Axis & Allies - damowords

The Seige of Vienna
For Suliman, the Ceasarʹs sultan heir,
This Istanbul a worthy capital,
All creeds & races in her splendour share
Where lonely wives worry after battle,
Whose young boys dream
Of stately tents of war,
Where blazing colours stream & sharp the Zulfiqar!
Part of that Byzantine glory
That was ardent Achea,
Once more denied of liberty
With Belgrade & Wallachia,
North Africa to Hungary
Thro Transyllvania ‐
Embassies of nervous western nations
Profess cordial congratulations.
The Turks arrive at Vienna
The French fear for their lives,
But by winterʹs onset men were
Loin‐weary for their wives,
& left the wall that all their force defiantly survives.
Austria
1683
Monarchia Hispania
Conquistadors view the Pacific blue,
Cortez claims the nopal of Mexico,
& the laurels for conquering Peru
Go to gallant Francisco Pizarro;
Strecthing the range
Of Hispanic mandate,
Thro lands & native strange, decorum to create.
Above the earth the sun was sent,
Shining down on land & sea,
From continent to continent ‐
Volcanic Cotopaxi,
Mozambique, Kerala & Ghent,
Conjoinʹd community,
Whose peoples are powerless to resist
The vigours of this white supremacist.
The virgin world desilverized,
Building a bridge to Spain,
Christianized & Hispanized
To civilise the reign,
Abuzz with swarms of Afric slaves in fields of sugar cane.
South America
1540