,
Its...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, emotions, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Weapons of WonderWeapons of Wonder
By Mark Stucky
If humans must wage war,
let it be upon our own evils.
Let there be genocide on
violence and divisiveness,
malice and indifference,
prejudice and inequity,
foolishness and falsehoods.
If humans must make weapons,
let us weaponize goodness,
arm ourselves...
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Categories:
prejudice, evil, hate, love, political,
Form: Free verse
DEAR SERENA
Dear Serena Williams…I want to take a moment and apologize to you
for something I didn’t say…something I did not do.
As we waited under a crab apple tree for our pizza the other day
a group of...
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Categories:
hate, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
To Judge ThomasCan they take back
the rights our parents earned?
Take back the Lynching
and all the houses burned?
Can they move you
to the back of the bus?
And close their doors
to most of us?
Stop us from just saying
it's not...
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Categories:
angst, political, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
A virtueTo forgive is to forget
Even if the perpetrator has no regret
Patience is a virtue for one with might
A merciless executioner with bloody footprints in sight
Another love, Another string
A dirty little heart is all I have...
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Categories:
prejudice, forgiveness, gothic, grief, love,
Form: Free verse
A wordIn the midnight's hush, a word was whispered,
A message destined for the Mooli's own kin,
A task entrusted to the son's devoted heart,
To carry forth, to the one he loved from within.
Transformed, he became a modern-day...
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Categories:
prejudice, anti bullying, beauty, black
Form: Free verse
Juan tells you he is an immigrant, northern mexico
Juan tells you he is an immigrant, northern mexico
that he learned to speak english in iowa
and these coupled are the reason
Juan's accent is different
Juan is not mexican
Juan lives in fear of americans
Juan in america...
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Categories:
anti bullying, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
The Fortified HillI didn’t know that it exists until I see an ant crawling out of a disc, I didn’t know that it exists until I see a beetle from the order of Coleoptera coming out...
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Categories:
prejudice, business, confidence, drug, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Not where jeff is a chef
It had yet to enter Mister Jeff’s head
That I know him like the back of my hands:
Never would ask him bread let alone bed,
News of this sure to make it to distant lands…
The choice of...
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Categories:
prejudice, conflict, fear, food, hate,
Form: Rhyme
WHEN WE CLOSE OUR EYES
Closing our eyes is easy…it’s probably the most excellent way
to think, to hope, to dream…to make a wish…to kiss…to pray.
In the quiet darkness behind our eyes is where people start
to heed the teachings of their...
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Categories:
prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Equality
Broken by the yearnings
The feelings and the burnings
Through inequity, the imbalance
Two hearts, two souls, two hopes
Never given the impartiality,
The fairness, the equality – balanced
Joys, promises, peace…
Broken by the partialities
The biases and prejudices, the favoritisms,
The...
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Categories:
prejudice, appreciation, blessing, endurance, heart,
Form: Free verse
The Power of WordsWords Outlive
Culminated at a cease, a fate sealed tight.
Raise your thirst for fiction to set issues right.
Bestow on doubt with each dense mental wave.
Deception grips and reasoning cannot save.
Words that are both memorable and bold.
Attracts...
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Categories:
analogy, anti bullying, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Prejudice Poems
Definition | What is Prejudice in Poetry?