Best Bushmen Poems

...Easter Bunnies

Easter bunnys bellies burning ,
From the poison virus mate,
Aussie farmers want him murdered ,
For every blade of grass he takes,

Have you seen a mattry eyed, blind bunny,......

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The Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert grow up listening to the stars…
and feeling the joy their music brings….
but for most of us the stars are silent…we have never heard them sing.

Nor can we ta......

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...Villanelle: Stringent laws only serve to constrict the heart to hate
                   
     For all Eric Garners who went down breathless

Stringent laws only serve to constrict our hearts t......

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...THE SANDS OF TIME

We stop-- unquestioning the expertise of our Game ranger
focused--examining sand and road for tracks
Uncomprehending, we ponder waiting for clues he may disclose –the l......

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...Characterized by the early settlement
of the San Bushmen of the Kalahari.
Its patriotic sentiments of profound bravery
echos the nation’s long struggle for independence
well articulated a......

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...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part ***

IF you pull a long querulous face
At the way Life makes you dire pay
For doubts and questions slaps your face
Fear keeps you from getting out-of-here

If......

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...In the land down under, where the hot sun melts
Into the ocean, there exists a quiet splendor,
Of nature's beauty frozen in a stilled silence.
A world of unspoiled grace, protected by it's people,
An......

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May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophische......

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...I have a friend with no bound’ries, no corners,
Preferring to just sleep around,
If he should vanish, I know where I’ll find him,
For sure, a new girlfiend he’s found.

As a lover, I know, he is......

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...I am Monday on a Friday,

Who knew the stars aligned to sing us through the pangs of life and eternity?
A thing called life in a language in a dialect that is as probable and functional as the cli......

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...Part I.    
The organized church, whether Catholic or not, 
Probably kills more people's faith than Satan.
Its grand pomp and circumstance all 'tommy rot, '
And designed solely to up ‘the gate' b......

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...You raided our dreadful slums
And sniffed us out of our homes
You vomited on our skin
And called us names like ‘bushmen’
You stripped us naked 
And buckled up your coats
You stole our gold
And......

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...“All their comings and their goings were so closely scrutinised 
as the prosecution’s trump card was the evidence they prized.  
Though the wily prosecutor gathered facts to build his case,  
some......

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...Slaphappy monkeys swinging from trees to trees
Cartwheeling giraffes heads nodding in the breeze
Burly sea lions chasing sperm whales in the seas
A menagerie of animals dancing as they please

B......

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