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Equality

by jacksonpoetry5

By: Tyree Jackson “MAYBE LIBERTY JUSTICE EQUALITY MAYBE IN THE 21ST CENTURY MAYBE ON ANOTHER PLANET MAYBE IN OUTER SPACE MAYBE MAYBE MAYBE NO EQUALITY NO JUSTICE NO LIBERTY WHAT KIND OF DEMOCRACY IS THIS?” –Jayne Cortez Our scarred up hands can't grasp it. Our salivated mouths can't taste. Our eyes see. We speak this word as if our tongues foreign want to stain the air a beautiful tone Equality Equality E-qual-ity Where does it lie? Our hearts?
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Comments (6)

Mira
<p>Can you review my poem and give me feed back please it's the first one I've ever made public .</p>
brimwalk
<p>I LOVE this! Simply yet bold. Very powerful piece.</p>
zriley21
I love the styles of your writings and I wish to be able to write in different styles, so I do ask: may you check over my poems and let me know what I can do to be a better writer?
Zachary Nivens
I have a couple of poems i would like you to check out...and i also enjoyed your poems. I also have a question about the slam poetry scholarship. I submitted poems for the scholarship, when will the awards be put out?
Rikan
The poem was great the message was there and even though it wasn't lengthy it painted a picture as to what it was about and gave me a vision of what you meant. I'm new to this and wanted your opinion on my poem if you can. It's lengthy, but if you can sit and read through it and give me your opinion it would be amazing. Thank you and great poem ~RiKaN
Naijabyblood
I've seen some of your poems and I like this one, but I feel like this is just the beginning.Go deeper, why does your audience care about equality, what does equality mean? Is there more than one meaning? Where does it lie? Are you saying equality is a lie, cause that's one way to see it.

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