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December 6, 2014
By Old-World-Blues DIAMOND, New Freedom, Pennsylvania
Old-World-Blues DIAMOND, New Freedom, Pennsylvania
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I saw you in a dream
Swinging on your rope in the mushroom trees
Counting the colours of blood on your knees
Of when you fell in the rainbow stream.
Your candy hanging from your mouth,
Strawberries dripping on the ground
From the rope in the mushroom trees,
Rocking and singing your pleas.
I saw you in a dream.


The author's comments:

This piece is heavily based off of discrimination, unfortunately, and prominently during the time of the Civil Rights movement. The repeated phrase "I saw you in a dream" refers to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. The rope in the mushroom trees is a happy-made version of lynching, further described gruesome when the supposed "strawberries", which is blood, is dripping from the person's mouth. The "colours of blood on your knees of when you fell in the rainbow stream" represents the mixture of races in a region. I've never done a racial discrimination poem before, and I didn't exactly enjoy writing it. Discrimination is upsetting.


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