Art Racism Poems

North for the fields of corn grow and many feasts cleaning dirty skin in the white river bath they laugh they cry slaughtered like sheep...

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A HOUSE DIVIDED
 
What right do you have to tell someone 
Else how to use their bodies like they should

You don’t run their life and...

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watch the heavenly forms fall 
a body in motion a remains in devotion 
how odd, held in time 

in the shafts of light sliced though...

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They, the blind
Heavy laden with mystery of denial
Empty of eclectic views
Yearns for Island of blinding white light.

They hate the color black
Every woman's sexy black dress
Every...

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What Is Truth
Written: by Miracle Man
2/15/2021
 
As acts of rebellion
some paint murals in the street.
Others remove from history, statues of those long departed.
Looting and burning...

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For most of my life
I’ve walked around blind
Never watching the news
Kept an open mind

One day I was informed
“You sound like a liberal”
I felt rather scorned...

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I can’t breathe,
variety is a spice at risk of facing the ban
the neck is pressed by the knee to show the superior one
yet our organs...

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Parades are festive 
They send a celebratory message 
Protests have an evil look 
Like they were run by a crook 
Ranting 
Chanting 
Yelling and screaming...

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I am not a paid-up member here
Hence you don't see me everywhere
There is a contest, be it poems or prose
On this site, I find everyday...

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I
Do not let your words die inside
That advice makes me a teacher-poet
Don't judge me, we both have the right 
To write: death comes before we...

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Translations of Holocaust poems by Ber Horvitz aka Ber Horowitz

Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray ...
I...

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Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be...

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Poison


Division
Fear
locking children in camps
a leader who leads this way
his sheep follow with red caps
covering their hearts

in white
covering their faces

in black
is their hatred

ISIS
MAGA
both four letter words
honor...

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This one right here
Is probably 
More properly 
Suited for persons of poverty
Pondering robbery
Constantly on the street
Profiting from a pharmacy
State of mind
And honestly i dont need...

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State of Confusion



No to progress
Yes to Pence
No to openness
Yes to the camps
No to socialism
Yes to the lemmings
No to healthcare
Yes to healthcare
Very confusing
However
You have the worst...

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