Education Child Abuse Poems

(All). We are the voice of the children, here to educate and lament about all the pain, joy, and anxiety and fear we carry as...

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Tintswalo's story echoes a different tune,
Born in '94, beneath the ANC's boon.
They speak of progress, a free education,
Yet in reality, she faces unemployment's frustration.

No jobs,...

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All systems are obsessed 
Obsessed with punishment 
Punishment without healing 
Healing is really needed
Needed to kill the bitterness 
Bitterness turns to hate 
hate turns to...

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MY heart weeps for humanity
I pray for the people of the World.
Endemics, earthquakes, floods and hurricanes
devastating people's lives.

Children being slaughtered in their classrooms, by weapons...

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Special Needs Education Policy 1968

The session paper 5 of 1968, a turning point so grand,
A moment in history that improved the lives of many, a...

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A Tale of Two Nations

Under one flag
with many stars
and even more shame
two nations to choose
Guns or Roses

One opposed to death of children
and free choice for...

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Hateful as they may be, to the eye
and ear, the elimination of words,
statues, ideas, etc., will do nothing
toward making a venom free society – 

to...

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There is no love
Like a child can give
There is no life 
Like a child has to live
There is no beauty
Like a child can see
There is...

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IS THERE NO END


Boom, Boom- goes the night 

Rattle tat-tat, they fight 

High-pitched screaming pierces the sky- 

As another young person prepares to die- 

Turn...

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Right to Education...

Many people in the world are poor,
Whereas, the richer sections take a tour.
We are blessed to take the best,
But, what about the rest.

Many...

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WISHES FOR THE BLOOD 

She wishes of becoming a patriotic leader; 
She wishes of making the world a better place;
She wishes of speaking justice for...

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There are those engaged in pedagogy
To facilitate the drip... drip... drip
Of poison to accost a child's ear.
Maneuvering with glee and juicy decadence...
Sequestering all they say...

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Birth control abyss
fornication uncontrolled 
empty hearts a’flutter...

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"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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