Best Bantu Poems
Below are the all-time best Bantu poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bantu poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
bantu, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Bantu 2a butterfly alights upon my hand
an ethereal insight completes my verse
BANTU an imagist couplet Each line a compete idea,the 2nd however constrasts with a complementary...
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Categories:
bantu, inspiration, nature, poetry,
Form:
Couplet
African RhythmI am....
An Ashanti warrior A Bantu dancer
I am a Yoruba royal clothed in my Asooke
Dancing Adowa and kpalogo to tunes from wulomei and...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, beautiful, black love,
Form:
Free verse
I'Ve Got Fire In My SoulI know what it means
To go to bed without food
To go to school without shoes
To yearn for Eqaul Education
to free your mind
Just to...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, class, courage, growth,
Form:
Alliteration
The Story of AfricaThe story unfolds
darkness today
but tomorrow it will be day
We might not see but we sure know
Poverty is not the story of Africa
not this blinding darkness...
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Categories:
bantu, africa,
Form:
Classicism
Identity ApplesIdentity Apples
iam a fat skeleton, resurrecting
from the sad memories of dada
and dark mysteries of aminism
iam buganda
i bleed hope
i drip the...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, analogy, anxiety, assonance,
Form:
Didactic
African SilenceAfrican silence
Since when have you been speaking?
Like a thunder you have been
In which language have you been teaching?
Like a master you had seen
My son saying...
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Categories:
bantu, abuse, africa, conflict, culture,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Developing Like a Distant RunnerIncredible in nature, diverse in settlement
a home to the big five beasts
and a constant retailer to glory takers
of distance running in the global games event.
The...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, community, earth, nature,
Form:
Ode
The Rain-Bow NationHey!
are
you
a
Zulu?
Am
a
Bushman...no
you
are
a
Bantu,a
Bantu
or
Hottentots?
Maybe
an
Afrikaner. ...
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Categories:
bantu, hate, inspiration, inspirational, satire,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Whips of History - 3We will be the trustees of life's passions...
The villas of villainous Rome are burning behind me
from Capua to the Cisalpine Alps the skyline is smoldering...
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Categories:
bantu, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A Letter To SteveDear Steve,
My vigor is exhausted as a revolutionary with a cause
My spirit is trapped in a dwindling dream
By capitalist creams
Enticing my mental stream
A forgotten...
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Categories:
bantu, freedom, history, political, tribute,
Form:
Epitaph
Categories:
bantu, father
Form:
Haiku
Who Cares For YouWealth brings many friends , but a poor man 's friend deserts him.
Proverb 19:4
Who cares for you?
When we separate with good people
We...
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Categories:
bantu, 12th grade, care, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
My CursesI curse away one head to stabilize the thinking,I curse away the set of eyes that forever fall from the face to set a clear...
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Categories:
bantu, patriotic, political,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
bantu, life,
Form:
Rhyme