Mathematical necessity
Brainy capacity
Hearty intensity
Leads endeavor
to probe deeply
Latin American Identity
Continent fascinating
Courageous Colorings
Revolutionary flowerings
Colonial underpinnings
valiant fight back
Red Indian Warriors
Trusted forcefully
Latin powers adventurously
Fractions of efforts
Produced Cuban Heroics
Community of traditions
gave spirit to Mexican uprising
Workers toil
Sent Chile in flames
voice arose of suppressed
prompted dictatorial crushing
Couple of decades
Brazil chained
Washington promoted
Dictatorial Candidates
Rich soil and economy
Rendered Bankrupt
Banana Republics
Brilliant French revolutionary analyzing
Set Haiti free
Victims of human trade
Centuries called them Slaves
United in consciousness
To guide destiny of a nation
European Adventures
Landed to call ‘Discovery’
Staged bee line to new world
Soon brave colonial triumph
Portugal and Spain
dominated the booty
Massacres of horror
Carried on in Western Hemisphere
Red Indians brutally assaulted,
Killed and butchered in terror.
Voice arose of Simon Boliver
Great Latin American Liberator
Let Latin America be one
from North to South forever
Boliver’s dream still a dream
Land distributed by Empires
Haciendas and Latifundias a reality
Control and pleasure of few mighty.
Fear kept mind
in chains and locks
voice rendered under status qou
Attempts often through brave surrenders
For half a thousand years
Colonial powers creates chain reactions
“Goodwill and Peace”
Slogans of next thousand years
Writers blushed in Pablo Neruda
Revolutionary excelled in Che Guevara
Radicals triumphed in Fidel Castro
Such colorful is Latin America.
Sebastian Rodrigues
Friday, February 19, 2010
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment