When the great, heroic prince Madiba Mandela
Emerged triumphant from his deathly dungeon
After seven and twenty long-suffering years to sever
The hideous, hoary head of that foul, demonic dragon,
That evil, revulsive, repulsive dragon Apartheid…
The noble son of Shaka demolished the last mighty bastion
Of shameful, shameless, colonial oppression
Like a rushing, relentless, tsunamic black tide
So that murderous, scoundrelly bastard, P. Botha,
That bloody, child-murdering, Afrikaner boar-Boer,
Like a drowning man going under water,
Was forced and sanctioned to swallow his pride;
To accede and concede to be ruled by democracy,
Thus restoring the natives their human dignity.
Copyright ©2001 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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