Girl Racism Poems

These days my wife and I are in Australia for a holiday 
We walk down to Coogee beach every other day
A signage screams, ‘racism not...

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Pretty like the crystalline canyon rocks -
   Fair like a deer wandering in the morn' -
With the Great Spirit as a faithful witness
...

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Ruby

Ruby Bridges was one of the first Black American pupils	
in a 'White' school 
after racial segregation was declared unconstitutional.

It was November 14th, 1960 when six...

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...When her own had run, that man had remained…
they still called him evil, that seemed insane,
when one day her brother came home stained red
all of...

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I relive the nightmare of seeing my papa hanged
At six, I didn’t know I could cry so hard and so much
They dragged him to a...

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Poets Keep the Stars apart

I’m a Robert Frost girl
TS & Walt Whitman too
Took the road less traveled
Singin’ boundless blue

Eecummings is dear to me
Carry your heart
Like...

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...He kept looking for Asian boys,
and kept trying to set her up,
went out of the way to make things
for Lin and I exceedingly rough.
But Lin...

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I remember when I was young,
playing with my best friend Jerome,
we had some woods behind our houses,
our frontier, where we would go roam.
We played soldier,...

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Mississippi 1954 

"Don’t you bring that no good 
      So and so 'round here. 
If you bring him to ma...

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Once upon a time,
there was a little girl,
who liked to wear skirts.

The people in the streets
didn't like the view
of the girls legs hue.
"The sun is...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi

Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch

You who live secure
in your comfortable houses, 
who...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti

Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died...

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What are you looking at? I spoke to you and said hello! I am looking at the content of your character and not the color...

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I don’t look like the girl next to me.
Same interests, same hobbies, sure.
But to be perceived like her is not guaranteed.
When you look at me...

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Felt a little ‘City’ as I got stuck on that dirt road 
my little Honda she’s not comfortable 
Just one street light, shining in the...

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