Winter African Poems
These Winter African poems are examples of African poems about Winter. These are the best examples of African Winter poems written by international poets.
USPS Stamps Poetry Contest
To have your picture on the face of a stamp,
Is a honor reserved for the ones who cultivated change
Among the mèlange of inspiring faces,
Lays the...
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Categories:
black african american, freedom,
The Being Who Never Leaves
I never learned to look at shop windows
without searching for the walking shape of your footsteps.
The umbrella abandoned beside a rusted bicycle
resembles you more than...
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Categories:
beauty, black african american,
A MEMO TO SPRING HARVESTING OF HUED GRAPS OF WRATHThe winter of our discontent is over,
the Merciful God of the oppressed
has seen to the de-icing of our hued souls;
and the blossoming essence of our...
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Categories:
allegory, black african american,
Winter SolsticeWinter Is here,
Fear washed away my sorrow with desperation and opportunism,
Now I wait for winter,
For I will meet the woman of my dreams in winter,
Torrid...
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Categories:
black african american,
February Is Short, Cold, Snowy, Pure, Dark, And PristineI love the month of February,
The coldest month of the season,
For an array of emotional reasons.
And yet, it feels like she is the longest,
For the...
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Categories:
beach, black african american,
Contradictions African Winter Hair RevelationBoth time
&
Life is fleeting
Birth most certainly
Similataniously
Also leads and ends in death
Like the winter climate in South Africa
Johannesburg specifically during Winter
As coming in the end...
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Categories:
african, appreciation,
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital BedImpossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo...
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Categories:
african, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Black Americans In Shark Houses and CaravansBlack Americans in shark
houses
And caravans
Imagine how many black
Americans dying
In strong winters as
They can not afford
To build
or buy proper houses....
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Categories:
black african american, community,
Still Rising(Response to And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou)
Refusing to ever descend after
My mother, grandmother, great grandmother
Have all endured broken wings
To ensure...
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Categories:
black african american, inspirational,
My Country Is the Beautiful SunMy country is the beautiful sun
My country is not the hard winter
My country is an often green Eden
Always languid and tropical at dawn.
It’s a country...
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Categories:
black african american, humanity,
In the Manse Market For a Preowned Spa HouseIn the manse market for a preowned spa house
Mine feeble efforts pale in comparison
to a kid scaling El Capitan
of Yosemite National Park,
nevertheless me, a dry...
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Categories:
african, absence, allegory, angel, appreciation,
February Is Short, Cold, Snowy, Dark, and PristineI love the month of February,
The coldest month of the season,
For an array of personal reasons.
And yet, it feels like she is the longest,
For the...
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Categories:
anniversary, beautiful, black african
MemoriesOnes upon a life to pass
Where joy could have been imagined to last
With innocence far from rust
And body far...
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Categories:
anger, black african american,
No Remedy We Have To ReturnMy husband has always loved
The African bush and the wild,
From the time he was only a child,
So, when he was old enough in his...
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Categories:
african, day,
Weathering Winter's Weary WonderingsWinter chilling tribulations cannot be denied;
Nor can determination and hope that abides.
Pandemic trials and tribulations have their time,
So do the loving spiritual supports that are...
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Categories:
african, allegory, america, analogy, black