Afro-Asian Poetry - 1595 Words

AFRICA’S PLEA Roland Tombekai Dempster I am not you – But you will not Give me a chance, Will not let me be me. â€Å"If I were you† but you know I am not you, Yet you will not Let me be me. You meddle, interfere In my affairs As if they were yours And you were me. You are unfair, unwise, Foolish to think That I can be you, Talk, act And think like you. God made me me. He made you you. For God’s sake Let me be me. Breaths Birago Diop Listen more often to things rather than beings. Hear the fires voice, Hear the voice of water. In the wind hear the sobbing of the trees, It is our forefathers breathing. The dead are not gone forever. They are in the paling shadows, And in the darkening†¦show more content†¦He spoke: - Men hearkened to his piercing cry, With smiles, with scorn; But the dim Future felt his threatenings nigh, And shook, - unborn! He died: and race to race did still succeed; And suns did shine; And Centuries passed; and still no eye could read His awful line. You mourn? - Mourn not; nor deem his history vain; Nor vain his strife: To breathe, to feel, to hope are worth the pain Of Death, and Life: And now, - (as generations rise, and far Like vapours roll,) Some few begin to gaze, as on a star, And scan his scroll: And, in its inspiration, vaguely shown, We seem to trace The march of revolutions, come and flown; And of mans race The history. Amidst blots, of blood and tears, The verses run, Until we lose their light in distant years, And - all is done! A prospect of spring - Du Fu The country’s been broken, see, only hills and rivers. In the city here’s the lush growth of spring. These times are splashed with tears before flowers. Grieved at parting, birds startle the heart. Beacons have been burning for three whole months. Any letter from home is worth ten thousand gold. I’ve scratched my white hair so thin It can’t hold even a hairpin in place. THE SONG OF MAISUNA by: Maisuna HE russet suit of camels hair, With spirits light and eye serene, Is dearer to my bosom far Than all the trappings of aShow MoreRelatedThe Past and Present Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in Britain1387 Words   |  6 PagesTwo) Black carrabiens were encouraged to come from their homeland-the carrabien to come and work for Britain. This later evolved into people from other countries coming to work in Britian, e.g. India, Bangladesh, Sri-lanka and many more Asian countries. Britians economy was doing so well but there was a shortage of workers. 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