Nationhood Poems

Premium MemberGreen White Green

...So much promise "Green White Green"
So resplendent were you as the;
      Union Jack was being lowered and
      The Green White Green as foisted
      That glorious evening of 
        October ...
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Categories: nationhood, angst, independence day, memorial
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberCornish poem We Cornish are a Nation

...Cornwall is almost an island,
Thanks to the river Tamar and the sea,
Its indigenous inhabitants are us Cornish and
We Cornish are a nation - and will always be.

Kernow (Cornwall) boasts its own...
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Categories: nationhood, encouraging, england, hope, poems,
Form: Rhyme


Trade Winds

...Last call for alcohol, embargo 
              on the cargo headed for Fargo? 
                      Bootlegging articles of? 
                          "ConfederationNow", 
Boot logger, droned Ov...
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Categories: nationhood, america,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAmerican Civil War Reassessed

...The seeds of self-destructive strife
Were sown soon after drums and fifes
Extolled success from breaking free
From Britain's aristocracy.

The Constitution's writ accedes
Peculiar Institution's...
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Categories: nationhood, conflict, destiny, military, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWar On Ukraine

...Kyiv, cultural hub of Eastern Europe
         ancestral home of ancient Slavs
         bombardment implacable 
         by the Russian tyrant's corps
a despot dismissing Ukraine's nationhood
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Categories: nationhood, conflict, courage, heartbreak, war,
Form: Free verse


Still Giants

...Great loss of heads and ideas
Furious masses on a hungry mandate
Changing systems and false-truth ideas
The journey of a narrow candidate

Failed promises stirring sun-shot screams
While every ...
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Categories: nationhood, africa, courage, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme

Mount Ararat

...The famous mountain where Noah came to rest,
ending the ecliptic flood, building an altar for time as test. 
Flourished kingdoms at the upper Tigris grew,
Babylonia and Urardhu created powers to s...
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Categories: nationhood, 12th grade, humanity, meaningful,
Form: Ballade

Hallo, 'Ello Mate, Hi and Howzit

...GREETINGS ALL!
Greeting people on the street
Reason cannot assess how
Even a quick American "hi" in retreat
Elevates someone's mood, and the State's
Truth be t...
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Categories: nationhood, america, appreciation, bible, black
Form: Acrostic

Happy Fourth of July, Or Happy Independence Day

...Happy Fourth Of July, Or Happy Independence Day

On this day we celebrate and commemorate the birth of our nation, The United States of America's Independence from Great Britain's monarchical hold ...
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Categories: nationhood, america, birthday, celebration, firework,
Form: List

Tom Mboya Ndiege

...Tom Mboya, son of Ndiege
From the craggy islands of Rusinga
--the craddle of his progenitors
He sprouts like avens in the loamy knoll
And out to the urbs he sets off his journey
A parlous journe...
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Categories: nationhood, death, dedication, freedom,
Form: Elegy

Corrupted Nation

...Our dear nation, virtuous and seated in an impious sit
Surrounded by constant chaos of defiances 
After all this years of nationhood we are still not
 Sure of our future as a nation

Oh dear our...
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Categories: nationhood, corruption,
Form: Free verse

A Right To Live

...A right to free movement

A right to live

Where we want

Should be our perogative

We should not feel that we can not roam

Or decide to set down new roots

Or to find a new home.

Bor...
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Categories: nationhood, dream, race, rights, uplifting,
Form: Narrative

Paradise With Pious

...I know when you abase me at kunan, was sniffy day for me.
My people at that time were surrounded by threat and poverty.
Know it they are dearest for me.
I warn you sacrilegious nation,
Hacklers a...
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Categories: nationhood, abuse, memory, military, soldier,
Form: Epic

Sold Out Lilies

...Sold Out Lilies.     

They are angels and goddesses well betrayed 
Their protégés so diverted by other matters ,
Their hearts led astray by the naivety of minds,
And their hands moving rampant ...
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Categories: nationhood, abuse, beauty, blessing, child
Form: Dramatic Monologue

The Muttered Cry of Our Kids

...Hear the muttered snivel of our kids  
Puked away to gloom, twinge and disease 
Wrecked by creeds
To fulfill an antique mores 
Whose ruin is beyond scientific darn 

See the boulevards and the ...
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Categories: nationhood, emotions,
Form: Light Verse

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