Listen Children by Lucille Clifton
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have never hated black listen we have been...
Category : Poems
When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes by Iyamide Hazeley
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign soil when you have cleaved the heads...
Belly Song by Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight’s poem “Belly Song” appears in his 1973 collection Belly Song and Other Poems, published after his release from prison and is recognised as a key work in...
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll...
ON THE PULSE OF MORNING: Inaugural Poem by Maya Angelou
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here...
You Are by Kwame McPherson
You Are …the honey in my Cerassie tea …the Ackee with my Saltfish …the Rum in my Coke …the Ganja in my cake, well soaked…...
Somebody Blew Up America: The Poem
Amiri Baraka wrote the poem Somebody Blew Up America about the September 11th Attacks. The poem was explicit in its condemnation of US foreign policy...
She’s Free! by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
How say that by law we may torture and chase A woman whose crime is the hue of her face? – With her step on...
Poem for My Father by Quincy Troupe
for Quincy T. Troupe Sr. father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout with you, the glory of great black men swinging...
I Held You in the Square by Ben Okri
I Held You in the Square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. The dreams I could never touch Felt like your body....