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Bushmen Poems - Poems about Bushmen


Premium Member RABBIT EXPERIMENT
... The Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert grow up listening to the stars… and feeling the joy their music brings…. but for most of us the stars are silent…we have never heard them sing. Nor can we ta......

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Categories: bushmen, earth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Menagerie of Animals
...Slaphappy monkeys swinging from trees to trees Cartwheeling giraffes heads nodding in the breeze Burly sea lions chasing sperm whales in the seas A menagerie of animals dancing as they please B......

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Categories: bushmen, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Monorhyme



Apocalypse
...You raided our dreadful slums And sniffed us out of our homes You vomited on our skin And called us names like ‘bushmen’ You stripped us naked And buckled up your coats You stole our gold And......

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Categories: bushmen, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face - Part ***
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part *** IF you pull a long querulous face At the way Life makes you dire pay For doubts and questions slaps your face Fear keeps you from getting out-of-here If......

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Categories: bushmen, death, environment, fate, fear,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Random Excerpts - 2: Ice In My Eyes Smoke In Yours, a Novel
... May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophische......

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Categories: bushmen, growing up, international, student,
Form: Free verse



Shudder
...I am Monday on a Friday, Who knew the stars aligned to sing us through the pangs of life and eternity? A thing called life in a language in a dialect that is as probable and functional as the cli......

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Categories: bushmen, language, symbolism, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arena of the Brave
...Characterized by the early settlement of the San Bushmen of the Kalahari. Its patriotic sentiments of profound bravery echos the nation’s long struggle for independence well articulated a......

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Categories: bushmen, africa, community, conflict, corruption,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Villanelle: Stringent Laws Only Serve To Constrict Our Hearts To Hate
...Villanelle: Stringent laws only serve to constrict the heart to hate For all Eric Garners who went down breathless Stringent laws only serve to constrict our hearts t......

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Categories: bushmen, racism, violence,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member I Call Him Friend
...I have a friend with no bound’ries, no corners, Preferring to just sleep around, If he should vanish, I know where I’ll find him, For sure, a new girlfiend he’s found. As a lover, I know, he is......

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Categories: bushmen, forgiveness, friendship,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member No Puppy Equals No God
...Part I. The organized church, whether Catholic or not, Probably kills more people's faith than Satan. Its grand pomp and circumstance all 'tommy rot, ' And designed solely to up ‘the gate' b......

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Categories: bushmen, god, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Australia
...In the land down under, where the hot sun melts Into the ocean, there exists a quiet splendor, Of nature's beauty frozen in a stilled silence. A world of unspoiled grace, protected by it's people, An......

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Categories: bushmen, adventure, art, beauty, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Sands of Time
...THE SANDS OF TIME We stop-- unquestioning the expertise of our Game ranger focused--examining sand and road for tracks Uncomprehending, we ponder waiting for clues he may disclose –the l......

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Categories: bushmen, environment,
Form: Free verse
Easter Bunny
...Easter Bunnies Easter bunnys bellies burning , From the poison virus mate, Aussie farmers want him murdered , For every blade of grass he takes, Have you seen a mattry eyed, blind bunny,......

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Categories: bushmen, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
When the Evidence Went Missing [cont'D]
...“All their comings and their goings were so closely scrutinised as the prosecution’s trump card was the evidence they prized. Though the wily prosecutor gathered facts to build his case, some......

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Categories: bushmen, funny, life, old, morning,
Form: Rhyme

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