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Best Bantu Poems

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Bantu
My mother's footsteps,
A howling wind.


March 29, 2023....

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Categories: bantu, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bantu 2
a 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 Rhythm
I 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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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bantu, africa, beautiful, black love,
Form: Free verse
I'Ve Got Fire In My Soul
I 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 Africa
The 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 Apples
Identity 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 Silence
African 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
Premium Member Developing Like a Distant Runner
Incredible 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 Nation
Hey!
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
Premium Member The Whips of History - 3
We 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 Steve
Dear 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
Daddy
Cynic unknown bantu baptize daily.
Daddy fatback dough friends maker.
Songs harmony hardy....

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Categories: bantu, father
Form: Haiku
Who Cares For You
Wealth 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 Curses
I 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
For the Love
This is for the love…                    ...

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Categories: bantu, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs