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Premium Member David Livingstone
Long, long ago and longer
When I was but a child
I read of Doctor Livingstone
Who ventured in the wild.
Dr. David had no fear
He went where few...

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Categories: livingstone, adventure, history,
Form: Epic



Dr Livingstone Presumed
A man with a mission in land afar
To take his faith, become a star
And show the Afrikan the straight and narrow
Highlight slavery and end its...

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Categories: livingstone, africa,
Form: Rhyme
Stanley, An American, Recounts His Meeting With Livingstone
I’m like, “Yo!”,
and he’s like, “Woh!”,
and I’m like, “Good to meet,”
and he’s like, “Real neat,”
and I’m like, “Jungle sucks,”
and he’s like, “It’s big bucks,”
and I’m...

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Categories: livingstone, history,
Form: Couplet
Livingstone
When Livingstone got back to quarters
It was time to pay off his porters
His account was in London, no branch was nearer
So each man got a...

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© Kit Webbe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: livingstone, africa, humor,
Form: Clerihew
Maya Angelou
Doctor Maya Angelou the writer
Maya Angelou the actor
Maya Angelou the poet
The singer that was Maya Angelou
That Black lady
With silk smooth voice
Like silk smiling under the...

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Categories: livingstone, death, memory,
Form: Free verse



David Porcher
David scored the only, first goal,
In the first match against Brazil, 
The host nation of Paralympics,
All his guts and grit he did spill. 

From Livingstone...

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Categories: livingstone, football, sports, strength,
Form: Rhyme
The Lone Seagull
The Lone Seagull

Lone Seagull flying
gliding in the gentle wind
on a lonely night

With only the moon
to light his path as he flies
in search of the truth

How...

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Categories: livingstone, flying, freedom, solitude,
Form: Haiku
Dance African Queen
You are an African Queen.
Let your roots be the glow over your brazen soul. 
You are peculiar to the soil.	
Peculiar to a continent that holds...

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Categories: livingstone, africa, pride, race,
Form: Free verse
59th Minute
Its the last minute of the 11th hour
I have seen a demon wondering searching for a soul
A priest coveting the ass of another man's woman...

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Categories: livingstone, africa, allah, allegory, angel,
Form: Lyric
The Murder of Civilisation
An Englishman lost in afternoon tea,
Memories of a lotus flower love
Rajas and elephants in Delhi
Livingstone the explorer
Religion to convert

Laurence of Arabia
A leader of men
The Boers...

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Categories: livingstone, patriotic, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Inner Strength
For Achilles it was his wounded heel
For Sampson his cut off hair
For me I would loss my inner strength
If you were no longer there

Like Stanley...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: livingstone, love,
Form: Rhyme
Teasingly Tasteful
What a stunning body
More pleasing on the eye than you’ll ever know
A selection of voluptuous curves and pleasing undulations
So scintillating and gorgeous like an alpine...

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Categories: livingstone, adventure, crush, desire, for
Form: Light Verse
3fabel3 Part Two
The day was almost over the length of shadows added to the horror the suicided 
failure as eye kicked the step away from the very...

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Categories: livingstone, depression, sad, science fiction,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Life Used To Be
My life used to be a journey.  The destination of my journey was heaven and the current 
landscape mattered not.  
Now my life...

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Categories: livingstone, introspection, nostalgia, me, people,
Form: Free verse
Spotted
A teapot clapping is a fish bowl clucking and an irrespective thought can be as cloudy as a drop of ink on a page. Beware...

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Categories: livingstone, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?

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