Long Colonials Poems

The Cry Of Dolores

A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst
Their King Ferdinand VII was...

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skinny island rump
  highway seas churning the horizon under turbulent skies
  entity England
  migration waves still grounding along the continental shelf
  monarchs, priests and lords
  relaunching history and hope, the...

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General Cornwallis of Great Britain
faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve,
he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown,
but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall.

Instead he faced a string of reverses,
lost at King’s Mountain and then at...

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When you are young your life is not about you
You it owe to them for love, for sacrifice and rent
Youth is the margin of our parents ever do
The young know their life only by old...

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Hey!  you over there in Texas in good old America

        ask your peoples to shed a tear or two over there

      ...

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Litter London with latent suicidal tongues
Olympian words rise to claim the covet of crown
National pride perhaps, to hear the dialect sings
Diminished not again by that foreign fang of words
Once strangling memory of native speech.
Nation language...

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Universal Education,

It’s no secret it’s no surprise that no one degree is set equal,

My question if money is universal and cash is on hand,

When money come digitally could one be forgiving of the debt ceiling,

I’...

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I've got something wrapped 
around my finger
It's to remember my phones tapped
and to be wary of the stranger wanting only to linger

I've got a penny
for my thoughts
It's for the boatman
when they silence my opposing thoughts

I...

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Luanda 1975

It was a fraught time in Luanda, the rebel army (freedom fighters)
was closing in on Luanda, leaving civilians exposed
to rape, murder and pillage.
The Portuguese army had dastardly skulked away and
General Spinola was in Lisbon...

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Will you form with me at the centre.? Any colonials
Good and true..'Will you stand? To confront tyranny?
Here there is a place for you.! all you will need is courage..
And the will to see it through..Will...

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There are dark elements
in the humanity died and ends
in a silver palace of lights
in secrecy of hearts.

Love is a means forward
takes a person in a journey onward
Feeling the legacy of colonials
the colonized changing hearts.

Comes in...

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The tribe of tribes of South Africa
Lead by their king Shaka
1816 they formed their state
As they head into history
What be their fate
 
British Conflict, internal rife
13 kinglets loss of life
Rorke's Drift 1879
Mission manned, all was...

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Arise children, and witness a new dawn is breaking.
The bright eastern sun rises.  It’s time for awaking.
We now tread upon our land in newly found freedom.
Yesterday’s yoke of encumbrance was a conundrum.
We climb the...

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How far is far?

To travel on horse and cart from Algarve 
To Lisbon took days, but there were Inns 
For a traveller to rest and stable the horses.
Not that many trekked from Algarve
seen as a...

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