Treasured People And Properties
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Lots of people were once scattered throughout those farmlands.
But now nearly all those farm hands and sharecroppers are gone.
But in my heart and mind, there's still a live picture of those
c...
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Categories:
sharecroppers, childhood, farm,
Form: Prose
Upmteenth Re Inspection Revisited
...Upmteenth (re:) inspection revisited...
I experience dread-nought
until April 19th, 2022 becomes yesterday
when troubles with management
here at Highland Manor
hoop fully temporarily alleviate...
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Categories:
sharecroppers, 12th grade, adventure, angst,
Form: Free verse
Relief Courtesy Dreaded Re: Inspection Not Revisited Until May 2022
...Relief courtesy dreaded (re:) inspection not revisited until May 2022
Anticipatory anxiety put on high alert
when the warden gave less than a week
courtesy spluttering tone of voice
she did ang...
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Categories:
sharecroppers, anger, anxiety, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Crowns To Chains
...Taken from Wakanda rich, forced on a ship, let
the fifth amend begin, black lives for cash, moon kissed
midnight flesh driven downward, their passage last class;
into designated despair with a ...
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Categories:
sharecroppers, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Come Home Partner
...I noticed you there lost in all this dreariness
I'd catered to your morbid since of norm
unable to notice a young mother her hungry family
pleasantly destined to survive a war gone bad
a broke...
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Categories:
sharecroppers, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Mothers
...In darkness of wombs
Vines of umbilical grace
Flourish with navel blossoms
Of forever present maternal love:
Mothers are sharecroppers of God....
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Categories:
sharecroppers, 12th grade, analogy, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Church
..."The Church"
A wooden door clicks
open
To the beginning of
a southern spiritual
The newbie feels
depleted and empty
It is the reason why
she came
Her acceptance is
immediate
She is giv...
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Categories:
sharecroppers, blessing, faith, old,
Form: Free verse
The Deed
...The iciness of his smile
seeped like osmosis through the crevices
left on my face by the squint rooted
on fires of a loud and angry sun.
A tempest stormed across the dusty, red sky
follow...
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Categories:
sharecroppers, allegory, angst, history, life,
Form: Free verse
My Grandmom Mrs Della
...My grandmom was a good woman in her time she was born in the depression error the daugter
of sharecroppers in the deep south of Ms of clinton in the country she didn't finish school she
clean sch...
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Categories:
sharecroppers, black african american, childhood,
Form: Ballad