Best Westerners Poems
Below are the all-time best Westerners poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of westerners poems written by PoetrySoup members
Dark Skinned Vs Light SkinnedIn our Asian-cum-Eastern land
No one prefers or admires
the dark-skinned or tanned
Gosh, as if the fair-skinned alone
belonged to the so-called fairer sex
And here, 'black is beauty'...
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Categories:
westerners, color, prejudice, race, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Displaced In KathmanduOur dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its...
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Categories:
westerners, anxiety, fear, war, ,
Form:
Haibun
Love Jesus and Keep Stealing and HatingWe accept the GREAT Grace of Jesus, works of pure love
So we get eternity and so much else
Does it mean we defend those who steal...
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Categories:
westerners, allusion, america, anger, child
Form:
Verse
Emptying the PotThe golden pot of gold
at the end of the rainbow
hands made the pot run dry
It is time to put a plug
in the money that flows
from...
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Categories:
westerners, political, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Military Coup Erupts In Gabon After the Re-Election of Ali BongoSome senior military seized power in Gabon today,
Ali Bongo 's family led the country
in fifty five years under umbrella
of French government as there...
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Categories:
westerners, political,
Form:
Free verse
Unity In Cultural DiversityThe westerners eat Amala and Ewedu
We eat Akpo and Ofe Nsala
They dance Juju and Apala
We dance bongo and atilogwu the beat of life.
T^he Northerners speaks...
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Categories:
westerners, art, beautiful, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Ultimatum of French Ambassador To Leave Niger In 48 Hours From Last FridayWhen someone is told to go back in his country
in peace, it is very wise to go early
to avoid public shame.
When the...
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Categories:
westerners, africa, political,
Form:
Free verse
KILLING OF CONGOLESE FROM 1885No one is hated more
than he who speaks the truth
- Pluto
as Belgian officers
cut off legs and hands
Of innocent Congolese
from 1885, king Leopold II smiled,
the victims...
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Categories:
westerners, africa, imagery, truth,
Form:
Free verse
I Know the Tree In My VillageWe once climbed those tree happily
As mum and daddy were at home enjoying themselves.
We sang kpakpangolo ogolo, sang Onye ga agba egwu
Who is in the...
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Categories:
westerners, art, mum, endurance, ,
Form:
Lyric
Contagious HateHow much hate can a terrorist create?
Truck loads for those who decided my mate Deans fate
The date 12th of the 10th 2002
Two ammonium nitrate bombs...
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Categories:
westerners, death, dedication, life, loss,
Form:
I do not know?
LOYAL LEADERSIt is always good to be real in life.
when you speak the truths to help
some victims of atrocities in Africa,
you are doing a good...
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Categories:
westerners, africa, people, world,
Form:
Free verse
Third World WarThird World War,
Who forget the main causes of the first
and second world wars?
If all the eyes still on African natural resources
How...
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Categories:
westerners, 12th grade, africa, war,
Form:
Free verse
POWERFUL SILENT SPEECHWhere is humanity?
as Congolese players,
stuffs and fanatics
were about to sing
their national anthem
at Afcon tournament,
they put their right hands
on their mouths
to express...
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Categories:
westerners, africa, conflict, emotions, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Ring of IceAround and round and round he goes,
with frosty beak and wrinkled toes,
within a ring of ice.
Each day the icy north...
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Categories:
westerners, america, bird, flying, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Carmena the American, Part ICarmena was born in Bolivia
but left that place at seventeen,
after three years of waiting for the chance
to live out an American dream.
When her folks finally...
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Categories:
westerners, america, culture, discrimination, freedom,
Form:
Narrative