 Linguistic Conquest Poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poemhunter Before Spanish Caribbean mother's sang to their babies angry merchants shouted lovers whispered tribesman negotiated in so many different now forgotten languages obscured by the words rolling off the tongues of Spanish conquistadors English sailors French traders and Dutch merchants Spanish now voiced by the most on the largest Cuba and Dominican Republic where men and women discuss Paz Peace in English the state language of many Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Jamaica and all the Saints, sharing Puerto Rico with Spanish On the compass points peace in European languages standing strong in the Caribbean Spanish pas to the West and Central English peace to the North and East French paix sharing the East and Central Dutch vrede to the South Mother's chant paix to their babies in Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and St. Martin. Vrede in Dutch full of good intentions in Curacao, St Maarten and tiny islands Indigenous languages buried deep some pushing up expanding a few lay dying several birthing a new creole gumbo 
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