Conquistadors Poems - Poems about Conquistadors

...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......Read the rest...

.........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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...We are saccharine caramel clad morsels welded by the tectonic might of the Earth’s downtrodden salt, seared in union with the bucolic bread of Bethlehem We are verdant jars our curvaceous ......Read the rest...

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

...What do I know of your world? I read about your people on the subway train, To marvel at how so much was lost, All because a handful of men wanted gold, Five hundred years ago, You’re there, i......Read the rest...

... "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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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.......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...