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Freetown Poems - Poems about Freetown


I AM A SIERRA LEONEAN TOO
...I may be hooked on kush my body bruised and worn wandering the streets of Freetown but I’m a Sierra Leonean too. I may not pay my taxes can’t even clean a gutter but this land is still my ho......

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Categories: freetown, 12th grade, home, identity,
Form: Free verse
TELL ME THE COLOUR OF WORDS
...Tell me words are red And I'll tell of the lives We lose everyday in the middle east Of the lives in danger in Northern Nigeria The Sahel, Ukraine, Russian and Syria. Tell me words are white......

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Categories: freetown, 12th grade, abuse, africa,
Form: Free verse



NOTORIETY OF PENNILESS
...SAPA: THE NOTORIETY OF PENNILESS Their ambition grew higher, Sapa, blew out of proportion. Their expectations grew higher, Sapa extend its wings. Sapa, the Invincibly diabolical. cri......

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Categories: freetown, adventure,
Form: Free verse
THE CRUELTY OF TIME
...Oh, how cruel time can be! Shattering hopes and killing beauty. Slowly it steals moments, leaving everything bare Time, a relentless force, beyond compare. Here lies a victim of time's cruelty,......

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Categories: freetown, 12th grade, death, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Conspiracy and Evil Surmising
...I am a Victim, Lured by mascara, and by a pretext piety Induced through lust by immoral vermin I am a Victim Blindfold through cunnings to fest on a plowed field, “Whore scammed”, trapped......

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Categories: freetown, abuse, death, depression, divorce,
Form: Burlesque



Touch My Finger On the Golden Pen
...I been trying to pen this verse for days but the words could not come out My tears have been welled up inside me and my arms were twisted behind me my flesh clinged firmly to my thin bones while ......

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Categories: freetown, blessing, freedom, happiness, immigration,
Form: Narrative
The Causes of the Shipwreck
...am the one that you corruptly and acidly destroyed I once a country of success and national prosperity hub educational champion, but you politicians ruined me. I was meant to benefit everyone living ......

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Categories: freetown, abuse, africa, betrayal,
Form: Bio
Voiceless
...Mother taught me to not kill, Her holy book forbids it. Written somewhere in its many pages is "Killing is the wickedest biblical sin." My mind holds me prisoner, A self-judged convict- For I h......

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Categories: freetown, africa, corruption, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Freetown
...Freedom was born a freed son on a free day in freetown in a freed way, that is why there is demostration of craze in a freetown. Free as the ......

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Categories: freetown, angst
Form: Terza Rima
Freetown Ball Player Tuned Legend
...Hail the legend of football He was destined for greatness He conquered the game to the latter Match forward and take your place oh legend, among the committees of nations. Thousands are falling at th......

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Categories: freetown, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
In My Fatherland
...Flowers of peace are now magnificently blossoming In the gardens of the battlefields of Khartoum and Kinshasa. And roses of tranquillity and order slowly blooming In the flower pots of Kigali’s s......

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Categories: freetown, peace, poverty,
Form: ABC
Little Man
...Little man little problem Confined in the box Pleasure at his leisure Quelling insatiable hunger Gust of distrust Intrusion of endless chatter Never a dull moment Yet the land is bad The ......

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Categories: freetown, peopleabsence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abc's of Capital Cities
...Athens, quite a place, so full of mythology Buenos Aires, in Argentina, a place I'd love to see Canberra, is just antipodean class Dublin, a pint of Guinness in a glass Edinburgh, the capital......

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Categories: freetown, war,
Form: ABC

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