"westernization" poems - Hello Poetry

Lost is the African pride Gone are those who could ride the tide Left are those who drown beneath the wave Prone to dehumanization because of greed I see burning buildings Mutilated bodies Escalating violence And social unrest Lost is the Spirit of Ubuntu Left is a society deprived of its integrity Selfishness and poverty is at the core of our society Is the real Africa lost to antiquity? Crime is rife as people strive for a decent life. A decent life earned through decadence Should we stone foreigners because the government is failing to provide employment? Or should we burn down buildings so that our voices can be heard? I am ashamed of the profanity we breed It’s a calamity for us to be xenophobic It’s a taboo for us to call Africans foreigners in their motherland. It’s not who they are. It’s not who we are It’s not who you are It’s not who I am Together we are the Africa that has survived slave trade The Africa that has survived apartheid The Africa that has survived colonization The Africa that is surviving westernization We don’t fight for employment We create employment We don’t breed resentment We translate sentiments Let us evoke the Spirit of Ubuntu And let’s behave like men not animals Let us ignite the Spirit of Ubuntu And let’s stand like men immortal The Spirit of Ubuntu is what separates us from animals Terrorism shouldn’t exist in Africa It’s a disgrace for us to be unethical Xenophobia shouldn’t be heard in Africa Animosity is not our portion

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May 17, 2017

May 17, 2017 at 6:28 AM UTC

Elfuric

The Spirit Of Ubuntu

Lost is the African pride Gone are those who could ride the tide Left are those who drown beneath the wave Prone to dehumanization because of greed I see burning buildings Mutilated bodies Escalating violence And social unrest Lost is the Spirit of Ubuntu Left is a society deprived of its integrity Selfishness and poverty is at the core of our society Is the real Africa lost to antiquity? Crime is rife as people strive for a decent life. A decent life earned through decadence Should we stone foreigners because the government is failing to provide employment? Or should we burn down buildings so that our voices can be heard? I am ashamed of the profanity we breed It’s a calamity for us to be xenophobic It’s a taboo for us to call Africans foreigners in their motherland. It’s not who they are. It’s not who we are It’s not who you are It’s not who I am Together we are the Africa that has survived slave trade The Africa that has survived apartheid The Africa that has survived colonization The Africa that is surviving westernization We don’t fight for employment We create employment We don’t breed resentment We translate sentiments Let us evoke the Spirit of Ubuntu And let’s behave like men not animals Let us ignite the Spirit of Ubuntu And let’s stand like men immortal The Spirit of Ubuntu is what separates us from animals Terrorism shouldn’t exist in Africa It’s a disgrace for us to be unethical Xenophobia shouldn’t be heard in Africa Animosity is not our portion

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"Are you from around here?" You would have rolled your eyes at the city sky Muttered something about Westernization No stars in the sky But baby, here they have the lights. A man asked about you today He said "and your lover?" I told him you were long gone, Feared the exposure of city lights New York doesn't love me like you do I said "my lover is a runaway fugitive" Anything but the truth.

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Oct 16, 2014

Oct 16, 2014 at 8:30 AM UTC

delaney1010

City Lights Exposure

"Are you from around here?" You would have rolled your eyes at the city sky Muttered something about Westernization No stars in the sky But baby, here they have the lights. A man asked about you today He said "and your lover?" I told him you were long gone, Feared the exposure of city lights New York doesn't love me like you do I said "my lover is a runaway fugitive" Anything but the truth.

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I will not let the blood of my ancestors to be shed in vain Where they have fought for our freedom yet my generation are quiet I will not let westernization ruin my soul and tatter my traditions I will not let the westernized beauty blind me from my culture’s beauty I will not let the blood of my ancestors to be shed in vain Where they have fought for the earth that is now free the earth where my soul thrives on I will not let the television brainwash my perception of spirituality and religion to make me question that who I am is wrong I will not let these white-washed books to create gaps in my history I will not let the blood of my ancestors to be shed in vain

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May 20, 2014

May 20, 2014 at 6:32 PM UTC

imallwrite

Shed Blood

I will not let the blood of my ancestors to be shed in vain Where they have fought for our freedom yet my generation are quiet I will not let westernization ruin my soul and tatter my traditions I will not let the westernized beauty blind me from my culture’s beauty I will not let the blood of my ancestors to be shed in vain Where they have fought for the earth that is now free the earth where my soul thrives on I will not let the television brainwash my perception of spirituality and religion to make me question that who I am is wrong I will not let these white-washed books to create gaps in my history I will not let the blood of my ancestors to be shed in vain

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Nature in its perfection Westernization just an immitation The destruction of entire cultures, thank you modernization

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May 1, 2016

May 1, 2016 at 12:23 PM UTC

leinstinct

Society

Nature in its perfection Westernization just an immitation The destruction of entire cultures, thank you modernization

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Swords clashing as knights swing The sharp daggers create an obnoxious ping The knights are only a small piece of this fight People fighting for what they think is right The evolution of war begins with the gun powder Small particles, creating explosions getting louder Once gunpowder was used, hand to hand was rare More national armies used after westernization’s appear Nowadays, the deadliest weapons ever created With the nuclear bombings, making populations deflated Killing off people who are defenseless from these killers Fighting war for not freedoms as much, but for oil drillers

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Dec 7, 2013

Dec 7, 2013 at 1:47 AM UTC

brett-w

The Evolution of War

Swords clashing as knights swing The sharp daggers create an obnoxious ping The knights are only a small piece of this fight People fighting for what they think is right The evolution of war begins with the gun powder Small particles, creating explosions getting louder Once gunpowder was used, hand to hand was rare More national armies used after westernization’s appear Nowadays, the deadliest weapons ever created With the nuclear bombings, making populations deflated Killing off people who are defenseless from these killers Fighting war for not freedoms as much, but for oil drillers

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prosaic prologues bewitch feeble minded scribe doth undertake tend toward lugubriousness ring tone for goodness sake echoing across, a figurative lake woebegone, where quake shutters latched storm windows, clapped closed winter season didst make physical environment lachrymose analogous to imp pond durable dark lake where sits inside secluded hut, this fledgling author named Jake a former cub (scout) at a loss to string together an aria tomb other nature and NOT FAKE, sepulchral paeon to divine Gaea, Mother Earth especially incorporating mutisyllabic (sesquipedalian) words, which exertion on par with giving birth (or so I guess), a particularly heavily pregnant laden dearth of help mates, doubling demonstrably deadly duty devoid of mirth totally tubular taxing toll, an essentially unbearable effort with bulging girth whereat digestion consumes latent mental ambition, especially toasty warm near the hearth which hitherto unknown to any reader twas Xmas fabrication and fiction no crime committed, nor animals harmed in the making of diction aery necessary entrapping unsuspecting intellect to comprehend somber benediction unless perchance one lone wolf bait Oven English Major with Westernization topped off with a European debunaire suave acculturation even luckier if hypothetical personage dips daintily into forays epicurean, though careful, and alert since church fathers would frown on parsonage whose natural born ardor, a spiritual abduction stealing austerity, complacency, and objection toward forced irrational schemas averse to abnegation unfair imposition to foist upon pruriant predilection also impossible mission to sequester arbitrary animal urges, punishing call of the wild, sowing seeds a ******** accusation considered averse, then imposition contrition!

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Nov 28, 2017

Nov 28, 2017 at 12:58 AM UTC

matthew-scott-harris2p

Struggle to write

prosaic prologues bewitch feeble minded scribe doth undertake tend toward lugubriousness ring tone for goodness sake echoing across, a figurative lake woebegone, where quake shutters latched storm windows, clapped closed winter season didst make physical environment lachrymose analogous to imp pond durable dark lake where sits inside secluded hut, this fledgling author named Jake a former cub (scout) at a loss to string together an aria tomb other nature and NOT FAKE, sepulchral paeon to divine Gaea, Mother Earth especially incorporating mutisyllabic (sesquipedalian) words, which exertion on par with giving birth (or so I guess), a particularly heavily pregnant laden dearth of help mates, doubling demonstrably deadly duty devoid of mirth totally tubular taxing toll, an essentially unbearable effort with bulging girth whereat digestion consumes latent mental ambition, especially toasty warm near the hearth which hitherto unknown to any reader twas Xmas fabrication and fiction no crime committed, nor animals harmed in the making of diction aery necessary entrapping unsuspecting intellect to comprehend somber benediction unless perchance one lone wolf bait Oven English Major with Westernization topped off with a European debunaire suave acculturation even luckier if hypothetical personage dips daintily into forays epicurean, though careful, and alert since church fathers would frown on parsonage whose natural born ardor, a spiritual abduction stealing austerity, complacency, and objection toward forced irrational schemas averse to abnegation unfair imposition to foist upon pruriant predilection also impossible mission to sequester arbitrary animal urges, punishing call of the wild, sowing seeds a ******** accusation considered averse, then imposition contrition!

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