Best Haitians Poems

One island;
one people, two nations
Dominican Republic
Haiti
An island split in two
by European colonialism,
a most vile economic mechanism
One part of the island
was controlled by France
The other part...

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Copyright © 2015
11.13.2016
1:22pm

Royal blood from afar,
far from Africa,
Africa a torn and raped
land by European hands

First land of freedom to rise,
but segregated by a mountainside
and corrupt...

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For John Heck's Beatlemania competition.  To the tune of "For No One" from the Revolver 
album.

The day fades, the earth shakes
The Haitians find their...

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Dark Side

Date: Mon, Oct 19 2015 at 5:44 PM

I'm on "Probation"
I can't catch any "Cases"
Cause they goin give me a "Equation"
I feel like grabbing the...

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Precious Haiti

Haiti sounds like hate I
Rhymes with Baby doc
And Papa doc

Feels like
Made in USA
But Unlike the Mariel Boatlift
The people are excluded from
Entering

Black 
Dark
White teeth
African
Looking
French and...

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Haiti my mother no beauty comes close to yours. You 
who gave me pride, you who gave me strength to seize everything that is 
possible...

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Bon appétit to all my fellow Haitians and friends,
Who will be drinking, sipping, savoring poertysoup joumou,
Which is made of squash, neck bones, macaroni, oxtails,
Carrots, yams,...

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Tell me more about democracy
Nobody is a fool
Tell me more about dichotomy
Go ahead! I am cool
Tell me more about racism
Nobody is a tool
Tell me more...

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Under the bridge in Del Rio are stopped, stuck, stationed
Thousands of migrant Haitians, not Ukrainians
Frankly, if they were the latter, they wouldn’t be sanctioned
Detained, abased,...

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(Never really done one of these before, but the news report this morning inspired me to do a 
senryu)

standing midst the rubble
homeless Haitians
sing their prayers...

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The way my mind works
  may or may not be like yours
Yet I think there's something universal
  here, in the proverbial pot to...

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You say that I only can see the bad parts. You can tell by the rhyme that I wrote. If food you call good, was...

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Let Haiti be absolutely free
Haiti is the father of Freedom and Liberty
Haiti is the first nation to forever ban or abolish slavery
And the slave trade...

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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...

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The perplexity of my complexion
Is a God given blessin’
But many have been stressin’
Life’s annoying lessons
That’s in need of correction
But in no need of perfection
Due to...

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