Tubman Poems - Poems about Tubman

USPS Stamps Poetry Contest

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To have your picture on the face of a stamp,
Is a honor reserved for the ones who cultivated change
Among the mèlange of inspiring faces,
Lays the face of someone who served on the basis,
Of fr...

MY POEM THE WRATH AWARD WINNER DECEMBER 23RD 2003

...IT WAS DECEMBER 23RD 2003 LIVING IN FORT MYERS FLORIDA MY POEM WAS AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS EDITORS CHOICE AWARD BECAUSE IT DISPLAYS A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE AND ORIGINAL CREATIVITY WHATS AMAZING IS THIS WAS ...

Rhythm and Blues

...They want our rhythm but not our blues
They envy our natural melanin yet tan too
We wear our style and they call it hood
They copy it now and say it’s all good

They want to erase our heroes and...

Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution

...Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.

I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution march...

MY NARCOLEPSY

...I CALL IT SLEEPING AWAKE AT NIGHT I RELIVING TRAUMATIC EVENTS SOMETIMES FALLING TO SLEEP AT SIX IN THE MORNING TO FIND MY DAY FILLED WITH NAPS DREAMS REM SLEEP VIVID VISIONS THIS IS WHY I AM NEVER AL...

Stranger

...Quote:"Harriet Tubman: “I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.” 

Inspirationt: "I have been a stranger i...

Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories

...Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, 
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.

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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.
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US Treasury and The Faces On US Currency

...There has been talk of having the famous black abolitionist Harriet Tubman replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill. And I think though it does not completely address the problems our country has...

Juneteenth

...Juneteenth

On this day in 1865 was the day 
That the slaves were freed 
It was out to an end 
And our lives sort of 
Started to begin 
Begin to make sense 
We became more 
Than just workers...

A Time When Color Has No Meaning

...There will come a time when color
Has no meaning to our neighbor
Like it was in the beginning.
Life for the world will be kinder.

Harriet Tubman, born a slave,
Dedicated her life to save
Peop...

Imagine a Freedom Beyond Imagination

...Imagine a freedom beyond imagination!  
Like 102 passengers embarking on the Mayflower 
As the ship’s sails billowed, the horizon disappeared, 
Nothing ahead but wide-open, expanding sea and sky 
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The Friend That Makes Me Smile

...Inspired by my BFF, Ms.Tee Cee

The world looks so dark at times that "Just to smile today?" seems like an  impossible thing to do.

But you know what? My odds do  increase, "That...

Breath of Life

...chillin on da black looking at the earth waiting to be inhaled, just breathe it's me the breath of life, you can't see, you can't do anything without me, I ascend from your lungs to eternity, Iam the...

Blithesome Placental Liberation

...It was Long ago.
From the break of dawn
July 23,2003.
To the plenilune of the moon,
After the bullets have surceased.
The cry of a neonate hearkened through out the waves of the sea.

The geli...

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