Tag: <span>slavery</span>

POETRY

SIGHTING THE THREES ON MY WAY TO SAMINAKA

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 25, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_8415" align="aligncenter" width="394"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Sighting The Threes On My Way To Saminaka][/caption] "Saminaka! I have got my own I am not a slave." The mantra modulated on and on Upon...

POETRY

THIS MAN

Words Rhymes & RhythmAugust 31, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_7147" align="aligncenter" width="420"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [This Man][/caption]Enter the dark and nebulous worldof psychology And find first that no man Is separated from his belief system. Many manners and hasty habits...

POETRY

THE SOLDIER’S BROKEN HEART

Words Rhymes & RhythmAugust 9, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_6765" align="aligncenter" width="384"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Soldier's Broken Heart][/caption]My Dear Amore, "Some of you will not live to tell of how we won or lost this battle..." Those where part...

POETRY

NO!

Words Rhymes & RhythmAugust 9, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_6760" align="aligncenter" width="362"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [No!][/caption]Why should I bother? Why cry for me brother? Why getting worried father? Why not let them gather? I am just a young teen Not...

POETRY

THE BRIDE’S CRY

Words Rhymes & RhythmAugust 1, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_6633" align="aligncenter" width="333"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Bride's Cry][/caption]See h'r caught in a marriage throb, welcomed in the arms of an overaged, beautified in her ceremonial robe. Yet they watch'd the...

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UNTITLED

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 14, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5753" align="aligncenter" width="382"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Untitled][/caption]Where we were once bound... When love we claimed to have found. What then is this heavy shackle? We used to drink from heaven's pond!...

POETRY

MOTHER IN THE SUN

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 11, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5708" align="aligncenter" width="344"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Mother In The Sun][/caption]I am the back That received those stripes From the cage for freedom: To you, I come, Africa! To you, I come,...

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BUILDERS OF THE WORLD

Words Rhymes & RhythmMay 22, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_5411" align="aligncenter" width="356"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Builders Of The World][/caption]For the world, unwillingly Africa toiled, not sparingly Like locusts in a leafy field Africans worked without sunshield The nations of progress...

POETRY

SLAVERY

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 19, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_4850" align="aligncenter" width="401"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Slavery][/caption]Born in the theatre of natural plenty Breast-fed and mid-wifed by capitalist selfishness A colonial and exploitative social formation We were told to close our...

POETRY

SHACKLES

Words Rhymes & RhythmApril 9, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_4720" align="aligncenter" width="372"] www,facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Shackles][/caption]If you were still in shackles Of the old era of slavery With whips and rods Drawing map, leading more into slavery On your brutalized,...

Tag: slavery

SIGHTING THE THREES ON MY WAY TO SAMINAKA

THIS MAN

THE SOLDIER’S BROKEN HEART

NO!

THE BRIDE’S CRY

UNTITLED

MOTHER IN THE SUN

BUILDERS OF THE WORLD

SLAVERY

SHACKLES

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