FREE SUB-SAHARAN
...The colored pains are carved onto the back of my ancestors’ history.
My oppressors see my Africanness as a curse,
the rotten fruit of savagery, slavery, and the barbarity of colonization.
The blac...
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Categories:
slavers, 12th grade, africa,
Form: Free verse
Why Your Cities Burn, Part VI
......Have you ever seen true madness
take full possession of a man?
Gobayth’s dreams of coming home
were now all well and truly damned.
It’s said he screamed for half the night,
so much that it da...
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Categories:
slavers, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Family Tree
...You come to me in my dreams
A foggy night a distant memory
I will never see you in life
But I’ll share your face in time
Family roots tender torn apart
Broken due to slavers cold heart
W...
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Categories:
slavers, america, angst, appreciation, art,
Form: Couplet
Big brother watch org uk
...Big brother watch its a British innovation.' Its seems
Almost Orwell inspired? to support the independance
Of nations.!! Silkie Carlow heads it up.' Why dont youhave
A look in 2024? don't be just ...
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Categories:
slavers, education,
Form: Rhyme
THE DISCIPLINES OF FACILITY
...The apostles of decadence claim that the divine spark demands lust, power and material goods.
Why pay attention to these puppets enlightened by the dogmatic obscurantism of the West?
Our heavenly...
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Categories:
slavers, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Real Black History
...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.
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Categories:
slavers, slavery,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Glue of Goshen
...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 ...
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Categories:
slavers, betrayal, bible, brother, dream,
Form: Rhyme
The Debt Crisis
...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
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Categories:
slavers, analogy, bible, corruption, death,
Form: Rhyme
Fifty-Three Souls
...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...
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Categories:
slavers, allegory, america, anger, immigration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
You Are Owed No Reparations, Part I
...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 ...
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Categories:
slavers, africa, anger, history, how
Form: Rhyme
A Poem For My History Teacher
...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...
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Categories:
slavers, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Butterflies and Bees
...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
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Categories:
slavers, animal, butterfly, flying, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
...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...
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Categories:
slavers, heart, night, spiritual, wife,
Form: Sonnet
Cancel Them All
...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,
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Categories:
slavers, community, culture, how i
Form: Rhyme
Loyalty Lies
...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...
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Categories:
slavers, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
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