Axis & Allies - damowords

Pilgrim Fathers
Far from the divine right of divers kings,
Mayflower unburthens the purer faiths,
Shores paradesean Polaris brings ‐
No longer men but ragged, pale‐faced wraiths;
Indian chief
Welcomes his white guests in,
Advent of native grief, the sentence did begin.
In the land of the Sequana
& the endless prairie plain,
Where the buffalo & cougar
Suckle Susquehannaʹs vein,
Horseback tribes have lived forever
Praising both sun & rain,
Content to roam upon ancestral soil ‐
Now aiding pilgrims in their meagre toil.
Seedling imperial takes root,
The plant begins to spread,
As shoot‐by‐shoot fresh towns recruit
Life to replace the dead,
Tough slaves are made to gather grain, rough soldiers guard
the bread.
North Virginia
1628
Closing the Orient
As families of monkeys hug the trees
Away from the rambunctious jungle floor,
& dragonflies hover on mountain breeze
Like albatrosses gathering offshore;
Tokugawa
Shuns the approaching West,
Views Europaʹs power more an encroaching pest.
The Shogunʹs temple throbbʹd intense,
ʺSend them back across the seas,
About our harbours build a fence,
All their goods & assets seize,
& offer them no recompense,
Even the Portuguese,
No more their decadence must we endure,
Let us free Shinto from this stint impure.ʺ
Imagine if the pedalo
Was thrown off Lake Nakki!
From Tokyo to Kyoto
Via Nagasaki,
Old ports are cleansʹd of foreign trade, trinkets deemʹd quite
tacky.
Japan
1640