Slavers Poems - Poems about Slavers

...Written By: D. Collins 2/26/24 When I hear "a country of immigrants" I wince in pain. Because one ethnic group traveled here in chains. ......Read the rest...

...My dreams became galling To my fratricidal brothers My father's favor appalling Birthed from different mothers "The master of dreams is coming." Down the cistern they tossed me Their plan to ......Read the rest...

...This debt crisis they postpone And due dates will vary It may come with no warning Stalking the unwary "Ban hate!", "Ban hate!", they holler Their war is not with sin God's Word is the enemy ......Read the rest...

...The rig rolled through Laredo On the road to San Antone, Its eighteen wheels of commerce Headed north from parts unknown. The shipping costs all paid to Their coyote chaperones. The pla......Read the rest...

...You hear it said a lot these days, “Reparations! Someone must pay! Our ancestors suffered, it’s true! For that we’ve come to take from you!” Now we could just point out the fact none of us were ......Read the rest...

...I wanted to write The best slavery poem ever written— Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. I had every intention of conforming To the standards Of modern verse and composition, Lyrics f......Read the rest...

...Poems about Butterflies and Bees Flight by Michael R. Burch It is the nature of loveliness to vanish as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness seek transcendence... Album b......Read the rest...

...Sonnets LXI-LXX Erin by Michael R. Burch All that’s left of Ireland is her hair? bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin, her brilliant air of cavalier despair, her train of children?s......Read the rest...

...I heard it from the internet, we’re now living in a new age, and all twinges of racism and oppression should go away. We have to change our sports team names, we have to tear down the statues, ......Read the rest...

...I was social Surrounded by people Many local the crowd was equal A place where loyalty lies And boy does it lie All talk til the cry Their gone no goodbye Favours for favours Ow......Read the rest...

...I saw a man the other day while I was watching my TV, he angrily proclaimed we should, “Apologize for slavery!” Now this struck me as quite bizarre, for we did this long, long ago, we fought a ......Read the rest...

...Maybe you have got to thinking I probably should read more books, but there’s just so much crap out there, is anything really worth a look? Is there anything worth my time, something that will n......Read the rest...

...Goose and purple i saw it strung up in a window in chicago I saw factories written in your eyelashes and hair and industrialization vomited Limp and edible bruised and calling Geese sing every mo......Read the rest...

...Six decades after the slavers were gone Came along the dragon With fire to melt our mineral ore, trees to chop And heat for a sweatshop Politicians shake hands with eyes closed, as few hands get ......Read the rest...

...Keepsakes by Michael R. Burch "... put out my hand and touched the face ..." I caress them—trapped in yellowing cellophane— and I see how young they were, and how unwise; and I remember thei......Read the rest...