You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.
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But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.
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January 2010 Haiti
How sad for Port-au-Prince
~~ The Capital of Haiti ~~
A repeat of the destruction
Which took place back in
The eighteenth century
When two similar quakes
Took their toll on Haiti.
We've seen frightening scenes
On today's television screens
And the whole world will say
An impassioned prayer to help
Haiti overcome the despair.
poem by Joyce Hemsley
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The Seismic Event of January12,2010 in Haiti
No reporters could accurately describe
The immense damage or disaster
That took place on January 12,2010.
No poets could express the pain
That our people felt that day
When we were rocked so bad.
No artists could precisely sketch
The enormity of this earthquake
Where dark clouds had covered
And sucked the air out of the whole country.
No priests, pastors, imams or rabbis
Had enough words or knowledge
To preach about this event
Without becoming speechless at the end.
Haiti got hit, our poor Haiti
Our ill-prepared Haiti Thomas
Got startled by a powerful earthquake
About 250,000 human beings got killed.
No pond could sustain
Such a potent geyser of tears
The whole nation was drowning in fears
The world cried and felt our pain.
Since the beginning of time
It has never been easy to be Haitian
Even when Haiti was in her prime
Her children had to fight like supermen.
Haitians had to strive to survive
Haitians had to struggle to stay alive
Haitians were born to be strong and valiant
Haitians, at dawn, learned to be brave and resilient.
No other people have suffered like us
No other nations, countries or clans have lost
So much, because we never had enough
We were raised to be tough, we had to be rough.
No scientists could mathematically
Measure the anguish and the miseries
That our people have endured in the last five centuries
And specifically within the last five decennies.
No writers could convey the true nature
And the origin of our sorrow
Only time and tomorrow
Can soothe and smooth our pain and suffering.
No one could really console us
We never had enough and had lost so much
Haiti Thomas got rocked badly, that’s very bad
Haiti got hit hard, that’s obviously very sad.
poem by Hebert Logerie (12 January 2012)
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This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity.
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For Haiti I Cry
My heart like a desert
My tears like a river
Shifting sands of sadness
My whole body shivers
I am sick with suffering
I am pregnant with pain
My ruptured heart bleeds
From my eyes flow the rain
Lachrymose! Lachrymose!
Haiti I weep for thee
Your sons and daughters
Have suffered tragic misery
I bawl! Don't ask me why!
For Haiti! For Haiti I cry!
poem by Howard Simon
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The Haitian Flag Is Indeed Resilient / Le Drapeau Haïtien Est En Effet Indestructible
On 1/12/10, our brave Flag did not stop floating and glowing,
Amidst the relentless attacks against our Country,
While the elected officials went into hiding
Deep inside the beer kegs of the shameless garden.
Generals, soldiers, cops, politicians – they were all absent.
A country needs an army, and competent men and women
To protect its citizens against natural, supernatural
And criminal elements. Haiti needs great leaders, which will remain loyal.
Our beloved Haiti is hungry, our Homeland is thirsty.
We want an end to kidnappings and corruption.
We want the bloodsuckers to say arrivederci,
Before they snatch the biggest portion.
Our People must radically improve themselves
To adhere to better sanitary conditions,
Away from the infernal might of the selfish elves.
Let’s help each other without hypocrisy and hesitation,
Our brothers and sisters are still dredging under trashes and rubbles.
Our glorious Flag stood up to the quakes and its after-trembles,
Our proud symbol did not go into hiding
Our Haitian Bicolor brilliantly weathered the storms.
Our Nation, our Haiti is being eating away by worms.
Let’s unite, and work efficiently on the building and rebuilding
Of our infrastructure, so our People can be spared from the current hell.
In the sky, our Flag is daringly floating above the tents.
Our equally brave People are constantly fighting like mad ants
Against all odds. Let’s hope the conscience of our officials is not for sale.
Our Homeland deserves better than that, our Country
Is in dire need of effective leaders to save our darling Haiti.
Now is the time for all Haitians
To unite, to stop hating each other.
It is indeed the season for all Haitians
To be one, to stop betraying each other.
Haitians of everywhere, brothers and sisters-nations,
Let’s love and support each other forever.
poem by Hebert Logerie (May 2010)
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What Is Freedom As A Haitian
haiti number one, being a haitian is to known what is number one
as time go by people don't known if we the first be free.
some time people would say form what. in me i known, but do you known,
one thing as reader i would like you to known today what is freedom.
freedom to eat
freedom to make love
freedom to be love
freedom to what to you? ? ?
poem by Ronald Morissaint
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Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.
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Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.
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Of Haitian Blood
Those displaced and in heartache...
Of Haitian blood.
Severed from a flowing.
Now exposed by the power,
Ot tremors and earthquakes.
The depth of what I feel reaches out to you.
Why this disrupted destructiveness,
Has occured in your lives as it has...
Brings upon such sadness.
That faith and time will heal...
Although these images visioned,
Will seem to forever last.
No one but 'you',
Know what this experience is...
You now live.
With torment to go through.
I 'can not' fathom it with applied imagination.
This devastation of epic proportion,
Distorts every emotion felt with me!
Within my spirit I reach to soothe with touch.
My Haitian brothers and sisters suffering...
I love you.
I love you.
I love you...
So very much!
We 'are' ONE.
And for whatever the reason...
To you and to us all this has been done!
Dedicated:
To all my Haitian brothers and sisters.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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I have heard something said on this and a former occasion about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. I owe allegiance to two sovereignty, and only two: one is the sovereignty of this Union, and the other is the sovereignty of the state of Kentucky. My allegiance is to this Union and to my state; but if gentlemen suppose they can exact from me an acknowledgement of allegiance to any ideal or future contemplated confederacy of the South, I here declare that I owe no allegiance to it; nor will I, for one, come under any such allegiance if I can avoid it.
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Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.
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As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.
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Our Love for Haiti…
Our Love for Haiti…
Our love for Haiti
Remains steadfastly unconditional.
Our love for this beloved country
Remains obviously emotional.
For a quarter of a century,
The others did not do too much,
For this yesteryear paradise island.
For more than a dozen years,
The incompetent and spurious leaders,
The opponents and the exiled ones
Also ruled this precious piece of land.
So far, no significant improvement…
Corruption, theft, poverty,
Kidnappings, death, mismanagement
Lies, excuses and misery …
This is not the hell that our forefathers died for…
I can tell you more, I can prove you more.
God Almighty, there is a constant and eternal search
For real leadership, unlike the bad ones
That we have had unfortunately over the last centuries.
We are tired of seeing Haiti among the poorest countries.
Our love for Haiti
Is sadly emotional.
Our love for this poverty stricken country
Remains simply unconditional.
Copyright© January 2010, Hebert Logerie, All Rights Reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of two new poetry books: “Monts et Vallées de l’Amour’ (in French) and ‘Mounts and Valleys of Love” (in English) .
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poem by Hebert Logerie
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Everyday killer
everyday people
doing everyday
things
driving your cars
gettin on the train
it all contributed to
this horrible disaster
the average person
a murder
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic disater
killing loads of innocent people
and more people are homless
with no where to go
some children are parentless
because of the quake
orphans
cut your pollution
and save peoples lives today
for the people in Haiti
poem by Harriett Bishop
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Sang Fezi
(chorus)
Ki ayisien kap dIm map mache new-york san fezi
(which haitian says I walk in new-york without a gun)
Mwen di ou messie nou menti
(I tell you man yall lying)
L? bum yo ginbe ou yo devore ou se l? ou mouri police vini
(when the bum catches you they eat you up its when you die the police comes)
Mwen di ou messie nou menti
(I tell you man yall lying)
Pendenm kanpe sou flatbush mwen wou? on police ap vini
(while standing on flatbush I saw the a cop comin)
Li di mwen map vann drg
(he said Im selling drug)
Mwen di mon ch? ou menti
(I told man youre lying)
Li vin poul vin chekem mwen di mwen pa gen anyen
(he came to check me out I told him I had nothing)
Se nan yon ti bal mwen tapwal la pou cheke on ti zen
(I was going to a party to check the 411)
Big up big up phantom mwen renmen tabou combo
(big up big up phantom (haitian band) I like tabou combo (another band)
Se sak f? depwim nan bal la mwen mande kote moun yo
(thats if Im in the bal I ask wheres the poeple)
Timtim bwa sk mwen couri lm ouvri pt
(timtim bwa sk (creole salute) I ran to open the door)
Nan yon cimiti? pase mwen wou? on tt san kk
(in a cemetery cause I saw I head without a rooster)
A b c d f g si'ou vl? batay se danje
(a b c d f g) if you wanna fight its danger
Mem si ou kon jw? foutbol dni? gl lan s? pou pl? (even if could play soccer the last goal if for pele (brazilian soccer player)
Pa jour? manmam, manmam s? krol
(dont diss my mom, my mom is creole)
FesIm se bousl
(my gun guides me)
Kompam se lakol
(my direction sticks)
Original ayisieeennnn kwa d? bouk
(original haitian croix-des-bouquets (wyclefs town)
Gen ng ki pens? brooklynm ft ayitIm ft kwa d? bouk? kwa d? bouk? (some niggers thinks I was born in brooklyn, I was in haiti in croix-des-bouquets)
Tand? (listen)
(chorus)
Prezidan mwen pa vl? przidan ou
(president, I dont wanna be your president)
Was? mikrofn nan mwen s? gouvman ou
(give me the microphone I become your goverment)
Bon nomm s? wyclef yo rl? m fanfan
(my real names wyclef they call me fanfan)
Mwen gen on ti s? yo rl? roz salon
(I have a little sister that is called roz salon)
Mwen yon cheval ki vol? chak swa
(I got a horse who flys every night)
Mwen gen cheve pwav mwen pa vl? cheve soi
(I got a nappy head I dont have silky hair)
Bad boy ayisien ki soti en ayiti
(haitian bad boy straight from haiti)
Depui mwen gen pwoblm mwen ral? ouzi
(if got a problem I pull a uzi)
L? mal lkl ameriken t? kon jour? m
(when I went to school americans used to diss me)
Yo rlm ng nw? yo rlm ti rfiji? (they called black nigger they called a little refugee)
Jan yo pal? mwen wou yo pa civilis?
(the way they talked I saw they where not civilised)
Jan yo pal? mwen wou? yo pa kon bon djie
(the way they talked I saw they didnt know God)
45 bo kotem plis mwen gen de pi? kol?
(45 by my side plus I got bot feet together)
Si on ng test? m map? pt? d? gren ziel
(if a nigger test me Im gonna stab his eyes)
Orijinal ayitien ki soti jerizalem
(original haitian straight from jerusalem)
Si on ng test? m an? sa a ou pap ou? nwl
(if a nigger tests me you wont see christmas this year)
(chorus)
Tande
(listen)
(mans voice)
Kot? moun yo mwen pa wou? moun yo
(wheres the poeple I dont see the poeple)
(lauryn)
Then you should know
That one day we are gone
So keep your head to the sky
See the path we refuse is the path we should choose
They wont take the world when you die
Ayitien tir
(haitian fire)
Lev? l? men lev? l? men chant? chant?
(hands up hands up sing sing)
Yon bagay yo dIm fi petyon vil pa vl? ng ki gen cheve pwav mwen gen cheve pwav
(they told me something girls from ption-ville dont want niggas
With nappy heads well Ive got a nappy head)
song performed by by Wyclef Jean
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If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
quote by Robert Mugabe
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