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Coolie Poems - Poems about Coolie


Honesty isn't always the best policy
...Honesty is not always the best policy...during a romantic dinner..candle-lights, red wine., soft music..we decided to share...you know ..heart to heart .." So Paul ..just how many woman have you been......

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Categories: coolie, fun, giggle, hilarious, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Who Invented the Coolie
...fir" are rife, despite LEGISLATION II A missionary, absent from South Africa for 15 years straight, no VISITS My life, wife, and children lived on America's East Coast then: PROVIDENTIAL Now, with a new family in my native land, I am stunned I'm The "COOLIE" Yes, it hurts. My ancestors came as virtual slaves on British ships: LABOR MIGRATION They may have worked as porters, "coolies" in India and China then: PAST SINS Continue in Nelson Mand......

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Categories: coolie, absence, abuse, africa, america,
Form: Rhyme



Slavery and Reparations All Done
...SLAVERY AND REPARATIONS I am a descendant of slaves - from India! Anyone who demands REPARATIONS shake & quake at my words Competition? So, we have competing tales of bondage? The Jewish people's......

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Categories: coolie, africa, america, analogy, black
Form: Bio
Transmogrification Into Hideous Golem Like Beast
...Transmogrification into hideous golem like beast... Seeks to lavish adoration, especially after freshly deceased cuz, upon yar flesh I will voraciously devour thee asthma Christmas feast mee h......

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Categories: coolie, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Coolie Woman's Delivery
...Digging, digging, digging... She defeats the dry sand. Red dust enhances her resistance. Thanks to the underground cables and her sweat, lest our telephones won’t ring. He’d filled her womb w......

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Categories: coolie, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rice Paddy Feels Swampy Today
...Rice paddy wakes up ready to be planted. Where are those lazy farmers? Snicker laughs. Nothing lazy about them. They are the most cheerful workers she knows She feels swampy today, colder than u......

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Categories: coolie, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Old Coolie Brags About Her Rice
...Rice paddy wakes up ready to be planted. Where are those lazy farmers? Snicker laughs. Nothing lazy about them. They are the most cheerful workers she knows She feels swampy today, colder than us......

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Categories: coolie, environment, farm, garden,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Villanelle: Break Not Chains Sartre Hooked On Ankles In Disdain
...Villanelle: Break not chains Sartre hooked on ankles in disdain Break not chains Sartre hooked on ankles in disdain No Lawrence outsider sups with wooden spoon Don’t bitter gruel course throu......

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Categories: coolie, angst, fate, freedom, pain,
Form: Villanelle
Rumpelstiltskin Rebranded As Outre Designer Couture
...the daughter of a miller abducted, exiled, held locked as prisoner didst bawl achingly, effusively, indubitably murmured plaintively quite riotously didst call out for help, when stalked with f......

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Categories: coolie, abuse, allegory, anger, art,
Form: Imagism
Eleven Pm Part Two
...For once, man, be serious This is liberty hall, you know And all the fairies want a tumble Even though that is mother-in-law… You shouldn’t miscarry injustice! Sure, fad, I apologize, really serious......

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Categories: coolie, fun,
Form: Free verse
Honourables
...At eighty he is still a coolie toiling in paddy lea; reaping pods and heaping the seeds. His sagged muscles working in wonted harmony But his brain tired of thought; of his son who died as a......

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Categories: coolie, angst, family, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Cool Coolie
...Turbaned head Red and white clothed Benignly asks 'Should I help?' To reach the r i g h t compartment The train is on time Arriving on platform number one He covers long distances Spots t......

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Categories: coolie, people
Form: Free verse

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