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 Parrot uncaged of a sudden-now unable find feet 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 ...
Sep 18, 2024
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Tagged Colonial legacy in Sri Lanka, Colonization and liberation themes in poetry, Cultural and political critique of Sri Lanka, Economic collapse and bankruptcy of Sri Lanka, Folly of war and colonization, Freedom and independence in Sri Lanka, Gun culture and colonization, Meditation vs violence in history, Oscar E V Fernando poems, Pearl of the Indian Ocean, Post-colonial Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Diamond Jubilee reflections, Sri Lankan history poetry, Sri Lankan independence struggle, Sri Lankan poetry on politics
