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Best Pretoria Poems


Good Night Pretoria
The sun kneels to kiss the 
skyscrapers
The Darkness floats above like 
clouds
And those homeless become 
accidental campers
Setting their plastic beds on the 
cold floors

These black concrete rivers
Flood with moving lights
And its banks are swarmed 
With men who’s faces lulled 
Locked in deep thought

As the night...

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Categories: pretoria, life, night, urban,
Form: Rhyme
Tshwane Hey Pretoria Why
Tshwane WHY?

Tshwane residents act right, you are not presidents....
its by default i utter the norms and values of a black community
we are presidents in our own thoughts but we fail to rule our own homes
its by accident that i step into thoughts that search those...

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Categories: pretoria, africa,
Form: Narrative
Who Am I Today
Anil
Blessed before
Confounded (by Tenant Thieves &) courts
Deo doesn't dare doubt (Jesus now)
Eyes Eternity-ward: F A I T H...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pretoria, 12th grade, anti bullying,
Form: ABC

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Nora Is Getting Poorer
I feel for next-house Nora
Getting poorer and poorer:
A plant facing stem borer
While she seems a goal scorer 
Her idle hours rarer 
State of things not fairer...

Nora's younger: Victoria
Is doing well in Pretoria
And her cousin Eugenia
Sure to become engineer ;
In South Africa clever
And there could live...

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Categories: pretoria, absence, allusion, cry, money,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things