They Want That Control
...This is something every human wants to score
And never satisfied with a little but want more
To have control over your emotions and tears
Remote controlling your deepest inner fears
It excites t...
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Categories:
slave owner, abuse, conflict, confusion, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Be Fearless To Fight the Right Fights
...Be not afraid
To fight the right fights
The hate, the hatred
To regain your rights
To end bigotry, racism
Fascism and nepotism.
Be brave
Like a heroic slave
Who is not afraid
To be whipped...
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Categories:
slave owner, discrimination, hate, political, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Purple Melatonin
...My friend had said
Oh! Father
What color
My eyes my skin's shades
Of many MELATONIN (what)
I have a white mother
And yet my father's
black
From what am I
What race...
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Categories:
slave owner, abuse, analogy, character, creation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
CRT 101
...A complicated issue may often be better understood
By breaking it down into a few undeniable facts.
This is especially helpful with comprehending
An issue that is new, or unfamiliar.
For examp...
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Categories:
slave owner, allegory, allusion, america, community,
Form: Other
Dollar
...It's not the exchange rate or demand I value,
When I think of any United States Dollar;
I think of the currency note or coin whose view,
Depict biographies of persons of valor...
John Quincy Ad...
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Categories:
slave owner, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Defending Democratic Doglives
...Dear Thom the Train
Attorney Page,
Defender of all Creatures
here below
in these DisUniting States
of throwback uncivil disunion,
What is your root foundation
for a constitutional argument...
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Categories:
slave owner, culture, dog, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Winners and Losers
...Kenneth Cloke
historically outlines the widening and deepening
and merging and submerging
of elite/non-elite
publicized/privatized ego/eco-politicians.
Earth's perennial health/pathology conte...
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Categories:
slave owner, anti bullying, bullying, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Stereotypologies
...If you were a Christian
during various Inquisitions
and pogroms against Jewish communities
and aboriginal tribes,
If you had been a Christian slave owner
trading lack of co-empathic love
for ...
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Categories:
slave owner, america, christian, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
Thomas Jefferson
...It interests me to peer past the drafting
and rewriting shoulder
of Thomas Jefferson,
unhappy slave-owner,
and John Adams,
with domestic slave-owner nuisance issues,
and other principle writing...
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Categories:
slave owner, culture, happiness, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
One Knee
...Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: One Knee
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: September 2017
One Knee
Yes, I kneel down on one knee
damn right I do -
I will not honor an Anthem
of a cou...
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Categories:
slave owner, africa, america, betrayal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dear Donald Yet Again
...Dear Donald,
Yes, George Washington was a slave owner.
He also wore a wig.
I suggest you adopt the latter,
and don't worry quite so much about the former,
because we are not about to Just Sa...
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Categories:
slave owner, hair, history, humor, race,
Form: Political Verse
The Wisdom of Flawed Men
...Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner,
We know this from history.
And when he died, most were solid,
And very few ever let free.
Yet Jefferson himself put down the words
That led to our great progr...
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Categories:
slave owner, america, history, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Creolizing Grace
...We often lament long-term effects of slavery
on those enslaved across multiple generations.
Enslavement leads to addiction and codependent denial,
then is taught and mentored to enslaved childre...
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Categories:
slave owner, addiction, culture, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
Hidden Figures
...I am black and I say to kindred flames...
Never assert nor cry "things are the same".
It is the height of dishonor to our fathers,
Our hidden figures of the past, and our martyrs.
We no longe...
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Categories:
slave owner, africa, black african american,
Form: Couplet
Dear America
...Everyone is searching for answers in the midst of current tragedies
Two unarmed black men and five white cops gunned down mercilessly
Black in Americans are incensed over the slaying of so many b...
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Categories:
slave owner, america, black african american,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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