Ode To Nelson Mandela

A broken reed Bleeding through the love pipes of social apartheid, Got fixed after waging twenty seven logs of wood in the iron woods of bars on him Through his mouth, The dumb trumpeted And echoed, beating gongs into the forested minds of men in the distant woods His retina sighted the blind from obscurity of racisms For a bullseye of the Morrow's pregnancies So men sang a chorus ...Hail hail free Mandela His skin wore shackles His mind bore freedom His speech spoke out chains Unweaving the threads of apartheid So men sang a chorus ...Hail hail free Mandela Ode to Nelson Madiba Mandela's voice of freedom

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Date: 6/25/2020 2:53:00 PM
The number 1 African icon.. What an excellent Ode to the Father of Africa.
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Gideon Idudje
Date: 6/25/2020 5:14:00 PM
Thanks F Makama!!!! Nice to know you.
Date: 6/24/2020 9:56:00 AM
Great Poem Gideon You can tell a man by what he has to say And Madiba even after 27 years didnt have aything bad to say. Such a crying shame for the Father , Teacher to see his legacy and the rainbow nation he so passionately believed in destroyed by the greed and corruption of his predecessors.
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 6/25/2020 3:11:00 PM
No doubting that indeed Gideon it comes across the instant you start reading your poems. Both the virtues talent and abilty. If you don't mind me asking how come or why did you follow me my mfowethu
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Gideon Idudje
Date: 6/24/2020 1:32:00 PM
At the University level I Studied Economics At secondary schools level I....loved and did Literature as one of my subject, with my whole heart.....I noticed later I was born with the virtues of a writer..... Thanks for your observation Christopher
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Gideon Idudje
Date: 6/24/2020 1:28:00 PM
O thanks a lot Christopher to your bullseye comments
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 6/24/2020 10:05:00 AM
Sanbonani Gudeon I have read a few of your poem's all of them individually very good and by your writting manner or style i take it you Sudied English at Higher Grade or University level
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