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Best Gambian Poems

Below are the all-time best Gambian poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of gambian poems written by PoetrySoup members


Black Hair
The girl with long black hair 
She ties it in tail-pair
Which flies in air 
As she jumps from chair to chair 
The black girl that...

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Categories: gambian, africa,
Form: Classicism



Great Malala
Malala, great malala Yousafzai,
The goddess of womanhood
Your steps and advocate for the girlchild
Has brought us where we are now,
Your drives has made us to understand
That...

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Categories: gambian, abuse, africa, age, art,
Form: Ballad
Green Leaves On Trees
Green leaves on trees

The tall carob trees that bear long oblong fruit
black as the hands of a Gambian, sweet as sight 
of the snow-clad mountain...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gambian, allusion, blessing, creation,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs