Business Slavery Poems

The eagle flies with two wings, the left and
the right working together
The right says it's good but the left says
it's better

But the body is one,...

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Many people continue to sing about some world states captured by some powerful business people, and 
leaders of World… 

“State capture ruling system is not...

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People bought and sold as chattel
   Considered no more than cattle
   This still goes on today, you see
   In...

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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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Blood diamonds
Look translucent against your skin
You delight in the shine of the diamonds
Yet the only shine we see is the shine of a machete
A quick...

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My Name is Paul & I am a Young Black Male

My Grandmother's Father was from Great Britain, his Family came to the New World to...

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On July 4th, 1776 This Land Became Emancipated or Freed from Great Britain, though My Fore-Fathers would Remain Enslaved for the Next 80 Plus Years...

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Who am I? Am I even human? What is my place in this world?
I am confused, sometimes I do not even feel like a human...

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Manifest Destiny
by Michael R. Burch

When you were in my house
you were not free—
in chains bound.

Manifest Destiny?

I was wrong;
my plantation burned to the ground.
I was wrong.
This...

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Across the ocean
Across the sea
I live in Lagos
the city to be
Where business activities has become something of a frenzy
And her economy is a thing of...

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My black Skinned knees 
I woke up to this misty gloomy morning 
with a scene setting unobtainable dream
a dream of impregnable God given justice
shared in...

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In the rundown little house where her family currently lives,
the fourteen-year old glances obediently at her glaring daddy,
nodding her head in quiet compliance
to his usual...

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Trapped in the world
Of cause and effect,
Where people are sold,
And replaced with Hi-Tech.
Where the money does flow 
To where it already is,
In rivers of lies,
In...

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The Noose is tightening.
The 5’s and 10’s yanked from our hands and aching backs 
Are spent on band-aids:
A last stand effort to plug the holes...

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The Color Missing
Red, black, and blue are the colors of our work pens. Red is the color of the blood we spill on other people’s...

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