Forebears Poems - Poems about Forebears

Ode to Tapuy

...Come! Bring forth the jar that for months had stood
Patiently undisturbed in the shadow!
Lift its lid, remove the leaves that serve as hood
And help age the wine that’s about to flow.
Cat...

A Tale From The Loom - I to V

...I let your eyes to visualise a garden on a loom;
Bluebells and marigolds in sway and lavender in bloom;
And there to play in a luscious green two kittens wrestling;
Up high in chirping swallow's p...

THE EMBERS OF MY MEMORY

...My heart of stone quenches its thirst in the dirty hands of misery.
The tears of my family tree run down the scarred faces of their history.
The pain of my color screams in silence the secrets thes...

THEY KNOW IT

...I know their fears.
I know their cravings.
I know their reflexes.
I know their thoughts.
They know that I know who they are.
I am exactly like them, but with a dose of Pan-African melanin.
I’ve...

Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee

...Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee...
honored at freedom fête
of course in my dreams
where Tony the Tiger
roars Matthew Scott Harris 
ranks as one hip cat gr-r-eat
showcasing ...

Allow them hope'

...Allow them respect, those who battle on.' In tents and cars
Australia you are being guided so wrong.' I presume there's
No voting facility 'for our disenfranchised?' I question the
Morality? Where...

VERACITY-

...

In depth, complexity, and transformation, reminding us that truth and understanding can be multifaceted and nuanced.


Hallelujah Truth and clarity: "Veracity...Case in point, point of the mat...

Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape

...Swath of pristine tractless snow white landscape...
tell tale sign where
winter storm Demi left her mark.

Beautiful and bountiful visual scene
(seldom seen around
tri-state geographic area
fo...

Is there anyone there

...Is there anyone there? I read the eyes that stare
Mouths appear numb..must have been struck till dumb?
While media streams, out from foul drains (who cares?)
Who cares? It seems no-one but fools? ...

Ah methinks I could sleep forever

...Ah... methinks I could sleep forever

Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
fast moving molecules of heat
solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted
by mi...

In the arteries of my ancestors flows a river of untamed hope, older than the first spoken syllable

...In the arteries of my ancestors flows a river of untamed hope, older than the first spoken syllable,
Deeper than the caves where forebears painted bison and dreams with blood and burning charcoal,
...

The Balangiga Bells

...The whole of Eastern Samar 
Is commemorating its historic
Battle joined by local patriots 
Of Balangiga and neighboring towns 
On September 28 1901, the only battle won 
By fighting Filipinos ag...

Literate lettered latitudinarian looms larger than life

...I feel honored, and flattered to acquaint myself (a married youthful looking sexagenarian solitudinarian from southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania), yet feel awkward at jump/kick starting a r...

Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed

...Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed

made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...

to stave off experiencing get...

Too Late

...Too Late

When we have all been made to feel ashamed
Of what our fathers and their forebears did;
When we have lost a knowledge of the past
And cannot comprehend how people thought,
Believing t...

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