Best Western Hemisphere Poems
The Age of Thrill SeekersEmartra Van Doyle, II was a powerful leader.
As a powerhouse, he knew this was his golden age.
He formed leaders and defeated procrastination.
He prepared them for the world to come.
A connection of minds he was assembling.
Amass of intelligence that could construct and destroy.
When the time comes,...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, absence, abuse, age, anger,
Form:
Epic
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:
western hemisphere, culture, environment, farm, future,
Form:
Verse
Three of a Kind
France
Britain
and Spain
Three of a kind,
all with one aim
New World colonization,
territorial domination
Main strategic objective to be made:
land acquired by war,
or expansion thru peace by trade
All three needed native allies
They smoked the peace pipe;
puffing part truth, puffing part lies
Then swore on the ancient totems,
said they wanted to...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, allegory, conflict, history, truth,
Form:
Ode
HaitiIn Western hemisphere located
“The Pearl of the Antilles”
Thus, for all formerly called
Was due however, its natural beauty
For the Hispaniola Island
It is only a small western portion
With 2680 meters of altitude
Pic la selle stands up
And both the Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea
As that sentry, guarding the...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, slavery, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Change: a Collaboration With Tanis TroutmanForm: Monorhyme
Indigos, light workers, empaths are hear
Struggling to change the errors of yesteryear
Power, money, corruption and greed
Will no longer be the motive that leads
The 60's, the freedom, they tried with defiance
The ones in power had them silenced
Like darwins theory of evolution
We are born for the...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, adventure, community, , western,
Form:
Villanelle
A Love Letter To New Delhi
The western hemisphere must seem far away.
However, I know you think of me each day.
Although you still reside outside of New Delhi,
together with you is where I want to be.
How I would like to board a flight to the old country.
We would be back together;...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, love, travel, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
To Tell a TaleThe strength of hundred and one black men could not help.
Europeans Whites came as somebody.
We did not know why we should not partake in slavery.
Plus, the origin was not in multiplicity.
We boarded our...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, america, appreciation, black african
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Never Quite Home To MeNot all of my family and friends that grew up there would AGREE. They remember all the pleasantries and being happy and FREE. This tale regards
the place where I was born and once ROAMED. Let it be known that this is my personal...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, heart, home, , western,
Form:
Narrative
Let Haiti Be Absolutely FreeLet 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 in the western hemisphere
And in the world
The first to practice absolute equality
Among men and women on this sphere
And throughout the...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, africa, america, black african
Form:
Rhyme
Lacrimal Horizon , Laskrizon Pt 1of 2Above ,
sitting atop a crested hill
solitary , but nary lonely
Agemo is what he answer's too
but question is alway's on his mind
His twin , Ahpla , calls him a dreamer
Agemo has grown to expect this
considering Ahpla's domineering demeanor
alway's suggestive to take without quarter
not understanding his...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, adventure, imagination, mystery, brother,
Form:
Epic
ArmageddonTurned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A
My TV depicting an end, clearly near
With Donald Trump there and Brexit right here
Then back...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, christmas, december, western,
Form:
Rhyme
The Big Tent ElephantOnce upon eternal time,
all philosophers
and theologians
and ecologists,
published and unpublished,
credentialed and indigenous,
elders and children
and all ages in-between,
alive and dead
and all health indicators in-between,
got together
to sort out our competitive win/lose mess
of competing theories
about just what is this elephant
star of our BigTent historic stage.
Some,
especially straight men of color,
but...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Not Without BlameWhile condemning Putin, let us recall
That Americans are not blameless, after all,
Guilty, too, of invading our weaker neighbors
Increasing our land area by rattling sabers.
We forced the weaker Spain Florida to cede
Drove the Mexicans out of Texas, I believe,
Cheated the Indians out of their native land
Our...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, america, international, perspective, usa,
Form:
Couplet
Slavery's ChildrenThe lines were blurred for prisoners who slaved
in mines or rowed the heavy wooden ships
for years, while overseen by men depraved,
who tormented and drove with leather whips.
As lines were crossed by those who felt no fear,
the practicality of slaves was tried
with natives in the western...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, black african american, slavery,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
ArmageddonTurned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A
My TV depicting an end, clearly near
With Donald Trump there and Brexit right here
Then back...
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Categories:
western hemisphere, christmas, war,
Form:
Rhyme