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| Searching... Subject: RACE AWARENESS Matches Found: 106 #1 OF MANY: IN THE DREAM, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: In the dream it's black Last Line: Of a car fourteen years old cracked across the incisors of a decayed center %of blue fields Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness ALL THE COLORS OF THE RACE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: And I am holding out my hands Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness ALL THE COLORS OF THE RACE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: All the colors of the race. Human, of course Last Line: All the colors of the race. Human, of course Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness ASPHALT, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: At st. Stans, back in seventh grade Last Line: Center of the earth Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Children; Race Awareness; Youth AT THE MEETING, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: At the meeting %they said they wanted to send Last Line: And my motion lost because I forgot %I couldn't be a boy Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness BAD GUYS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: We live the same: our way Last Line: Of our eyes for %any %bad guys Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness BENIN SILVER FATHER SLAVES, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: In the ancient kingdom of benin water was the realm Last Line: Metal, and ships upon water. Did he ever really love me? Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness BLACK BOYS PLAY THE CLASSICS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): African American Children; Music & Musicians; Race Awareness BLEEDING FROM THE HEAD, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: The black ears of a cat Last Line: Like a savage beast %in bethlehem Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness BLOOD ON THE TRACKS; (OR, I'M SO LONESOME I COULD DIE), by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: Train yards, uniforms Last Line: I couldn't make %& I want to kill Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness BLUE, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As through marble or the lining of Subject(s): Race Awareness; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity BORDERS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Great grandma ida came from a small village Last Line: Who is daddy now to %me Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness BREAKING KARMA #5, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: It is like a scene in a play Last Line: Pizza or something. I close my eyes, chew, swallow Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness BREAKING KARMA #6, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: I'm in the movies now playing the part Last Line: Drips down her face & disappears, than see you Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness BREAKING KARMA #7, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: You disappear down the hall Last Line: I release you %& step out Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness BREAKING KARMA #8, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: I haven't seen her in ten, eleven years Last Line: A box in my brain opens and the one %that's in my chest closes Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness BREAKING KARMA #9, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: I am in washington, d. C., at a borders bookstore Last Line: Breaking like the question %why whoosh whoosh why Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness BROKEN, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: I think everything in me has been broken. The shiny ceramic red heart Last Line: Holes. Vibrating, at last, light, life, mine. At last, broken Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness CHAVA, CATALOGUE CHAIRS, & THREE COLORED SCARVES, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: Hanging on the back of three kitchen chairs Last Line: Think to dispose of the bottle, remember chava screaming Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness DARK SORES, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: Dark sores black wings of expectation Last Line: Open and meet hope at the train station Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness DISCRIMINATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't mind the human race Subject(s): Mankind; Race Awareness; Racism; Human Race; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry DISCRIMINATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't mind the human race Last Line: And you must admit, they smell Subject(s): Mankind; Race Awareness; Racism DUST ANGELS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Roaring back into town after all night desert Last Line: Upon her spirit of pauseless %offerings Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Dust; Haiti; Holidays; New Year; Poverty; Race Awareness; Religion ETHNOLOGY, by HENRY WILLIAM HANEMANN Poem Text First Line: Rumanians plunder and raid Last Line: But kurds have a whey of their own. Subject(s): Race Awareness ETUDE FOR MEMORY AND GUITAR: 1. TWO SISTERS, by CONSTANCE MERRITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not unlikely that you will find the sisters quite alike Last Line: For all such musings. Subject(s): Memory; Race Awareness; Sickness; Sisters; Touch (sense); Illness FAIRY TALE #1; OR, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD REVISITED, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: Incest is the wolf Last Line: Plucked out and sent into the forest alone? Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: In the dream my father %is a mean man Last Line: He doesn't get in %and I fight back Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness FEMINIST PHOTOGRAPHER, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: The smell of sweat & leather climb up my nose as I Last Line: Covering me with the sweet sticky stuff of life Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness FLAVORS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Mama is chocolate: you must be swirls %of dark fudge Last Line: Flips of sprinkles %on your %summer %face Variant Title(s): Flavors (1 Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Race Awareness FLAVORS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Daddy is vanilla: you must be mean %old %bean Last Line: But mostly you %are vanilla %up %your %arms Variant Title(s): Flavors (2 Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness FLAVORS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Me %is better %butter: I must be %pecans Last Line: It is a new flavor. %for %love Variant Title(s): Flavors (3 Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness FOR EVERY ONE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: For every one we know the inside Last Line: True: red for every one Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness FOUND POEM; IN THE NEW YORK TIMES IN AN ARTICLE WRITTEN ...ON RWANDA, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: The dead, the doctor says, are speaking to us Last Line: That crushed the eye socket socket socket and drove into his brain Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness FOUR / FOOT / FEAT, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Imagine I am standing with Last Line: Four foot feat: enough to make me sit %right down Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness GHOSTS, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: There are thirteen windows in this room Last Line: I see my mother and father at the top of the sky. My parents %have come here, home, to help me, ghos Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness GOING HOME, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: I am going home tomorrow Last Line: In the daylight. But right now I'm trees and windows, moving Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness GORILLA IN THE MIDST #10, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: Gorilla gorilla %gorilla dick Last Line: Gorilla in the mist! Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness GORILLA IN THE MIDST #11, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: My eye is big %a giant veined tumor Last Line: And an eye that now sees no evil Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness GORILLA IN THE MIDST #8, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: Dreaming it reminded him of those Last Line: Where is she? Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness GORILLA IN THE MIDST #9, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: The wheels of the car are rolling Last Line: Gorilla in the mist Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness GREAT GRANDMA IDA, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Great grandma ida came from a small village Last Line: Across the mediterranean sea Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness GRIMM'S LAW; A NEW SONG, by CHARLES NEAVES Poem Source First Line: Etymology once was a wild kind of thing Last Line: That grimm's law was what caused the confusion at babel Subject(s): Anthropology; Germany; Race Awareness HUMPTY DUMPTY HEART, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: My heart leaks knowing Last Line: Once it's eaten it's over Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness I AM, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Mama is black Last Line: My age %and %sex %and %clarinet Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I AM MAKING A CIRCLE FOR MY SELF, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: Grandpa perry is %surely %in Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I CAN DO MY HAIR, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I can do my hair short Last Line: I am in a rush. I want to be %the %best Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I KEEP GOING, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: But I don't want to write about Last Line: Either way -- his hill, my hill, I keep going Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness I KNOW THE RULES, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I know the rules and I am what I am Last Line: Circle: %hold %and %hug Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I KNOW WE CAN G BACK SO FAR, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: We can go back so far Last Line: Smoke of burning plantations Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I THINK THE REAL COLOR IS BEHIND THE COLOR, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: Under that skin and under that %face %is the real %race Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I WAS HARRIET, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: To %free %dom Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness I'LL PLAY THE BLUES FOR YOU, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: It is more like a wolf Last Line: Drops of blood in the snow remind me of you Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness IF THEY HATE ME, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: I will %stay %right %here Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Wit & Humor; Race Awareness; Grief; Jews; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism IN BOTH THE FAMILIES, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: We fit in Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Race Awareness IN OUR ONE FAMILY, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: In our one family, around %this Last Line: We are trying for the %dream Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness INDIANS, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: In the dream there are three people, bows and arrows Last Line: But they keep coming back like the palestinians, niggers -- the vanquished dream Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness INTERNATIONAL HAWAII, by SHIRLEY LUKE Poem Text First Line: Hawaiians in their hula skirts Last Line: The land of music and the flower lei. Subject(s): Hawaii; Race Awareness LADY SAID:, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: The lady said: what are you going to be Last Line: To make it hard for her Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness LEAVE THE LIGHTS ON, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: It is an act of courage to say, leave the lights on Last Line: Nothing essential, but still, so much is gone Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness LIGHTHOUSE; (OR, 6 A.M. THE DREAM), by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: 6 a.M. The dream: at some halfway house Last Line: Root illumination, dark as blood, at last one Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness LOOKING AT PLATE NO. 4: HOMICIDE BODY OF JOHN RODGERS..OCTOBER 21, 191, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: I'm looking at the big black Last Line: Crashing like tattoos in time Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness MY FATHER'S SILENCE, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: The korean woman reads first Last Line: Frozen on the little legs of a tricycle Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness NEVERLAND, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: I remember michael jackson Last Line: Wanting wanting %what I can't have Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness OF THE RACE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Some day I will have babies with %high Last Line: All the colors Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness ON MY APPLICATIONS, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: On my applications I can %put Last Line: If you take her as she %is Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness ON THE SUBWAY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy and I faced each other Subject(s): Subways; Race Awareness ONE YEAR AFTER: 1, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not once in all our days of poignant love Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Race Awareness; Love - Loss Of ORDINARY EVENING, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: My sister tells me it was just an ordinary evening, but evening is never Last Line: Kill him, let's kill the old man Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness PASSING, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: They called it Last Line: Or is %it running up my spine? Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness PAST, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I have all these parts stuffed in me Last Line: Of my new %day Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness PEOPLE, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To those fixed on white, Subject(s): Race Awareness RACE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me here those looks of yours! Last Line: Unto each that yet shall live. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Beauty; Race Awareness; Youth RACE RELATIONS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sang in the sun Last Line: Of the breakers of stone Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Race Awareness; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism REMEMBER:, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Remember: long ago before people moved Last Line: Long ago there was one people: %one color %one race Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness SAW JAMES BROWN, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source Last Line: Burning burning %in Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness SENSES OF HERITAGE, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grandpa waz a doughboy from carolina Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Race Awareness; African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Trees; Moon; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives SESTINA, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: Last night after school I finally got around Last Line: Turning me toward the dark then the light again. I hope Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness SHE ASKS ABOUT MY MOTHER, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: In therapy she asks about my mother Last Line: On to my uterus, swollen with these tumors, to the very last Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness SOME DIFFERENT KINDA BOOKS, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: She asks why we always %read books about black people Last Line: I juts wanna read some different kinda books Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness SOME OLD ONES, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Some old ones talk about Last Line: Talk about: brothers %and %sisters Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness SONG (1), by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I have the fore %head Last Line: Has that russian %jewish %bump. %jump Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness SONG (2), by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I am of the earth and the earth is of me Last Line: We are together: sisters Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness SOUVENIR FROM ANYWHERE, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: People of color untie-dyed Subject(s): African Americans; Race Awareness; Negroes; American Blacks STILL FINDING OUT, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: Finding out that grandpa perry Last Line: Part still %finding %out Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness STORIES FROM THE BODY, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hopes I'm not squeamish about scars Last Line: In the dark, on 11oth street, in august Subject(s): Race Awareness; Human Body SUM PEOPLE, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: The black man %said Last Line: One %plus %one Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness TAP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The man beating the drum learned rhythm Last Line: Makes tribal dancing other than you might think Subject(s): Drums; Insanity; Musical Instruments; Race Awareness THE BARRIER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must not gaze at them although Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Race Awareness; Love - Loss Of THE LONESOME DREAM, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the america of the dream Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Dreams; United States; Race Awareness; Nightmares; America THERE ARE BLACK, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are black guards slamming cell gates on black men Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Race Awareness; Convicts THERE IS SO MUCH, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: And hug %daddy %in the street Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness TO CERTAIN CRITICS, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then call me traitor if you must, Subject(s): Criticism And Critics; Race Awareness TODAY, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: Today is the day you have been waiting for Last Line: When you would at last open the door Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness TRILINGUAL, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I can talk %black Last Line: So no %one %understands Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness UNCLE JIM, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Race Awareness VILLANELLE, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: At school the workshop focuses on villanelle Last Line: Gently I enter this broken rectum of light %a silver motorcycle on black wings Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness WALDSTERBEN, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: Waldsterben, in german, it is the dying of the woods Last Line: On a bicycle, pedaling from journalists, drenched in sweat Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness WAY I SEE ANY HOPE FOR LATER, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: Stop looking. %start loving Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: We are talking about %the ones who pick their friends Last Line: Golden from the %inside %out Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness WHEN THEY ASKED, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source Last Line: I had the answers Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness WHITE GIRL WHINE, by ALISON UMMINGER Poem Source First Line: I'm at a party, see, and someone mentions west side story Last Line: Like you could possibly take them seriously Subject(s): Colors; Race Awareness WHO ARE THOSE TWO PEOPLE? SHE ASKED, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source Last Line: Taken, before you children were born! The lipstick not yet a blur on her mouth Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness WINDOW OPENS, by SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: It is like the curtains have been thrown open in front Last Line: Is as big as the back. I am not four, his penis %is not my father's. My father is dead, it's my life Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness YELLOW, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He wants to be an indian Subject(s): Yellow (color); Native Americans; Race Awareness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America [WHITE PAPER #28], by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could get a credit card loan car Last Line: Before me where to choose to and I Subject(s): Race Awareness |
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