Home Racism Poems
These Home Racism poems are examples of Racism poems about Home. These are the best examples of Racism Home poems written by international poets.
That is Not My Namethe lunchbox moment.
I can feel the looks of disgust as I make my way to the table,
I sit down,
others stand up,
walk away.
kids grimace at the...
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Categories:
race, racism,
Closed Community Prejudice--an Alphabetized Memoir
(Note: In this abecedarian poem, I redacted the name of the particular denomination to protect the innocent and to universalize the context. Fill in your...
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Categories:
racism, community, discrimination, hate, prejudice,
The Unknown WorldAs I walk through this unknown world
With a heavy heart and an anxious soul,
All I can think of is my family
For they are the...
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Categories:
racism, adventure, analogy, anti bullying,
The Immortal RoachNorth 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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Categories:
america, art, racism,
RubyRuby
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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Categories:
racism, black african american, discrimination,
WomenWomen
Women are the soul and body of society, so why compromising and neglecting. Why not receiving equal pay and rights. Are not you have mothers...
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Categories:
racism, 10th grade, abuse, america,
Gateway TownGateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within...
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Categories:
racism, allusion, city, class, longing,
In the Rainbow of Reining JusticeIN THE RAINBOW OF REINING JUSTICE
Red is the flowing blood of liberation;
Black is the blood that flows from arteries
of those systematically murdered and
denied justice...
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Categories:
racism, allegory, black african american,
The Poem I Never Wrote BeforeIn love- we married young-
my dear Marine and I.
We moved from North to South
to settle in the home
which housed our little nest-
June- nineteen fifty-eight.
My poems...
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Categories:
racism, history, sad,
My PlaceThe year of 2022 and we still experience fear.
Why do you fear us in “Your” neighborhood, especially Black males? You fear Black males, yet...
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Categories:
racism, america, change, god, hate,
His Life Mattered, Part Iii...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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racism, change, conflict, growth, people,
His Life Mattered, Part IiShe screamed frantically, “My boy is in there!
Somebody, please! Help Him!” But nobody cared.
The mob was all running, fleeing the scene,
on her...
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racism, change, conflict, growth, people,
His Life Mattered, Part IIt was back in summer, 2020,
when activists ran ‘round, burning cities,
convinced that they had to destroy their lives
since a thug with similar skin color died.
Amidst...
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racism, change, conflict, growth, people,
ReserveReserve
When the dam breaks,
there will be no flood.
There will be no rushing water,
to run from.
It has all been drank,
or...
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Categories:
racism, family, farewell, judgement, silence,
A Gentle Violence IIs 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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Categories:
racism, abuse, allegory, allusion, america,