MY BOY ASKED
My great grandfather sighed in heaven
As I told my son the story
As told by my father as he was told
About how wealthy his father was before them.
Daddy, he says, something is on my mind
You said great grandpa was rich and kind
But he never went to school at all
How did he build a life so
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Categories:
africans, 12th grade, abuse, africa,
Form: Free verse
Pan-Africanism
Like twins, we share markers of a common history,
Civilization, and knowledge; a call for unity.
The carcasses of slavery and the slave trade
Are lost in the dust. O black water days.
Colonization has been eaten by our sovereignty.
Our flag, we raise high in the sky.
The struggle for the unification of Africa,
The fight for the liberation of the
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Categories:
africans, africa, confidence, courage, family,
Form: Free verse
THE LIES WE LIVE WITH
Free, we say
For we can loot
From our states' coffers
Just to fall prey of their offers
Free, we say
For we can divide ourselves
Through invisible ethnic lines
Evidently a theatre for their muse
Free, we say
For we deceive ourselves
That our leaders we select
Do we know the inside of ballot boxes?
Free, we say
Yet in their pockets
We graze, their eternal puppets
What
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Categories:
africans, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
STAND UP WITH THE PROBLEMS OF MILLIONS OF AFRICANS
as some African
young leaders
are standing up
with the problems
of millions of Africans.
they know well
about
the work they are doing ...
Africa's advocates
who know
the consequences
of the dangerous tasks
which they are choosing ...
Just to help their compatriots.
they can be wiping out
silently
at any moment
by the problems
makers.
Young leaders who saw
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Categories:
africans, africa, imagery,
Form: Free verse
WHAT DO THEY BENEFIT TO KEEP THEIR TREASURES THERE
What do they benefit to keep
their treasures there?
As seeing some Africans
passing through serious challenges
which were made by some people
who hate them secretly
and remain silently
One day
you will be blamed.
Few years back ,
I remember reminded
some African politicians
Who continued
keeping their treasures
in some western banks
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Categories:
africans, africa, imagery,
Form: Free verse
BEING ONE OF AFRICANS TOP VOICES
as decided to be one of africans top voices, remember that enemies will always rise like flies.
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Categories:
africans, africa, patriotic,
Form: Verse
Yesterday
What happened yesterday
Can change today.
When a person understands
His" her" capacity
He "she" can not see borders
To enter some world competitions
Where racism and injustice
Are not principal choices.
Power of beauty and wealth,
Some daughters of some poor in the Competition with some daughters
Of some rich people.
Yesterday when I saw you in
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Categories:
africans, 12th grade, africa, america,
Form: Free verse
Absence
Africa is very rich continent in the World
But many Africans die daily in Mediterranean sea
Sad to see how natural resources are robbing daily,
Evaluating the economy of African countries
None is closer to a poorest European Country
Complicating system which oparates to favour
EU Countries,their partners and wreck Africa.
February 25/2023
A forms and words challenge poetry
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Categories:
africans, 12th grade, africa, education,
Form: Acrostic
William Branham, Prophet To South Africans -
I
Paul warned his "son" Timothy, On Guard
In the end time, many false prophets disguised
Even as angels from heaven, will tickle ears
And many will be led astray; Jesus is "too much"
To take, one in Adelaide told me:
The Bible takes you that much, "eyes" that see
Know the apple was really a "sexual act" in Genesis 1
Brennan (Branham,
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Categories:
africans, betrayal, bible, conflict, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Africans Goliath Frog
goliath frog throws his tummy around
rainforest is where he is often found
snapping up shellfish blue
consuming littler frogs too
slurping up insects with nary a sound
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Categories:
africans, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
We Are Africans
Even with your electric guitar and your drums,
It cannot be compared to our skin made drums.
You still cherish the sound of our music and it value
Despite how hard you tried to make we live life as designed by you.
We are Africans and our history is not all about slavery,
Yeah! It a dark side that
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Categories:
africans, africa,
Form: ABC
Blackboy From a Lith Book of Tales For Kwakwekokou
BlackBoy
- From A Lith Book Of Tales; For Kwakwekokou -
Black boy Kokou
Black boy kwakwekokou Ngiog'i
Do know
Your black is beautiful and
Like me, you was never told
'The uniqueness of being Negroid.
Although being black is howbeit beautiful
We are the sole symbolism of everything evil.
Oh they know we are all kin;
Real rude boys
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Categories:
africans, abuse, africa, allusion, black
Form: Heroic Couplet
The Africans of Old
THE AFRICANS OF OLD.
The Africans of old
At night, slept and of Africa
For Africa they dreamt
Of a day to come
When Africans will be free
Uhuru Uhuru Uhuru
From every form of enslavement
And oppressions.
The Africans of old
In peace and harmony coexisted
mpende jirani yako kama unavyojipenda
Oh they knew how to live
For self and
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Categories:
africans, africa, allusion, black love,
Form: Didactic
Remembering Four Centuries of Africans In America
Fields where the bondman’s toil
No more shall trench the soil,
Seem now to bask in a serener day;
The meadow-birds sing sweeter, and the airs
Of heaven with more caressing softness play,
Welcoming man to liberty like theirs.
A glory clothes the land from sea to sea,
For the great land and all its coasts are free.
From “The Death of
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Categories:
africans, anniversary, celebration, history, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Africa For Africans
Africa for Africans
Down the rivers of the east
the soothing wind blows in our minds
shaking our busy brains to rest
making worthwhile living in Africa
bare wind of our own making
Africa of the winkled hands
white teeth under shiny dark skin
gold hearts of marvellous flesh
many but just one
we are the soil on the ground
In the rivers life water flows
down
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Categories:
africans, africa,
Form: Free verse
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