Short Slavery Poems

Short Slavery Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Slavery by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Slavery by length and keyword.


The Habit Mind

The habit mind
Is the holocaust
Of technology automating
Rational enlightenment
For the slavery of time
And poverty of creation


Freedom

Freedom! Glorious freedom The cry of the enslaved To break the bonds of oppression Freedom!
Form: Cinquain

Rats In Ties

Dollars and consensus,
Violate our senses,
A symbol condenses,
Our spirit's presence, 
For paper worth less than a cent is.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Slave

Taken from your lands
Imprisoned,  beaten, chained
No one understands???????

10/18/17
Written by James Edward Lee Sr 2017©
Form: Haiku

Premium Member John Brown

JOHN BROWN


John Brown
Abolitionist found
Against slavery
Non-prejudicial nor in bigotry

1/9/18
By James Edward Lee Sr.
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member Complacent Slaves

I freed a few slaves but could have freed much more,
if only they had known that they are slaves, and what they are enslaved for.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Swamp Run

thick fog engulfs night
wading across fetid swamp
moon casts dim beacon
eyes of beasts monitor steps
owner's pursuing dogs howl
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Hawaiian Tropic of Cancer

With visual field microscopic
Some utterly blind and myopic
Consume to the max
As a luxury tax 
On those needing help philanthropic
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Slaves

Chains shackled slaves of the past until their death.
Todays slaves are enslaved until their grave, not with chains, but with debt.
Form: Couplet

An Aphorism About Slavery

A person value is always at least an another with everything that he possesses 
therefore no one never have a such value for buy him.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Nate Love

Nate Love
After being freed from slavery,
Became the most famous black cowboy in history.
But the cause of his death stayed a mystery.
© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member World Stages of a Disease

As psoriasis; old scoros is'
With vulgarity; of method-biz
Darkening all hearkening
Bloated out ego-cankering
Blood money his diocease!
Form: Limerick

slavery sound

slavery poetry
civil rights
poverty language
this is strong liberating art
to become soft after crime
rather than prevailing crime wages

Thank You God

In the midst of Slavery
We survived

In the midst of Segregration
We survived

In the midst of Genocide
We will survive

Thank You God

Vanishing British

We wanted our slavery to vanish 
They freed us and went the British 
We lost our freedom and embraced 
It’s within but where is beyond trace

Eternity

this was built on slavery
the  buildings the roadsthe cities
the films the music the art
the religions the philosophies
all came  from slaves
Form: Ballad

Slavery 2

Lord free me from this bondage
I am a slave to sin
A servant of Satan
Leave me not in his power
Since his desire is to destroy me

Son of Adam

Thank You

I want to thank you Lord
You save me from slavery
You save me from lynchings
You save me from segregation
You save me from poverty
Thank you Lord

Salvation From Self Slavery

inner consciousness
                                       seeks righteous abnegation 
                                            leads to salvation
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Co Co

Big flashy lies protrude all about Promotion of happiness casting Linger awhile and soon without doubt See corporate deceit everlasting
Form: Rhyme

The Day the Chains Were Broken

No trumpet blew, yet thunder came,
From streets once hushed, now lit with flame.
A tyrant's crown was cast away,
By barefoot hearts who dared to stay.

Premium Member A Slave's Burden Locked In a Room-

I walk across the floor 
As I approach the door 
It is locked and closed
Will the master let me in?

1/17/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2021

Bird of Freedom

globalization’s bird of slavery

migrates south for

capitalism’s winter

metamorphasizing into bird of freedom

which migrates back north

singing its tale.

Viiii

VIIII

Laughing is absolute freedom
while Wishing is the well of slavery
And Pain and suffering is the glue
to bind soul and spirit.

:: 10-07-2017 ::

Slavery

Grey faces
Concrete
Diets high in fat
Fumes
Pollution
Days that turn to night
Red eyes
Indifference
Longing for cheap pleasures
Slavery in America is different

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