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Burned Racism

Karyn Indursky

 

Splashing water.
Water soaking.
Soaking clothes.
Clothes drenched.
Drenched eyes.
Eyes glistening.
Glistening laughter.
Laughter blazing.
Blazing innocence.
Innocence spreading.
Spreading smiles.
Smiles widening.
Widening acceptance.
Acceptance embracing.
Embracing differences.
Differences removed.
Removed judgments.
Judgments forgotten.
Forgotten barriers.
Barriers burned.
Burned racism.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I was watching a movie where Tarzan was brought into a family of animals and it lead my mind to wondering how animals can love unconditionally, but humans who are supposedly smarter can't always do it. It makes me wonder who the superior species is.

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©3 March 2013 - 11:16pm — Anonymous
4 March 2013 - 12:03am — allets
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Superior Species

Historically First Nation peoples and blacks were considered a lesser species.

 

Neck stretched

stretched blades

blades sharp

sharp fire

fire roasting

roasting flesh

flesh displayed

displayed junk

junk symbolic

symbolic power

power challenged

challenged lynching

lynching ideas

ideas change

change slowly

slowly reversed

reversed laws

laws destroy

destroy lynching

lynching votes.

 

~~A~~

03-03-13

7:02p

 

 

 

5 March 2013 - 8:55pm — Poetic_Eyes (not verified)
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i'm modernized...

i'm modernized. i don't believe in racism, discrimination, or any of the latter. however, we can't change what occured, but we can learn from it, educate, and expand as people. i love your replies to my poems. you can always post your poems on your page, but if you don't mind put it the comment section which poem inspired you. that way when people read it, it makes more sense to them. i do the same thing.