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Colonials Poems - Poems about Colonials

Premium Member Interview with Bikini Atoll
... Interviewer: What is the original name for your island chain now called Bikini? What happened to it? What has it become here and now? What is your future? Bikini Atoll: Well w......

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Categories: colonials, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forming the centre
...Will you form with me at the centre.? Any colonials Good and true..'Will you stand? To confront tyranny? Here there is a place for you.! all you will need is courage.. And the will to see it throu......

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Categories: colonials, education, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Luanda 1974
...Luanda 1975 It was a fraught time in Luanda, the rebel army (freedom fighters) was closing in on Luanda, leaving civilians exposed to rape, murder and pillage. The Portuguese army had dastardly......

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Categories: colonials, absence, abuse, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Cry of Dolores
...A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst Their King Ferdina......

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Categories: colonials, cinco de mayo, cry,
Form: Rhyme
How Far Is Far
...How far is far? To travel on horse and cart from Algarve To Lisbon took days, but there were Inns For a traveller to rest and stable the horses. Not that many trekked from Algarve seen as a ......

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Categories: colonials, absence, best friend, butterfly,
Form: Free verse



Bookshelf Breakout
...The ancient cracking bookcase stuttered Books trembled upon the shelves, Then scattering across the rug bound floor Where they took up new residence. Those left in the bookshelf started to roc......

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Categories: colonials, books,
Form: Free verse
To Win By Losing, Or the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Part I
...General Cornwallis of Great Britain faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve, he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown, but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall. Instead he faced a ......

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Categories: colonials, america, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Great Little England
...skinny island rump highway seas churning the horizon under turbulent skies entity England migration waves still grounding along the continental shelf monarchs, priests and lords relaun......

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Categories: colonials, culture, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Universal Education
...Universal Education, It’s no secret it’s no surprise that no one degree is set equal, My question if money is universal and cash is on hand, When money come digitally could one be forgiving ......

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Categories: colonials, art, love,
Form: Political Verse
Humanity Is Dead
...There are dark elements in the humanity died and ends in a silver palace of lights in secrecy of hearts. Love is a means forward takes a person in a journey onward Feeling the legacy of colon......

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Categories: colonials, adventure, anxiety, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
-shed a Tear Please America-
...Hey! you over there in Texas in good old America ask your peoples to shed a tear or two over there for the miseries of peoples here in Africa whose plights are self inflic......

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Categories: colonials, hope, peace, africa, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
London Poetry Olympics
...Litter London with latent suicidal tongues Olympian words rise to claim the covet of crown National pride perhaps, to hear the dialect sings Diminished not again by that foreign fang of words Once st......

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Categories: colonials, political, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Independence
...Like the lions, we form a massive pride. We can step forward, and take a long stride. Behold a brighter sun rising in the east. The colonials’ rule over our land has ceased. Their laws governing us h......

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Categories: colonials, life, people, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member State of Independence
...Arise children, and witness a new dawn is breaking. The bright eastern sun rises. It’s time for awaking. We now tread upon our land in newly found freedom. Yesterday’s yoke of encumbrance was a c......

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Categories: colonials, people, political
Form: Rhyme
Biography (Them)
...When you are young your life is not about you You it owe to them for love, for sacrifice and rent Youth is the margin of our parents ever do The young know their life only by old consent ......

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Categories: colonials, history, life, philosophy, father,
Form: Verse

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