"chamoru" poems - Hello Poetry

I am a Chamoru I am a daughter of The Mariana Islands I am part of something greater than myself I have over a hundred years of culture, love, pain, and unity running through my veins I am a Chamoru I am strong I am unique I may not speak my native tongue fluently I may not look exactly like my ancestors But I am not and will never ashamed of my culture I will not run from who I am I will sing my Island's hymn with my whole heart I will respect my elders I will continue to learn my language everyday And I will one day teach my children everything I know about where they came from

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Dec 6, 2017

Dec 6, 2017 at 6:25 AM UTC

JaeSori

Chamoru

I am a Chamoru I am a daughter of The Mariana Islands I am part of something greater than myself I have over a hundred years of culture, love, pain, and unity running through my veins I am a Chamoru I am strong I am unique I may not speak my native tongue fluently I may not look exactly like my ancestors But I am not and will never ashamed of my culture I will not run from who I am I will sing my Island's hymn with my whole heart I will respect my elders I will continue to learn my language everyday And I will one day teach my children everything I know about where they came from

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We were killed by the Spanish Invaded by the Japanese And robbed by the Americans How much more can mother Guahån take? How much more can our language be suppressed? How long till the young children won't not know what Nåna or Tåta means? Why must I... Why must we chamorros have to go out of our way to speak English for the ignorant? Why should my culture, my people, and my island suffer the endangerment of our own language? The chamorro language is dying and it brings tears to my eyes to think that one day Chamorro will be no more.

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Apr 18, 2018

Apr 18, 2018 at 7:38 PM UTC

JaeSori

The Chamoru language

We were killed by the Spanish Invaded by the Japanese And robbed by the Americans How much more can mother Guahån take? How much more can our language be suppressed? How long till the young children won't not know what Nåna or Tåta means? Why must I... Why must we chamorros have to go out of our way to speak English for the ignorant? Why should my culture, my people, and my island suffer the endangerment of our own language? The chamorro language is dying and it brings tears to my eyes to think that one day Chamorro will be no more.

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can you hear them? the cries of the children who have no land to pass down to their descendants can you see them? the bodies of the Sainas (elders) who starved to death can you feel them? the spirits of our ancestors chasing you out of our jungles do you appreciate them? the CHamoru soldiers who fought beside you in combat i'isao hao: you are a sinner you have sinned against us, against God, against our ancestors, against the land, and you have sinned against the future generations get out of our land! take your bullets! take your bulldozers! take the chemicals that pollute our water! take your bombs! take back your broken promises! take back your lies! take it all back! give us, the taotaotano (people of the land) our islands back Na libre i Islan Marianas: free the Marianas Islands

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Sep 27, 2019

Sep 27, 2019 at 11:04 AM UTC

JaeSori

to our colonizers

can you hear them? the cries of the children who have no land to pass down to their descendants can you see them? the bodies of the Sainas (elders) who starved to death can you feel them? the spirits of our ancestors chasing you out of our jungles do you appreciate them? the CHamoru soldiers who fought beside you in combat i'isao hao: you are a sinner you have sinned against us, against God, against our ancestors, against the land, and you have sinned against the future generations get out of our land! take your bullets! take your bulldozers! take the chemicals that pollute our water! take your bombs! take back your broken promises! take back your lies! take it all back! give us, the taotaotano (people of the land) our islands back Na libre i Islan Marianas: free the Marianas Islands

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