Chattels Poems - Poems about Chattels

...They were exhibited as strange curiosities, They all had a face, a name, an identity on this land soiled by negrophobia. They looked without seeing, their eyes lost in the ruins of their humanity......Read the rest...

...I have listened to,your stories Heard your talk on Human Rights It’s warmed the cockles of my heart On many a Bastion night. The next time I come across, And I know I surely will The indiscrim......Read the rest...

...Blown by Atlantic wind and sail in chains once were ragged souls like chattels branded - from the Guinea Coast to old Port of Spain African herdsmen on slave ships landed. And from my fa......Read the rest...

...From a mother to a child, Who is close to her heart. He is just like her own child. He is good, he is wise but some how, He forgot his closest tie. He moved on with success and pride. M......Read the rest...

...Faithful companion, Caradog, without necessity Habitat fed his needs, our bond rapidly developed Fierce competent hunter amazingly adopted me Heritage unable to continue, thylacine near relic ......Read the rest...

...HEADSTONES AND CHATTELS ‘Twas pure chance that I discovered Just the other day, A place passed Countless times, Never had the thought of calling in, Inner thoughts and misplaced fears Oh t......Read the rest...

...THE DAY MY LIFE BEGAN The day my life began, my friends, Was back in nineteen sixty-two. It was a romantic story, That I'll now relate to you When Mum and Dad first married,......Read the rest...

...time travel’n peace — ought we find rather death, war — tread on me. funny the face, the companionship of outer space, the innocence of the sun and sky. she still provides the radiance of ......Read the rest...

...Be ashamed, O mountains and seas: these were men who drew valorous breath. Assume, like pale chattels, an ashen silence at death. —Parmenio, translation by Michael R. Burch......Read the rest...

...Athenian Epitaphs Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —Michael R. Burch, after Plato Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell? Only th......Read the rest...

...No historic chattels, old photos or memorabilia. Nothing has historic value for us to remember. The sheds are old and rusted on our farm just out of town; our house is not long new since the old o......Read the rest...

...Can we go back, way, way, back, to a time before the voyage or the chattels mattered, to a time and place where it was about the race, not the pace, about the journey before we decided what the ......Read the rest...

...Flat pack Wobbler Procured from mega shop, a straight-lined box amid a cardboard wall Where jig saw chattels rise above the queues of flatbed wheelies And underarm catalogues patterned with an ......Read the rest...

...No historic chattels, old photos or memorabilia. Nothing has historic value for us to remember. The sheds are old and rusted on our farm just out of town; our house is not long new since the old o......Read the rest...

...The Charlatan In honesty young Sir, I have good reason to doubt, When you tell me “My word is my bond.” I fear your insistent asseveration is but a scam, With hope to take my chattels and absco......Read the rest...