Hot summers dry up the land
The dirt crumbles under the heaviness of disrespect
Fresh flowers adorn the land
Covering the uneven burial grounds
Overshadowed by privilege
What better way to claim superiority
By soiling the plantation they stand on
Ignorance crowds the air
Cast aside by vows of love
Tainting history with a wedding
The stories of black labour whitewashed into a picture of a bride in white
Covering the truths in a veil of fragility
Ironic how they use the innocence of a white wedding
To ink over history
A picture is worth a thousand words
A simple picture of a now conjoined family
Haunted by secrets of ownership
How the brides grandmother was once a girl
Who stood on this same plantation
Watching her parents become slave owners
A simple picture
Once innocent becomes a sinister backstory
A history haunted by the darkness of whiteness
Flower petals spread across the venue of black bones
Not to pay respect to those buried
But to honour love consummated on the grounds of black history
Smiling in pictures with a tainted memory
Plastered in magazines profiting off of slavery
But hey at least they gained popularity
Sumatran Elephants, are critically endangered
and there are local extinctions, in many places
as it is humans, who have willfully managed
to invade their territory, not leaving many spaces
Nearly 70%, of the Sumatran Elephants great habitat
has been totally destroyed, by the now known human rat
in just one generation, over two thirds of lowland forests
have been willfully razed, for business corporation profits
Humans have built, many pulp and paper industries
and constructed food generation, from oil palm plantations
creating animal, human conflict, over elephant territories
as the destruction of their land, is for human consumption
Only the male Asian Elephants, have those mighty tusks
and this makes them a be target, for the illegal black market
This cuts down their breeding, as they need a lot of conceiving
because the evil bloodline of money, is what humans are greeding
~ Southern Plantations ~
(Tanka)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of history beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
~0~
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
September.18.2018
-'Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.'
- Mark Twain -
~Author's Notes:
Tanka is a Japanese poetry form or style.
~Southern Plantations~
( Tanka Duo)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill'd with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
April. 20.2017
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style that's related to the Haiku.
~Southern Plantations~
( Tanka Duo)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
March. 23. 2017
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style that's related to the Haiku.
~Southern Plantations~
( Tanka Duo)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidst oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
January.22.2017
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style that's related to the Haiku.
~Southern Plantations~
( Tanka Duo)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
November. 03.2016
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style that's related to the Haiku.
~Southern Plantations~
( Double Tanka)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
August. 25.2016
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style related to the Haiku.
~Southern Plantations~
( Double Japanese Tanka)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
April.02.2016
~Author's Notes:
"The Tanka" is a classic Japanese poetry form or style related to the Haiku.
~Southern Plantations~
(Tanka)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
January.08.2016
~Southern Plantations~
(Tanka)
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2011
May.9.2015
Magnificent great homes
Fill'd of much history and beauty
Majestic jewels
Fill with many memories
Some so good some so bad
Sun is going down
Ancient walls show amidt oak trees
Many stand so tall
Surviving time many wars
Elegant homes exuding such grace
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2014
November,14,2014
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