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Bushman Poems - Poems about Bushman

Bantu
...A couple dancing waltz - A walking bushman swinging with his tucker bag Philippine map - An inverted y March 29, 2023 Write BANTUs Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Suzanne Delaney......

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Categories: bushman, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Khonshu, Moon God
...During times of ancient civilization, Khonshu was a god of Celestial Heliopolis, worshipped by Egyptians. He once posed as a human pharaoh then ascended into the role of god of the moon. Khonshu, ......

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Categories: bushman, fantasy,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member The Beauty
...The beauty Of Namatjira White haired Bark painter's Of fish Wandjina Feathered man Full sunset Corroboree Pintubi Dancers In watercourse Colours Of hills And rangers Near Henbury Or......

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Categories: bushman, art, courage, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lost Art
...loss As substitute teacher for a week, Montgomery County Maryland (School district, at Greencastle school)*$* I took my newest African themed art, and my Lilacs At week's end, I rushed off with many items to car Forgot my precious art (one titled Xhabbo, "Bushman") The regular teacher knew nothing of the African pieces Only my lilacs and odd floral efforts were returned I hope I can both forgive and forget; travel has cost Art and some precious be......

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Categories: bushman, anger, angst, art,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Moon Knight-
...Moon night! Full quarter, half-moon snow bright; Mid-day, mid noon, such a boom; a Moon lit Knight; Son of a Jewish Rabbi; Birth given name Marc Spector; Was a professional boxer? ......

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Categories: bushman, adventure, analogy, character, hero,
Form: Bio



Slavery and Reparations All Done
...SLAVERY AND REPARATIONS I am a descendant of slaves - from India! Anyone who demands REPARATIONS shake & quake at my words Competition? So, we have competing tales of bondage? The Jewish people's......

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Categories: bushman, africa, america, analogy, black
Form: Bio
Last Resort
...All me life I’ve been a bushman who lived mostly in a city with dodging cars and sleazy bars and no-one showing pity. A city is a concrete jungle, divvied by ribbons of tar, and everyone must watc......

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Categories: bushman, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Bushman Among the Buses
...Upon the orange rock The sun beating mercilessly down, Is now replaced by Relentless rain Pelting on pavements in the town. Brushing through the bush with stick in hand, Rifle o......

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Categories: bushman, adventure, change, childhood, culture,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Quiet Camp
...Give me A quiet camp In a remote national park Any day Over a caravan park Where the snakes Bake quietly And roo's abound Fleeting qlimpse'es Of things between the gums And dingos howl F......

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Categories: bushman, animal, silence, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Outback Souls
...Close 'round the crackling fire we three, with sweet acacia in the air - tell stories of Gallipoli and digger's bond of friendship there. We laughed and shared like family with roof and walls......

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Categories: bushman, eulogy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Scary Bushman
...Got haircut today, like a whole new man Resembled a bushman, people stared then ran Considered me dangerous Coz of my strangeness But still gentle as a lamb, not a scary bushman......

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Categories: bushman, confidence,
Form: Limerick
Our Ned
...As much at home on his horse as in his swag the wounded bushman was the bushranger Ned.......

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Categories: bushman, life,
Form: Free verse
They Said
...They Said Don’t talk when big people are talking Leave their presence now, start walking Be a good boy don’t ever backchat Greet a big person, take off your hat You got bushman blood, hair’s......

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Categories: bushman, appreciation,
Form: ABC
Impotency
...This poem is written with a fair of Jamaican Patois but I hope you all get the drift. Cow Cock Soup Boy things a get bad, really sad. Went to bed last night Mi wife feeling fruity Mi eye......

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Categories: bushman, allusion, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Roses of Humanity
...Burn the bush and eat the fruit. Take everything you can from this life. It’s not meant to last And you came first Rules of the desert Leave the dead and wounded behind. Bushman, atavistic war......

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Categories: bushman, beauty, betrayal, death,
Form: Free verse

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