Best Chieftains Poems
The Chieftains WrathOnce i lived with an uncle in a sleepy coastal town
who had a very beautiful house help from upcountry
now my male cousin Kiki desired to have a relationship
with our beautiful house help who was very lovely
One day Kiki arrives home alone he tries his advances...
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Categories:
chieftains, africa, bullying, cousin, family,
Form:
Narrative
Chieftains of the LandThe dim past houses warriors of yesterday
whose lachrymose trail of tears
continue to whet the sympathy of one diehard
dilettante commissar born and bred
upon the soil those indigenous Tribes
(with that ill-fitting misnomer of noble savages)
left their legendary mythic and epic legions of prowess
yet fell...
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Categories:
chieftains, angst, death, loss, native
Form:
Elegy