Best Sierra Leone Poems
Below are the all-time best Sierra Leone poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sierra leone poems written by PoetrySoup members
Sierra Leone - a Long Way Gone Book By Ishmael BaehSouth province where Mattru jong is located!
Intriguing issues as a young boy!
Escaped from drugs and the war!
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sierra leone, adventure, black african american,
Form:
ABC
Some of Sierra LeoneSierra Leone
Imagine being a kid
Running for your life
Behind you explodes a bomb
Feet splash in mud,
Diamonds hidden in your teeth
Rightfully yours
This is your home
Everything...
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Categories:
sierra leone, africa, fear, political, drug,
Form:
Free verse
The Whips of History - 4Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives
a signal upon their...
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sierra leone, history, passion, poetry,
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Crown of Sonnets
The Charity JumpInsanity enters my distorted simple mind
To raise funds for charity for some unknown,
Impulsive, heroic, death defying, maligned
Save children or animals or even Sierra Leone...
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Categories:
sierra leone, fear, me,
Form:
Rhyme
A Planet of PainKids dying for diamonds in Sierra Leone,
Innocent civilians killed in Iraq’s warzone.
Indigenous tribes removed from their lands,
Children in the Congo losing legs and hands.
Arms companies...
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Categories:
sierra leone, conflict, corruption, humanity, hurt,
Form:
Rhyme
EbolaEbola
August in twenty fourteen
A sign of death upon the screen
West Africa - Liberia,
Sierra Leone - now Nigeria
A swathe of death - a swift nasty...
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Categories:
sierra leone, africa, confusion, faith, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
sierra leone, courage, peace, mother, africa,
Form:
Light Verse
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains...
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Categories:
sierra leone, africa, america, history, racism,
Form:
Verse
A Summer In ReflectionThe morning sun hovers coyly
behind broad shoulders of the John Crow Mountain
before unwrapping petals of fever plant and Venice.
Mama’s countenance was far contrast to one...
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Categories:
sierra leone, childhoodold, children, morning, old,
Form:
Lyric
A Taxing SituationThe hoopla of Christmas has come and gone
The checkbook for that spree is overdrawn
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Categories:
sierra leone, funnyme,
Form:
Limerick
Under the Mango TreeI ask for answers to my problem around midday, carpenters nailing tables beyond their voices. Thinkers building fence of gold, wiping the devil under the...
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Categories:
sierra leone, allusion, anger, confidence,
Form:
ABC
The RhymingThe cost of living collided to the sky and plus claustrophobia minus class of cloud equal to clerk count to countries and Kiribati. I live...
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Categories:
sierra leone, art, beautiful, inspirational,
Form:
ABC
Child AbuseWales 980 BC, Sierra Leone, Congo,Niger, Peru, India, Pakistan, Russia, China & Philippines
Chapped scabbed skin, dirt encrusted, blue-pallid in the moonlight;
stars glow radiant light,...
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Categories:
sierra leone, child,
Form:
Verse
If They Knew Better They'D Do Betterwe are all built for hell but some have made modification to adjust their placement and still they have miles to go before their finished...
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Categories:
sierra leone, black african american, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Macho Man SyndromeMacho Man Sydrome
Women may have PMS,
But men have MMS
Macho Man Syndome
Not all men have this,
Plenty do and it makes life seem hard to exist
From Oil...
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Categories:
sierra leone, nature, political, men, men,
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I do not know?