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Gambian Poems - Poems about Gambian


Green Leaves On Trees

...Green leaves on trees

The tall carob trees that bear long oblong fruit
black as the hands of a Gambian, sweet as sight 
of the snow-clad mountain reaching the blue sky 
when lost for weeks in t...
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Categories: gambian, allusion, blessing, creation,
Form: Blank verse

Black Hair

...The girl with long black hair 
She ties it in tail-pair
Which flies in air 
As she jumps from chair to chair 
The black girl that grows 
Those
Beautiful rose
Oh! those 
Beautiful rose
Where ...
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Categories: gambian, africa,
Form: Classicism



Great Malala

...Malala, great malala Yousafzai,
The goddess of womanhood
Your steps and advocate for the girlchild
Has brought us where we are now,
Your drives has made us to understand
That we are here for eac...
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Categories: gambian, abuse, africa, age, art,
Form: Ballad

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