Best Pretoria Poems
Good Night PretoriaThe 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 WhyTshwane 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 TodayAnil
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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Categories:
pretoria, 12th grade, anti bullying,
Form:
ABC
Nora Is Getting PoorerI 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