Before
Toussaint and Dessalines
It was nothingness
Organs, guts and spleens
Of our ancestors could be found alongside the roads
Many fleeing poor slaves in disarray
Were treated worse than animals
Oh! It's hard to find the words
To describe the usual carnage
From the time of slavery.
Before
The Battle of Vertières
Graveyards and cemeteries
Were virtually everywhere
Before
Pétion and Boukman
Christopher and Biassou
It was slavery
Blacks and Indians were considered savages
Worse than animals
Were humiliated, lynched, tortured, massacred, and killed
By adventurers, buccaneers, hyenas, deplorables, freebooters
Pirates, motherless bastards and marauders of the time
In search of sugar, foodstuffs, indigo and gold.
Copyright © June 2022, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.
Categories:
freebooters, black african american, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Under a large ominous moon
A deadly storm begins to grow
The clouds show signs of a typhoon
Now the freebooters wildly row
As large waves smash into the ship
Under a large ominous moon
They fear that the galley may flip
Praying the storms end will come soon
Urgently seeking a lagoon
Whilst the clouds glow wickedly red
Under a large ominous moon
Hoping this is not their deathbed
Miraculously the storm gives
Captain and crew begin to croon
Yo ho ho and everyone lives!
Under a large ominous moon
1/31/2020
Categories:
freebooters, fear, sea, storm, water,
Form: Quatern