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Date Posted	PoemTitle	# Views	Form
07/12/2025	The lies they killed us with	9	Free verse
07/12/2025	To be black part II	17	Free verse
07/11/2025	The many languages of black voices	18	Free verse
07/10/2025	The invitation of love into a black woman's heart	36	Free verse
07/10/2025	To be black	31	Free verse
07/09/2025	Can happily ever after exist?	38	Free verse
07/09/2025	Life is short	19	Free verse
07/07/2025	246 bullets	13	Free verse
07/07/2025	The power of being black	33	Free verse
07/05/2025	The forgotten killer	39	Free verse
07/03/2025	The sacrifice of drowning so others could be saved	37	Free verse
07/02/2025	Who will hold her exhaustion when it gets too heavy	27	Free verse
07/02/2025	The radicalism of a black main character	29	Free verse
07/01/2025	Black people vs the world	31	Free verse
06/30/2025	Her journey to self love	33	Free verse
06/30/2025	The prison he calls home	43	Free verse
06/30/2025	She died in a body she hated	31	Free verse
06/29/2025	We built their prisons from their own blood	21	Free verse
06/29/2025	Her words wrote the justice that we deserved	39	Free verse
06/29/2025	Time lost is actually time stolen	30	Free verse
06/29/2025	When grief became a shadow	26	Free verse
06/28/2025	You cannot silence, what demands to be heard	25	Free verse
06/27/2025	The scars they don't see	20	Free verse
06/27/2025	The girl who loved to dance	24	Free verse
06/27/2025	When the music died	21	Free verse
06/26/2025	The voice that only speaks violence	42	Free verse
06/26/2025	The foundation of power	27	Free verse
06/25/2025	Failing justice 101	20	Free verse
06/24/2025	Control	32	Free verse
06/22/2025	Our life a horror movie they played to us in real life	28	Free verse
06/22/2025	The art of letting go	34	Free verse
06/21/2025	Stage 4 silence	47	Free verse
06/20/2025	When our joy became a weapon for them	47	Free verse
06/19/2025	My blood, my comfort	58	Free verse
06/18/2025	The blurred lines between childhood and adulthood	34	Free verse
06/17/2025	When racism met suicide	38	Free verse
06/17/2025	The blood they spilled that couldn't be removed	31	Free verse
06/16/2025	The scars they left us	49	Free verse
06/16/2025	The case of lynching vs suicide	29	Free verse
06/15/2025	They laughed at our pain	44	Free verse
06/15/2025	The violence You greeted us with	33	Free verse
06/14/2025	When the church said pray it away	82	Free verse
06/14/2025	Black without a mask	74	Free verse
06/14/2025	A eulogy for the me I had to kill to survive	44	Free verse
06/13/2025	The cold hand	121	Free verse
06/12/2025	Who benefits from my belief?	78	Free verse
06/12/2025	You demand our forgiveness But we say hell no	90	Free verse
06/12/2025	When black meets betrayal	106	Free verse
06/11/2025	She wore the wrong thing that day	73	Free verse
06/11/2025	The girl who had a voice bigger than hatred But a heart that wanted to be accepted	60	Free verse
06/10/2025	The last poem I'll ever write before I burn this whole system down	91	Free verse
06/09/2025	There was a protest in my body	75	Free verse
06/09/2025	The ballad of the last black girl in school	82	Free verse
06/08/2025	A black girls guide to not being believed	102	Free verse
06/08/2025	He wore a hoodie, she had an attitude	77	Free verse
06/08/2025	The myth of justice	78	Free verse
06/07/2025	They gave us a gun and called it freedom	88	Free verse
06/07/2025	Our crown	111	Free verse
06/07/2025	If the walls could speak	115	Free verse
06/07/2025	Where do all the apologies go	110	Free verse
06/07/2025	Yes	87	Free verse
06/07/2025	If they shoot, tell my story	112	Free verse
06/06/2025	We are done	104	Free verse
06/06/2025	The hypocrisy of democracy	107	Free verse
06/06/2025	Rest is revolutionary	95	Free verse
06/05/2025	If our hair was on trial	134	Free verse
06/05/2025	Elemental rebellion	96	Free verse
06/05/2025	We the soil are witnesses to their turmoil	95	Free verse
06/04/2025	Our skin is not a costume	103	Free verse
06/04/2025	Modern day versions of lynching	121	Free verse
06/04/2025	The many suicides of black men	177	Free verse
06/03/2025	Black people don't do therapy	132	Free verse
06/03/2025	God of the oppressors	100	Free verse
06/02/2025	No I won't forgive and no I won't forget	110	Free verse
06/02/2025	Black boys deserve flowers too	127	Free verse
06/02/2025	A black fathers love	102	Free verse
06/02/2025	A forgotten victim of the system	99	Free verse
05/31/2025	You are not the victim	155	Free verse
05/30/2025	In another life, I'd be your mother	104	Free verse
05/30/2025	The softness we never got	121	Free verse
05/29/2025	The skin I have vs the skin you have	84	Free verse
05/28/2025	The many funerals of a black girl	207	Free verse
05/28/2025	Reclaiming the absence	128	Free verse
05/27/2025	The after	124	Free verse
05/27/2025	Resistance	85	Free verse
05/27/2025	Innocent	106	Free verse
05/27/2025	Star boy	110	Free verse
05/27/2025	To all the black mothers	115	Free verse
05/26/2025	The things she left behind	119	Free verse
05/26/2025	The little girl at the muesum	116	Free verse
05/25/2025	An ode to our ancestors	138	Free verse
05/25/2025	The voices we should hear	77	Free verse
05/25/2025	Emmett Till	146	Free verse
05/24/2025	When I look into my grandmother's eyes	205	Free verse