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Date Posted	PoemTitle	# Views	Form
07/13/2025	The strength we embody	11	Free verse
07/13/2025	Black joy vs the world	13	Free verse
07/12/2025	The lies they killed us with	15	Free verse
07/12/2025	To be black part II	26	Free verse
07/11/2025	The many languages of black voices	23	Free verse
07/10/2025	The invitation of love into a black woman's heart	47	Free verse
07/10/2025	To be black	36	Free verse
07/09/2025	Can happily ever after exist?	39	Free verse
07/09/2025	Life is short	26	Free verse
07/07/2025	246 bullets	14	Free verse
07/07/2025	The power of being black	43	Free verse
07/05/2025	The forgotten killer	40	Free verse
07/03/2025	The sacrifice of drowning so others could be saved	39	Free verse
07/02/2025	Who will hold her exhaustion when it gets too heavy	29	Free verse
07/02/2025	The radicalism of a black main character	32	Free verse
07/01/2025	Black people vs the world	33	Free verse
06/30/2025	Her journey to self love	34	Free verse
06/30/2025	The prison he calls home	48	Free verse
06/30/2025	She died in a body she hated	34	Free verse
06/29/2025	We built their prisons from their own blood	23	Free verse
06/29/2025	Her words wrote the justice that we deserved	42	Free verse
06/29/2025	Time lost is actually time stolen	32	Free verse
06/29/2025	When grief became a shadow	28	Free verse
06/28/2025	You cannot silence, what demands to be heard	30	Free verse
06/27/2025	The scars they don't see	22	Free verse
06/27/2025	The girl who loved to dance	26	Free verse
06/27/2025	When the music died	27	Free verse
06/26/2025	The voice that only speaks violence	43	Free verse
06/26/2025	The foundation of power	28	Free verse
06/25/2025	Failing justice 101	21	Free verse
06/24/2025	Control	35	Free verse
06/22/2025	Our life a horror movie they played to us in real life	30	Free verse
06/22/2025	The art of letting go	39	Free verse
06/21/2025	Stage 4 silence	50	Free verse
06/20/2025	When our joy became a weapon for them	50	Free verse
06/19/2025	My blood, my comfort	59	Free verse
06/18/2025	The blurred lines between childhood and adulthood	36	Free verse
06/17/2025	When racism met suicide	39	Free verse
06/17/2025	The blood they spilled that couldn't be removed	33	Free verse
06/16/2025	The scars they left us	58	Free verse
06/16/2025	The case of lynching vs suicide	32	Free verse
06/15/2025	They laughed at our pain	49	Free verse
06/15/2025	The violence You greeted us with	35	Free verse
06/14/2025	When the church said pray it away	83	Free verse
06/14/2025	Black without a mask	75	Free verse
06/14/2025	A eulogy for the me I had to kill to survive	49	Free verse
06/13/2025	The cold hand	124	Free verse
06/12/2025	Who benefits from my belief?	79	Free verse
06/12/2025	You demand our forgiveness But we say hell no	97	Free verse
06/12/2025	When black meets betrayal	108	Free verse
06/11/2025	She wore the wrong thing that day	75	Free verse
06/11/2025	The girl who had a voice bigger than hatred But a heart that wanted to be accepted	63	Free verse
06/10/2025	The last poem I'll ever write before I burn this whole system down	98	Free verse
06/09/2025	There was a protest in my body	78	Free verse
06/09/2025	The ballad of the last black girl in school	86	Free verse
06/08/2025	A black girls guide to not being believed	111	Free verse
06/08/2025	He wore a hoodie, she had an attitude	79	Free verse
06/08/2025	The myth of justice	81	Free verse
06/07/2025	They gave us a gun and called it freedom	97	Free verse
06/07/2025	Our crown	114	Free verse
06/07/2025	If the walls could speak	118	Free verse
06/07/2025	Where do all the apologies go	117	Free verse
06/07/2025	Yes	90	Free verse
06/07/2025	If they shoot, tell my story	114	Free verse
06/06/2025	We are done	108	Free verse
06/06/2025	The hypocrisy of democracy	111	Free verse
06/06/2025	Rest is revolutionary	99	Free verse
06/05/2025	If our hair was on trial	139	Free verse
06/05/2025	Elemental rebellion	98	Free verse
06/05/2025	We the soil are witnesses to their turmoil	101	Free verse
06/04/2025	Our skin is not a costume	105	Free verse
06/04/2025	Modern day versions of lynching	126	Free verse
06/04/2025	The many suicides of black men	182	Free verse
06/03/2025	Black people don't do therapy	135	Free verse
06/03/2025	God of the oppressors	103	Free verse
06/02/2025	No I won't forgive and no I won't forget	112	Free verse
06/02/2025	Black boys deserve flowers too	130	Free verse
06/02/2025	A black fathers love	103	Free verse
06/02/2025	A forgotten victim of the system	100	Free verse
05/31/2025	You are not the victim	160	Free verse
05/30/2025	In another life, I'd be your mother	106	Free verse
05/30/2025	The softness we never got	122	Free verse
05/29/2025	The skin I have vs the skin you have	89	Free verse
05/28/2025	The many funerals of a black girl	218	Free verse
05/28/2025	Reclaiming the absence	129	Free verse
05/27/2025	The after	125	Free verse
05/27/2025	Resistance	86	Free verse
05/27/2025	Innocent	107	Free verse
05/27/2025	Star boy	113	Free verse
05/27/2025	To all the black mothers	116	Free verse
05/26/2025	The things she left behind	124	Free verse
05/26/2025	The little girl at the muesum	117	Free verse
05/25/2025	An ode to our ancestors	140	Free verse
05/25/2025	The voices we should hear	78	Free verse
05/25/2025	Emmett Till	148	Free verse
05/24/2025	When I look into my grandmother's eyes	206	Free verse