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Yogi
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since 2001-11-05
Posts 68


0 posted 2005-06-22 05:01 PM



God Made Us All Equal
Each And Every Person The Same Inside
Outside The Same, Just different Skin Types
So Why Do People Hate
A Repulsion For A Fellow Man
The Ignorance People Show Is Intolerable
All Just For One Small difference
Skin Tone

God Made Religion
So We Can Pray To Him
So Why Do People Fight Over His Making
Each Saying And Praying To Their different God
Blood Shed, Families Feuding, Wars Fought
When We All Know There's Only One

What We Need Is A Peaceful Earth
Where Man Of different Skin And Religion
Putting Hands Together, With Hate No More
For Our Earth Is Dying
Tears Of Blood, She Sheds Into Oceans
Breaking Her Heart, Shakes As Earthquakes
Lets Mend Our Earth
Treat Her With Respect
No More Divide


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brilliantlover
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since 2005-06-25
Posts 5
Maryland
1 posted 2005-06-25 11:39 PM


An honorable idea for your poem, but not conveyed in the strongest language.  The capitalization of each word makes the sound of the poem very stiff.  I know there is emotion in this poem, but I cannot hear it because of the structure.  Take a look again:

God Made Us All Equal
Each And Every Person The Same Inside
Outside The Same, Just different Skin Types
So Why Do People Hate
A Repulsion For A Fellow Man
The Ignorance People Show Is Intolerable
All Just For One Small difference
Skin Tone

It's monotonous.  Word choice comes off as somewhere in between cliche and naive.  "Ignorance," "Hate," and "Repulsion" are strong words in the dictionary, but in real life, they barely scratch the surface of the bloodshed in people's struggle to be free.

Angel1
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since 2005-06-29
Posts 20
TN, USA
2 posted 2005-06-29 12:41 PM


Noble, and to the point. I like it.
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