Short Jim Crow Poems
Short Jim Crow Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Jim Crow by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Jim Crow by length and keyword.
When Jim Crow Goes Hunting For Gems
Teachers are supposed to be polishing gems.
but instead, are cracking the gloaming of innocents.
Judging children by their race
when all they want to do is to play.
Jim crow is cawing for souls once again....
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Categories:
jim crow, abuse, student,
Form:
Limerick
American Heartache
I am the pain that resides
Deep, so deep inside
Inside America, the great
I am the American heartache
From a deep, old, long ago
Copious fields of cotton across Georgia
Through and beyond Jim Crow
To a new technologized New York filled
with streets of gold
The sullen heart still aches...
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Categories:
jim crow, america, color, discrimination, history, pain, prejudice, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Naming Crows
Call it cold rock crow when it just sits there
amidst untouchable brambles and mocks-
Call it blind crow when it pecks out its own eyes
becoming numb to injustice and violence-
Call it plug crow when it covers the ears to a plea
Call it humble crow when for God it takes a knee-
Call it Jim crow when it perches high in a nevergreen nest
separating itself and coyly looking down on the rest-...
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Categories:
jim crow, bird,
Form:
Free verse
What Did You Do
What did you do to be white
Why does that make you always right
Born into privileged by race
The humanity you disgrace
Two thirds a human being by law
Jim Crow skirting its flaw
Civil Rights codified by statue
Voting rights gerrymander by venue
Prison filled with poor black men
No bail plea bargaining innocent condemn
A cigarette a bag of skedaddles
A Black Lives matter a riddle
Choked to death at the hands of the law
An evil heart the white mans flaw...
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Categories:
jim crow, anger,
Form:
Rhyme