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Resisting Arrest Poems - Examples of all types of poems about resisting arrest to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for resisting arrest.

Long Story Short

...A walk around the block in my parents’ neighborhood at dawn wearing mom’s sweater and pop's sneakers with a clown hole cut out for toe infection I was stopped by a cop in a cruiser this w......Read the rest...

Categories: resisting arrest, brother, city, judgement, new
Form: Free verse

Fear

...Me and you we are all the same; same bones, same blood but a different race and a different name. When I walk past you, I feel nothing but shame. You clinch your purse; you lock your doors. You tu......Read the rest...

Categories: resisting arrest, america, anger, black african
Form: Rhyme

I Can Breathe, If You Let Me

...I Can Breathe … IF You Let Me! Woefully, from the days of our patriarch Kunta Kinte, to this century; They have tried to strip us of our name, our dignity and our ethnicity. It’s people like us an......Read the rest...

Categories: resisting arrest, bereavement, betrayal, black african
Form: Rhyme

Strangled Justice

... Just another siren roadkill: A low-down, rabid raccoon resisting arrest at high noon A feral noted asphalt death So says the official pol-pol report In a Terminator monotone was th......Read the rest...

Categories: resisting arrest, allusion, death, grief, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Verse

I Can'T Breathe

...'I can't breathe I can't breathe ' 'Please take your knee off my neck I can't breathe' 'My stomach hurts, my neck hurts I can't breathe' Were his last words 'I can't breathe' Hundreds of years ......Read the rest...

Categories: resisting arrest, abuse, anger, bullying, color,
Form: Rhyme

J F F - Justice For Floyd

...J . F . F (Justice For Floyd) This man was murdered by a white police man's knee, placed on his neck and the whole world could see while he pleaded, and wasn't even resisting arrest but was for......Read the rest...

Categories: resisting arrest, 1st grade, america, black
Form: Rhyme

With Liberty and Justice For All

...You can't purchase liquor, son. You're underage. Pardon me, officer. May I see your badge? Button your lip, son. Or you'll be resisting arrest. But I'm 21, officer. Better check my ID, ......Read the rest...

Categories: resisting arrest, america, discrimination, rights,
Form: Rhyme

Copping An Attitude

... Uniform bravery blue checked out before the stroke of midnight Just as my black butt inadvertently ran into a bullet fired by the nervous trigger finger of officer Fife But in the c......Read the rest...

Categories: resisting arrest, anger, discrimination, prejudice, society,
Form: Burlesque