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Importance | Krushna Chandra Mishra - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

Importance | Krushna Chandra Mishra

When in all earnest
and with perceived grace,
in subtle ways fighting odds
that separate us,
we have to decide
how best we must come close
to let the wide world realise
it is impossible to keep us
away from the importance
that is our due since, in resolve
firm and solid, there in us, there
is that stuff pure and bright
that can’t see us lying separated
and thus should unite us in that
bond, bound up in which everyone
gathers grace, greatness and grandeur.

A Letter to the Racist | Joseph C. Ogbonna - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

A Letter to the Racist | Joseph C. Ogbonna

I love only my kind.
But a world of just
your kind would to
monotony consign you.

I celebrate just my kind.
But a world that celebrates
only you, would to the utter
depths of boredom relegate you.

I prefer just my kind.
But the preference of your kind
would your curiosity wear out.

I only recognize my world.
But a world of only you
can never its horizon broaden.

I only relish my own race.
But a world devoid of
other races would be the
most uninteresting.

My race must the entire earth occupy.
But without the ‘inferior’ races,
how could you ‘superiority’ claim?

I have a lebensraum for my
race to occupy.
A lebensraum for only you
would geography obliterate.

So let your world be yours,
and let mine be mine.

Your culture and language you
may retain, whilst mine I also
retain,

as we both our diversity
celebrate.
Because diversity is nothing
more than the spice of life.

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