Metaphor Slavery Poems
These Metaphor Slavery poems are examples of Slavery poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Slavery Metaphor poems written by international poets.
A Hexed MirrorIn a hexed mirror's gaze, fate twists and turns,
A tangled dance of it's designs,
Each step a labyrinth, and each path it spurns,
As victims caught within...
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Categories:
slavery, destiny, extended metaphor, fate,
The ThiefOne day, a petty thief
Stole a piece of bread.
She dashed away in a spiff
“Stop her!”, the trader yelled.
Along came a couple who,
Upon hearing the...
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Categories:
slavery, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Mortality's Dance--Mortality's Dance--
I murmured that cyanide could joust the Jester’s incessant need for the prolonging.
His tortured soul could bite the bullet and find inner peace from...
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Categories:
slavery, conflict, depression, hurt, mental
To Acute AwarenessLet us not wallow in a quixotic stupor;
Becoming their silly food-stamped serfs:-
Maudlin beings drained of all our vigor—
Doomed to old slave quarters berths....
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Categories:
slavery, allegory, black african american,
Your Christ Your God Your Crown IAll has abandon you…
Destroy your Christ
your God
your idols
Hypocrisy
They will all fall apart!
Your Lords and your Artificial Christ!
Lay bear it’s mechanical heart
Rebuild it...
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Categories:
slavery, allah, angel, art, atheist,
Complexions of BeingWe are complexions of being,
gradations of actualization.
Our nature coming to be or passing away,
Aristotle wrote.
Mere complexions of being,
gradations of ontology.
In every American thing...
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Categories:
slavery, america, irony, metaphor, philosophy,
Never Was I a SlaveNever was I slave physically
Yet could I be the one a Slave
"mentally economically and socially sinfully"
I have a headstone prepared a...
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Categories:
slavery, analogy, anxiety, conflict, humanity,
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,
Living On Titanic Land
I’m the son of a slave,
living in ancient Greece of modern day
I was born in a city-state:
Detroit, South Carolina
Iron oar delivery
through the transactional Middle Passage...
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Categories:
allegory, metaphor, slavery, truth,
Dear Southern GalsDear Southern Gals
Savannah - oh honey
You beautiful Belle
Your locks long and loose
And silver as well
Muted mementos
Of suffering of pain
Of tears you have wept
Long rivers of...
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Categories:
slavery, grief, hair, history, memory,
Heirs of the StruggleParadoxically, slavery showed equanimity—
Its suffering displayed no discrimination;
We all shared equally, its debilitation,
And were equally denied any sympathy
Over the Middle Passage odyssey;
Black men were prized;...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, black african american,
Ankle Bracelets
Clink-clink
Black panther eyes peering
thru the concrete canopy
What do they see in the blood-smoke midnight air ...
safari sound waves shocking,
moving the ghetto leaves
What do...
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Categories:
culture, metaphor, slavery, truth,
Breaking FreeA slave watches a Monarch butterfly breaking out from its cocoon
Date: 26/06/2017...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, change, deep, freedom,
To the Sable Side of An Iago-American MirrorStrange, yet a reality none the less:
the oppressed destroying themselves
for the sake of the oppressor.
The battle of creatures of the sea
has now become that...
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Categories:
slavery, allegory, analogy, black african
In the Garden of EvilIn The Garden of Evil
(Apropos the New World Creation)
See-sawing along
the shores of life,
gazing upon
the reflecting light,
we grasped
keloids of memories—running.
And like fishermen of food,
we webbed together
the...
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Categories:
slavery, allegory, analogy, betrayal, imagery,