Oppression Poems
Invisible
by Nathaniel Phillips
Overcast by the shadow for the spotlight of your pain
Your cries comrade to my words spoken in vain
I am eclipsed by your suffering
What I endure is a burden unseen
You can read every word that I write and still won’t get what I mean
The weight of life and the will to survive
Wasting my time on the will to thrive
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LAND OF DESPAIR
by Shabeeb Ul Hassan
Look at 'em, blood from their eyne flows
A pale smile, like a coruscate, on their visage
Their throats swelled in dinges and songs
Their life, they despise-come, oh death!
Take 'em, free 'em from the prison of life
Take 'em, Oh dulcet dread!
What is hapiness? Why art they smiling?
Perhaps, their hearts are in ec'tacy!
What is sadness? Why art they sobbing?
Perhaps, their hearts are scythed a-twain!
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Cottonfields Sorrow
by Mario Odekerken
The sun does not rise-
it presses down.
Heat clings to the back of the neck
like a master's hand.
In the cottonfields,
bodies bend before the day does.
Fingers bleed quietly
into the white.
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Daddy Monster
by Louis Zo
Daddy, daddy, what is it you do,
Your green bleak skin, blotched and chewed?
I serve our kin, our Kings, to name a few,
who, with Their big, black arms, have ruled and rule the rules.
I kiss Their boots, lick Their hooves and pledge to do
anything a fanatic, a fool, a tool would do;
Ah-woo, Ah-woo.
Daddy, daddy, what is it you do,
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PRISONERS OF SAVALTION
by Falope Aanuoluwapo
Listen! Ye fools
For how long will thou last in thy slumber?
Wake! Shake off the drool
And ye shall be strengthened
Pursue the cause of thy salvation
For prisoners art thou
From the dawn of thy independence
And prisoners will thou be
Till you speak up for yourselves
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Cottonfields Sorrow
by Mario Odekerken
The sun does not rise-
it presses down.
Heat clings to the back of the neck
like a master's hand.
In the cottonfields,
bodies bend before the day does.
Fingers bleed quietly
into the white.
......
Invisible
by Nathaniel Phillips
Overcast by the shadow for the spotlight of your pain
Your cries comrade to my words spoken in vain
I am eclipsed by your suffering
What I endure is a burden unseen
You can read every word that I write and still won’t get what I mean
The weight of life and the will to survive
Wasting my time on the will to thrive
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Schau mal
by Mario Odekerken
Janus sitzt in der Ecke,
sein Blick ruhig,zu ruhig.
Er spricht nicht laut,
er flüstert.
"Schau mal",sagt er,
und alles kippt.
Schau mal-
auf das Kleid,
auf das Geld,
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An ultimatum
by Tobias Winters
An ultimatum stood at my door
And greeted me so fondly
To the tune of my thumping heartbeat.
"Live as I seem or die as I am"
The words had reverberated in my skull and rattled my bones-
Sick with grief and mourning
Of a life never lived,
A lick of air never tasted on a tongue of a new man-
Not man-soon-to-be, or transsexual or Pinocchio without the splintering of wood but of words,
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Palatable unpalatability
by Tobias Winters
Are my thoughts too loud,
Does the breeze of my breath graze your skin in the heat of summer?
And my hands cling too tightly that your palms sweat,
And you count the seconds until I notice?
Do my words come out staggered and awkward-
Far apart and yet too close,
And do I linger far too long for hands held too stiff for an applause? [one that won’t occur]
Do you like me kinder, sweeter and quiet?
Am I preferred to lie in the heat of battle,
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