Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Videos
Resources
Syllable Counter
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Quotes
Short Stories
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Home
»
Poems
»
Colonials
Colonials Poems - Poems about Colonials
Search Colonials Poems:
Exact Phrase
Any Word
All Words
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......
Continue reading...
©
John Anderson
Categories:
colonials,
home,
Form:
Free verse
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......
Continue reading...
©
Joe Maverick
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......
Continue reading...
©
Jan Hansen
Categories:
colonials,
absence, abuse, africa,
Form:
Blank verse
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......
Continue reading...
©
I Am Anaya
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 ......
Continue reading...
©
Jan Hansen
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......
Continue reading...
©
Alison Hodges
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 ......
Continue reading...
©
David Welch
Categories:
colonials,
america, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form:
Epic
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......
Continue reading...
©
Ian Love
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 ......
Continue reading...
©
Louis Borgo
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......
Continue reading...
©
Neldy Jolo
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......
Continue reading...
©
Christopher Stopford
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......
Continue reading...
©
David Smalling
Categories:
colonials,
political, me,
Form:
Free verse
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......
Continue reading...
©
Robert Pettit
Categories:
colonials,
life, people, visionary,
Form:
Rhyme
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......
Continue reading...
©
Robert Pettit
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 ......
Continue reading...
©
L'Nass Shango
Categories:
colonials,
history, life, philosophy, father,
Form:
Verse
Related Poems
Short Colonials Poems
Famous Colonials Poems
Best Colonials Poems
Read Colonials Poems
Long Colonials Poems
Colonials Quotes