Short Ethnic Poems

We are all humans
Irrespective of race
And religion
...

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ant ethnic heaven 

sauerkraut and kielbasa 

dancing the polka...

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A tribe of black swan
Does an ethnic dance in cool
Water, unmindful…...

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Aussie Rex Ingamell
always had  story to tell
Promoting ethnic Aboringinal
with Jindyworaback poetical...

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The
native
Americans
disappear from
view.

Ekphrasis lanterne after
Crow Camp at Wyola by Joseph Henry Sharp...

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Sometimes, buddhists attack muslims with trivial provocation!
Thus both sides are led into ethnic tension!
But if anomalies are resolved,not much sectarian violence
will be perpetrated!...

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The old Devil, his name is Lucifer
When I see him, I tell him, 'Vamoose, Sir' --
  The Devil grins his sly smile
  Pleads, 'Let me stay for a while' --
I chase him away with an ethnic slur...

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The huddled masses

They came here
from war and starvation
to seek
freedom from religion 
and  ethnic
disharmony.
But some came
to sow
unrest
turn time back
to the
period of war
murder
and 
no freedom of speech 

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The huddled masses

They came here
from war and starvation
to seek
freedom from religion 
and  ethnic
disharmony.
But some came
to sow
disharmony
turn time back
to the
period of war
murder
and 
no freedom of speech 

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Sandy Koufax,Hank Greenberg seared into the 
mind of America
   Now Ike Davis is stepping up to the plate
Ethnic pride!  
Some believe it is a luxury they cannot afford.  
    But I believe it is something one can fall back on 
in times of trouble.  
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A-n attempt to classify people, 
N-ot according to nationality; 
A-ll about the ancestry instead, where there is commonality. 

E-arly morn February fifth, 
L-anguage is similar within; 
I-nherited status based on society 
C-omes from ethnic 
O-rigin....

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Your back was aching
deformed by subservience
shoulders sloped like some fourth-class non-human
as you cut the cane that kept Miss Lillie.

4/23/2021

excerpt from Ethnic Memory 2/10/2019

Liberum Divisa 5' Poetry Contest
Gregory R. Barden, Sponsor...

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When 6 million Jews died
You said never again

Yet it happened again, again and again
The genocide in Rwanda
You watched

Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia 
You waited

Till the worst was over
Then slowly waded in

Now Rohingya and you close your eyes
Do you remember you said never again?...

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It’s not realism it’s racism a whole organisation  left bleeding on the pavement like Stephen,a force that’s racist and corrupt and they wonder why in them we don’t trust it’s just a colour it’s just some skin a man should be judged from the values he holds within not because of his background accent or ethnic origin....

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My heart is like the colors of the rainbow,
a spectrum full of every human shade,
bathed in the varied beauty of an ethnic glow,
admiring all the differences God made.

9/20/2020

taken from "Color of My Heart" written 12/6/18 
for Rithimus Divisa 6 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Greg Barden...

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My gender’s not the fairer one,
my student status ... past,
mine is not the voice of region
nor a specific caste.

No network calls me “one of us”
nor seeks to mollify,
I'm not considered ethnic, thus
I do not qualify.

The journals, competitions and
calls for anthology
don’t explicitly ask for bland,
old, white-guy poetry....

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savage
      
       running under the moon
       selling the night
  
                        sanitizing

the hands
after the killing

            truth
            withdrawl
vaginae still inviolate
            seeds wiped off
                         from the face of earth

            ethnic cleaning



Satish Verma
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savage
      
       running under the moon
       selling the night
  
                        sanitizing

the hands
after the killing

            truth
            withdrawl
vaginae still inviolate
            seeds wiped off
                         from the face of earth

            ethnic cleaning



Satish Verma
...

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He did not revolt; Gandhi offered him a method he despaired finding -
Mere men and women see darkly. One ethnic eye, one condescending
Great human beings are great human DOINGS, too. And forgiving ....

(c)Deo. Happy Dr. King Holiday to you. Shalom, shalom I say, as I also lift up the Memory of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Dr. King's loyal friend....

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The sound of animosity 
wakes you up.
There was a shadow war.

The ethnic otherness,
when you were ditching 
the sermons, the adjectives.

Will you accept the 
atrocity of nouns who keep 
on inviting the fat spiders ?

The vision has failed. 
I don’t find any cue
to the nests of sparrows.

Ah, the booming guns.
But I was talking 
to Sisyphus.



Satish Verma
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There’s nothing more beautiful 
Than a native song
A native dance
We move to the beat
Made wide the door
Pulled open the sash
To the simpler things 
We can treasure once more
An ethnic custom
A traditional meal
A friendly smile
Crossing over the miles
From someone you knew 
Once long ago
There,
With you still
Smiling down upon you.

December 12, 2020
Party Folk   Julia Ward...

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Polish potato pancakes

My clan’s tradition

Peel, grate, soften in water

Add eggs, onions, salt

A smidge of flour

Fry in oil

Wow!


*I am truly thankful for everything my grandparents did for me as a child.  Learning to cook ethnic foods is just one of many blessings they bestowed upon me.


*Entry for Gwen and Tony's Thanksgiving Dinner Epulaeryu contest
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Calibrate it's the last station evil montage
Glorious exploration people on blogs
Telling their personal business
Never being consistent
Closed doors closed mind
Contemplating resignation
 I'm ethnic part of the Rhythm Nation
Right on brother right on
Hearts broken  welcome  to the unfurl
Welcome to the Real World 

8/21/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr 2019©...

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Seafaring Foreigner 

In steerage on a steamer with
Figs conceiving in Vesuvian soil 
Hidden in a pot of a sturdy trunk
Made of hope and adventure. Fear of
Sights unseen and joys unbeknownst
Of sons and daughters yet.

Hazy canyons of skyscraping giants 
Overshadow brick row houses
Hard at work, ethnic pride
Shameful bathing, worn-in
Clothing and nourishment
Beyond the return to 
Much worse.
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I search rows for a name engraved,
     Engraved here, not native Poland;
          Poland, war and ethnic cleansing,
             Cleansing, her mom thrown in a hole.






_______________________
June 7, 2015
Free Verse, Visual #3
Written by Broken Wings
For the contest, Four Lines Only, sponsor, Nette Onclaud

Third Place

(Dedicated to a survivor of WWII, who does have her name engraved....

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