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Best Africana Poems

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Africana
Africana, a poem that details the pre - colonial, colonial and post -colonial Africa, her rich history, struggles and  unique cultural heritage in a...

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Categories: africana, africa, black love, books,
Form: Prose Poetry



Afrocentric
Africana, Serengeti kaleidoscopes
I painted with Zebra isotopes
 My ethnicity abounds from my
 afro follicles.
 Black fruit with pink middle 
 My garden cultivates Nubian yokes
forever...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: africana, black african american, pride,
Form: Free verse
South Saharan Sunset
The setting sun smears the western clouds orange
Africana sunset hue
A Full moon rises on the east
And steals its way stealthily up the heavens
A portable portrait...

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© Shem Chege  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: africana, beautiful, beauty, color, earth,
Form: Free verse
Intellectual Desperado
INTELLECTUAL DESPERADO

Dear desperado,
Knowledge awaits you tomorrow,
If you painstakingly throw 
And expedite yourself like an arrow.
Though your foresight looks narrow,

Don't leave your mind incommunicado 
Or famished...

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Categories: africana, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Desperate
Desperate, just to watch that beautiful face 
Oh!my Africana Girl full of perky 
Desperate, I'm desperate just to watch 
The fine furl of your beautiful...

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Categories: africana, love,
Form: Free verse



small is good
small is good

There are not many big elephants left on the savannah
Near the houses where I live elephants are a bit smaller
nature did this for...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: africana, 6th grade, beach, dance,
Form: Blank verse
Loxodonta reduced
Loxodonta reduced 


There are no big elephants anymore near where I live
you might have one or two on the savannah, but the new
modern elephants are...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: africana, abuse, africa, america, angel,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things