Journey Racism Poems

(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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When you aid another and leave a migrant to die in the sea
Then you're no better than a killer, read on to learn why, you'll...

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Hate Vacuuming?

By Mark Stucky
Vacuum cleaners are pneumatic nobles,
built to cleanse our offices and homes,
sucking dust from floors and crevices
to discard in trash cans
(where dirt belongs).

What...

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(Note: This poem was written shortly after the 2022 Olympics and after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos rode their rockets in a new space race...

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it is as though
they saw my beauty,
full and radiant
lasted only in the 
rich soil i was born in.

so they picked me and
stomped the roots dry.
one...

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It interests me,
this journey into the garden
each spring
to notice how diverse vegies
and flowers,
edibles
and ornamentals,
pollinators
and soil enrichers,
work cooperatively together
when they can

My own planning part
notices potential competitions,
for...

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I’m witnessing this racism 
That’s right in front of me 
Or am I just insane?
Maybe I’m being paranoid?

Others tell me to get over it
So ignorant...

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My heart went on a roam to explore 
A place far away across the fence bar.
To seize the moment of an open door
Adventure felt free...

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I grew up in a home that was so black and white,
but mostly white because we were taught to hide from the dark.
I've spent every...

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With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration...

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Writing yet another note to my straight white CongressMan,
asking him to Please, Do Panic
about all this fear-based non-legislation
undemocratic fascist 
nationalistic Win/Lose evolutionary corrupt
democratic devolution
going on...

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That day when legal slavery ended
	A brief moment when justice seemed palpable
marked only the first chapter of caped cross burners 
and rageful lynch mobs
marked only...

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During the second century, there were many Christians who were tortured and put to death for being Christian. There was one named Sanctus* who, when...

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When God created this world, everything was nice and dandy and perfect,
But the disobedience of Adam and Eve introduced sin and sowed defect,
Soon thereafter sin...

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If I return from this conscious drudgery, I will tell,
I will tell of a subjugation, 
the spite and silent disdain
I will tell of the avoidance...

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