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Spring Slavery Poems

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

Cotton Pickers Lament

Cotton Picker’s Lament


 
Feet burn soul blends with the earth, the heat, the picking season
Hands, hard calloused leather punctuated by picking scars
Drag that long sack...

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Categories: black african american, slavery,

Fear

Behind my brows are horror scenes
Each blink am drifted in oblivion deep
In the fear archives within my genes
As cold trepidations in my heart creep
Beaming vivid...

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Categories: slavery, africa, art, black african

Unfair Ransom

Quiescent body but a flying mind
Crave the peak, alas feet paralyzed 
Damned days darker than night
Scratch my soul sharper than knives
Burning from inside, outside only...

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Categories: slavery, allegory, corruption, dark, death,

November Tuesdays

The narrowing of choice, opaque or black?
Unconfident die castes vote ballot blank,
How has our circus bread become this bland?
What a diverse homogeneous blend,
All stitched to...

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Categories: slavery, november, political, riddle, satire,

Spells of My Slavery Broke

A memory from deep recesses of my mind crept
Meandering, probing, seething
In deep shafts of wrath swept
From crevices where the memory for too long held prisoner...

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Categories: slavery, poems,

An Average Day

The water 
The spring 
The sparrow that sings 
The grass 
The field 
The cotton 
The chains 
The whips 
The whoops 
The ache 
The bones 
The...

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Categories: slavery, black african american, death,

The Daisy Flower

I’m the one that the winds enjoy torturing
The one being crushed under roaming feet
The only one feeling lonely during spring
I’m the most eager one to...

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Categories: flower, freedom, humanity, slavery,