Best Brutalised Poems

Keep silent before Me, O islands and let the people renew their strength
Let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together...

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A man takes a bath in his tired apartment
Old enough to remember the deportations that never happened 
Hums a careless tune - a forbidden tune....

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A fellow named 
Timothy Terna,
was killed by a 
brutalised hyena.
When went him a 
forest,
to pray at a high 
crest,
for God to send 
down bunch of...

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The reverberating sounds of the Drums and the sweet melodies
The wavering movements of the tree suggest that they enjoy the rhythm that they hear
Tipis and...

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The grandeur of my life are elusive
Mine ain't melioration; it's oppression
My free life is cramped by chains of servitude
And shout out loud I mustn't 
Because...

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(letters to my presido-elect): i

good must be lucky
else
luck must be goody
that niger now lurks in seas of goody-goody

1960 as father sang
was her year unlucky
who dwelt
on...

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Were is the conscience of the world
The world should rise 
And embrace peace 
We are tired of dying
We are tired of oppression
We are not giving...

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Since my birth I was wondering
Who is the important man on earth
Yes, a mother is an important person on earth
But she is not a man.

Which...

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Ive been watching so long and seen so much

Ive seen everything you destroy with your deathly touch

Since the dawn of existence ive allways been here

For...

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Red,
Brown,
Gunned down,
A manchine ceased to be

Oxidised
Realised
Brutalised
Catharsis empathised  
Our fate it seemed to be

Hopeful
Fruitless
Helpfull
Useless
Your minds bent eye sees me

I lie here shunned
Yearning
Turned
To dust as you...

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A howling gale is roaring through,
Southwesterly, she grew and grew.
From balmy airs and clear blue skies,
She gathered herself for our demise.

Overnight she gathered her tremendous...

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no one cares
looking around the world
you will realise 
we are yet to live up Africans
for always we are suppressed
oppressed and brutalised
home and abroad we face...

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who was the witness
another revolution is on again
let's go out there to fight for 
our right 
lets go out there to catch out 
freedom 
we...

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It my birthday today 
I give thanks to God 
For walking my ways with Me 
It has never been easier 
If I was ignorant of...

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Landscapes of brutalised wilderness where trees stood

No amount of greed should ever see such destruction of wood

We have to resolve to live a life of...

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