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Dark Skinned Vs Light Skinned
In 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



Premium Member Displaced In Kathmandu
Our 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 Hating
We 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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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: westerners, allusion, america, anger, child
Form: Verse
Premium Member Emptying the Pot
The 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 Bongo
Some 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 Diversity
The 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 Friday
When 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 1885
No 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 Village
We 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 Hate
How 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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© Adam Burns  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: westerners, death, dedication, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?
LOYAL LEADERS
It 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 War
Third 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 SPEECH
Where 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
Premium Member Ring of Ice
Around 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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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: westerners, america, bird, flying, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Carmena the American, Part I
Carmena 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

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