Kora
In the fields of my ancestors,
a cry had begun:
"Kill the real people,
the Khoi and the San!"
From the end of a gun,
with the point of a spear
killing the peaceful
of those you hold dear.
Lost generations,
fathers and sons,
destroying a nation
with a chant that was sung.
The tears of the people
has bled the earth dry
as they gather their herds
beneath the dark sky.
They fled from the land
where their herds once roamed;
to the shores of the sea
since death took their home.
About this poem
The poem speaks of the extinction of the first inhabitants of Southern Africa. The people known as the Khoisan were forcibly removed from the land where they were pastoralists and hunter gatherers by colonialists from Africa and Europe.
Written on February 17, 2022
Submitted by Alastaire on February 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABX ACBC DDAX BEXE XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 481 |
Words | 108 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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