Slave Trader Poems - Poems about Slave Trader

...I chose to write, For all those torn-off branches, For all those scarred backs, For all those dehumanized bodies, For all those centuries of persecution. I chose to read, To decon......

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...Thanksgiving gobbledygook The following anecdote baste upon overactive imagination of mine in sync with being married and monogamously living socially chaste life as a scrupulous anchorite, w......

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..."Come with me on a rousing escapade!" How temptingly he'd whispered in my ear. "My dear, I promise there's nothing to fear." How easily he'd managed to persuade me. Then secretively, his ......

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...“Amazing Grace” never grows old A hymn for all times and places Even the most jaded will sing it I’ve heard it in barroom spaces ‘Tis often sung in worship services By the choir and ......

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...The Amistad Mutiny Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced: Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade. To be tossed in chains below deck on the Po......

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...Her eyes aren’t hollow holes A smoke and mirror trick She’s filled with gasoline Not as soulless as you may think She spites bitter memories Her skin flares Itch away the pain Raw from you ......

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...Mother —Statue of Ebony Black— A woman who cried for freedom, not for herself but on behalf of her children whose lives are compelled to lie and rise in the cradle placed ......

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...She flinches, shudders as chains tug at her flesh The ruthless slave trader and rapist whispers to the auctioneer And instinctively she knows that it is her turn to be sold. The noise heightens, ......

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