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...Colonialists 

They came to see conquered 
plundered other nations' heritage
voices of dissent hung in the breeze 
The elite thought of themselves
as educated
Wrote learned books about stolen ...

Categories: colonialists, africa, angst, august, best
Form: Free verse

Bring Back Neanderthal Man

...
     ~ An Eight-Line Treatise on 'Settler Colonialism' ~

         The Apache beat up on the Cheyenne
           and the Iroquois on the Sioux

         Mohawks ‘mohawked’ the Mohicans
      ...

Categories: colonialists, america, history, irony, language,
Form: Rhyme

name calling

...Name-calling
We who live in the west 
do not see Israel as a colonial power
the last one in the Middle East
As many colonialists before Israel
this unlawful occupation will end
and when the dus...

Categories: colonialists, age, birthday, butterfly, creation,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

THE CRADLE

...I am a child of war, misery, anger and suffering.
 I grew up with sadness, uncertainty and anxiety.
 I took refuge in solitude to avoid human bestiality and its hypocrisy.
 My distress illuminated...

Categories: colonialists, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Political Incorrectness

...wild fires on Table Mountain

	spread their ugly flames onto

		the University centre of learning

	old books in the ancient library

smouldering ashes of bygone wisdom

student quarters bu...

Categories: colonialists, conflict,
Form: Free verse

The Propagation of Hate

...Malignant gangrenous political cancer
     corrupts, festers, and poisons United States,
     thus opposition cannot wait,
especially since Gospel in accordance

     with feeble minded Donald T...

Categories: colonialists, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Epic

Please

...It's time to divide. 
Please manage yours. 
I'll do mine.
We'll fight together.
You're the lake, 
the bay and the floodplain. 

I am the current.
I don't need the Spanish-given.
My ancestors...

Categories: colonialists, allah, art, best friend,
Form: Free verse

Give Peace a Chance Part 2

...Yet Africa is
expected to fall in
line 
With speed and
alacrity 
Or be headed back to
Europe 
For much deserved
censure
And sanitization in
the heart
Of brutish Europe!
Have we not seen
...

Categories: colonialists, peace,
Form: Free verse

The Troubles of Nicholas Abercombie

...Long before the colonialists came
With a club and a Bible to tame,
Came one Nicholas Abercombie,
Upon his chest a cross of fashioned tree
On which he said the Savior died,
And could Africans see...

Categories: colonialists, childhood
Form: Rhyme

Columbus, You Again

...Columbus, you again
Your rotten caravels still unforgotten
Silhouette of flitting bats 
And old wives tale of true honor
For at each wheel
The old African seamen
Rana Raraku
And their big nose...

Categories: colonialists, history, politicalheart, old, easter,
Form: Verse

Grand Festival

...1.
the wind is prone to grand festival 
if you cook your own food 
by burning your hands
in the day time
at night
then you will be also eligible 
for having a ticket  
this train will not sto...

Categories: colonialists, fantasyme,
Form: Prose Poetry