Best Mesoamerica Poems
Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and WarYou can feel it spinning
fast
the Chinese, Japanese, American and European junk
orbiting at several...
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Categories:
mesoamerica, culture, environment, farm, future,
Form:
Verse
Country 'Tis of TheeI'm in bondage, is this a dream
I'm governed by extremes
Let's leave this land of tyranny
Oh, let us run away
Escape on to a new land of liberty
"people who survive war and escape tyranny"
Despotism, absolute power, autocracy,
Dictatorship, totalitarianism, Fascism more
Let run free cross ocean come to a...
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Categories:
mesoamerica, america, analogy, celebration, discrimination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Magic MushroomFungi, fungus, funguses thousand fold,
eukaryotic life kingdom of yeast and mold.
Ancient legends and myths from many times,
beginnings and ends through mulching slimes.
Egyptians sensed the connection in fungi to gods,
only Pharaohs allowed to have them as foods.
Consuming the fungi to become immortal static,
Mushroom stones in Mesoamerica...
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Categories:
mesoamerica, 12th grade, metaphor, mystery,
Form:
Ballade
Shattered dreams of New CanaanShattered dreams of New Canaan
no longer land of the free home of the brave,
original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified,
where diseases xeroxed
ambushed, crushed, extinguished,
squashed, trashed, wampashed,
the entire kit and kaboodle zapped
violent unwelcome intruders
celebrated acquisition or outright
annexation of lands
inhabited by indigenous peoples
showcasing courtesy outright theft
torturing, liquidating, flourishing braggadocio
nattering...
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Categories:
mesoamerica, allegory, america, analogy, animal,
Form:
Free verse