Tree Racism Poems

It's because of ya ya ya you
I'm ashamed to be wa wa wa white
Don't be sus sus sus suprised If I don't fa fa fa...

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We love we cry we laugh 
we are the loving tree 
we grow and we know 
I'm brown he's creamy 
we are broken but we...

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The Lynching

Oh how it is, to be an oak tree, 
one time a nut and now mighty. 
One time blooming in the bright sunlight, 
now...

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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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Let us dine on sugar-spun moonlight: 
an exquisite treat that
Fills our bellies and sticks to our teeth,
The nostalgic taste of White Rabbit candy,
Creamily sweet, wrapped...

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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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An elderly black man with a head of grey hair,
Loyal to the farmland he worked but did not own,
In a time when law and justice’s...

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“Lynching”

Black man floating in space
Knotted rope about his face
Crosses burning
White sheets chanting

Black man squirming     
Blue knee choking 
Buildings burning
Dark nights looming

A...

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There is a war in the laws of the in-laws
When family is also work, you get a title and a position with conditions
Past life comes...

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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 - III - Miklos Radnoti

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

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A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !

Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
	Anyone can ‘make it’  
Never...

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I Can’t Breathe
 
My Country, I ask of thee,
why do you still hate me?
America the Beautiful,
why, why, am I scorned and reviled,
your unwanted dark child?
 
With your...

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Can you imagine being chained in a ship and taken to a strange land against your will? 
     Can you imagine...

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Lynching Live; So What? Trumped-Up Normality Reins

Knee lynching streamed live,
Shadowed death’s source is revealed;
Justice remains blind!

Cameras roll, showing death’s shadowed 
source.
Cameras don’t lie; streaming the...

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