Slurs Poems

Drowning in a sea of their hate

...Expectations
No rest
No time to breathe
A weight on your chest 
Nothing less than excellence 
Even that's not enough
A world that tells black people
That even if you follow the rules
You are ...

The rage of a tired black woman

...Rage.
Fury.
A constant burning anger.
A rage stemmed from generations of those who have come before me
An inheritance we have the right to own 
Something passed through each black child born
On...

Why?

...Why?
That's the question. Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why do we live in a world that hates change
A world clinging to a past long gone 
Why must hate be so common
Why does the world insist evolution ...

Where Light Refuses to Bow

...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...

Probably,Forever

...
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...

What Life's About

...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 ...

Compassion 101

...“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...

The Third Option

...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 ...

He wore a hoodie, she had an attitude

...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...

Intrusive Thoughts

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Written: June 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh

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The Phantom Choir

In the quiescence of last Sunday,
Prophecy heralded the hour p...

THE BEAUTY CALLED HIM BEAST

...[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...

How Can We Not Have This Conversation

...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...

Take it or Not

...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
...

Shoot Me with Words and I Will Rise

...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...

Spoken Warriors

...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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