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Question:i have asked this question SOOOO MANY TIMES!!! and i have never had an adequate answer!! so here for the tenth time my question is ANY POEMS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS????
POEMS
not songs POEMS
plz i really need help
ive been doing research all over and i cant find anything that i like
its 4 a project and i actually need 5 poems!!!!
i really need help and
im hoping that the 10th times the charm!!!


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: i have asked this question SOOOO MANY TIMES!!! and i have never had an adequate answer!! so here for the tenth time my question is ANY POEMS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS????
POEMS
not songs POEMS
plz i really need help
ive been doing research all over and i cant find anything that i like
its 4 a project and i actually need 5 poems!!!!
i really need help and
im hoping that the 10th times the charm!!!

Consider the work of Maya Angelou; she naturally writes on the theme of slavery, which has been over in America for a hundred years, but that doesn't diminish the relelvancy of the theme:
http://www.jus.uio.no/forskning/grupper/...

Another one:

Human Rights
by Teresa Patterson

Do not forfeit your right to live
With peaceful joy, with tears and laughter,
With purpose and view of the ever after,
Learn how to love and how to give.
Do not forfeit your right to live…

More: http://www.poetrygalore.com/poems/inspir...

This site must have some:
http://www.poetsforhumanrights.org/

And of course, it is only natural that poets have given voice to the oppression at Guantanamo:
<<Poems from Guantánamo
The Detainees Speak >>
http://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/2007-...

Hope you can find something from one of these:

http://www.poetsforhumanrights.org/

http://www.ilovepoetry.com/

http://www.poetrygalore.com/poems/inspir...

http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Litera...

http://www.wowzone.com/udhm.htm

http://journals.democraticunderground.co...

All I can think of to suggest is that you look up Maya Angelou and see what she has that may help you. She is a black american poet - you probably know that , but I try to not assume.

If you can't find poems from that list above, something is wrong with you....

I don't quite understand why the question is still open.

Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes and Langston Hughes....

TD

Did I mention Langston Hughes?