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Burnt Fields Like Black Panther Fur
You used to tell me that beautiful things come from pain and adversity.
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Like motherhood, unconditi
@apomegranatesmemoir13
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Six years a night
Mr *Jonah* was sent to Nineveh
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He head out but took a detour
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Now in the belly of the beast.
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Mr
@olladave
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In a box
I am in a box
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As I reach out
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Touch the walls
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This strange barrier that separates me
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From the
@CynicalStrawberry
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I am a Person of Colour
**I am a person of colour**
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Whose simple presence can cause outrage
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they use their tongues as sw
@imallwrite
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The Minority's Burden
Listen to the minority’s burden
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There are more than you may see
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Your idea of equality
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Is quite
@k-y
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Please See Me
Please see me.
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Not the person I appear to be.
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Not the one you see walking isles,
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The one who g
@pilotforhigh
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salted caramel
you said i was exotic,
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and i said ooo
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what do you mean?
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exotic like a fruit?, like
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i don’t k
@belbere
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It's a Crayola Life
With the box lid closed
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It's dark inside,
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There are no colours
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We can't abide.
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But a golden
@francie-lynch
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Sleeping with you
The way your body hugs mine
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You sleep and you insist on holding me to your chest
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The way you lov
@The-war-underneath
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Power
I am not a true minority.
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I am white woman.
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I believe in feminism because that is what I experie
@kelsie-cameron
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Chinese vs. Irish
**So I am a mutt**
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And this is my poem about having split identities
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*And not knowing who the fu
@klamlittle
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Frijolero
Carrizo, lamina,
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Cemento, y varilla.
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Mi casa
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Su casa
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Sus casas.
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Te busco
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Te deseo
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Y no
@arturo-hernandez
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Untitled
the smell of fresh beans
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fills by dreams
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beckons me forth to my culture, to my people
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acceptan
@pieceofk8
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Fitting into Boxes
It was a bag of prejudice tied up with strings of judgement. I would know it anywhere. The chill of
@BHX
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bleached
My hair is black and yours is yellow
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But they never call it that;
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Blonde, or like spun gold
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St
@acsukarno
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i live my own life
i come from whispers of Venezuelan lullabies
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y las stories que viene del corazon de mi mama.
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the
@lovelyshadow
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Wings of harmony
A cross section of humanity
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lends itself to prose in gross
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here, in the airport, sanity
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has gi
@TemporalFugue
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Black Ugly
I wonder if pictured opinion is found
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in the sight of the visually impaired?
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*&* if they might b
@Qweyku
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Reading and Writing
Take a look at me.
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Wonder how I got here.
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No, really- _wonder,_
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don't assume,
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because maybe
@nicole-s
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Identity Crisis
They ask what I am
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As if they could draw a map
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On my skin
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Paved by my color
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My hair
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And my
@nat-asha
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I labelled us
Infancy talked to me various languages, switching
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Tonalities for different melodies, to be learnt.
@aurorakastanias
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