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Isle with The Good Bad and Ugly – By Oscar Fernando

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Isle with The Good Bad and Ugly – By Oscar Fernando

Isle with The Good Bad and Ugly – By Oscar Fernando

Tale of an Isle in a tapestry of the Good Bad and Ugly

A Pearl nestling on the Indian Ocean floating peacefully

With covetous eyes and Gun Culture to the fore 

Colonized the Beauty-disgruntling Native[H1]  Folk and Lore

 

Bowing to the superior power of the gun

Natives retreated disgruntled but with reticence

Bided time in Meditation-more superior-to the Gun

Each batch of the Colonizers being dismissed One by One

 

Last of them though ugly-did good to further Beautify

Could have done with gradual revolution in Industry!

Freedom thwarted-they bided to get that release

Yes-release they did but was unlike in Born Free

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Natives struggled and still struggles to find feet

What atrocities done to make this Pearl so Naughty

We all know it happened-why rake up in folly

With all that’s happened we now have the Diamond Jubilee

Of Folly after Folly sinking this Pearl to Bankruptcy

Realize The Folly-make this opportune moment

To get together-under One Head to part with Folly and Cease the Moment

 

 

Oscar E V Fernando

Sept 2024

TAGGED:Colonial legacy in Sri LankaColonization and liberation themes in poetryCultural and political critique of Sri LankaEconomic collapse and bankruptcy of Sri LankaFolly of war and colonizationFreedom and independence in Sri LankaGun culture and colonizationMeditation vs violence in historyOscar E V Fernando poemsPearl of the Indian OceanPost-colonial Sri LankaSri Lanka Diamond Jubilee reflectionsSri Lankan history poetrySri Lankan independence struggleSri Lankan poetry on politics
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