Best Madagascar Poems

"Madagascar Sky"

When Kusi becomes Kaskazi,
Mozambique current sings,
My ship will so then fly,
Toward a Madagascar sky.

I'll run her 'cross waves gone lost,
Come from far offshore.
Down such coast no man has seen,
Here nor e'er before.

Songs a'feather bow to weather,
Beneath a silken sky.
Sail down to Cape or 'round,
To...

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An old nincompoop from Madagascar
Bought a jalopy and entered NASCAR
  He avoided the crashes
  Drove around all the smashes
Too bad he bought a slow not a fast car

The race over, the old fellow was sad
To finish in last place hurt him real bad
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Madagascar land
rich island of true wild lives
land of rare wonders...

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The elders speak of a special healer
In their times of trouble
Their country was overrun by "others"
And women and children felt frustrations
Men could not vent upon Occupiers
In their slavery to others, cruelty ruled
And one widow, or outcast wife, suffered
More than others. she had a disease
Not leprosy,...

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Madagascar where did you go
For weeks you came to my picnic
My sanctuary 
Unceremoniously and unwanted
And mostly uninvited 
Like the proverbial red ants
Like a lover I once knew
Everyday ... there you were
A lemur
A chameleon 
Perched on my blanket of poetry 
Staring with those curious eyes
Yearning for...

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Take me to Madagascar, I said.
The time travel machine turned a brilliant red.
Pushed down hard on the acceleration ped,
We were soon at Archipelago’s head.

I thought these animals were all dead.
Said Cousin Pete, who is totally unread.
Did not know where to start, where to first tread.
Madagascar...

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Madagascar is home to the weird
strange inhabitants found nowhere else
on this planet or thousands of others
tenrecs scatter themselves among the vegetation

They have a reputation for being striped or plain
some might have spots or ruffles
Tenrecs are diverse, some looking like hedgehogs
others evolving with different traits

they evolve...

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Wild life some guard with their last drop of blood,
Save God should want to waste it with fierce flood:
I have in mind white men, sometimes, funny,
Quick to buy strange theatre with money…

Arrest and imprisonment for poachers.
They would no longer sell to keen butchers;
Hard labor behind...

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