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Brenda Chamberlain 'POEMS with DRAWINGS'
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Categories:
chamberlain, poems, word play,
Form: Shape
Clerhew Chamberlain
Sculptor John Chamberlain
of crumpled scrap metal art fame
Using second-hand everything
modernity to art did bring
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Categories:
chamberlain, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Winds of Change
"The winds of change" a Briton warned
In his speech to South Africa,
Meaning that those who were scorned
Might soon rule the republica.
Many heard what he was saying
From the parliamentary podium
But most were probably thinking
He had smoked a shot of opium!
No one made capital from this.
Not even the underdogs!
It is true that their nemesis
Had guns,
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Categories:
chamberlain, africa, allusion, change, discrimination,
Form: Narrative
Chamberlain Falls
Refusing to fight the major war,
the war based on principles,
the one we can win
We’re forced to fight a never-ending series
of political wars,
ones that we can only lose
We’re trapped in the middle of Appeasement River
and headed for Chamberlain Falls,
terror awaiting in the rapids now
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Categories:
chamberlain, destiny, education,
Form: Free verse
Chamberlain Falls
Refusing to fight the major war,
the war based on principles,
the one we can win
We’re forced to fight a never-ending series
of political wars….
ones that we can only lose
We’re trapped in the middle of Appeasement River
and headed for Chamberlain Falls
terror awaiting in the rapids now
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Categories:
chamberlain, freedom, war,
Form: Free verse
Not Like Chamberlain
The war to end all wars was a vain hope.
When men seek for power to subdue,
Wanting to reign supreme and dominate,
Is it possible to yield and exist
As fearful servants of a tyrant, whose
Sole aims are conquest, cruelty and control?
Not seeing now the enemies’ faces
As in distant days of sword and shield,
New weapons are indiscriminately
Scattered
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Categories:
chamberlain, war, men,
Form: Blank verse