Cindy577211399's Poems

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George Floyd

Maybe your life was taken

To awaken a nation

To look itself in the mirror

and discover its flaws

To see beyond its on reflection

Pain and hatred

Maybe your last breath

was a fresh meaning to a new movement

I can't breathe has...

– by Cynthia the poet

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George Floyd

Maybe your life was taken

To awaken a nation

To look itself in the mirror



and discover its flaws

To see beyond its on reflection

Pain and hatred

Maybe your last breath

was a fresh meaning to a new movement

I can't breathe...

– by Cynthia M.

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My River Nile

This river so momentously deep that

it bares the tide of a past not yet forgotten

Slave workers on fields of cotton

My River Nile flows like tear drops on a

cold winter...

– by Cynthia Mansaray

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Ode to King of Pop

He who reaches for the crown

Despite the wrath of hatred's growl

He dare to claim the sky his home

Bound by faith and a loving God

His message touches all who starve

For the luxury of love and a yielding peace

This mythical...

– by Cynthia-The Poet

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Emmitt Till

Young boy whistling

storms of innocent pain and

nightmare suffering




Winds of oppression

Lurk vividly this summer

In Mississippi

 



His image in God's

Hands as the sun turns into

Incredible light

 


Mississippi...

– by Cynthia Mansaray

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Black hair

Black hair is a movement of its own

It is brave to take heat from a hot comb

The follicles are as fragile as life itself


Black hair cuts and struts

through change a thousand

times

It is a lion in her...

– by Cynthia Mansaray

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Hope

Hope is a shelter

the mind lives in

A garden with many

flowers

Hope thrives and hope dies

a death of a thousand times

Hope is a shelter sometimes open

and sometimes closed. It is the rain

along a jagged road.

Hope grows...

– by Cynthia mansaray

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