Selma Poems - Poems about Selma

...Have you ever been to Slave City Ever on my mind, And it really is a grave pity For all those friends of mine. A visit back to another time, With massah and the whip But this is now a modern ......Read the rest...

...Where is Selma? I asked her mother. You won’t believe me. I might. Reading in her nest. I thought her mom meant her bed. But her bed was empty. Her mom led me to the den. Selma was sprawle......Read the rest...

...I’d never really worried about meeting someone, But the day that I met Selma, I understood why. Everything about her told me that she was the one, So I wasn’t about to let the chance pass me by. ......Read the rest...

...Selma started out with a little pup when she was nine. He was a darling fellow, and best of all “all mine”. Her parents thought the couple was sublime. They let her get a new puppy all the time. ......Read the rest...

...Again another MRI, the clacking sounds -- the injection of dye It’s been awhile with covid on the rise And vaccines found and given now inside and outdoors The radiologist sent me to 7 pm and chan......Read the rest...

...Spirits of the living mingle with the dead Nightly, joining hands to march through Selma Dr. King, their leader, the first called home Returns to preach peace through understanding On streets......Read the rest...

...Got to meet my aunt's good friend I've heard so much about. She helped to make the birthday bash More special, there's no doubt. She's got that spark that never fades With certain genes and ......Read the rest...

...Seeing Selma On Knees Remember seeing Selma on their knees, Then they were being called Selmanese, Bridge being by; Tears to supply, With poverty flowing through the trees. Jim Horn......Read the rest...

...Morehouse grad who reached the heights. Activist for civil rights. Rhetor, rebel, reverend. Toiled to segregation end. In nonviolence believed. Nobel Prize for Peace received. Lincoln's ......Read the rest...

...As worshippers in Australia lift holy hands to Heaven I recall promises to pray for the ill, the aged, the convalescent Praise-worthy voices dance exquisitely, inside a church called Hillsong Yo......Read the rest...

...Where was I on "Bull" Conner's day, When the world saw white-hate on display? Attack dogs, hoses, and lawmen's feet, Blacks felled like timber on a southern street. As fists and batons flayed the......Read the rest...

...Be gracious A smile is just for you When happy or when blue. Just wear it on your face It will sooth the pace It shines in the eyes It has no antidote and It twilight in the skies. Our pass......Read the rest...

...Got wrinkles on my hands Been there then that Got nowhere else to go And nothing less to show Got bunion on my feet Been walking them there streets Corns rubbing gainst my shoes I've done paid......Read the rest...

...Chewing the Fat John Lewis said that we should never be afraid To participate in a created Civil Rights Parade But does refuse with so much consternation To be part of Trump's impotent inaugura......Read the rest...

...American Pies and Porkies I’m not American though I spent a year in California the land of beaches Hollywood ‘flower power’ ‘Big Sur’ with dopey dreams and have walked ‘bear’-foot in Yosemite t......Read the rest...