African Beauty Poems

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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#hosh_kharamaima 
Have you seen my wife?
I mean these floral petals, 
wrapped in her aura.
Like sun-kissed morning breeze,
Soothing ones mind, to it's gist.

On my wrist, time...

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Look at me, I am the same as them.
Eyes like his, eyes like hers, knowing all they see.
Nose wide, skilled, same as his nose, same...

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BLACK BEAUTIES

 beauty is of god,
 thus is the night and my blackness;
 his and nature's gems:-...

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I am a son of the dark continent
By conception and ancestral offshoot 
This black earth,
Where my dark ancestors deposited 
The birth right of my life...

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Okay, here’s a shot at those lyrics, aiming for that Prince-meets-Brandy-ballad-with-a-Usher-hook vibe. I've opted for an AABB rhyme scheme with some internal rhymes to add...

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Verse 1:

Pretty brown eyes, you know I see you,

Across the crowded room, a silent cue,

A flicker of something, a hidden desire,

Burning slow, fueled by the...

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(Verse 2 - B) I'm feelin' like a queen, got the crown on my head Got the music playin', got the love in my bed...

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A heart so pure, a soul so bright, Seeks a love that's free from worldly night. No smoke, no flames, no haze to blind, Just...

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#African_melanin
From a distance, I was captured, in me a flame lit, curiosity stroke my urge, in my body, suspense strangled me, dying of heat, waiting...

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#I_am_an_African
I am an African elephant grazing far away, the colors are the complex birds of the west. Don't look at my disabilities, or my skills...

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A glistening sun-baked day
Blue sky reverberates into deeper blue
Light shimmers in pixels 
A yellow butterfly flutters against the petals of a flower,
Like a piece of...

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From nowhere to somewhere
undefined to infinity comes son of soil
that makes something out of nothing.
There comes a black giant that spread it's wings to save...

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In the vast and verdant landscape of African literature, a constellation of luminous stars once shone bright, their radiant light illuminating the complexities of a...

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Mama Africa; beauty is oneness

So much love she have got to share, pure she's just like gold

Her glowing black skin so unique and alluring;

Attracting, healing,...

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