Best Mandela Poems
The Late Humorous Mandela
THE LATE HUMOROUS MANDELA
The late former President Nelson Mandela,
Was known as an extremely humorous fella,
A respected freedom fighter and leader,
Referred to her Majesty as Elizabeth, amusing many a reader.
ENTERED FOR EDUCATE ME WITH HUMOR – LEADER CLERIHEW POETRY CONTEST
24/1/2019
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Categories:
mandela, humor,
Form:
Clerihew
Mandela Effects
When iconic lines in classic
movies have been changed
And our world feels a bit
upside down and rearranged,
When all you thought you knew
seems wrong in memory,
The stars have moved to places
where they shouldn't be,
When you look for certain things
you can no longer find
"I don't think we're in Kansas
anymore, Toto" comes to...
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Categories:
mandela, mystery, time,
Form:
Couplet
Categories:
mandela, africa, celebrity, courage, goodbye,
Form:
Epic
Nelson Mandela
N – either one of his parents
E - nvisage the route he would take,
L - eaving behind the security of a place called home,
S - earching for that elusive freedom
O - nly a few had the joy to experience
N - ever shying away from a challenge
M - aking the decision to give up...
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Categories:
mandela, history, people, political
Form:
Acrostic
Madiba Is Dead: Nelson Mandela
Giant of justice has visited Baba Umkulukulu
The lion that gave in to wolves like sheep
To be sheered for our own freedom has died
Father of the black and white
Mentor and hero of freedom
Our own Madiba has died
Anti apartheid hero sleeps with grey hair
As we dress in sackcloth to mourn the great Lion
Rolihlahla Son...
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Categories:
mandela, africa, death,
Form:
Elegy
Nelson Mandela: Many Stumbles, No Mumbles
Each time I raise my gaze to the night sky,
A million stars stare back, shedding happy tears of light.
And I cannot but stare back in delight,
Wondering which one of them holds your great soul.
Tell me, Old Nelson, do they--these stars--still shine upon
you?
Heaven should grant that they do,
For like them your example still shines upon...
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Categories:
mandela, eulogy, forgiveness, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
Son of Madiba (Tribute To Nelson Mandela)
Who are you to dream of chains
And yet proclaim of victory
How do you lie in chains
And yet stand in liberty
When do you pay a debt
That must be paid
What makes you forgive a debt
That must be forgave
In a time of hostility
With the trembles of an oncoming war
You held it in and did not cry
As long before
Your...
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Categories:
mandela, black african american, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
For Nelson Mandela An Elegy
Aluta continua
Was that word another message replaced
And the room spun dark as web
The tree no longer walks the night
The bush is silent on the veld
Madiba has passed the lion sleeping
Has left the fruit falling
Has left the children walking by the light
Of stars
Like Biko, telling him to come
And the women crying in Soweto
Azania like a long...
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Categories:
mandela, death,
Form:
Elegy
Mandela
Sometimes vision breaks
stone walls and hardened hearts
and leads to freedom....
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Categories:
mandela, africa, inspiration,
Form:
Haiku
Nelson Mandela
Many born will choose paths in search of glory and fame
And after the dust has settled, not much value remains
Nelson “chose” with open eyes and a passion-filled heart
Despite physical pain and degradation,...
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Categories:
mandela, death, dedication, grief,
Form:
Acrostic
Nelson Mandela
There was once a MAN;
An Iroko in a forest of shrubs,
A dew pond in a desert.
There was once a MAN;
A moral compass in a world
Where power is noble,
And greed a creed.
There was once a MAN;
He silenced the gun,
Shattered prison bars,
Ascended the throne, armed
With love and forgiveness,
And made despots jelly.
There was once a MAN:
NELSON MANDELA!...
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Categories:
mandela, death of a friend,
Form:
Elegy
Mandela Effect
in the bayou state full of race
lies a culture with no face
colored fear and hatred paints
graffiti minds new orleans saints
mandela effect effects the mass
while garbage minds are filled with trash
a paradox rewrites the past
as stupidity aligns to last
the epox of a spiritual endeavor?
perhaps not...
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Categories:
mandela, absence,
Form:
ABC
A Tribute To Nelson Mandela
By applying policies of apartheid
Or practising racial discrimination
Who want themselves or their clan
To be seen above than the rest of the world
People of this globe throw them down
But the man instead of pulling himself up
Bring up all in the line of equality
People of this globe push his...
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Categories:
mandela, black african american, inspirational,
Form:
Ode To Nelson Mandela
How can such a mere mortal
Afford that contagious smile?
A smile of love and innocence
Smile of a man sans grudge
A smile that unites mankind
A haloed smile of great man
Whom the world deserves
A smile bringing hope to life
A smile of peace and tolerance
Treasured smile of an icon
Building bridges for humanity
A man who leads by love
Heroic smile of...
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Categories:
mandela,
Form:
Ode
Nelson Mandela
Unkosi Rholihlahla Mandela,
born into the Madiba clan in the village of Qunu
grow up in Mvezo in Umtata,Transkei
Dalibhunga, the prince of the Tembu tribe
son of umama Nonqaphi Nosekeni
son of Nkosi Hendry Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela
father of South African freedom
ward of Chief Jongintaba Dalindyebo
at the Great Place in Mqhekezweni
acting regent of the Thembu nation
boy from...
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Categories:
mandela, best friend, brother, father,
Form:
Free verse