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Best Savannas Poems

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Who Wrote This Poem
Consummated under sheets of inspiration,
Conceived in cryptic dreams,
Created from cloudy concentrations,
The words flowed onto a wrinkled sheet of paper.

I concealed the verse under my pillow,
Entombed...

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Categories: savannas, on writing and words
Form: Free verse



Monsters
We can try to hide it
Most will attempt to push the thoughts down
We’re not naturally virtuous creatures
It’s quite the contrary - we’re monsters deep down

From...

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Categories: savannas, angst, anxiety, beautiful, change,
Form: Rhyme
I AM AFRICA
I am Africa, the cradle of mankind,
Where ancient footprints in the sands of time entwined,
The birthplace of humanity, divinely designed,
In my esteemed valleys, where life...

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Categories: savannas, africa, nature, society, visionary,
Form: Quatrain
The Land of the Brave
Drink the Namibia Countryside 

Namibia a West African country, on the Atlantic coast
Namibia’s beauty is wonderfully surreal and alluring,
With endless savannah and bushland 
With most...

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Categories: savannas, addiction, animal, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Name
Premium Member Vanishing Animals
(African populations are being killed off by war,
famine, disease, and neglect...when will we try to help them?)

Time,
stretching out, encompasses curtains,
on distant savannas, of shimmering heat.
And...

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Categories: savannas, angst, life, loss, natural
Form: Free verse



Zealous Zebra
The zealous zebra
Roams in savannas and eats
Grass - white stripes shimmer...

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Categories: savannas, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
Care For Mother Earth and Her Everything
Spare a thought
For buffaloes, bulls and bears groaning, mourning, starving
Under your collar don’t blow hot
Making rivers and rodents sad, carving 

Space and time you don’t...

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Categories: savannas, poems,
Form: Free verse
Oh Africa
OH !AFRICA.

Alone  I stand  on  foreign  land,
My  home  is  here, my  heart  not  true,
Oh !...

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Categories: savannas, absence, adventure, longing, missing,
Form: Narrative
Hidden Treasure
It`s always inspiring to be strong in appearance,
Brave to catch up the essentiality of the sun.
How marvelous the wind blows to beat the sensations as...

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Categories: savannas, adventure, analogy,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Baboons
Watch out all you kiddies
Or I'll bite off your face
I'm a nasty baboon
It's my favourite taste

I'm usually quite cranky
Not a happy old soul
Chew on dead...

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Categories: savannas, nature, old, old,
Form: Quatrain
There Was a Giraffe
There was a giraffe
living somewhere in the savannas
a nightmare was its confusing life
laughable its appearance
   Bits of its head dotted the body
the tail...

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Categories: savannas, animal, fairy, irony,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member A Bed of Hay
A Bed of Hay

Across the fields a long time ago,
Where sparrows flew and lilies grew,
I skipped in play, oblivious to hate
And ran with the wind...

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Categories: savannas, africa, america, history, racism,
Form: Sonnet
Picky
Picky child I was
before & still am as
I’m writing this
picky, petite poem –

I am different
now…I’ve changed for
the better, though
it was a challenging
chore
Clever and cheery
teenager I...

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Categories: savannas, adventure, africa, animal, appreciation,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member One People, One Love
A classroom of wonders of earth and space
Eons ago a few hundred, the human race
Mankind comes out of African Savannas of gold
One color, one people,...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: savannas, analogy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Forgotten Breeze
Soft and tangible nature caresses my skin
as if to comfort me in its own sorrow;
a soothing sound
soaring over the savannas.

Silky ripples in the tall grass
appear...

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Categories: savannas, nature, wind, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things