Prayer Racism Poems

All I want is world peace
In the west, in the east
In the north and the south
To close your mouth
When you're happy
To stop the misery
During the...

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In Ouachita's murmurs, where pine needles sigh,
I trace the mountains' ancient, weathered crown.
Silvered river forgotten secrets float by,
And fills my heart, a sonorous chamber now.

A...

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Seek Peace And Pray
Miracle Man
10/9/2023

Man can’t get along because of our divergence,
and owing to this we live in constant dispute.
We play the race card and...

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My calloused black skin got shoved in the soil by a white mans soiled thumb
Trying to make his mortgage off me

Buried
I found friends 
Barely breathing

But...

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Spanish Violinist, living as Belgian,
Using the Italian for his collective nightmare:
The Ignored, Disposable Humans who make music
Even after the Nazis, "I Silenti"...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass

Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

These skies
are...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)

These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew....

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Listen you poor, puny, proud black child
Standing on street corners and living in poverty.
Listen you educated, sophisticated woman and man
Seeking prosperity in this American society.
Don’t...

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Neighborhoods burned. Riots laid them to waste
The world is tense with racial dissension
Judgement by color leaves an acrid taste
But God offers hope through intervention

He created...

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Reign of terror plays out
Endless nights as victims shout
So many good ones vanish
People must hide their anguish
Equality is a forbidden word
Community's voice tries to be...

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As they say, “Where there’s smoke, there is fire”
In this case it is certainly true.
For a people who once ruled so many
Find themselves in the...

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Father lend me your ear
Am tired of breathing toxic air
Lies and fear is all I live and hear 
Day and night I pray for some...

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I
Praying for peaceful stewardship of our planet
Praying for exposing the evil police dragnet

II
Police instead your stewardship of the planet
Plant not police where stewards ought to...

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Freedom is America's middle name; one is missing ... FORGIVENESS
LORD, please be with USA now, you are the NOW God. America needs U
"Others" feel hated,...

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I am not a paid-up member here
Hence you don't see me everywhere
There is a contest, be it poems or prose
On this site, I find everyday...

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