Freedom Slavery Poems
These Freedom Slavery poems are examples of Slavery poems about Freedom. These are the best examples of Slavery Freedom poems written by international poets.
Educational SlaveryThey called it knowledge—
but it came in cages,
neatly bound in books
with no windows to the sky.
We were fed with answers,
but starved of questions,
trained to remember
but...
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slavery, education,
You are not the victimYou 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...
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Categories:
slavery, anger, change, color, deep,
Heads Up!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...
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Categories:
slavery, addiction, africa, america, black
Why Your Cities Burn, Part IV...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...
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Categories:
slavery, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Slavery
Chains that clatter, rusted tight,
Steal the warmth of morning light.
Backs are bent, hands are sore,
Lashed and broken evermore.
Fields of sorrow, cotton white,
Torn from dawn till...
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Categories:
slavery, 12th grade,
Is It Knot a Noose
Why call it tying the knot
Out of a knot some husbands have...
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Categories:
freedom, husband, marriage, slavery,
The Day the Chains FellThe air smells different now
cleaner, somehow.
Like a breath I’ve never taken before.
June, 1865,
a warm wind brushes against my skin,
and I stand taller than I ever...
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Categories:
freedom, history, slavery,
Dinner ScrapsDinner scraps, primal deathtraps.
Life’s meal is the class struggle,
and some of us are left starving.
We are the movement of the masses,
a sleeping colossus running on
corporate...
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Categories:
slavery, class, freedom, life, political,
Water's DesignToo soft to describe with words
Letters have sharp edges
And speech can’t define
If peace were a river
I would be a leaf
Falling in my deadness
The freshness of...
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Categories:
slavery, freedom, hope, humanity, river,
Modern Slavery
I remember the day I started digging my own grave,
Was the day they gave Me a number
To work as their slave.
My life, my existance all...
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Categories:
slavery, work,
Let's Break All The ChainsLet's sever all the chains
Through all types of pains
In order to get there
Let's take the trains
In order to get there
We must fight for our rights
We...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, black african american,
The Dance of AngerAgainst the fury of fire, water and sky,
under lightening, thunder and the pouring rain,
I danced with body glowing with rage so high,
the dance of my...
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Categories:
slavery, anger, angst, anti bullying,
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...
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Categories:
slavery, bird, cry, freedom, hope,
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...
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Categories:
slavery, courage, encouraging, freedom, prejudice,
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...
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Categories:
africa, hero, slavery,