Claudette Poems - Poems about Claudette

...Not only did they colonise land They colonised history too They decided to make history a blank canvas To start anew By painting over the colour in white paint Hiding the accomplishments of tg......

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...Island girl now of Purley at youth shielded from Rock N Roll she remembers the Supremes Kick start those autumn leaves You're a pillar of an ancient profession This is no ruse just plain though......

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...Women in my family were immigrants, as history records. Grandmother Rosamond was born in Italy. Marceline was French and traveled from Lourdes. My mother, Jaqueline, was wed at seventeen. A ci......

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...Coltrane with Giant Steps coming downstairs, feeling A Love Supreme after two weeks King going up the mountain and dreaming as he speaks Miles said, So What... Kind of Blue Malcolm, By Any Means ......

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...I'm building a spaceship in my garden shed From old bits of second hand cars It's due to depart in a couple of months Not to Uranus,Venus or Mars But far further away in the cosmos Lies a planet......

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...My first amendment right was never fought for overseas! It was Martin Luther King who was beat to his knees! It was Fanne Lou Hamer who gave me permission to speak! It was a war on Sunday but only in......

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