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3,336 Years of Connection
My wife and I have scrubbed and searched
every crumb of leaven unearthed
No one will come and check our work
We’re on...
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Categories:
analogy, holiday, jewish, slavery,
Form: Couplet
The daily grindTrailing clouds of glory do we come
Until by the end we are left dull and glum.
How it all came to this
We are responsible
For being so remiss
The magic of our early moments
...
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Categories:
corruption, slavery,
Form: Free verse
ChainsWearing bonds invisible
Yet indestructible.
Find them.
Free them.
Bring them home.
Traffick, pimp, and whore,
And some are just next door.
Find them.
Free them.
Bring them home.
Some talk of peculiar institutions,
Others speak of restitutions.
Find them.
Free them.
Bring them home.
Slavery is alive and well...
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Categories:
slavery, black african american, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
A Birds Cry for FreedomI have been encaged all my life for mans pleasure and fun,
my precious life had sadly ended before it even begun.
In human terms I have been enslaved so man could hear my song....
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Categories:
slavery, bird, cry, freedom, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Destiny's FearIn halls of our reluctant destiny.
We fight through hell to be free.
Imbued with the Iron will of steel.
Realty of horrors becomes real.
Broken into many anguish shards.
As bloody darkness tries to tear us apart.
Slowly hells...
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Categories:
slavery, bible, courage, evil, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Exodus of the chirping birds
The wise, in silence, they spend their days,
Until mistaken, and so they change their ways.
So chirp you, little birds, let the trees be shaken,
For every silent cry has always been forsaken.
The brave, in the dark...
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Categories:
slavery, courage, encouraging, freedom, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Our Innocent GirlsWhat beautiful eyes,
Like jewels dropped from the sky.
Gentle sapphires asking me why,
Locked forever in dark skys....
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Categories:
dark, innocence, slavery,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
QUESTION FOR A SLAVEDo you want to go to Heaven
Do I have to Work
No
Yes I want to go to
Heaven
Thank you,
LORD...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Is Africa freeye are better than them
finances of the world
resources basket for continents
out of jealousy and envy
we have been raided
our men are slain
our women, raped!
our babies are spill to rocks
oh! white raiders,
lead generations into slavery...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Other
Flamesmusic goes down
to that sweet place
where virtue rains
in flames
a noble life ...
still slaves,
do what thou wilt
dancing, still in chains
music goes down
to that sweet place
where virtue rains
in flames
Candide Diderot. ‘24
vultures. kanye....
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Categories:
humanity, muse, slavery,
Form: Free verse
A Hexed MirrorIn a hexed mirror's gaze, fate twists and turns,
A tangled dance of it's designs,
Each step a labyrinth, and each path it spurns,
As victims caught within its veiled confines.
Reflections fractured, and Moira's refrain,
Echoes of choices made...
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Categories:
slavery, destiny, extended metaphor, fate,
Form: Rhyme
The Real Black HistoryWritten 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.
They didn't walk across the border seeking a better life.
They were snatched from...
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Categories:
slavery,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Thank You for My LifeCoursing through our veins is the blood of survivors.
We have endured.
We are here because they endured.
We are here because they were brave, strong, resilient, and faithful.
So much pain, loss, and hardship came before us.
Each Black...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, america, appreciation, black
Form: Free verse
African SlaveryIn Africa's heart, a painful past. A story told a tale so quality
of slavery's chains of lives laid waste of people torn from their native place.
Their ancestors' cries and still echoing loud as families were...
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Categories:
africa, hero, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Wrongthink-RightthinkWrongthink is any think
You might do on your own,
You know, in the vastness
Of your inner space
As cloud trains drift by
Morphing into shapes
As fanciful as you allow.
Rightthink in contrast
Is mind control from without
With nothing fanciful or...
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Categories:
slavery, society, today,
Form: Narrative
Specific Types of Slavery Poems
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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,