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Best Sierra Leone Poems

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Sierra Leone - a Long Way Gone Book By Ishmael Baeh
South province where Mattru jong is located!
    
Intriguing issues as a young boy!
    
Escaped from drugs and the war!
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Categories: sierra leone, adventure, black african american,
Form: ABC



Some of Sierra Leone
Sierra 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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© Lynn Dolly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sierra leone, africa, fear, political, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Whips of History - 4
Injustice 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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Categories: sierra leone, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Charity Jump
Insanity 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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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sierra leone, fear, me,
Form: Rhyme
A Planet of Pain
Kids 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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© Wes Martin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sierra leone, conflict, corruption, humanity, hurt,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ebola
Ebola

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
Mother Africa
Oh! Mother Africa!
From the East to the West, from the North to the South of     
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Categories: sierra leone, courage, peace, mother, africa,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Amistad Mutiny
The 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 Reflection
The 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
Premium Member A Taxing Situation
The 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 Tree
I 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 Rhyming
The 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
Premium Member Child Abuse
Wales 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 Better
we 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 Syndrome
Macho 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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© Lynn Dolly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sierra leone, nature, political, men, men,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things