Mother Slavery Poems
These Mother Slavery poems are examples of Slavery poems about Mother. These are the best examples of Slavery Mother poems written by international poets.
Demolished ChildhoodNo toys to play with,
she draws dolls on the dry soil
with soft soiled fingers.
The pale face is drenched,
not by joyous summer rain.
Is it dripping tears?
The...
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childhood, dream, slavery,
I Will Always Be a SeedMy calloused black skin got shoved in the soil by a white mans soiled thumb
Trying to make his mortgage off me
Buried
I found friends
Barely breathing
But...
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Categories:
slavery, black african american, color,
A Sea ShantyA 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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Categories:
slavery, america, christian, forgiveness, freedom,
Black HistoryIt 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,
Demeter CriesDEMETER CRIES
Sun in center and white wings around
The hundred florae in one stem, cheated;
My daughter never knew t’was him.
The fragrance was sweet but toxic.
His...
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Categories:
slavery, anger, daughter, literature, mythology,
Colourism of the Black WomanBorn from slaved backbones of our forefathers and mothers
We have risen, Liberated, freed from encroachment
Apprised through noble heritage, an abundance of history
Mother Africa gave birth,...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, color, culture, discrimination,
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the...
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Categories:
slavery, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
When You ReturnSojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great...
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Categories:
slavery, adventure, africa, black african
IronyI won’t hold my breath for the day you stop butchering us. We already have enough issues trying to breathe with you around. They said...
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Categories:
slavery, 12th grade, abuse, political,
My Weeping MotherI didn't know she was crying,
Until I saw the tears and blood dripping from the corners of her swollen eyes,
Her mouth was sealed and heart...
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Categories:
africa, mother, slavery,
Martial TranslationsMartial epigram translations
Epitaph for the Child Erotion
by Marcus Valerius Martial
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lie lightly on her, grass and dew...
So little weight she placed...
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Categories:
slavery, child, daughter, death, funeral,
Hazrat Bilal HabshiBilal ibn Rabah (580–640 AD) also known as Bilal ibn Riyah, and ibn Rabah), was one of the most trusted and loyal Sahabah (companions) of...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, destiny, faith, islamic,
RhythmMusic is around us
Music is in us
We were born with a rhythm
The rhythm in us gives indication of the life in us
I put my...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, black african american,
On This FieldOn this field
Is where I was born
And in these fields I will be buried they say
I watch my mom pick cotton
For the white colony...
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Categories:
slavery, absence, anger, black african
ApocalypseYou raided our dreadful slums
And sniffed us out of our homes
You vomited on our skin
And called us names like ‘bushmen’
You stripped us naked
And buckled...
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slavery,