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Poetry: Oppression

• 1 of 97

  by Elizabeth Lassitter

  SLAVERY

  
  
  

  Slaves under a master's command
  with no personal control
  how could I ever know the horror
  when my child from me is sold?

  Men

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• 2 of 97

  by Linda Ann Nickerson

  FOR FAYTH

  Incarceration is a curse,
  A sentence set for life;
  Resolved for better or for worse
  When I became his wife.

  At any

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• 3 of 97

  by Krystle Hernandez

  She looks like any other little girl
  Sweat accumulates at her furrowed brow
  Unruly blonde hair streams down into two, asymmetrical

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• 4 of 97

  by Jawjahjunkman

  THE RESERVATION

  
  
  

  Children crying, smoke is rising,
  Smell of whiskey in the air.
  Relief check coming,
  Widow thumbing,
  Through her

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• 5 of 97

  by Brian Keith Compton

  These crusted, ancient walls
  fence me in.
  For eighteen years
  I've been held within.

  Peering into his well-worn,
  scaly eyes,
  I'm

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