Tribute Slavery Poems
These Tribute Slavery poems are examples of Slavery poems about Tribute. These are the best examples of Slavery Tribute poems written by international poets.
A Daunting Mountain Slavery RaisedA Daunting Mountain Slavery Raised
An injured knee suffers in times of rain.
Seasons of counting costs raises mountains of debt.
Yet... faith can...
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slavery, africa, america,
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,
Author's NotesOne Father, Two Sons, and the History that Divides them!
This Poem was Inspired by Watching the News, and Seeing the Constant Fighting both Verbally and...
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Categories:
slavery, baby, father, god, independence
CreolebourneThe absence of copula,
black and white to and fro,
Pidgins broke the rules.
Yu spik a long tang,
ol rul mas stop, Braddah.
Into colonial subjugation,
Pidgin has no...
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slavery, freedom, tribute,
Count It With Numbers - Gulf of Guinea, September, 1839Dropped anchor off the Fever Coast
‘board a rake-masted schooner
Spooked by Ahab’s ghost.
Lamps glowered through the yawning blanks
Casting bone-twisted shadows
Over teakwood planks.
Salt biscuits...
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Categories:
slavery,
Slave No MoreHow would I tell you my despair
Without remembering the fate we share?
My eyes still swell with tears
Every time I think of all these years.
I was...
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Categories:
slavery, conflict, courage, discrimination, grave,
What Is the Price of Your VoiceOn July 4th, 1776 This Land Became Emancipated or Freed from Great Britain, though My Fore-Fathers would Remain Enslaved for the Next 80 Plus Years...
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slavery, america, christian, discrimination, independence
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,
Tribute To Dawn of Day: Stories From the Underground RailroadTribute to Dawn of Day: Stories from the Underground Railroad
From
Tennessee
Virginia
Mississippi
Kansas
Wisconsin
To free states in the north and Canada
I grieved upon the grave...
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Categories:
slavery, christian, cry, death, evil,
The Sheepdog and the Black BullI said to the Mountains, tell me the story of the Sheepdog. But would it be Honorable for me to inquire about the Black bull?
The...
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Categories:
slavery, abuse, africa, black african
With Gentlemen Ease
In the unforgiving August heat
of a hot Alabama noonday
They sit in secluded shade,
resting in high-back, woven bamboo chairs
on a mahogany carved veranda
Their bodies face outward...
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Categories:
slavery, black african american, pain,
Africa AriseAfrica, Land of my noble birth,
Now is the time to break free from your adversary’s girth.
The time has come for you to take your place,
And...
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slavery, africa, independence day, leadership,
Believing In LifeMy journey begins
from an angry seed
a heart starts beating
a rape victim
carries a child
my mother
embracing life
she taught me to love
not always easy
I did not want
to be...
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Categories:
slavery, abortion, abuse, appreciation, baby,
A Good Day
We pick de cotton,
yah gib us mo' seeds
We plant de wheat and corn,
yah gat us pluckin' up mo' weeds
We gather all de fruit,
yah ke'p it...
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Categories:
death, freedom, pain, slavery,
Ebony and PhonicsEbony and Phonics
Talkin’ Jive, slippin’ inta the ethnic eccentricities
of survival, hip-hop, rap, the blues, Ebonics.
Ebonics, the melding of Ebony and Phonics
into a language that could...
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Categories:
language, slavery, prejudice,