Backwardness Poems - Poems about Backwardness

...Fieldwork is stellar, sexy, or strenuous and sad Talking values, prolonging childhood Is not for the faint hearted among S. Africa's "Coloured" My "township" boasts about acting backward Using wa......Read the rest...

...Being in the mind of a savage. All I know is how to act ferociously. Manipulating the minds of the weak, fearful, and the victims. Beating them into submissive. Emasculating the strongest, just......Read the rest...

...I In South Africa, one can avoid Online poetry But I did not as easily in America (USA) I couldn't believe I could stay away months But some of you have, or longer still The reunions are delicio......Read the rest...

...Mwizi! Mwizi! Mwizi! Shika uyooooo 2am habitual I toss my sheets stand by the window They all speak at once ''Achomweee....'' I wear my walkies and switch my lights I scrunch my nose Freezi......Read the rest...

...We live in a world Where all things are moving Where nothing halts Where nothing turns back Where all that it is is noise We live in a world Broken souls grace the streets Hopeless lives is......Read the rest...

...At this very moment lost in life, predictability Mind is a mess chaos reigns, steadfastness Fighting with myself shut out, convertibility Not through lack of confidence, faithlessn......Read the rest...

...Turkish Poetry Translations I Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable" by Attila Ilhan translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch You are indispensable; how can you not know tha......Read the rest...

...Had we have enough but day This quagmire were no crime We would keep mum and forget which train To board to crush our multifarious pains You by the Atlantic Ocean’s sides Should we find: pulli......Read the rest...

...Mehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish Na......Read the rest...

...Dancing There is dancing On the ground floor of earth Eternally grateful by the beauty I am sophisticated heart investor Flora to flora Fauna to fauna I am seeking the lessons of body No nu......Read the rest...

...R Roseta is famous now, Italian town, beautifully "backward" O Okinawa, Japan, shared health wonders with Roseta S Science proves both sides: Lonely folks "smoke" 15 cigarettes E Even when they a......Read the rest...

...Ignorance is a talking drum Ignorance is a drum of backwardness Like a clock with low battery Moving anti - clock wise......Read the rest...

...after Odumegwu Ojukwu after Chinua Achebe after Christopher Okigbo after Dele Giwa after Kofi Awoonor after Kwame Nkrumah after Ngugi Wa Thiong'o after Nelson Mandela after Wole Soyinka ......Read the rest...

...carving their names on the world’s flesh like scars, they won’t waste their breath on the news of dead men. if there are things humans should learn, it is how to leave their emotions out of the eq......Read the rest...

...Rise Rise! Rising to embrace the stars in far space I rise because I Am A star Sparkling Through All limitations just to keep Rising Even in my darkest hour I rise Go ahead......Read the rest...