The irony of three wooden ships
that set sail from Palos in Spain
to discover...
is that Cristobal planned to go east,
to reach India, by sailing west
around the world.
The confused Old World Europeans called
New World natives Amerindians
and Red Indians.
After demise of Amerindians
they brought sturdy West Africans,
then East Indians,
douglarised them to the West Indians,
and left them all in confusion
in the Third World,
in a tall, New, Old World Order.
Copyright ©2002 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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