Slurs Poems - Poems about Slurs

...We never asked to be different. We only wanted to walk without folding our souls into apology. To laugh without someone measuring the pitch of our voices and deciding if it was a boy or a girl......

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... This poem speaks for voices smothered by silence and those who returned home to find safety was another room for disbelief. They were climbing stairs—she and her brother, bags rustling with h......

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...When my heart is broken and I feel like I’ll never find a way to see beyond the sorrow, the darkness who slurs each prayer I pray… when my soul is churning with fear that won’t let me go and ......

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...“Pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5;17-18. The hands of compassion echo kindheartedness lik......

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...There was a dreary blip in my life I feared two depressing outcomes The first, hell I separate myself from societal pressures I accept who I am I let go of all that abuse that has kept me who ......

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...He wore a hoodie, she had an attitude He wore a hoodie So you immediately assumed he had a weapon He wore a hoodie So you immediately assumed he was on the way to a drug deal He wore a hoodie......

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... Written: June 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh ******************** The Phantom Choir In the quiescence of last Sunday, Prophecy heralded the hour p......

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...[Verse 1] They built their fences high and wide, White porches where their secrets hide. Laughed in rooms where he’d never belong, Called him Beast when he walked too strong. No shoes, no name......

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...How can we not have this conversation where footprints of the poor vanish beneath the boots of investors, and the river sings only to those who can afford its luxury? In Chobe, the elephants......

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...If this I may I shall say That only a fool listen to a drunkard on a stool If thy see your worth In such fools Thy might just perch on such stools Then some would say From such a mouth ......

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...I have known the ache of being picked apart by cultures trying to prey on my wounded heart. By predators whose cruel words were spoken, hoping they'd left me bleeding and broken. I've cried out......

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...Spoken warriors, with rhythm words as their sound swords/ A poetry slam where words and body language put the audience in a sweaty heap/ the spectrum of a creative sound off between spoken word poe......

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...The avalanche crashed an ax from nimbus peaks these shrouds a pall a maul splitting my shield this smur slurs my weakened war paint my skin my beat my breath my breast gray matter clouds —......

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...Humpy Trumpy secure on his wall. No matter his crimes, he's immune from them all.. Through all the court systems and charges that pend, and racial slurs that should offend, Humpy's Maga might m......

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... And you didn’t make me I formed myself From the periodic table with a little help You added slurs and blackened my milk Turned me into a scapegoat and my flesh to filth And you nev......

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