Best Colonial Poems

La capinera's wintering pieces of tropic tunes
    The garden warbler's echoes of dark melodies
Post-colonial poets return by summering fortunes 
    Learnt by rote as sacred Oxbridge duties

Note

The French "pantoum" may be modeled on the Malay pantun,
or at least it...

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The colonial duty of an iron is to smooth the untamed grass into areas of growth. 

Dismiss shell like existence and reveal the warrior within using the light bulb glow.

Dance. Dinner....

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Fallacy....inappropriate fantasy

Fantasy.....anticipated reality

Reality.....imaginative stability

Stability.....exacting security

Security....forfeiture from fallacy......

Vain glory be hi-story......infamy be thy shame
baneful flourish from ruse historic,
enemies created to blame.........

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From the heart of their country to a new world they did sail
Over an expanse of ocean through storms and gales 
They settled in New Amsterdam, this Dutch colonial place
To create a new world in their progressional space

Many years later after conflicts took their toll
New...

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Two hundred forty two
(12.1 score) years ago
countless stripling soldiers
strapping farming homeboys
healthy agrarian lads
raised among generations

in summer re:
offspring original settlers heirs
family acreage encompassed
wide uninterrupted forested swaths
across sprawling vistas
sparsely populated enclaves,

now heavily industrialized
lovely bones occupying
unmarked never known graves
buried amidst avast 
cleft rapacious urbanization
long forgotten innocent youths

hailing within...

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Colonial master:
A lot was doing faster
Many stubborn chains able to loosen
Like the vessels whom Christ had chosen.

Colonial master:
Hatefully fought by Rasta
But they were also safeguarding Jamaican rights,
Which sometimes would their sanctity lose
In the darkness of tragic nights
At the hands of The Conquered by booze.

This Great...

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Though I posted the following poem 
(B)efore (C)ovid, a sense 
of glee donned my being 
the notion arose to trumpet anew
said literary handily crafted endeavor.

Not far from here – Perkiomen Valley -
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
regular folks going about their business
unwittingly participated in history,
a couple scant few years
after...

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          First we Cain 'em

            ~ That dis-Abels 'em
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A writer whose writings are meaningful
A writer whose words are bold
A writer who writes for the well-being of fellow men
A writer who shows you who you really are
A writer who is stable and soft delight
A writer who is creative and Scotch Brite.
Note. A colonial writer...

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Nails, loose nails!
Boards, banging in the wind.
Mast sways through storm
Brace sails till dawn!

Shackles tear at their skin!
Sea. Damn Sea water tries to break in.

Shackles bent out of shape
Bones broke and scarred in its cruel and violent quake. Hatch. Hatch - close and keep them there...

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The colonial mentality
Penetrated our mind and heart; 
We as people felt inferior
Race after the raiders depart.

Such invaders like the Spanish
Had influenced our attitude; 
We had followed their tradition, 
Thinking that those customs were good.

After we were colonized by
The United States from the west; 
Yes, another...

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Borrowed tongues and borrowed fading dreams,
a landscape shaped by echoes, it seems.

The mirror held reflects a foreign face,
a longing etched for an adopted grace.

The subtle shame in accents native born,
a whispered wish for how the "others" scorn.

The packaged goods with labels far away,
a silent promise...

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smoldering cattails
mosquito swarms kept at bay
gathering mussels...

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One country controls an another is colonization,                                      ...

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