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Assegai Poems - Poems about Assegai


Doubling Cape Horn
...Doubling Cape Horn is live or die. Waves as high as thirty meters Mean as a Zulu’s assegai Well known down there as hell greeters We be seamen every last one For us passage is good as done......

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Categories: assegai, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Praise Lord
...Praise Lord Let your mind frizz not, in the evil flash of thoughts. Embrace within. Light of night, his key is king. Lock road with joy. Neither nor eyes blind switch. Seek name let all ......

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Categories: assegai, destiny, earth day, future,
Form: Blank verse



They Came
...The plain was flat, wild, and desolate They came when I, a San, was digging up a root. There were three They were brown Xhosa, bigger than me. Though they spoke in a tongue I did not know I knew that......

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Categories: assegai, history, me,
Form: Verse
Canvey Island Summers 1951-1957
...Each time my Auntie Rosa went to shop in the High Street, She’d bring us back a pink-iced bun; it was our special treat. We’d take them up to Grandad’s (we preferred to eat them there) We’d scoff ......

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Categories: assegai, childhood, nostalgiahouse, old, garden,
Form: Narrative

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