All Too Familiar

All Too Familiar
A Villanelle with Imagery
Violet DeTorres
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Published inResistance Poetry
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Aug 29, 2020
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Front and center, no longer hidden
Longitudinal study of genocide
The white man’s burden, “Death to the Black man” for it is written
sourceThe first heartbeats of a mother’s love rhythm
Blessed and venerated, with her eyes the child is beatified
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Written by Violet DeTorres
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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House // " When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" --Maya Angelou
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All Too Familiar

A Villanelle with Imagery

Written by Violet DeTorres

More from Violet DeTorres and Resistance Poetry

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The ending is always the same

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