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Antilles Poems - Poems about Antilles


Premium Member Santa Claus Was Afraid to Pass Through Port-au-Prince, Haiti
...Papa Noël was afraid to pass through on Christmas Day In the streets of Port-au-Prince. Bullets were being fired in droves Sporadically, haphazardly. Many people were hiding under beds Naughty ter......

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Categories: antilles, black african american, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Revolution In Progress
...Revolution is a long word that no one should use lightly A revolution does not take place too often or daily In 1804, Haiti, formerly the Pearl of the Antilles Had a major revolution, which was a ......

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Categories: antilles, anti bullying, change, courage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tears Are Flowing In My Eyes For Haiti Again
...Haiti is a country that I love dearly That's where I was born That's where I took my first healthy breath That's where I had my first inspiration That's where I saw the first birds There I saw t......

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Categories: antilles, abuse, corruption, emotions, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Betraying and Sabotaging Haiti
...Everybody desires something from our beloved Haiti. Everybody is stealing from our embattled country. The same individuals or goons, who are complaining, Are the ones conniving, backstabbing and s......

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Categories: antilles, corruption, desire, discrimination, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Columbus In the New World
...Columbus In The New World Three ships sailed under Spanish colours (The Santa Maria, Niña and La Pinta) And dropped anchor off the shores of San Salvador, For Columbus and his crew to ma......

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Categories: antilles, america, columbus day, culture,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Ships Figurehead
...There once was a pirate from Antilles That chased all the young beautiful fillies To all a deception vow Carving of them on ships bow Lies brought doom, now lies in field of lilies 4/10/20......

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Categories: antilles, eulogy, muse,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Antilles Pinktoe Tarantula
...I am the prettiest tarantula in the Caribbean Sea My web is the most intricate of my kind, a cone in a tree. When I get larger my tummy turns red, and my legs turn purple-green. Anole lizards are ......

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Categories: antilles, animal,
Form: Personification
Middle of the Road
...I drink poetry and excrete it in my imagination to the taste of soup, inspiration in my gutter of sky, the farces run the barn of wood crawling fingers, digging deep into the fury velvet twilight map......

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Categories: antilles, imagery, lonely, lust, ,
Form: Ballad
In the Fall of 1803
...In the fall of 1803, The good ship, “The Queen Ann’s Knees” Sailed out on the bounding seas. Out of sight of the land The captain looked grand As with little ado He spoke to his crew: “Men, I’......

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Categories: antilles, humorous, silly,
Form: Epic
Dana Sees the Southern Cross
...Off Terra Firma sixteen weeks now. My legs take roots; my eyes become infinite. Past the Tropic of Cancer, the Lesser Antilles. Talk of brown skinned girls, Purple Clouds of Magellan. The South......

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Categories: antilles, sea,
Form: Free verse
Haiti
...In Western hemisphere located “The Pearl of the Antilles” Thus, for all formerly called Was due however, its natural beauty For the Hispaniola Island It is only a small western portion With 2......

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Categories: antilles, slavery, , western,
Form: Free verse
The Caribbean
...small islands surround by the caribbean sea from the greater and lesser antilles Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Guyana just to name a few the place where tourist comes to see the caribbean view music, bea......

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Categories: antilles, sea,
Form: Light Verse
The River Sea
...THE RIVER SEA Even from islands of the Antilles - Taking Pinzon’s route to El Dorado In the very foothills of the Andes And its golden yellow meadow. Death-dealing its piranha and cr......

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Categories: antilles, adventureriver, planet,
Form: Quatrain
Amazon
...AMAZON Death-dealing its piranha and crocodile And its fast bore fierce and tidal. Life-giving, the earth’s river-daughter Floods half a continent with water, Floods half the planet with......

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Categories: antilles, places
Form: Imagism

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