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"black" poems

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Two dead boys (My favorite poem of all time!)Ladies and gentleman skinny and scout / I'll tell you a tale I know nothing about / The admission is free so pay at the door

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Humanity I Love YouHumanity i love you / because you would rather black the boots of / success than enquire whose soul dangles from his

E. E. Cummings25

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Copper Cough Charm_~a jump-rope chant~_ / Black silk handkerchief, / what ya’ gonna’ hide?

@William-A-Gibson29

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Nobody Loses All The Timenobody loses all the time / i had an uncle named / Sol who was a born failure and

E. E. Cummings38

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If I Die in a School ShootingIf I die in a school shooting / I'll never go home again. / My room will sit unused,

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Rose From The Pi Digital SpringJust a dew drop, let alone the sea, / and a handful of earth, not the Planet Ge. / Not a shade of blue, save the rose for bee

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The Secrets, Under Her Skirt.Boy, / She's / got you

@Sacrelicious21

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Lord, why did you make me BlackLord, Lord, / Why did You make me Black? / Why did You make me someone

@jada-giavanna-jones79

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I Will Bei will be / M o ving in the Street of her / bodyfee 1 inga ro undMe the traffic of

E. E. Cummings28

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The Moon in the DarkA thousand and one sunrise / painted the first light time and again. / Yet it gets lost vanishes in one twilight.

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The End // A short story experiment.A horror movie scene as the heroine escapes. / Everything is still besides her convalescing breath and the distant, chasing wind. / Not a noise is heard except the fall leave's rattle and the birch wood's moaning bark in the moonlight.

@EphemeralLikeGold17

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************ in a Dress.Look what they've done, / torn you apart. / In the name of fun,

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Hello Black Child by countee cullenHey black child / Do you know who you are / Who you really are

@kameesha-queonsai-terry28

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Swinging in the RainI followed my dear friends to the edge of a cliff / and was greeted by a peculiar thing. / There, standing on the edge of the earth

@CweetaCwumble23

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run your fingers over the lettersyou don't understand at all do you / not truly / you think

@megan-hundley81

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Drakensberg SonnetWe're forced, each man, to walk a trialed path— / resisted trek, uphill through blinding daze / that shrouds with crucible's perplexing haze

@alyssa-underwood14

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One Earth One WomanA fine mole down / the blue mountain sky / cannot be weighed out!

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EyesI use my eyes to see / As anyone else would / I see the colors all around me and the faces of those I love

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I'm Still On My FeetBlack surges, forges piling emotion, / Foraging, attaining such predicted erosion. / Color the rubies to a diluted amber,

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Welcome to the Shirefischers rap / on a hot tin roof / bristol creek pools

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Black Mass.Buried alive, beneath the rhetorical lies. / Of a thousand broken-prayer beads. / Surrounded by all of my....

@Sacrelicious13

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blindfolded black moonI only took the moon, veiled in my cube; / I drew her innate water off — but not for good. / Now the sun can’t take its eyes

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Notice The Convulsed Orange Inch Of Moonnotice the convulsed orange inch of moon / perching on this silver minute of evening. / We’ll choose the way to the forest—no offense

E. E. Cummings14

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atomsi’ve given up on days that begin in late afternoon, / skipped breakfast and lunch, / days that fade slowly and end with

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lord shiva and kali ma make love beneath the starsnights take passion forth / into an abyss / of hundreds of arms

@loewen-s-graves31

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