Emmitt Till



Young boy whistling

storms of innocent pain and

nightmare suffering




Winds of oppression

Lurk vividly this summer

In Mississippi
  



His image in God's

Hands as the sun turns into

Incredible light
 


Mississippi calls

Black boy in damming river

Fragile spirit home

About this poem

Emmitt Till is a collection of haiku poems dedicated to a child's death that sparked the civil rights movement in America

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Written on March 14, 2024

Submitted by Cindy577211399 on March 19, 2024

Modified by Cindy577211399 on May 01, 2024

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Scheme X X X A X X A X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 278
Words 60
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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