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Wife Slavery Poems

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

3,336 Years of Connection

   My wife and I have scrubbed and searched
    every crumb of leaven unearthed 

   No one will...

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Categories: analogy, holiday, jewish, slavery,

The Real Black History

Written By:  D. Collins 2/26/24


When I hear "a country of immigrants" I wince in pain.
Because one ethnic group traveled here in chains.
They didn't walk...

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Categories: slavery,

Glue of Goshen

My dreams became galling
To my fratricidal brothers
My father's favor appalling
Birthed from different mothers

"The master of dreams is coming."
Down the cistern they tossed me
Their plan to...

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Categories: slavery, betrayal, bible, brother, dream,

Smokey Wilson

Smokey hailed from someplace back in Missouri
was a slave until the ripe old age of ten
Left his master's home headed to Montana
and swore they would...

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Categories: slavery, poetry,

I Will Always Be a Seed

My 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,

Hard Times

I bow down to the great Dickens
Whose name has touched every soil,
And whose art has touched every soul,
His  art "Hard Times" has travelled far...

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Categories: abuse, high school, slavery,

Author's Notes

A Letter from Heaven!

This Poem was Inspired by My Reaction to Individuals Carrying Out Abortions on a Daily Basis, as if that New Life Had...

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Categories: slavery, abortion, africa, america, betrayal,

Click Here

Are you sure?
Okay or Cancel?
That is your question
asked if you're mental

Wait for the answer
and you are assured
That home for a loser
is who you are who'rd

And...

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Categories: slavery, 9th grade, abuse, analogy,

When We Hit Climax

My love, you have been distant and cold

Your demeanor is resistant yet robust

When will your skin feel and your mind unload

When will your eyes open...

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Categories: slavery, black love, conflict, desire,

Dream Turn Nightmare

On a never lonely street was  where I grew up
There  we played from morning  till dusk
 Then we woke up neat and...

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Categories: slavery, anxiety, child abuse, lonely,

Martial Translations

Martial 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,

Candy-Coated

Candy-coated 


The darkest day 
The most bitter night
Warm, salty tears crawl down
The back of sweet bamboo
Candy-coated , granular gold
For which I break my back
And rain...

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Categories: slavery, abuse, betrayal, evil, imagery,

Nations Damnable Blight

Black slender man, bent twig on the branch of a slave’s family tree,  
Planted in white culture during infamous time of our history, 
From...

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Categories: slavery, anger, discrimination, evil, hate,

Slave To Love

As I work hard in the hot cotton fields all day
I dreadfully think about the long night to come
Since you lost your wife you tell...

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Categories: abuse, slavery,

Leaving Nigeria

Before 1650, they have anchored already,
The Blacks at first felt their arrival was for a remedy,
They were Europeans, concerned with slave trade,
From the sea, they...

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Categories: slavery, abuse, africa, depression, pain,