Best Bantus Poems
A row of birds on the power line
Workers queue for rush hour buses
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Write Bantus Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzanne Delaney
Placed 1st
© 26th March 2023
From dawn to dusk, a changing sky,
A gecko finds another hue
3-22-2023
Write Bantus Poetry Contest
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Murmuration of starlings
Drone swarm light show
30 Mar 2023
Written Bantus Poetry
Contest Sponsor: Suzanne Dalaney
French military in the genocide of rwanda,
When African youths claim the departure of European militaries because of atrocities in Africa.
In 1994 when rwandan tutsi rebels were in negotiation
with the rwandan government ,french soldiers
were sent for so called protection
which was a special criminal mission
to destabilise central Africa region
and ended up dividing DRCongo.
French military found occasion
to start their criminal mission
when two African head of states were from the meeting
in one government aircraft which could land down
at the airport of Kigali where they were camping.
French military shot surface - to - air missiles
as the jet prepared to land in Kigali.
Presidents of burundi and rwanda died.
Their criminal mission of destabilising that part of Africa succeeded as tribal war did rise up.
some western media panicked people about the death
of the presidents.
The tutsi rebels were supported by the french military
to change the regime which was the plan of many westerners.
some civilians hutus( Bantus) and Tutsis ( Nilotic) killed each others.
It was genocide provoked by the killers
of the heads of states.
Many lies flew here and there about the hutus to kill
the tutsi as long as they killed each others
and that was the plan of the trouble makers.
Rwandan hutus were blackmailed to be genocideurs
when Kagame pointed french government officials
to be the masterminds of the criminal plans
from A to Z in rwanda, burundi and Congo.
So french government and other westerners protected Kagame to not appear to ICC because he denounced
them publicly.
The African young leaders have nothing to do with
the french and American militaries
on African lands
as they are not for peace
in Africa.
August 8/2023
Police lady kneels in prayer for peace* against echoing bombshells
Babe sleeps midst quietude inside mother’s womb.
*Philippians 4:7 ...The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
March 28, 2023
3RD PLACE, "Write BANTUs" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Suzanne Delaney; judged on 4/6/2023
"Two-line Bantu (or Abantu) poetry developed from the Bantu people of Africa (speakers of the Swahili, Kinyarwand, Kirundi, Zulu, Xhosa and other related languages). It arose from the oral tradition of “call and response.” In the rhythm of their work and perhaps in the spirit of a game or to relieve boredom, people would call out to each other. The first speaker called out a line that contained an image. A second speaker replied using a second image. This second image was meant to function as an elaboration or metaphor of the first."
Neighbor's gossip carried like stones in the wind.
Glass houses shatter.
3/22/23
Contest: Write Bantus Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzanne Delaney
He tips his hat at the sidewalk sales.
A snowman bids farewell.
Write Bantus Poetry Contest
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March 26, 2023
How important is
It to know your history?
African's Hidden treasures
Right
and
Wrong
Eyes"
Some bantus
Fought each other for lands
From eighteenth centuries
More African Kings and Chiefs
Princes and princesses
Lost their lives.
African's Hidden Treasures
It was the hidden history
of Malawi that was
recently published
for all Malawians
In the world
And
Other nations
To read.
Right and Wrong Eyes
It is the naked
Truth that has been exposed
To continue exposing the lies
And discrimination of some tribes
In Malawi.
Some Scottish missonaires
Came to establish Churches
And some colonisers
were behind the priests
To develop colony
Secretly
With the support of some
Western business people
And the Kings
Some African Chiefs
And Kings
Who welcomed them
Started to regret
After many bad
Reports from
Their people.
Ignorance always
Goes astray,
The book plays
A major role
In the Unity
Of Malawians
And
Africans
In general
As many Malawians
Zambians, Tanzanians,
South Africans, Mozambicans
Zimbabweans, Congolese
Do not understand
Themselves because
They do not know this history.
Don't hesitate to google
"African's Hidden Treasure,
Right and Wrong Eyes"
Amazon.com app
Welcomes you
April 12/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
Shadows shimmer on Spring day stroll.
Tree branches fall on sun-bathed pavement.
3/24/2023
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Geese flying in V formation
on the clothes line – my sweater flaps in the breeze
March 25, 2023
For Suzanne Delaney's Write Bantus Poetry Contest
Snowflakes fall, spinning, swirling twirling, whirling.
A flurry of ballet dancers in gauzy white dresses.
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March 23, 2023
Poetry/Bantu
Copyright Protected, ID 03-1533-953-23
All Rights Reserved, 2023, Constance La France
Written for the Standard contest, Bantus
sponsor, Suzanne Delaney, Judged 04/06/2023
Second Place
Young shoots around a tree
Disciples sitting with their teacher
Placed : 2nd
Write BANTUs Poetry Contest
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Date: 24-03-2023
The doors of the crowded train open
The spillways of the dam are unlocked.
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March 24, 2023
Contest : Write Bantus
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Fireflies glowing as they pass in the night
Glittering and glimmering – softest starlight
Write BANTUs Poetry Contest
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March 26, 2023
A tricolor flag flutters in the air
Freedom finds its own wings
March 31,2023
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