GHETTO POEMS

A True Account Of Talking To The Sun On Fire Island

y! I've been
trying to wake you up for fifteen
minutes. Don't be so rude, you are
only the second poet I've ever chosen
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Frank O'hara

Fathers

Can you really forget your father,
The man who made your mother a mother,
The one who set you free,
On a journey for survival,
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Johndoe

Zone

At last you're tired of this elderly world

Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating

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Guillaume Apollinaire

The Ghetto

I

Cool, inaccessible air
Is floating in velvety blackness shot with steel-blue lights,
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Lola Ridge

A Tree In The Ghetto

There stands in th' leafless Ghetto
One spare-leaved, ancient tree;
Above the Ghetto noises
It moans eternally.
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Morris Rosenfeld

The Ghetto: A Mother

Cuddling in the arms her half-asphyxiated baby, howling,
she ran up the staircase of the apartment building that was set ablaze.
From the first floor to the second.
From the second to the third.
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Anna Swirszczynska

Preacher, Don't Send Me

Preacher, don't send me
when I die
to some big ghetto
in the sky
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Maya Angelou

The Jewish Cemetery At Newport

How strange it seems! These Hebrews in their graves,
Close by the street of this fair seaport town,
Silent beside the never-silent waves,
At rest in all this moving up and down!
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By The Waters Of Babylon: Little Poems In Prose: Part 04: The Test

1. Daylong I brooded upon the Passion of Israel.
2. I saw him bound to the wheel, nailed to the cross, cut off by
the sword, burned at the stake, tossed into the seas.
3. And always the patient, resolute, martyr face arose in silent
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Emma Lazarus

By The Waters Of Babylon: Little Poems In Prose: Part 06: The Prophet

1. Moses Ben Maimon lifting his perpetual lamp over the path of the
perplexed;
2. Hallevi, the honey-tongued poet, wakening amid the silent ruins
of Zion the sleeping lyre of David;
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Emma Lazarus

The Ring And The Book

Do you see this Ring?
'Tis Rome-work, made to match
(By Castellani's imitative craft)
Etrurian circlets found, some happy morn,
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Robert Browning

Filippo Baldinucci On The Privilege Of Burial

A Reminiscence of A.D. 1676


"No, boy, we must not", so began
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Robert Browning

A Poor Christian Looks At The Ghetto

Bees build around red liver,
Ants build around black bone.
It has begun: the tearing, the trampling on silks,
It has begun: the breaking of glass, wood, copper, nickel, silver, foam
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Czeslaw Milosz

Campo Di Fiori

In Rome on the Campo di Fiori
Baskets of olives and lemons,
Cobbles spattered with wine
And the wreckage of flowers.
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Czeslaw Milosz

At The Pantomime

THE house was crammed from roof to floor,
Heads piled on heads at every door;
Half dead with August's seething heat
I crowded on and found my seat,
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Waiting On The Mayflower

i. august 1619

arrived in a boat, named
and unnamed, twenty, pirated
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Evie Shockley

Holy-cross Day

ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO
ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON
IN ROME.

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Robert Browning

Ghetto Boy I I

ghetto boy
I wasn't born of a rich father
For he was just but a hunter.
And he left no riches for me to dwell on.
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Tim Justin

Ghetto Boy I

Ghetto boy
Born in the hood and
With a golden spoon.
But mine was with no food
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Tim Justin

Dearest Love To The Egyptians

Didn't I say I'm sorry my child
is ghetto said the family's life's
I couldn't see you clearly history
stainless forks rough as tomorrow
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Plantard Dacull

District 18

As society exclude us the government
holds us as infants captured poverty
ironically thought of miscellaneous
lines, constantly undermined can't hear
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Plantard Dacull

Ghetto Life

The stink of the city
And ain't it a pity?
Of the crimes that goes on there,
And how it sinks even the air
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Kenneth R. Jenkins

I Wish, I Could Be Small Again

I wish, i could be small again
Knowning nothing, doing nothing but, provided with everything.
Missing you mother, my first nanny, that used to clean me up when i mess up at the kindergarten. I'm still the one you know, i've never change the code or pin. I'm the rap #King in my ghetto, doesn't need next of kin. Once, a footballer, knowing how to play differents wings. Never out shined me in anyway for you shall never be carried away by the wind. Don’t says i'm bragging, it's just that " i always win."

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Aminu Musa

The Artist

When he started this drawing,
My face was roughly smashed like a squeezed apple.
I was ugly like owl.
My legs were weak like the legs of mosquitoes.
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Gabriel Orji

The Ghetto Child ❣️

My child is of a father my wife
we should have been like his
story tales are truth of what the future should have been

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Plantard Dacull

Our Life Is A Sin

The pictures flashed as a mother
living in a broken family deserve
Thanks for how they made us sick,

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Plantard Dacull

Unconditional To Her Soul

Her voice speaks volumes
as if amplifiers the tragedy
in her up rising Star trek
She's beauty and love
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Plantard Dacull

I Am Sorry For Her Tears

My child I'm happy to hear that
you still living in my Dawn of
new year's which is Yil, but
still the family lives in fear so
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Plantard Dacull

I Was Born Under A Rhyming Planet

I was not born under a rhyming planet, those who know and understand me, will tell, i'm a little bit, talkative not quite. I was born in the ghetto, yet, discovered my talent. I give God thanks and glory and my parent too. Cause, without both of them, i wouldn't have been on this planet. I remain by my profession, a Mass Communicator, Television Journalist, Cameraman, and a poet. That is I scribble lines and verse with news values, even holding an eye that See's for the man indoors simply I go place's for you.

See! I was not born under a rhyming planet, i came from a family of six. Born on the sixth, of the fifth month in the year before nineteen
hundred. Born with my Two eyes seeing
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Aminu Musa

Ghetto Prophecy: Famous

Status statue of gorgeous monks rebuild a land and make a city there where the is peace a home for our people and him as the Mayer of the town

As I set on the toilet or the throne of Glass peace and love sooner to be a part of the team and worlds federal government new
state a city of trees
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Plantard Dacull

Arts And Science

Today folks told us of days of our cousins
family crest do the beeds we spoken days now is the tithing settlement

Stands paintings dowels stream of water
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Plantard Dacull

Just Let Bleed

Like blood in a river the world is clarity I wander what she said after,we passed by he said just let it bleed and it's a baby to love me is a risk, O my first time

Full of scrap metal mind set and the book of Mormon church had gospels growing around the Ghetto prophecy, she wasn't a vegetarian but vegan' funny beautiful

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Plantard Dacull

Radical Opinion

You tell us that we have the constitutional right to speak freely,
And therefore I shall fearlessly and openly express my radical opinion.
The colours of the Jamaican flag are black, green and gold.
According to you, the gold symbolises the beautiful sunshine,
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Marlon Pitter

Somewhere Else By Nicolas Ramplin

From the rolling hills, with the valley's in between.
The majestic mountains with all it's peaks.
The fast flowing rivers with the deep canyons.
The massive deserts with sand dunes moving so fast.
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Nicolas Ramplin

The Test. (little Poems In Prose.)

1. Daylong I brooded upon the Passion of Israel.

2. I saw him bound to the wheel, nailed to the cross, cut off by the sword, burned at the stake, tossed into the seas.

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Emma Lazarus

The Prophet. (little Poems In Prose.)

1. Moses Ben Maimon lifting his perpetual lamp over the path of the perplexed;

2. Hallevi, the honey-tongued poet, wakening amid the silent ruins of Zion the sleeping lyre of David;

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Emma Lazarus

Cheap Letter To The Egyptians

At times we had to understand
each other's pain because I think we
had fun till early in the morning, he came
to me with a cheap smile rotten and useless but knew each other better more
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Plantard Dacull

Gangsters Prayers:the Book Of Peace Ii

To know that it exists to form out a written statement to a bar like rap the bible Exodus story about how you group counterfeit the brand does it exists? We wonder

Sorry seal for dealing with mommies in the old temple of Giza because Ramses 2 walked amongst the people as average
the for sale sign of zodiac...
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Plantard Dacull

The Poets Of Kruger's

He battles with his wife so he fears our
legends to be told one by one in chains and
chemicals be daddy the front, didn't speak
but wrote his book hidden figures
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Plantard Dacull

Cry When You Can

So smart brilliant and tough choice of culture captured in a picture frame for tomorrows use and standard of living new era of lockdown

I'm sorry if I ever played with your heart.the I prayed to a Ghetto prophecy, the gangsters prayers as glared at time and
lives left out of sight the book of peace II
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Plantard Dacull

Black Power Ii

Maybe it's just us that we get
lockdown for a biological weapon
life twisted back and forth

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Plantard Dacull

I'm Poetry Power

It isn't clear how powerful the poems
of a Ghetto Ghost lived in the gangsters prayers for family rivals and doctor's
sain sanitize the world

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Plantard Dacull

The Power Of Evil

Men walk amongst us for years the quartermaster as it was duce's heard
like sediment of sandstones spoke the
men from England from police officer
to the next level of quotation
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Plantard Dacull

Our Galaxy And Prayers

If Spud knew who he really loves our
universe will collapse into a new ball
of Galaxy like with we'll meet the aliens
Jupiter concerned for your health
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Plantard Dacull

Blood Assassins Trail

Bring the child home sent forth a young soldier because his light never seemed,
but a shattered glass outcastes of a European child murdered his folks

Why you keep going back south I want the sun to rise up an implant of gold and silver
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Plantard Dacull

Smogolo Ska Snymaan

We have built a reputation, his got kids like Plantard Dacull SA. His praises are hopscotch and melodies love letter brought food all he could do was wait

His border patrol control philosophy is an work of art let's meet at the church your family is romantic and so where we, at the porch I felt asleep wake me mommy

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Plantard Dacull

Mpenda Wote

uyo ni mrembo figure imeshika ady dress inatii
dressed to kill looku ye hupiga
but shida ni understanding
ju backgrounds zetu different
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Perez Bulinda

Poem: Social Unrest

In light of what’s going on
With political unrest raising its ugly head
And the world seems to look for justice that’s has gone
Distant from reality pronounced dead
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Kenneth R. Jenkins

Dreamers Version

Dream yangu ya kudrive maybach ilianza na me
kuskuma tyre
maybe io ndo chance me nilipata na nikakeep
burning the fire
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Perez Bulinda

A Poem For My Country.

That island that went into oblivion .
With immunization success ,
Citizens no longer die young
Except the careless mothers in labor
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Bamukunda Hillary