Water Slavery Poems
These Water Slavery poems are examples of Slavery poems about Water. These are the best examples of Slavery Water poems written by international poets.
PropagandaPropaganda
We are told,
what they want us to hear,
by the media,
and those behind the curtain,
with their own agendas,
their own shows,
in the...
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Categories:
slavery, appreciation, atheist, forgiveness, political,
1533under a nervous rain
in the dark afternoon of the forest
the slave extracts latex from the rubber tree
and the whip leaves stripes in the man on...
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pain, rainforest, slavery,
Deep Thoughts About RaceYes, I am thinking about the human race
Please note that race has ‘four letters’
And most four-letter words
Can cause problems, ills, havocs and wars
Race is to...
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Categories:
slavery, culture, discrimination, hate, prejudice,
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, america, grief, racism,
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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slavery,
The Book of ExodusMoses hungered mightily for Canaan,
That fabled milk and honey promised land.
He ‘scaped by wading hip deep through the water
To keep from leaving footprints in the...
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Categories:
history, slavery,
Africa, My StoryThey packed us in ships and boats.
Sardines have more space in their cans as compared to us,
Low ventilation, no water, little food,
Out of our land...
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Categories:
africa, slavery,
The Soul Will Close Its Eyesa blade of conscious grass
streams carry water to nourish
as children run to capture lightening bugs
mesmerized by flickers they would own
but in the morning all are...
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Categories:
slavery, animal, earth, freedom, heartbreak,
She Is GoneTo her takers
She is a product.
To others she is service.
Too vulnerable she barely had a say.
Exchanged for money,-
The world matters not; it is a pea.
Used...
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Categories:
child abuse, hope, slavery,
Black SlaveryThe chains drag loosely,as I scrub this stone cold floor,I need to ask for food and water,just a little more,but my master will decide,when ive...
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Categories:
slavery, black love,
Black SlaveryThe chains drag loosely,as I scrub this stone cold floor,I need to ask for food and water,just a little more,but my master will decide,when ive...
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Categories:
slavery, black love,
The Lament of a Black ManWho am I? Am I even human? What is my place in this world?
I am confused, sometimes I do not even feel like a human...
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Categories:
slavery, black african american, death,
Grapes of DespairThere is no part of life mine alone,
If regarding my whole existence.
What belongs to me is only flesh and...
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Categories:
dark, pain, sad, slavery,
The SeaThe sea carries many ghosts
Their past pain, in waves, it hosts
I cannot swim within it
The tides force me to submit
Yes, I see its rich beauty
I...
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Categories:
ocean, sea, slavery, water,
Freeman CaveI cherish my freedom
Hard earned though it was
Through the abolitionist railway
And those who supported the cause
An African slave,
though free upon birth
I was sold as a...
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Categories:
slavery, africa, america, freedom, prison,