Daughter Racism Poems

Why can't the world be like it was when I was young
    No one cleaning up dog-due dung

  Kids dying right...

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What fills your goals, son?

I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...

If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a...

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Is this the price we pay for our right to have guns 
the blood of innocent souls lost to oblivion: a gentle violence

Forever a mental...

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They Gave the Verdict Today.
They Gave Us 27 Million, but that Can Never Bring You Back.
I Will Never Hear Your Voice, See Your Smile, or...

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A fetching feminine
With magnificent melanin
A soft skin
With a shiny shin
A captivating cleavage
With syrupy sweat
A gorgeous girlfriend
With gleeful giggles
A warm woman
With humane heart
A mindful mother
With a...

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He was a nice quiet gentle man
He had family friends wife and a daughter too
But Rayshard Brooks was also a black man
He was just waiting...

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Fight for me my friends  
I died because I couldn't fight for myself
the weight of his body was on my neck   ...

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The other day
you asked me my friend, who I am
I replied:
I am you in another body!

Yes, it is true
look, how much alike we are,
no matter...

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Can you imagine being chained in a ship and taken to a strange land against your will? 
     Can you imagine...

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No one fairly knows what a "thing" is, not before "education"
Attributes ... Names begin "THING-ing" for us, the indoctrination 
Moses means "pull out, draw" as...

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. for public domain

Children swing from big oak trees,
from lengths of rope in Summer's breeze,
flying free to catch the water,
rich man's, poor man's, son or...

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Ninety-Three Daughters of Israel
a Holocaust poem by Chaya Feldman
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We washed our bodies
and cleansed ourselves;
we purified our souls
and became clean.

Death does...

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The thing you have to realize,
my wife and I don’t look the same,
some would say we’re different ‘races,’
but I find that concept inane.

Some hate seeing...

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She was soft and the winter snow
was out learning good deeds as we know.

Imprisonment or the dead penalty
nothing can affect the inner cruelty.

She was broken...

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Why make an enemy of a daughter or a son?
A sacrifice on the altar of your sacred opinion.
Birthday wishes celebration, no more segregation.
A fractured population,...

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