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Best Colonials Poems

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Premium Member Forming the centre
Will you form with me at the centre.? Any colonials
Good and true..'Will you stand? To confront tyranny?
Here there is a place for you.! all you...

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Categories: colonials, education, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Humanity Is Dead
There are dark elements
in the humanity died and ends
in a silver palace of lights
in secrecy of hearts.

Love is a means forward
takes a person in a...

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© Neldy Jolo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colonials, adventure, anxiety, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Great Little England
skinny island rump
  highway seas churning the horizon under turbulent skies
  entity England
  migration waves still grounding along the continental shelf
 ...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colonials, culture, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Universal Education
Universal Education,

It’s no secret it’s no surprise that no one degree is set equal,

My question if money is universal and cash is on hand,

When money...

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Categories: colonials, art, love,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Cry of Dolores
The Cry Of Dolores

A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colonials, history, independence day,
Form: Rhyme



-shed a Tear Please America-
Hey!  you over there in Texas in good old America

        ask your peoples to shed a tear...

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Categories: colonials, hope, peace, africa, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zulu
The tribe of tribes of South Africa
Lead by their king Shaka
1816 they formed their state
As they head into history
What be their fate
 
British Conflict, internal...

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Categories: colonials, angst, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Stupid Like a Fox
I've got something wrapped 
around my finger
It's to remember my phones tapped
and to be wary of the stranger wanting only to linger

I've got a penny
for...

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Categories: colonials, politicalchange, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Biography (Them)
When you are young your life is not about you
You it owe to them for love, for sacrifice and rent
Youth is the margin of our...

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Categories: colonials, history, life, philosophy, father,
Form: Verse
London Poetry Olympics
Litter London with latent suicidal tongues
Olympian words rise to claim the covet of crown
National pride perhaps, to hear the dialect sings
Diminished not again by that...

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Categories: colonials, political, me,
Form: Free verse
State of Independence
Arise children, and witness a new dawn is breaking.
The bright eastern sun rises.  It’s time for awaking.
We now tread upon our land in newly...

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Categories: colonials, people, political
Form: Rhyme
To Win By Losing, Or the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Part I
General Cornwallis of Great Britain
faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve,
he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown,
but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall.

Instead he faced...

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Categories: colonials, america, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Epic
Independence
Like the lions, we form a massive pride.
We can step forward, and take a long stride.
Behold a brighter sun rising in the east.
The colonials’ rule...

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Categories: colonials, life, people, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Bookshelf Breakout
The ancient cracking bookcase stuttered
Books trembled upon the shelves,
Then scattering across the rug bound floor
Where they took up new residence.

Those left in the bookshelf
started to...

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Categories: colonials, books,
Form: Free verse
Luanda 1974
Luanda 1975

It was a fraught time in Luanda, the rebel army (freedom fighters)
was closing in on Luanda, leaving civilians exposed
to rape, murder and pillage.
The Portuguese...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colonials, absence, abuse, africa,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs