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Darker Dfrnt(different)

Alice Jackson 1957 (Texas)

Free verse
Dark Dfrnt

Why? Not to God, but to you.
This world, who knew

Why can’t I be just me
And you be just you
without the Dfrnt

Why? The darker the deeper
unlike. My blood your blood
bet it’s the same.

Why? Can’t see pass the dark, it’s not
just the light that you think
make’s better than the dark.

So make your mark in the light
So they don’t see just the dark

About this poem

Racial poem about being different because skin color

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Written on October 30, 2022

Submitted by Mickimae2012 on November 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA XAB XBX BXC BC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 376
Words 85
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 3, 3, 2
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