Memory Slavery Poems
These Memory Slavery poems are examples of Slavery poems about Memory. These are the best examples of Slavery Memory poems written by international poets.
Skin Tight IiLeather boots
tight black suits
skin hot bound
in knots cutting
sweet the heat
Burns in between
the pleasure
of the pain
the sweat
of...
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slavery, allegory, allusion, angst, art,
Categories:
slavery, black african american, funny,
One Night As a SlaveYour back was aching
deformed by subservience
shoulders sloped like some fourth-class non-human
as you cut the cane that kept Miss Lillie.
4/23/2021
excerpt from Ethnic Memory 2/10/2019
Liberum Divisa 5'...
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Categories:
dream, slavery,
Dream Turn NightmareOn a never lonely street was where I grew up
There we played from morning till dusk
Then we woke up neat and...
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slavery, anxiety, child abuse, lonely,
My Self-Published Book On Hate, Written In 3 ChaptersChapter 2, The 1492.
That’s where they like to begin. They skip over the terrorists activities of theft, plunder, and genocides. When we naively thought...
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Categories:
slavery, america, bereavement, black african
Penny Postcard, Wrong AddressPenny Postcard, Wrong Address
by Michael R. Burch
(for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust)
We saw their pictures:
tortured out of our imaginations
like golems.
We could not believe
in...
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Categories:
slavery, holocaust, memorial day, murder,
CrazyMental Health
aka Crazy
The very topic is inclusive of the word,
that haunts our every step from birth;
until our last breath.
Fear has no power except...
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Categories:
slavery, child abuse, death, discrimination,
The Climate ChangesHumanity has taken a chainsaw to the tree of life
every tear came as a visitor as my eyes they drank
from the well of...
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Categories:
slavery, blessing, brother, moon, morning,
Remembering Four Centuries of Africans In AmericaFields where the bondman’s toil
No more shall trench the soil,
Seem now to bask in a serener day;
The meadow-birds sing sweeter, and the airs
Of heaven...
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Categories:
slavery, anniversary, celebration, history, racism,
Of Storied MemoriesStanding here in the mind of mine
passing through and over time
pulling out thoughts sublime:
sorrow, hate, pain, joy, love, sanity--
all the mould character of my humanity;
On...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, allegory, america, analogy,
Under the Dreadlocked TreesHis hair is alive,
serpents writhing, a man Medusa of the tropics,
as if he wore the demons
of colonialism and injustice on his...
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Categories:
culture, history, memory, slavery,
Any Change Is a Good ChangeIt’s a hard, hard thing to conceal
When you live in fear of ‘the real’
A terrible thing is to feel
When you’re a wheel within a wheel
I...
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Categories:
slavery, memory, music, pain, perspective,
Ethnic MemoryI feel your pain
smell the swelter that rises on a
Louisiana afternoon in a wooden slave shack
hear chains in the metal sweat box,
a human bake oven,
plantation...
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Categories:
black african american, slavery,
Another Form of SlaveryAnother Form of Slavery
A liberal perception of being free
Is creating a complete dependency
Population refuses to see
IAnother form of slavery
A sense of purpose, educate
Self respect will...
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Categories:
slavery, angst, political,
Attica To Alcatraz
From sea to shining sea,
‘Merica ain’t never been nothin’ but
a prison for
angry black boys like me
Childish rage moved my hands,
hateful oppression reaction expression
made me feel...
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Categories:
history, prison, slavery, truth,