Poems about Racism
#racism
Poems about racism, poetry about prejudice or discrimination based on race, or the idea that one race is superior to another. Poems about race relations and racial tension around the world. Poetry exploring racism in all its forms.
Jermainesplain
Poem Published
12th Mar 2023 11:03am
12th Mar 2023 11:03am
Outgunned (A Poem for R)
Your glory fades with each receding hair
An elderly reject from the renaissance faire
Search for some meaning on poetry sites
But mediocrity won’t keep you warm at night
Your pulpit is a broken heap
Of sensibilities you gate-keep
Hide from the truth that midnight brings
None of it means anything
An elderly reject from the renaissance faire
Search for some meaning on poetry sites
But mediocrity won’t keep you warm at night
Your pulpit is a broken heap
Of sensibilities you gate-keep
Hide from the truth that midnight brings
None of it means anything
#LifeAsAWriter
#racism
#WritingPoetry
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Blackbird
Blackbird_
Blackbird_
Poem Published
8th Mar 2023 1:50am
8th Mar 2023 1:50am
I am
Something different burrows in my skin,
tells me I am kin, but I am not- but I am.
Something different swirls atop my head and feels so close as I am led, but so far- but I am.
Something different tugs and tells from different mouths who to be and what to do but I do what I do and- I am.
Something different shoots fire across the sky and gas across the streets as they fight or they flee and I see that- I am.
Something different is the 'gangs' against gangs with silver tongues and lined gold pockets, shedding dignity and love to live and- I am.
Something...
tells me I am kin, but I am not- but I am.
Something different swirls atop my head and feels so close as I am led, but so far- but I am.
Something different tugs and tells from different mouths who to be and what to do but I do what I do and- I am.
Something different shoots fire across the sky and gas across the streets as they fight or they flee and I see that- I am.
Something different is the 'gangs' against gangs with silver tongues and lined gold pockets, shedding dignity and love to live and- I am.
Something...
#identity
#racism
#inequality
#SelfDiscovery
#culture
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Kementic1
Poem Published
27th Feb 2023 5:32am
27th Feb 2023 5:32am
I Am Not Offended by........
I am not offended by seeing Gay people kiss on the street
but by kids and Seniors not having enough food to eat
I am not offended by a crazy MTG tweet
but by homeless people using concrete as their hotel suite
I am not offended by another Trump speech bc he is a bore
but by Putin's illegal war
i am not offended by Drag Queen performance art
but by another DeSantis racist and homophobic verbal fart
I am not offended by....
but by kids and Seniors not having enough food to eat
I am not offended by a crazy MTG tweet
but by homeless people using concrete as their hotel suite
I am not offended by another Trump speech bc he is a bore
but by Putin's illegal war
i am not offended by Drag Queen performance art
but by another DeSantis racist and homophobic verbal fart
I am not offended by....
#war
#homelessness
#racism
#HumanRights
#inequality
602 reads
6 Comments
bitcoindoctor
Poem Published
17th Feb 2023 8:01pm
17th Feb 2023 8:01pm
Black Dawn
In the land of the free and the home of the brave,
There's a story that's been told of a people that were slaves,
Whose bodies and minds had been beaten and scarred,
And whose lives have been haunted by a past that's so hard.
They've fought for their rights, for their voices to be heard,
They've struggled and sacrificed, for a dream that's deferred,
And though progress has been made, there's still so much to do,
To ensure that justice and equality are not just for a few.
For the Black man and woman, the road has been long,
And...
There's a story that's been told of a people that were slaves,
Whose bodies and minds had been beaten and scarred,
And whose lives have been haunted by a past that's so hard.
They've fought for their rights, for their voices to be heard,
They've struggled and sacrificed, for a dream that's deferred,
And though progress has been made, there's still so much to do,
To ensure that justice and equality are not just for a few.
For the Black man and woman, the road has been long,
And...
#LifeStruggles
#racism
250 reads
1 Comment
Ironysirens
Poem Published
3rd Feb 2023 9:06pm
3rd Feb 2023 9:06pm
Holding Back the Blue Rot !
Holding Back the Blue Rot” [Blue Rot = the Police State]
I am not the bridge, I am the Keystone, the Arch, the Matriarchal form of being.
I am without racism, without Rot and free to stand a protectorate, a dome, the whole, the womb.
My back is no bridge, yet my shoulders are my cornerstones, my devout legs my pillars of foundation.
My skull, the beauty, a keystone of balance and wedged pressure holding the arch of time.
Again without ROT! A void with no haunted racial overtones, having to explain but when, when, when will the pure...
I am not the bridge, I am the Keystone, the Arch, the Matriarchal form of being.
I am without racism, without Rot and free to stand a protectorate, a dome, the whole, the womb.
My back is no bridge, yet my shoulders are my cornerstones, my devout legs my pillars of foundation.
My skull, the beauty, a keystone of balance and wedged pressure holding the arch of time.
Again without ROT! A void with no haunted racial overtones, having to explain but when, when, when will the pure...
#oppression
#power
#racism
#freedom
#rebellion
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DevilsChild
Poem Published
16th Jan 2023 7:26am
16th Jan 2023 7:26am
Disservice
that's what you do to yourself
when you allow such anger in your heart
I wonder if you'll know that before you're gone
when you allow such anger in your heart
I wonder if you'll know that before you're gone
#hope
#racism
442 reads
11 Comments
DAGODDESS
Poem Published
9th Jan 2023 8:51pm
9th Jan 2023 8:51pm
it’s a black panther party (HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY 1/9)
u must be a pimp cuz you just hoe’d me
I can’t, see you in a casket
please don’t od
I ain’t do no tellin have mercy on me
my mama was stressin
ain’t let me breathe
well
i’m done with stressing
I got much more,
blessings
on me
so much that
I be giving
freely
don’t be creepin
next to me
thinking because I give
you can take, easily
God,
protect me
from
my enemies
if they strike me
they stop breathing
no more holding my breath
i’m breathing freely ...
I can’t, see you in a casket
please don’t od
I ain’t do no tellin have mercy on me
my mama was stressin
ain’t let me breathe
well
i’m done with stressing
I got much more,
blessings
on me
so much that
I be giving
freely
don’t be creepin
next to me
thinking because I give
you can take, easily
God,
protect me
from
my enemies
if they strike me
they stop breathing
no more holding my breath
i’m breathing freely ...
#war
#drugs
#addiction
#racism
#prison
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1 Comment
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
9th Jan 2023 6:17pm
9th Jan 2023 6:17pm
Raphium Series~Onyx Kingdom
universal understanding of a G code
dirty, dirty communications
rising in the atmosphere
ten stars witness the rebellion
infinite space under wraps
come in the back door storming, you wish
hustle that muscle
might makes right?
damn right
interstellar war affecting things
bigotry pitting this one against that
ultimately we are family
royalty? let me ask this who crowned you?
fickle loyalty makes me ill
nine houses are accounted for in the onyx kingdom
I rise within myself
...
dirty, dirty communications
rising in the atmosphere
ten stars witness the rebellion
infinite space under wraps
come in the back door storming, you wish
hustle that muscle
might makes right?
damn right
interstellar war affecting things
bigotry pitting this one against that
ultimately we are family
royalty? let me ask this who crowned you?
fickle loyalty makes me ill
nine houses are accounted for in the onyx kingdom
I rise within myself
...
#dark
#stars
#angels
#racism
#aliens
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1 Comment
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
9th Dec 2022 9:46pm
9th Dec 2022 9:46pm
Status Quo
Any other day, we could've made it
Any other day, We could've shared this world
We could had travel the globe, land to land without borders
You could had shared your garden, and I could had shared my water
White and brown sharing meals at the same fucking table
Equally sharing, no hostility, no dam labels
Any other day, we could've made it
Any other day, We could've shared this world
No looking for a nine or an uzi, you can't find it
The need never arose to ever design it
Peace has gone global, no need for the criminal minded...
Any other day, We could've shared this world
We could had travel the globe, land to land without borders
You could had shared your garden, and I could had shared my water
White and brown sharing meals at the same fucking table
Equally sharing, no hostility, no dam labels
Any other day, we could've made it
Any other day, We could've shared this world
No looking for a nine or an uzi, you can't find it
The need never arose to ever design it
Peace has gone global, no need for the criminal minded...
#humankind
#racism
#HumanRights #inequality
#HumanRights #inequality
275 reads
4 Comments
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
9th Dec 2022 9:42pm
9th Dec 2022 9:42pm
Racism
Through out existence there has always been this void
And for whatever reason most manage not to see it and even avoid
It contains all that the universe has decided to discard
The vilest of essence, the darkest with no regards
In this void it's like a pit in space and time
I was ensnared by it's beauty, by both heart and mind
Although shapeless I saw it with form
The frigidity of it's heart became my norm
I reveled in it's darkness savoring the tranquility of death
The life that I had lived convinced me that this was the only...
And for whatever reason most manage not to see it and even avoid
It contains all that the universe has decided to discard
The vilest of essence, the darkest with no regards
In this void it's like a pit in space and time
I was ensnared by it's beauty, by both heart and mind
Although shapeless I saw it with form
The frigidity of it's heart became my norm
I reveled in it's darkness savoring the tranquility of death
The life that I had lived convinced me that this was the only...
#humankind
#racism
#HumanRights #inequality
#HumanRights #inequality
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MYSTERIOUS_GIRL
Lizzy_3164
Lizzy_3164
Poem Published
14th Oct 2022 9:04pm
14th Oct 2022 9:04pm
THE ROSE
If I were a Rose painted black,
would you cast me aside
like blackened, burnt rice?
Would my color tarnish my sweet smell?
If I were a Rose painted black,
would the richness of my ebony petals
make me unworthy
of being called a Rose?
If I were a Rose painted white,
would my ivory petals
be worth more than silver?
Would my sweet smell
captivate a room welcomingly?
If I were just a Rose,
sweet-smelling and vibrant
and your mind was blind
would my color matter?
would you cast me aside
like blackened, burnt rice?
Would my color tarnish my sweet smell?
If I were a Rose painted black,
would the richness of my ebony petals
make me unworthy
of being called a Rose?
If I were a Rose painted white,
would my ivory petals
be worth more than silver?
Would my sweet smell
captivate a room welcomingly?
If I were just a Rose,
sweet-smelling and vibrant
and your mind was blind
would my color matter?
#humankind
#racism
455 reads
9 Comments
SatInUGal
Kumar
Kumar
Poem Published
11th Oct 2022 00:33am
11th Oct 2022 00:33am
ALLYSHIP
for Indigenous People’s Day, 2022
What does it mean to be an ally?
It means you don’t stop being active
When it is out of the news cycle
What does it mean to be an ally?
It means you get your answers from
The people you are allied with
What does it mean to be an ally?
It means you are willing to be uncomfortable
When the ground beneath you shifts
What does it mean to be an ally?
It means you have agreed to give up
What you have, again and again
What does it mean to be an ally?
It means you...
What does it mean to be an ally?
It means you don’t stop being active
When it is out of the news cycle
What does it mean to be an ally?
It means you get your answers from
The people you are allied with
What does it mean to be an ally?
It means you are willing to be uncomfortable
When the ground beneath you shifts
What does it mean to be an ally?
It means you have agreed to give up
What you have, again and again
What does it mean to be an ally?
It means you...
#identity
#politics
#racism
#SelfReflection
#rebellion
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