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Durban Poems - Poems about Durban

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tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape during a gale, much too close to the rocks … tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges, its roar far too loud for me to hear...
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Categories: durban, adventure, analogy, anxiety, break
Form: Epic

Sanny Day

...It is sunny day today 
she looks at  her beauty 
as it is a beautiful day 
to play with friends at the beach.
A good place for the poor and rich 
as it always  free to touch 
waters and sands w...
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Categories: durban, africa, beach, beauty, day,
Form: Rhyme



Breaking News- Rip Aka

...Police sources in Durban have confirmed Rapper Kiernan "AKA" Forbes was shot dead in a drive-by shooting spree on Florida Road, on Friday Night. Another person believed to be AKA's  bodyguard, was al...
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Categories: durban, betrayal, death, emotions,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Mum Asked Me Write Something Dedicated To Charl

...In these uncertain times seemingly
ever harder to predict and navigate

what on earth we are about to be hit 
with or be faced to deal with next

It's nice to know there are something's
we can...
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Categories: durban, dedication,
Form: Free verse

Remembering Gratitude and Sam Kauffman

...After I graduated as teacher: East London High
Because I boarded at an ashram in Durban
Check of my first salary, went to it as thanks

NOTE: The Swami - "not good in Christ terms" - but the most...
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Categories: durban, africa, america, bible, character,
Form: ABC



Premium MemberTell Her You Saw Me

...Tell her you saw me ...

Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud for me to hear...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: durban, allegory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Senryu Series

...name of a crane
saras - India - sarees
flying past each other

II
friend named Bubbles
or "victory" originally
he alone unchanged in Guateng

III
green pastures, youth, Durban
Bad old good...
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Categories: durban, africa, angst, loneliness, nostalgia,
Form: Senryu

Senryu Series

...name of a crane
saras - India - sarees
flying past each other

II
friend named Bubbles
or "victory" originally
he alone unchanged in Guateng

III
green pastures, youth, Durban
Bad old good...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: durban, africa, angst, loneliness, nostalgia,
Form: Senryu

Veterans Bro Pentecost and Coleman Our Families

...On Mission in South Africa, I am missed in Virginia
Only the CHRIST family I belong to, can match with stamina
The love of my sister Maureen, and her hubby Mr. Mothilal
As I was surprised by the J...
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Categories: durban, absence, adventure, africa, age,
Form: Elegy

Hitch 3: Not Vegas

...Please don't say Vegas.
We're halfway between Durban and Bloem',
so don't say Vegas, okay ?
Thankfully you found a way, reluctantly,
to settle on the right answer
without saying it out loud.
Al...
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Categories: durban, people,
Form: Free verse

I Know Why You Cry

...I know why you cry
You miss me every night
Come to durban your
Spiritual emptiness
Will find it's match in me...
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Categories: durban, africa,
Form: Tanka

Passion For Painting

...Oil painting sold in a busy old street
A man with no hands,
using only his feet
Lively the colours, sunset in gold!
Unframed his paintings at Durban price sold
Speechless as people stop and ador...
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Categories: durban, beach, emotions, inspirational,
Form: ABC

Winter In the African Sun

...Winter in the African sun
Feels like sizzling summer fun
Come down to Durban beach
And all your blues will be bleached
This is South Africa’s playground
We have a golden tan all year-round


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Categories: durban, beach, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Sea Lion

...Sea-Lion 
I saw a seal in Durban big and sleek and its smile
Was wondrous, I think it had green eyes, right,
But, I’m not a very god swimmer and is sceptical
Of water, mermaids and swimming pools...
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Categories: durban, giggle,
Form: Blank verse

African Love Map

...Captured by the beauty of Lillian
I think of her on the coast of Durban.
With her is where I want to be.
So beautiful she could be a Wodaabe.
There's no way I could assign a worth,
Indeed the mo...
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Categories: durban, africa, beauty, emotions, journey,
Form: Rhyme

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