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A SLAVE'S BURDEN LOCKED IN A ROOM-I walk across the floor
As I approach the door
It is locked and closed
Will the master let me in?
1/17/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2021...
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Categories:
slavery, analogy, betrayal, bullying, engagement,
Form: Light Verse
My Happy Place Volume 2Here we are yet again
Talking about my second home
Let me begin
On the drive there I get a tummy ache out of excitement
I know the way around like the back of my hand
You...
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Categories:
slavery, 2nd grade, abortion, anger,
Form: Rhyme
AFRICA, MY STORYThey packed us in ships and boats.
Sardines have more space in their cans as compared to us,
Low ventilation, no water, little food,
Out of our land of abundance, land of riches, land of gold,
We sailed...
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Categories:
africa, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Statuesharsh reality
revenants of slavery
reminders removed...
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Categories:
change, slavery,
Form: Senryu
WarchantForever lost, forever found
The mysteries become unbound
The veil and shrapnel are removed
The pieces now can be construed
Inflammable the history’s beat
What is written must never repeat
I say to thee forget to plead
The course can change and...
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Categories:
slavery, age, anger, betrayal, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Meanwhile, At Another Place in Time I____________I___________________
Feral Harvest Song
False Dawn breaks it’s sour parts
Universe Explodes.
_______________________________
I was there
Oh yes, I was
That night of nights
When the Universe exploded
As False Dawn made way for the Sun.
What is it you need?
Said my wise friend
Pauper...
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Categories:
slavery, angst, corruption, life, political,
Form: Haiku
ENslaved-You hate me because of the color of my skin You loath me so when will The Strife disappear
He wished me enslaved, this is how you behave
Some 300 years ago we were...
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Categories:
abuse, analogy, engagement, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
TRAPPED IN MY CHOICE THOUGHTS I AM A SLAVE WITH A SLAVE MENTALITYa tether rope hangs around me;
I am bound someone please untie me;
I can be found stretched out;
Elongated once freed;
A king from another country;
My arms, I'm tied up where is my liberty;
I was a slave
To...
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Categories:
slavery, abuse, anxiety, character, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Digital Prison
And one by one
we step in,
Another day
another bar,
And as the digital piper
Plays his tune,
Dancing, singing
we take our place,
The digital prison
our new home,
our church,
This place where,
even
ghosts
fear to tread.
Soon,
the prison guards
will lock
the door.
And we...
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Categories:
slavery, computer, daffodils, environment, freedom,
Form: Political Verse
the soul will close its eyesa blade of conscious grass
streams carry water to nourish
as children run to capture lightening bugs
mesmerized by flickers they would own
but in the morning all are dead
no matter the air or bits they’re fed.
the butterfly, the...
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Categories:
slavery, animal, earth, freedom, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
FEMALE SLAVES - YORKSHIRE MINESThrough twelve hour shift we have to graft
to win a wage from this hell hole.
In dark tunnels just two foot high
lit by yellow from tallow flare.
The collier cracks with hefty pick
breaking the black, claiming the...
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Categories:
slavery,
Form: Alliteration
Cotton Pickers LamentCotton Picker’s Lament
Feet burn soul blends with the earth, the heat, the picking season
Hands, hard calloused leather punctuated by picking scars
Drag that long sack behind me across black bottom earth—
Cottonseed tucked into its sprouting...
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Categories:
black african american, slavery,
Form: Imagism
A Lesson in History: How to Subdue a PeopleA Lesson in History: How to Subdue a People
Be brazen in thievery and sweet-tongued deceit
To, of their lands and people, take receipt.
Merchandise their inhumane objectification,
And keep them checked with generous flagellation.
With threats of nooses...
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Categories:
slavery, black african american, hate,
Form: Quatrain
JUST US WHERE IS THE JUSTICE-Just us
a peoples bound 200 years
enslaved by third peers though they rationalize and christianized slavery
the truth the bondage of a slave where is
justice
Just us
Freedom came
Emancipation by a great president freed...
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Categories:
slavery, abuse, america, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
A Bed of HayA Bed of Hay
Across the fields a long time ago
Where sparrows flew and lilies grew.
I skipped in play oblivious to hate
And ran with the wind and sang with the beasts.
And slept on a bed of...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, america, history, racism,
Form: Sonnet
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,