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Wounded whisperLet me stay
Let me relive this ecstasy
Keep me in this illusion
Ensnare me in your fantasy
I fall on my knees
In your absolution
Accept my feeble offering
Before my preordained execution
Crawling...
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Categories:
slavery, feelings, girlfriend, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Spiritual prisonerThis temporal self
Anchored by a pulsating vigor
Distorting my limited perceptions
Drawing me closer
To these material pleasures
Immersed in this magnetic depravity
Remedied and satiated
Slumbering in disorder
Submerged by this banality
Disillusioned and discontent...
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Categories:
slavery, addiction, christian, faith, sin,
Form: Free verse
Total EnslavementNone are more enslaved hopelessly,
than those who falsely believe that they are free....
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Categories:
slavery,
Form: Couplet
Wounded WhisperWe have been forbearing your oppression for a long time,
Your threats; placing your pistol on our foreheads for a crime;
Shoving your dagger straight toward our chests, as though piercing,
Watching our helpless nervousness and mockingly cheering;
All...
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Categories:
feelings, freedom, life, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
THE CRY OF THE BLACK CAT“THE CRY OF THE BLACK
CAT”
Darkness rise, Brightness falls
AS the Black Cat cries through the night
All that seems Black and White, turns to be Shadow and Light
Wishes he may, Wishes he might
For not a...
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Categories:
desire, dream, racism, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Reparations Translation - DOA
aka
~ 'Where's my $1.2 million, Gov?!...
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Categories:
slavery, money, moving on, racism,
Form: Rhyme
secrete agendapoints of interest
visitors from the future
bloody transgressions...
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Categories:
betrayal, imagination, slavery, violence,
Form: Senryu
oxymoronagitated mime
did you miss the exodus
cave biology...
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Categories:
deep, perspective, riddle, slavery,
Form: Senryu
BLMSo black lives matter now we say
their worth now seen anew
While ages past we saw the day
we recognized so few.
But white lives matter too they said
and brown and yellow too
Yet centuries of hidden bled
‘neith...
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Categories:
slavery, anger, black african american,
Form: Sonnet
Realm of dreadInto the realm of dread I roam,
where shadows loom as spirits
groan.
The air is thick...
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Categories:
mental illness, slavery, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Paranoid1.Imran Khan Kay security guards say
Tum logon ko Kya takleef hai?
2.Tum logon ko niazi ki bulletproof
Gaari say Kya masla hai?
3.Tum logon ko bulletproof shield Kya
Takleef day Raha hai?
4.Kya Punjab Police corrupt nahi Hai??
5.Kya niazi...
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Categories:
slavery, absence, anxiety, death of
Form: Narrative
STORY OF CENTURYStory of Century
Of how our fathers lived in penury
And the powers promoted prejudice
They came with promises of paradise
They turned themselves into merchandise
Selling our own like stacks of rice...
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Categories:
slavery, abuse, africa, anger, bullying,
Form: Free verse
BLOOD ON THE LEAVESWe saw blood on the leaves
Yeah! Blood filling the roots
Our ancestors hanging from trees
Their blood flowing out to the slave seas
Chained crews taken
To the cane fields
Haiti toppled from the outside, see reels
Shaken down to it’s...
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Categories:
slavery, black love, discrimination, grave,
Form: Narrative
Bread of Freedom
Bread of slavery -- and liberation
Bread of freedom -- and subjugation
Consider the Matzo: It's flavor-less and flat
~ Jews eat it and rejoice for...
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Categories:
freedom, joy, slavery, sorrow,
Form: Couplet
mind-snatchinga stable genius
things are seldom what they seem
corporate hostage...
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Categories:
identity, slavery,
Form: Senryu
Specific Types of Slavery Poems
Definition | What is Slavery in Poetry?
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bondage, labor, enslavement, servitude, captivity, serfdom, enthrallment, thralldom, restraint, work, thrall, grind, drudgery, indenture, drudge, toil, moil, subjugation, subjection, peonage, serfhood, feudalism, vassalage, bullwork, chains constraint, helotry, menial labor,