Axis & Allies - damowords

Nippon
As Allah & Jehova have enchased
The western world with civilising light
The presence of the Buddha, bubble‐faced,
Enthusʹd with life this Chinese satellite;
Ascend Nippon!
Thine emperor Jimnu
Descended from the sun‐god Amaterasu.
Spirit shelterʹd by Shinto shields,
Poise proud as sitting vulture,
Peasantry work the paddy‐fields
Planting rice for the future,
Clan‐unity & kingship brings
Long seed‐time of culture
When scatterʹd settlements merino flow
Into an oriental Jericho.
The apple‐blossom Japanese
Map out their first city,
Progressive breeze ‐ royal decrees
Admit a monastʹry,
& university to carve & study Koyiki.
Nara
710
March of Islam
The endless swirl of eternal Jihad,
Sworn duty in the prophetʹs sacred name,
Admits all other worship to be bad,
ʺClaim Allah or be consumed by hellflame!ʺ
As warring ants
Invade the termiteʹs nest
The Muslim olliphants blow north, south, east & west,
& ride old trade routes thro Persia
To Kabul & Samarkand,
Fill the Nileʹs rain‐fertile delta,
Spill hot blood on Tunisʹ sand,
Launch fleets forth from North Africa
Toward a promised land
An earthly paradise of golden grain ‐
How soon the Saracens have spread thro Spain.
A city grows of pretty bricks
Thro which great culture flows;
Medʹcine, physics, Grecian classics,
Chess pieces, sweeter prose
& Methavita’s mosque where pillars mass in classy rows.
Cordoba
751