Metaphor Racism Poems
These Metaphor Racism poems are examples of Racism poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Racism Metaphor poems written by international poets.
Black without a maskBlack without a mask
What would it look like to be black without a mask?
Would it look like freedom?
Or would they laugh?
At our attempt to be...
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racism, emotions, freedom, metaphor, prejudice,
The cold handShe just wanted help drowning
Everytime she tried speaking
It felt like a cold hand gripping her throat
It felt like racism breathing silence in her mouth
To other...
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Categories:
racism, death, discrimination, mental health,
There was a protest in my bodyMy heart The voice
Each beat a chant
Refusing to be silenced
Each beat getting louder
An act of defiance
It would not be quiet
Our skeleton
The foundation
The vessel which...
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racism, body, discrimination, metaphor, prejudice,
Where do all the apologies goWhere do all the apologies go
The ones unheard, unspoken of
Do they haunt the houses they can't move on from
Do they move through the walls
Waiting for...
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Categories:
racism, betrayal, color, community, home,
The many funerals of a black girlHow many funerals of ones self can someone have before there is nothing left
Don't answer
It's rhetorical anyway
Funeral number 1
A piece of her hair
A symbol...
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Categories:
racism, beauty, color, daughter, discrimination,
AN EBONY REVELATION
We are not your Hams,
We’re Lambs of the Lord:
Our Liberator!
Your race-based biblical thoughts,
Are as snowballs sent to hell:-
...
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Categories:
racism, allegory, bible, black african
Wrong NoteOn my first day of kindergarten, Mrs. Miller takes roll.
She begins some sort of symphony, a rapid chorus,
Emma, Jake, and Katie sing, Here, Here, Here!
Then,...
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Categories:
racism, extended metaphor, innocence, music,
I Know a PlaceI know a place where imperialism is hated
So much because majority people don't enjoy
...
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Categories:
racism, africa, humor, imagery, metaphor,
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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racism, allegory, black african american,
A Simple View of Death and DumbnessDeath is not a due destination deserved;
rather, it’s a God privilege that’s reserved.
Yet, you yellow-bellied bigots feel frightfully
free to stalk and murder us—
Prey to...
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racism, black african american, death,
Complexions of BeingWe are complexions of being,
gradations of actualization.
Our nature coming to be or passing away,
Aristotle wrote.
Mere complexions of being,
gradations of ontology.
In every American thing...
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racism, america, irony, metaphor, philosophy,
Bowing To the EastBowing to the East,
a sacred obligation,
comforting
and curious forehead down
to kiss this humble ground
of ego's straight supremacy
Including fat white men
buttocks up
and yintegrity open to receive
To...
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Categories:
racism, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Of Some Mad American Empire IOf some mad American empire
were Angels rage in the suicidal age
Of TV stars and failed billionaires
Upstart demagogues tyrannical
Wanta-bes who rule with lies...
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racism, allah, america, anger, betrayal,
When Deferred Dreams Become Blurred Visions: Apropos of Hughes's Proverbial QuestionWhat happens when rotten strange fruit…
Hanging from trees of auction block wood
Become stinking pieces of black flesh…
Dried blood putrefying in murderous streets…?
When crystallized tears of...
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Categories:
racism, 12th grade, allegory, analogy,
What Sends Them Harvard PoetsFor Langston Hughes
What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir:
What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir:
They'll never give me...
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Categories:
racism, america, discrimination, judgement, metaphor,