Millard Lowe Poet Tanka

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WE SURVIVALS OF THE FITTEST

(A Tanka Quartet)

 

As if sage raccoons,

Let’s survive and overcome

We’ve out-battled worse:

Slavery, denied voting,

And days of the hooded clan:-

 

Let’s not be dismayed,

Ancestors did more with less,

Sojourning onward;

Leaving us with more courage,

And less to be overcome:-

 

Time to get it on,

Justice can’t be blind,

Nor we, impotent;

Let’s get to overcoming

Today’s political strife:-

 

Let’s get together,

Irrespective of the hue;

Time’s waiting on us:-

Let us not be in pity;

We've survived worse bigotry!

 

WE SURVIVALS OF THE FITTEST

As if sage raccoons,
Let’s survive and overcome
We’ve out-battled worse:
Slavery, denied voting,
And days of the hooded clan:-

Let’s not be dismayed,
Ancestors did more with less,
Sojourning onward;
Leaving us with more courage,
And less to be overcome:-

Time to get it on,
Justice can’t be blind,
Nor we, impotent;
Let’s get to overcoming
Today’s political strife:-

Let’s get together,
Irrespective of the hue;
Time’s waiting on us:-
Let us not be in pity;
We've survived worse bigotry!

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