Leonard Fong Roka

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I am from the Panguna District of Bougainville in the South Pacific. I write about my island's political, social and cultural issues. We have gone through war as a result of long periods of relegation and exploitation firstly from colonial powers then much later under the Papua New Guineans that rule our island Writing is the only way I turn to promote my island and people and also, it is the way I am releasing my emotions to the world. Since 2011 I have published poems in Keith Jackson & Friends: PNG Attitude (http: //asopa.typepad.com) and my own blog Leonard Fong Roka (http: //lfongroka.blogspot.com) . I need to further market my island.)

The Best Poem Of Leonard Fong Roka

Asian Liars

I think
You were human
Down history road.
Once colonised and enslaved.
Subjugated you were…
People of the great Asian land
Who bitterly blooded
For freedom.

But why?
You had doctrines, so sound
Invented in the snowfields of Siberia;
Befriended one power in the cold war our then bipolar world
Then shut your door kingdom as
“Asia for Asians” and
Fought for freedom?

Hitherto you fought the imperialist man
Screaming wildly
In Israel,
In Afghanistan, and
In the tangle of Vietnam.
You fought and bled for Asian freedom
You said vividly.

But why,
Deserting your birth country,
“Asia for Asians”
Like a insane fellow
And risk your life
Floating across the oceans? Why disturb me in my Oceania?
Boat fellow, you
Fear that long sounded
Asian freedom?
Sorry.

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