#Poetry: Two poems by @CharlieBraxton - Shout Out UK
Charlie R. Braxton is a poet, playwright and essayists from McComb Mississippi. He is the author of two volumes of verse, Ascension from the Ashes (Blackwood Press 1991) and Cinder’s Rekindled (Jawara Press 2013). His poetry has been published in various literary publications such as African American Review, The Minnesota Review, The Black Nation, Specter Magazine, Sepia Poetry Review and The San Fernando Poetry Journal
Dreamland
You’re long long way from London On a slow train through Africa Poor little rich girl on a hedonist’s safari Here to save the wretched heathens With your arms and your aid Your bible and your rifle Building roads that pave over graves Filled with the bones of humanity With crucifix headstone set to reminds us That colonialism is an Excalibur extremely Thrust deep into the solar plexis Snaking its way into the heart of heartsIt is an excruciatingly slow and painful bereavement Socially engineered by the mighty monarchs of industry Sanctioned by the un-saintly sages of western theocracy Who believe in the almighty creed of greed Dispatching a flock of robotic vulture to suck and devour The bloody minerals of mother earth as a sacrament to The unholy idol of global domination They say the sun never sets On the British empire That was some yester years ago Before the native grew restless And tired of serving as a footstool For a crown that never cared For its subjects Much less its servant/slaves Today the lady can search far and wide The country side and find neither Horse, nor ass, nor dog to stomach The stout weight of her fancy fat arse Ring the alarm jack another union is dying And this time God either can’t or won’t save her`
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