In “Postcolonial Love Poem,” Natalie Diaz takes a traditional form and makes ... with an Indigenous one (Mojave). That’s not to say the poems long for a pre-colonial culture. Diaz, after ...

These oral poems were later transcribed by Juan de Noceda and Pedro de Sanlucar. Short poems were a specialty of the precolonial Filipinos. At the heart of these poems was the talinghaga, or metaphor.

The British ambassador to Burma was forced to stop Boris Johnson mid-sentence as he recited a colonial poem in the country’s most sacred temple, it has been revealed.

Boris Johnson caught reciting colonial poem in Myanmar temple. Reading Time: 2 minutes. Why you can trust SCMP. The Guardian. Published: 5:11pm, 30 Sep 2017Updated: 10:48pm, 30 Sep 2017.