Ballad Slavery Poems

I am the greatest magician
I warp minds, taming thoughts
Very deadly, I don't care
Oh! Man,  gullible, I know!
Sheep they are and I their Shepard.

I craft...

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Dropped anchor off the Fever Coast 
‘board a rake-masted schooner
Spooked by Ahab’s ghost. 
Lamps glowered through the yawning blanks
Casting bone-twisted shadows 
Over teakwood planks.
Salt biscuits...

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Of scapegoats
Who in cold walk without coats
For they have been neglected
And left unprotected
 
Of human race
Whose freedom is less 
And whose efforts;
Meanwhile labelled ‘faults’;
Are nothing,...

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Sail from afar of my journey made.
What could be the sound my ear do hear?
This seems to be that of a glorious celebration,
Which needs no...

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Oh, lord
what’s the use in tryin’? 
Nothin’s turned out
the way I planned. 
I got the whole world
tellin’ me I’m dyin’. 
Think I’ll just lie here...

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I sang of Caleb at Harvard University, 1660
I sang of Africans come to America unknowingly
I sang of women and children who came to Jesus
Singing Old...

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I come from the twilight
Of dusk to dawn
Yet I can't stand
All around me downtown
All in up and around
Signs saying of  "Whites Only"
Mustn't go into...

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The Escape from the Turkish Slavery
(Ukrainian historic folk song)

There broke into the Tartar sprites,
And they captured my daughter, nice,
Marusyna, my daughter, dear,
I remained with one...

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With beating hearts
the young lovers run down the street
afraid of looking back
hearing only their shoes on the concrete.

Running into the night,
following the North Star
and the...

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I held the stumbling humanoid,
learning to stand on two feet- scared as an alien.
I was his cradle and his playground—
even before he was called Homo...

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A BALLAD TO THE ANCESTORS

Like ripened fruits plucked from a flourishing tree,
They were stolen from a lush paradise garden;
A self sustained dwelling having no need...

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From fabrics torn, in ruin, she hail,
Above the deck, beneath the sail,
Above silent meadow, the sea,
Her frosty breath, in doom, she see.

Her fondness torn, her...

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Time had sewn,
And we had wrought,
Against a force
Seldom fought,

And we had dreamt,
And we had dreamed,
Of a world
Ever serene,

And we had run,
And we had ran,
As if...

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