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WARNING! Some poems contain explicit language.
WARNING! Some poems contain explicit language.
There is a bird
behind a door
before a door
waiting to be
and we allow it to wait.
it hurts to know
11 years 3 weeks ago
America…
We’re the great melting pot
We have every race, ethnicity, and type of person you could imagine
11 years 3 weeks ago
Back of the bus, Know your place
Follow the rules and you'll be safe
Pale faces, wrinkled in disgust
11 years 3 weeks ago
Oh, the bitter hatred in your soul
has frightened me for centuries,
death always lurking in your eyes ,
11 years 3 weeks ago
(Civil Rights make it possible for me to attend this school...thanks...
to go learn and make better life
11 years 3 weeks ago
She was Born to be Judged
Judged to be Born,
She inspired those of her color,
Those of her class,
11 years 3 weeks ago
Rights, equal
Outstanding individual
Spoke through actions not words
Active participant in her own destiny
11 years 3 weeks ago
It wasn’t just me
It was 200 years being told we were less than human
It was 200 years of losing our culture
11 years 3 weeks ago
(poems go here) On December 1st 1955,
Rosa Parks sat in the middle of a Storm,
And refused to move.
11 years 3 weeks ago