Slavery Poems | Examples of Slavery Poetry

You are not the victim Stop trying to manipulate the situation We are all seeing We are all knowing We are all loving Not you So when we change the narrative And put your hate in the spotlight Don't use our discomfort Our resistance And our need for justice As a way to use your tears To make you the victims But you won't get our sympathy Nor our...

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"In memory of Eliza and Emily" Twelve Years a Slave, Eliza Berry's life marked by cruelty, a tragedy of slavery. She rose to lower heights as she plucked the cotton with ...

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This isn't what it seems to be. You've lost your self behind thought of me. Relentless, they won't you sleep. Infectious, it's hidden there in your dreams. A shadow strung across the ground, Its longing for another mouth to feed. I told you we should never be. Now look into my eyes while they bleed. Do you want to break my...

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In a wake of fear right here, so unforgiving and beautifully forgotten again. I'll remember so you don't have to forget my name again. so oblivious to all of our pain. so we shed our skins again. beloveds in the next life Ill love you for a lifetime But today ill stay right here on the dark side of rainbows theres no...

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How can we not have this conversation where footprints of the poor vanish beneath the boots of investors, and the river sings only to those who can afford its luxury? In Chobe, the elephants roam free, but people walk caged in poverty. We call it coexistence when tusks are protected, but mothers bury their sons gored near neglected kraals. And no one...

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Roaring African Diamond, Rolling Thunder, Beloved Warrior— Cotton’s Violent Cr-owner craving Tougher, Blacker Pickers praying Brother, Sisters, Mothers, Fathers couldn’t recover Delight, Comfort, Dignity, Respect, Fortune, Majesty… covered Blinded Visions, Inhuman Vitriol flowing through Uncivil Society. Grander Savages casting Shallow Shadows; Ignoble Secrets. Darkest Templar, Limited Freedom belongs Nowhere....

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The Spiritual/Material Nexus is Biology and its material antithetical responses to "The Laws of Nature". That process is fundamentally "Cooperative"; a symbiosis based on "Trust". The successful Social Organism, "Civilization", operates the same way. President Trump never speaks "The Truth". A "Faithless" Government is a failure calling for immediate remediation or abolition to safeguard our Individual values. ...

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...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 damaged his throat, and it was not long after that he started slaying ‘settled’ folk. The first target was a merchant travelling with his concubine and his two slaves...

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...A jolt ran though the broken men, like wraiths they rose, streamed for the door, Gobayth waved them on until nobody remained anymore. They raced on towards the small hut where all of the pick-aces lay, some guards were starting to notice, running about every which way. Gobayth wished the poor men luck, but he did not follow their path, and instead ran to the...

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...After a bit her cries died down, everyone could see she was dead, a small head hung between her thighs, mother and son covered in red. He had seen so much callousness, but this he just couldn’t believe, it was after seeing this horror Gobayth decided to leave. Of course, it took some time to plan, in the day the watch was intense, men along...

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...Gobayth’s mind was nearly crushed, this was his life now, it appeared, and all sorts of depressing thoughts flooded his mind that first half-year. Was this what life was really like for most of the souls in this world? An endless, unpaid drudgery, with slashing whips always unfurled? Was this how ‘settled’ people lived? Is so, then why bother with life? How could those outside...

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...Finally Gobayth came to a devastated mountainside, the trees and soil stripped away, slaves cutting out blocks of great size. They led him to a wooden hut where several gold coins were exchanged, the mine owner said, “Bring him out, fit him for his own set of chains!” He was forced out into the pit, driven forward by several guards, who showered him with stinging...

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I’ve seen many look to the sky and to the gods earnestly plead, what sins have the committed that require so many to bleed? Why does Lord Diyal ride the lands, do things that make your stomach churn, his soldiers loot and pillage all… Why do they make your cities burn? I can tell you that it begins with a young man named Gobayth, a...

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Pity, we’re not on their endangered species list; Just the list of who should be least cared about:- They fight for red wolves, but still erode ebon lives; we’re endangered too:- What an abomination, In our nation, In today’s situation:- For our lives to matter, Time for us to gather, And get it all together: Pandemic is the Oppressor Syndrome; We, oppressively murdering our own:- Let us be...

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Just look carefully at you and me, Innocent victims of bigoted inequality, In a nation physically built via bigotry, Of the sweat, the blood, and death, Of our ancestors fighting to be truly free, And endowed with faithfully won equanimity:- Know the reality of just who here, we be, For we’re not the heirs of diabolical slaves; But the children of free Africans...

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