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Home Slavery Poems

These Home Slavery poems are examples of Slavery poems about Home. These are the best examples of Slavery Home poems written by international poets.


Chains
Wearing 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...

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Categories: slavery, black african american, humanity,



Smokey Wilson
Smokey hailed from someplace back in Missouri
was a slave until the ripe old age of ten
Left his master's home headed to Montana
and swore they would...

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Categories: slavery, poetry,

Bag of Spiders
Inside this cell no sell, just a bag of spiders big and fat 
with gnarly hands she tucks away fifty crawlies in her hat
Her name...

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Categories: prison, slavery,

Premium Member Gateway Town
Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within...

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Categories: slavery, allusion, city, class, longing,

Roses
A red rose am not
Yellow, pink nor white
My color is lost in between
Different shades in tone
But a rose I still am
Still beautiful to behold
Dressed up...

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Categories: courage, slavery,



Premium Member The Debt We Pay
Buy now, pay later,
Rent to own today.
Put it on your card,
That's the American way.

A nation plagued with debt,
A people bound with chains.
The majority feel the...

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Categories: america, loss, pride, slavery,

Premium Member Colonizers Why You Take Whats Not Yours My Spokenword
Colonizers WHY YOU TAKE WHATS NOT YOURS   
Man interest in other lands, peoples and territories and things
What other people got they want it...

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Categories: slavery, adventure, analogy, environment, perspective,

Hard Times
I bow down to the great Dickens
Whose name has touched every soil,
And whose art has touched every soul,
His  art "Hard Times" has travelled far...

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Categories: abuse, high school, slavery,

Premium Member A Sea Shanty
A Sea Shanty!

Mother call your children home, 
put them in their beds. 
Tell them stories of better times, 
and try to fill their heads. 
Give...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slavery, america, christian, forgiveness, freedom,

Black History
It amazes me
They say all men were created equally 
But that’s denied throughout history
Theirs starts with constitutions revolutions and bravery
They tell us ours is gangs...

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Categories: slavery, africa, black african american,

Premium Member Citizens Are
Citizens Are

By the numbers, 
1,2,3... count them all you see. 
From here and there and everywhere, 
we are one. 

America. 
The land of plenty. 
But...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slavery, abortion, abuse, addiction, america,

Click Here
Are you sure?
Okay or Cancel?
That is your question
asked if you're mental

Wait for the answer
and you are assured
That home for a loser
is who you are who'rd

And...

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Categories: slavery, 9th grade, abuse, analogy,

Allow Me Just To Dream This Once
-From the Passover musical that I wrote, "On Eagles' Wings"-

Allow me just to dream this once
Of things of life, of things of love
Allow me just...

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Categories: dream, hope, music, slavery,

Premium Member Slaverys Hellish Grip
An elderly black man with a head of grey hair,
Loyal to the farmland he worked but did not own,
In a time when law and justice’s...

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Categories: slavery, discrimination, fate,

Wishing For Clouds
Even the moon was cold
wrapped in clouds, like
an old shawl, dark, no
twinkling stars shown,
only the breath as they
walked, single file, to
where they did not know.
Past...

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© Juli Freda  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: america, betrayal, slavery,


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