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Conquistadors Poems - Poems about Conquistadors

Premium MemberRaging Fire Hollow Hearts

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Written: January 22, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann

Quote: “In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have eq...
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Categories: conquistadors, analogy, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Politics Part 2

...Corporate wealth sought
by Labour czar conquistadors
scourge wealth
the have-nots will prevail
30,000  measly votes for a standing Labour MP

the enthusiasm for them is underwhelming
without P...
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Categories: conquistadors, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



can't stop thinking

...I can’t stop thinking,
That the earth is round, round
Like African women,
That the seagulls are white,
That dogs are crazy,
They bark at poets, writers,

I can’t stop thinking,
That the sun i...
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Categories: conquistadors, city, crazy, nature,
Form: Free verse

Lost Works, Part II

.........The loss of Alexandria,
the burning of Ashburnham House,
the Grand Library of Baghdad
which the Mongolians tore down,
the countless Aztec codices
that the conquistadors all burned...
just...
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Categories: conquistadors, books, history, loss, lost,
Form: Rhyme

From River to the Sea

...From river to the sea, an ocean of blood, filled with cries of children;
peace is broken, homes destroyed, lives shattered, a sea of refugees fleeing torrential bombs, under the ether of Western civ...
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Categories: conquistadors, anger,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberUrban Sailor

...A nice Freudian Quote: " We are imprisoners in the realm of life,
like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean."

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Categories: conquistadors, boat,
Form: Rhyme

Laid Upon Their Alters

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"Laid Upon Their Alters" 

qhapaq hucha 
it begins at birth
the most precious 
resource of all

we are registered,
audited, one by one
under the rod measured
by lizard...
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Categories: conquistadors, humanity, muse, perspective,
Form: Narrative

A Potted History of Edible Conflicts

...When we first saw Columbus;
his sea-bowed legs were struggling ashore;
us natives looked upon that unhealthy guy,
that marinated mariner who brought
news of garlic and olive oil to the unsuspecti...
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Categories: conquistadors, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCommon Problems

...We’re in the common room, Lisa and I. It’s Friday afternoon, about 2 - It’s partly-sunny and 45°f. outside. We’ve claimed the two squares of temporary rectangular sunlight like the Spanish conquistad...
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Categories: conquistadors, humor, school, student, teen,
Form: Free verse

Discover America

...Discover America
Come all aboard
We’re sailing to freedom
Like all those before

Leif Erikson, Columbus 
Then CONQUISTADORS!!!!
They came, they saw
But noticed NO door

Discover America 
L...
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Categories: conquistadors, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Conundrum of Adam

...The Conundrum of Adam
David J Walker

Having forgone my claims 
On sainthood 

I stand naked for all of
Nature to see

I am Adam and the 
Part of me that is Eve is

Missing and may be 
R...
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Categories: conquistadors, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberVagabond Conquistadors

...Vagabond Conquistadors
David J Walker

Having wept
	And slept
At the bottom of the canyon
I’ve become the climber 
	Of mountains

Where I may see for myself
	The residents of the clouds
An...
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Categories: conquistadors, allegory, religion,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRebellious Converts

...Convert! Said the Spanish conquistadors.
They were more violent than the Moors.
We put on our mask.
And did what they asked.
Pretending to believe in their Christian lores....
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Categories: conquistadors, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Limerick

Covid 19 Pandemic Analogous How Indigenous Peoples Got Felled

...COVID-19 pandemic analogous how indigenous peoples got felled...

Woebegone, enraged spirits
holographic images taciturn
journeying somberly aghast
at their stolen sacred lands... mourn
dead so...
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Categories: conquistadors, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy

Premium MemberEnormous Effects

...Unseen forces like real native spirits
in red clay cliffs who show painted faces.
Singing songs echoed in faint voices:
tattered tribes, shamed souls, sacred spaces.
Hidden hurts of primitive peo...
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Categories: conquistadors, death, deep, earth, god,
Form: Rhyme

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