Best Plantations Poems
~Southern Plantations~
(Tanka)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
May.9.2015
Categories:
plantations, america, history, home, house,
Form:
Tanka
~Southern Plantations~
( Tanka Duo)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidst oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
January.22.2017
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style that's related to the Haiku.
Categories:
plantations, america, beautiful, history, love,
Form:
Free verse
~Southern Plantations~
( Tanka Duo)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
November. 03.2016
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style that's related to the Haiku.
Categories:
plantations, america, beautiful, history, love,
Form:
Free verse
~ Southern Plantations ~
(Tanka)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of history beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
~0~
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
September.18.2018
-'Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.'
- Mark Twain -
~Author's Notes:
Tanka is a Japanese poetry form or style.
Categories:
plantations, america, beautiful, history, love,
Form:
Free verse
~Southern Plantations~
( Double Tanka)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
August. 25.2016
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style related to the Haiku.
Categories:
plantations, america, beautiful, history, love,
Form:
Free verse
~Southern Plantations~
( Tanka Duo)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill'd with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
April. 20.2017
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style that's related to the Haiku.
Categories:
plantations, america, beautiful, history, love,
Form:
Free verse
~Southern Plantations~
( Double Japanese Tanka)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
April.02.2016
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style related to the Haiku.
Categories:
plantations, america, beautiful, history, home,
Form:
Free verse
~Southern Plantations~
( Tanka Duo)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
March. 23. 2017
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style that's related to the Haiku.
Categories:
plantations, america, beautiful, history, love,
Form:
Free verse
How beautiful are the creations,
that are beyond all explanations.
What lies forever of foundations,
the very majestic plantations.
Voices of opera soaring high in the wind.
The harp and piano linger at the end.
The southern climate in the spring will bring,
field hands ready for cotton picking.
Blooming white cotton fields in the sun that glimmer,
near the muddy Mississippi River.
Cotton wagons loaded with cotton bolls.
Down the Mississippi the river boat rolls.
Gardens of flowers, red roses, and jasmine.
White doves gathering near the fountain.
The muddy river for irrigation,
horse drawn carriages for transportation,
are might fine images of great plantations.
A morning cloud of fog covers the lawn.
Planters in straw hats awake before dawn.
French doors open to the morning breeze.
Echoes of children and what they see,
hummingbirds, honeysuckle, and honeybees.
The very grand columns that hold the balcony high,
overlook the plantation for miles wide.
Golden curled ladies gather the veranda sitting in rosewood chairs,
for coffee, beignets, and jasmine sweet air.
From the grand house high on the hill,
a heron next to the spinning windmill.
A romantic oil painting is on display,
of a bride and groom on their wedding day.
In the background is the huge oak tree,
the frame made of mahogany.
Picnics under huge oaks streaming with moss,
images of plantations will never be lost.
The stairway leads to very grand rooms.
French windows open to the light of the moon.
The river reflects the history,
of cotton plantations along the Mississippi.
The people hold on to this grand memory.
Categories:
plantations, black african american, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
~Southern Plantations~
(Tanka)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
January.08.2016
Categories:
plantations, appreciation, beautiful, history, usa,
Form:
Tanka
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2014
November,14,2014
Categories:
plantations, beauty, history, home,
Form:
Tanka
Sumatran Elephants, are critically endangered
and there are local extinctions, in many places
as it is humans, who have willfully managed
to invade their territory, not leaving many spaces
Nearly 70%, of the Sumatran Elephants great habitat
has been totally destroyed, by the now known human rat
in just one generation, over two thirds of lowland forests
have been willfully razed, for business corporation profits
Humans have built, many pulp and paper industries
and constructed food generation, from oil palm plantations
creating animal, human conflict, over elephant territories
as the destruction of their land, is for human consumption
Only the male Asian Elephants, have those mighty tusks
and this makes them a be target, for the illegal black market
This cuts down their breeding, as they need a lot of conceiving
because the evil bloodline of money, is what humans are greeding
Categories:
plantations, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form:
Rhyme
Hot summers dry up the land
The dirt crumbles under the heaviness of disrespect
Fresh flowers adorn the land
Covering the uneven burial grounds
Overshadowed by privilege
What better way to claim superiority
By soiling the plantation they stand on
Ignorance crowds the air
Cast aside by vows of love
Tainting history with a wedding
The stories of black labour whitewashed into a picture of a bride in white
Covering the truths in a veil of fragility
Ironic how they use the innocence of a white wedding
To ink over history
A picture is worth a thousand words
A simple picture of a now conjoined family
Haunted by secrets of ownership
How the brides grandmother was once a girl
Who stood on this same plantation
Watching her parents become slave owners
A simple picture
Once innocent becomes a sinister backstory
A history haunted by the darkness of whiteness
Flower petals spread across the venue of black bones
Not to pay respect to those buried
But to honour love consummated on the grounds of black history
Smiling in pictures with a tainted memory
Plastered in magazines profiting off of slavery
But hey at least they gained popularity
Categories:
plantations, discrimination, marriage, prejudice, race,
Form:
Free verse
Freedom
A dream he never allowed himself to hope
He couldn't have his heart broken
Not when it belonged to his black woman
Not when it carried his emotions
Not when it carried the love that kept him mobile
'You're free'
A prospect of a new life
One he had hoped to share with his beautiful wife
But
Nothing in life comes for free
That freedom meant leaving the one thing that kept him alive
The woman who gave him reason to live
The woman who's life to him was more important than his
The woman he would spend the rest of his life with
His decision to stay was instant
No thought. No question.
He would not leave his wife
The thought of a life filled with pain
Couldn't compare to a life without her
He would become an insane man
And for that he wouldn't complain
About the whips and chains
If it meant him and his wife stayed in the same place
A world without her
Was a life not worth living at all
And so he would endure years of torture
If it meant he could be with his happiness
Because a life without her wouldn't even be a life It would be hell
He knew the consequences this would entail
He knew his life on the plantation wouldn't be easy
But nothing ever worth having is
He would take a thousand lashings for her
If it meant he could stare In her big beautiful brown eyes
He would bear the weight of both of their label
If it meant her soft hands would go unharmed
From the harsh conditions of a slaves life
He would sacrifice his body in order to save hers
He loved her more than the fear of torture
So yes he would stay
And no he would never regret it
Categories:
plantations, black love, discrimination, freedom,
Form:
Free verse