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Darfur Poems - Poems about Darfur

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Premium Member Our Beautiful Children
...Our beautiful children are dying In Africa, Europe, the Middle East Asia, the Americas, And in every projects where there is no peace. Our black children are dying For lack of basic necessities ......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, child abuse, emotions, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme



Norwegian Bachelor Farmer Days I Never Lived
...Norwegian bachelor farmer days I never lived Woebegone and egg foo young on you meaning me of course sidestepping a crucial positive electric kool aid battery acid test prior to pledging troth......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, adventure, america, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poem For My History Teacher
...I wanted to write The best slavery poem ever written— Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. I had every intention of conforming To the standards Of modern verse and composition, Lyrics f......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
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 still......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, conflict, corruption, humanity, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Children of Xenophobia
...Children of Xenophobia Children eating bullets and firecrackers Beggars of smile and laughter Silent corpses sleeping away fertile dreams Povo* chanting new nude wretched slogans Overstaye......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, abuse, addiction, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Paint a Picture Black and Gray
...Pull out the easel set the canvas positioned long and slender clean slate. Sketch the figures huddled and dark-bound hostage to charcoal-cooled coals etching in shadow images; F......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, africa, art, dark, grief,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Lost In Darfur
...A sea of people is overcrowding the displacement camp. Today another village burns, while families are killed. It’s not safe here because this camp has been attacked. Where do we flee, o......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, africa, change, conflict, confusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Refugee
...One does not tremble before a man she esteems Certainly not before the one she finds dignified No; it would be contrary to Mother Nature herself It is before a dangerous man that one trembles! And it......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, giving, heart, hope, people,
Form: Free verse
Mother Africa
...Oh! Mother Africa! From the East to the West, from the North to the South of Africa is strife, killings, starvation and poverty Brothers killing brothers And innocent bl......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, courage, peace, mother, africa,
Form: Light Verse
Darfur, Sudan
...Darfur, Sudan Yet again, there is a great deal of madness As the entire world is filled with sadness And men raise arms against each other They fight as if they have no mother Two hundred, thousand......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, war, world, people, people,
Form: Rhyme
The Call of Darfur
...The blood flews in Darfur and in all parts of Sudan. What can a social activist could do to the genocide cruelty affter the Jewish holocaust in Europe in the forties? Features of grief impregnated ......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, introspectionhope,
Form: I do not know?
Imagine
...everyday, i go on a journey to far away places that others can only imagine. sometimes i go to darfur and visit the beautiful ones who dwell in the land of the blood rivers. they drink from the w......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, hope, imagination,
Form: Free verse
I Sing Africa
...All's not about Darfur I've seen it, eerie winds Moonlight through our thatch We kissed round, one *palmie gourd Kigali was but a miss Waist-beads - beats to love Have you heard the......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, black-african amergrandmother,
Form: Prose Poetry
Genocide
...How can we relax? When machine guns take virginities, When people are forced from their homes, Or die, Where receiving rations is taboo, Where hope ceases to arrive, Think of Darfur, When you ......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, death, dedication, education, history,
Form: Free verse
Action For Darfur
...You want to die, To lie, Asleep for eternity, When reality, Seems like insanity, Everyone murdered, Even children, All you know, No survivors, All seems hopeless, When raped, When tortured......Read the rest...
Categories: darfur, caregiving, death, dedication, devotion,
Form: Free verse

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