Double Standards
...The silence is deafening.
The Devil capers madly.
Soldiers revel in atrocities.
Demons slaughter the innocents.
The silence becomes thunderous.
Beasts brutalise the oppressed.
Their resistanc...
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Categories:
brutalise, courage, loss, war,
Form: Free verse
Know Your Enemy
...They don’t slaughter animals in a humane way
But then they don’t slaughter people humanely today,
In wars they brutalise them by killing them with drones
The don’t get their hands dirty they...
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Categories:
brutalise, animal, conflict, corruption, death,
Form: Free verse
Broken People
...Broken People
How ruffled a people we are, crinkled and cracked under the weight of economic hardship. Yet we attempt to grin and greet.
From their killer smoking barrels, innocent lives are s...
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Categories:
brutalise, africa, anger, change,
Form: Free verse
End Sars
...End sars
I was not born to suffer
Either was any Nigerian
Youth was as well
Is not a crime to be a Nigerian
Youth
I was born as every child
So I need to breath
The air of peace and safe...
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Categories:
brutalise, absence, africa, confidence, courage,
Form: Epic
Lost Touch
...lost touch
sweet words on the lips
of a deceiver is equal
to no words
promises on the mouth
of politicians
could be equal to
empty words
if not why have they
lost touch
lost touch...
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Categories:
brutalise, abuse, africa, autumn, betrayal,
Form: Epic
Human Punch Bag Never Good Enough
...Hate me
Berate me
Despise me
Deeply hurt me
Traumatise me
Use me
Ridicule me
And brutalise me
Hit me
Kick me
punch me
Reject me
Stamp and dance on my grave
And have a rave
Squeeze ever...
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Categories:
brutalise, angst, feelings, grief, sad,
Form: Free verse
Harry West of Kokoda
...Harry West was an Aboriginal stone age hunter,
on the Kokoda trail Second World War in New Guinea in 1942...
HARRY WEST of KOKODA...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFVC072rJ...
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Categories:
brutalise, adventure,
Form: Ballad
For Anene Booysen 1996 - 2013
...Hamba Kahle Anene Booysen! (1996 – 2013)
Dead at 17, brutally raped and left to die,
in the dirt,
at a construction site in Bredasdorp.
‘horrific’, ‘repulsed’,
‘brutally raped’, ‘shocked’,
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Categories:
brutalise, boyfriend, brother, child, childhood,
Form: I do not know?
Prolonged Stay In Power
...One day,I stood on the mountain
Watching security forces using force to disperse demonstrators
Who had gathered in the commercial capital___
Blocked off traffic to a large part of the city:
To prote...
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Categories:
brutalise, fear, political, sympathy,
Form: Dramatic Verse