Best Bigotry Poems

DEATH:
For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave,
I come, care-worn tenant of life, from the grave,
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My fancies are fireflies, —
Specks of living light
twinkling in the dark.
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Where would we go if told to leave
This land where our kidnapped forefathers grieved
For life as it once were
And not as destiny's mind perceived
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I.
Dares the lama, most fleet of the sons of the wind,
The lion to rouse from his skull-covered lair?
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He pulled the trigger
on that noisy morning
in the Bunker of Berlin.
The pages of Mein Kampf,
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In a world that is

Free from terrible terrorism and death
Full of happy harmony and warmth
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Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of
Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792.
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Children are born blind to hate and bigotry
With their big smiles and loving ways
They are taught ugliness
By unthinking adults and overheard conversation
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There are two types of people:
Those who play golf,
And those who recognize it
for the idiotic malpractice that it is,
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The tide of fate rolls on!--heart-pierced and pale,
The gallant soldier lies, nor aught avail,
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Hatred smites too often
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shaking our faith in mankind
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EVEN as a river,--partly (it might seem)
Yielding to old remembrances, and swayed
In part by fear to shape a way direct,
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And now, when poets are singing
Their songs of olden days,
And now, when the land is ringing
With sweet Centennial lays,
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Let us all join hands
In celebration
Confederation
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why am i doing this? Failure
to keep my work in order so as
to be able to find things
to paint the house
to earn enough money to live on
to reorganize the house so as
to be able to paint the house &
to be able to find things and
earn enough money so as
to be able to put books together
to publish works and books
to have time
to answer mail & phone calls
to wash the windows
to make the kitchen better to work in
to have the money to buy a simple radio
to listen to while working in the kitchen
to know enough to do grownups work in the world
to transcend my attitude
to an enforced poverty
to be able to expect my checks
to arrive on time in the mail
to not always expect that they will not
to forget my mother's attitudes on humility or
to continue
to assume them without suffering
to forget how my mother taunted my father
about money, my sister about i cant say it
failure to forget mother and father enough
to be older, to forget them
to forget my obsessive uncle
to remember them some other way
to remember their bigotry accurately
to cease to dream about lions which always is
to dream about them, I put my hand in the lion's mouth
to assuage its anger, this is not a failure
to notice that's how they were; failure
to repot the plants
to be neat
to create & maintain clear surfaces
to let a couch or a chair be a place for sitting down
and not a table
to let a table be a place for eating & not a desk
to listen to more popular music
to learn the lyrics
to not need money so as
to be able to write all the time
to not have to pay rent, con ed or telephone bills
to forget parents' and uncle's early deaths so as
to be free of expecting care; failure
to love objects
to find them valuable in any way; failure
to preserve objects
to buy them and
to now let them fall by the wayside; failure
to think of poems as objects
to think of the body as an object; failure
to believe; failure
to know nothing; failure
to know everything; failure
to remember how to spell failure; failure
to believe the dictionary & that there is anything
to teach; failure
to teach properly; failure
to believe in teaching
to just think that everybody knows everything
which is not my failure; I know everyone does; failure
to see not everyone believes this knowing and
to think we cannot last till the success of knowing
to wash all the dishes only takes ten minutes
to write a thousand poems in an hour
to do an epic, open the unwashed window
to let in you know who and
to spirit thoughts and poems away from concerns
to just let us know, we will
to paint your ceilings & walls for free
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How often our beliefs more than our doubts
Ruin and mar us here, clog the soul's feet,
And shackle the heart's best impulses so,
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The lonely malnourished Spanish man who lives
by himself in a house without a kitchen practising
Franciscan-learnt Latin; the lonely widow offering
Nicholas Shrady a walking stick, the poor people in
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To live free
Not on dirty streets
Full of bigotry
Where you're spit upon
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Zealot, I hear your heart is lost to them
Death resides in your hateful opinions
With toxic blame and killing floor speeches
Switchblade slick words that flick swift to murder
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11th September,1893, Monday,
Was the inauguration day
Of the Parliament of Religions,
A congregation of all religions.
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The Day of the Lord is at hand, at hand:
Its storms roll up the sky:
The nations sleep starving on heaps of gold;
All dreamers toss and sigh;
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A NOBLE PRIZE FOR PEACE!
When the dove returned to Noah’s arch, -
With an olive branch in its beak,
Noah knew that the flood waters have begun
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Today you’d have been a happy-go-lucky girl:
A teenager up to your eyes in make-up and Maths,
Chatting on MSN and mobile,
Reading chick-lit
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I live in hope that one day
We will live in a world
Without discrimination and bigotry
Where our children will know love
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Sending out an invitation
to attend a special meeting
where astute deliberation
is at home, however fleeting
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It has suddenly become clear to me
That all women lack some honesty
In their glance
is a bigotry
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It's hard to extol the merits of mankind
and to lavish excessive praise is insane;
recognize the gamut of vain emotion
and treatment of our brothers that's inhumane.
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sad indeed,

there are other freedoms
still
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Luminous on the snowy Himalaya
The effulgence of Kaladi Kerala
The beacon light up there spirited
From south of Bharath enlightened
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Should not society bear the burden
Of what....guilt cannot erase
Every soul a soldier fighting
On that battlefield of faith
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I will walk or fall, but always
I will be strong
relying on myself, or
In times of trouble
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A WANDERER, Wilson, from my native land,
Remote, O Rae, from godliness and thee,
Where rolls between us the eternal sea,
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Slave trade,
Slavery,
Cruelty.....
The past legacies....
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Your poetic views are good
but you must try
and
take charge of your life
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made murky that crystal-clear stream
Choked it with weeds of malice and hate
Kinsmen turned foes, brotherhood was a dream
Followers of Qibla became querulous, mean
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No one bans
Ignorance
Disrespect
Racism and affects,
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Omnipresent with Omnipresence
Monday,24th June 2019

I profess
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There's no offence taken when people
tell us that we are nuts...

No offence when we are told that we only lack guts
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All poems are attributed to my pen name, aka nom de plume or literary double, or pseudonym.
All 'my' poems are by Brian Edward Whitaker aka 'Bri Edwards', known by many just as 'him'.
You may enjoy all or none of these; that's up to YOU, the Reader, yes, for YOU, to decide,
and as few or as many as you choose to read, with your 'reader's' decision I, Bri, shall abide.
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An odd awareness
Rushes up creating nausea

Going down rattling
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India
(A Strange Country)

Some run country creating problems,
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Ok! "Chide" is a bit strong indeed, but time can "fly",
and I may be ‘away' from PC several days; that's WHY…
I'll at least compose my intro-poem.Then I can sleep …
tonight, knowing I'm not another procrastinating-poet-CREEP! !
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A sketch colored from the crayons of a child was to be the witness,
All life maybe unfair at times and the heck with irony, paradox injustice,
Michelle I never knew you, but I think I know what you were like.
From your personal history of loving and caring,
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Place me once more, my daughter, where the sun
May shine upon my old and time-worn head,
For the last time, perchance. My race is run;
And soon amidst the ever-silent dead
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It was 3 a.m I remember
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The Pathway To Humanity
Is Overgrown With Weeds
That Need To Be Uprooted
And Replaced With Kinder Seeds
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A keynote to remember in life is that diversity can be rich. The differences of people is amazing, enlightening and often quite soothing. There’s so much to gain when educating ourselves with real people in the mix.

Truly no time for prejudice, bigotry or racism ought to exist. With such demons we miss out on an enriching and fulfilling life. Imagine peace at the helm and the only hands risen are hands to help build a better world. The only expression on our faces are looks of care, compassion and happiness. We will stand together supporting each other in sadness and loss and come together in celebrations.
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(written after 11 September 2001, on 16/9/2001)

Conflict pollutes the soul of man,
From natures' seat the struggle's innate
But all are born innocent
With the capacity, but no knowledge of hate.
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Dear Serena Williams…I want to take a moment and apologize to you
for something I didn't say…something I did not do.

As we waited under a crab apple tree for our pizza the other day
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Are you lonely up there?
Or are you satisfy that you are living
From the hate, bigotry, and pollution
Of the Human race?
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Someday I will wake up to see
A world that is totally free
Free of bigotry and slavery
Free of the evil in you and me
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Why would an ethical woman or man
Join the villainous Ku Klux Klan?
The K K K, with repulsive licentiousness
Works at evil with base conscientiousness
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What’s so unique in the music called Jazz
Is the spontaneity no other music has
Without spaces and bars, the artists succeeded
No written notes were musically needed
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I have been black.
To long to know,
Racism is a fact.
And living to experience that,
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"Let's build us a wall"!
Those words I do recall,
Let's keep foreigners and evil out, they did shout
That barrier will never fall.
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Do you see that man
The same president
Is he human
Or alien?
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A moment of silence please
As President Trump takes dump
Smells much fouler than the rest
More so when Donald's such a pest
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Curled the serpent of the stomachs pit
Ferocious evil bile does spit
Exposed envious green
Hates vicious angry spleen
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God said, Let there be light, and there was light!
At once the glorious sun, at his command,
From space illimitable, void and dark,
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We want to take our Country back
To times of yore..that part of when
…..Simple days…..of yesteryear….
Life so…uniquely….different then
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Fierce and flagrant
Furious and ferocious
Fancied by the futile
Fulsome and fanatic
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With little intelligence
Friday,26th April 2019

With little intelligence at the disposal,
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What could not even be dreamt
Is being realized now and what
Cannot be dreamt will happen!
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Let's build us a wall to keep everyone out
Let's build us a wall even if they scream and shout,
To the heavens it must rise to protect us one and all
Then we all will be finally defended, so let's build us a wall.
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They say that the world will be inherited by the meek
So, decency and kindness and peace many will seek,
We now hear of bigotry and wealth by our elitist leaders
Then from the swamps, they beckon the bottom feeders,
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Mullah he is not
in his writing and thinking,
yes; just a Khepa
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I sought the mountaintop
but I was valley trapped

I was mired in a province
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Let me ask a question
Let me know about tomorrow
If you can look into the seed of time
Reveal to me what tomorrow will be
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I like to express my oozing Thoughts
When my all emotions are spilling
And drifting my porous heart
Where humanity is evaluated
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Gay Troubles …… [sexual preference; bigotry? ; name-calling, etc.; VERY short]

Kick me in my face,
Call me a disgrace,
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Some make no bones about bigotry,
Some claim no racist bone in body,
Moving with seamless bliss
Scarce do they heart beat miss,
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We all cry for peace and sanity.
In a world fill of blame, finger pointing
and bigotry.
Each of us donning a golden halo with glee!
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Flashing pink splashes; budding promises;
The hard, wintry heart is surely softened
And present troubles are briefly halted.
Even in old bones, the primal pith is stirred
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'Twas brave De Quiros bent the knee before the King of Spain,
And “sire,” he said, “I bring thy ships in safety home again
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Still let low wits, who sense nor honour prize,
Sneer at all gratitude, all truth disguise;
At living worth, because alive, exclaim,
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Conflicts continue to rock our world
Which I naively hoped would resolve themselves
Countries supplied by weapon salesmen
Which continue to bring starvation, disease
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The campus had been plagued
by much unrest and bigotry,
there was the ROTC, pathetically,
those closely cropped nitwitted
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“Don’t tell me your dreams
until after the sun comes up, ”
he’d say. But the light won’t change
that he’s a black Man and I
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Threat to world peace can't be averted as long as wars continue
Due to various causes and reasons in world nations forever....;
Terrorism is new war endangering safety and security of people and properties;
Technological progress ignoring pollution leads to climate change and disasters!
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World wide pollution and lack of recycling of natural resources
Have alarmingly increased vagaries of climate all over the world!
One side, there is hottest climate boiling and burning everything;
Another side, heaviest rains are falling and flooding everywhere...!
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Shed a tear if you must - but in GOD put your trust
He has taken meto a better place,where I saw
No pain, no suffering, no bigotry, no hate
Once I walked through those pearly gates.
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Let us fumigate the air
And purge it from all bigotry fear
So that birds of all feather can sing
Songs that they to their heart hold dear.
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To my PoemHunter Friends, and other members who I may not know,
October's showcase may be SHORT, as interest is quite slow....
in raising its head in my Inbox or comments on September's.
I think this month's will be 'abbreviated'; no flames, just embers.
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I was a child of the 60's— I marched for peace and love…if I recall
which is why I have a Pablo Stanley poster with his interpretation of my favorite song, Imagine, hanging on my wall…

John Lennon released Imagine on September 9th,1971…and every January I like to revisit it…as a new year has begun.
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Nation Needs Leaders
By Paul Sebastian

Our nation needs a few good men
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Nothing's
Guaranteed
No more
Not even
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In a perfect world ~
No hate there you would ever
see. We'd all live in harmony.
There would be no prejudice,
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The King has fallen,
His castling did not work,
The horsemen of death took him away,
No longer on this earth would he have Chess to play.
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A spectral film that came and went,
In its elusive way gave vent
In some unreal words which meant;
'I think therefore I am.'
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When Erin first rose from the dark swelling flood,
God bless'd the green island and saw it was good;
The em'rald of Europe, it sparkled and shone,
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There are multiple proverbs
wise sayings implying
we are judged by the company
we keep; which implies
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If I were Satan, to the hell
From godly paradise expelled,
I’d wear not my skin of beast
I’d wear a mantle of a priest,
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President failed to march in solidarity
Administration didn’t send one single face
....Boehner/McConnell….moral outrage
That Paris absence….America’s disgrace
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Wandering through my library the other day
I was astonished.
A new subject was Black Writers
I thought a writer was a writer
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A groan still roars
In the private quarters
Of many slowly healing
Shattered hearts
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Unsuspecting beings born to the bosom of the universe. From the time we open our eyes, we are dependent on those who are deemed our parents, guardians or care-givers if we are so in need.

For the most part in our early years, we are loved, cuddled, ouu's and awe's, all is well. There comes a time though that a little gray seems to hover in the air and questions come to mind. For some reason at the approximate age of five, something seems to have gone
awry.
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I am often humbled,
By those expressions made
Regarding my thoughts...
With any impressions,
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Before anymore vengeance or blood splatter
Let me just say this, “all lives matter”,
We all were created out of the very same mold
But, then we were colored with different dye, as I have been told,
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Blacks are not allowed in, I read it on the sign
But, if you are white, you can come in and dine,
Just sit down anywhere and order your food to eat
But, if you are interracial, please don't look for a seat.
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