Best Self Determination Poems

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with...

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On either side the boarded footpath lie
Still pools in swamp with sinister reflection
Dull images and scenes of life gone by 
Suggest to heart a darkness...

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Mama held me close to her bosom
wouldn't let me go astray
she shook the cradle of civilization
and to her wayward offspring 
she paid attention.
 
She added...

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THE SPACES BETWEEN

I am here and you are there
Close in affection love and care
We coexist in a larger sphere
But I'm not there and you're not...

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kaisers, kings, emperors fight for territory
  dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
  militarisation of memory and folly
  an...

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It takes a lot of time to master such skill
There are lot of downtimes but I climb on my hill
There are days that my body...

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Now 1738 there was born a man... 
'name of Ethan Allen; his craw full'a sand,

Faced up to the guvenor of N Y, State..)
The green mountain...

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Don’t always march
To another’s drumbeat,
Nor always dance
To another person’s tune,
But march in time
To your own heartbeat and
Dance and dance
Till you reach the moon …...

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FOR PROLIFERATION OF THE IMMIGRATED SOUL

There are those people who would not leave their country no matter how the trouble comes.
There are those people who...

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I AM THE HERON


There is a stoicism to me
silent, self reliant, pensive posturing
suddenness of intent and action.

My aggression is calculated,
measured in response to need,
activated by...

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Liberty is not a synonym for ravenous self-determination.
For every freedom to grow
there is a reciprocal freedom from incursion.

When our individual or national purpose
reduces self-with-other mutual...

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The ask of cultures. 
Dutch to Portugal, do you think colonisation of fruit and lands and their inhabitants was the fairest exchange of our tactics...

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UN: 177 countries vote 
in support of the right 
of Palestinians 
to self-determination
At least the world now knows 
The blood stained tyrants behind scenes 
they...

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NEVER GIVE UP

Ooh yes, I am talking to you,
You should never give up. 

Wait! What! Say it again! 
Yes, do not give up on whatever...

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HOPE

When you look deep within your mind or your soul,
where is your HOPE  and what does it look like?

How deep is the ravine that...

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