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Johannesburg Poems - Poems about Johannesburg


Johannesburg
South Africa is inundated with a problem Kidnapping, baffled with an emblem Months passed and devastation still lasts In the minds and bodies of the casts... Prayers can help All the time, we need not yelp...

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Categories: johannesburg, sad,
Form: Other
Stranger In Egoli
"Stranger in Egoli" Not right to feel lost in a city of vices, they judge you therefore you are a victim. She creams for her purse , He screams for his jacket, Bloody panties on the sidewalk, Last month the hood rats engulfed him! I cannot understand what they say though we speak the same language! My eyes do not sparkle...

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Categories: johannesburg, africa, city, corruption, evil,
Form: Free verse



Saturday Rain In Johannesburg
Saturday Rain in Johannesburg… …With sighs of torrential passion, the heavens shower teardrops, weeping with me, as memories of you come cascading back, skin on skin, ablaze, moist kisses, fiery, gentle whispers of undying love, murmured, in another life, another time, far removed from my present, a desolate state of despair, wallowing in the grime. … The rain keeps falling, each teardrop stinging my face, tasting the salt on...

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Categories: johannesburg, angst, beautiful, beauty, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Midnight In Johannesburg
1. Calm descends, feathery, misty, settling gently on this city’s breath. Elusive sleep, teases, hiding amongst the clouds, while silver ribbons of moonlight, caress the concrete. 2. Midnight in Jo’burg, alone, in this wild-eyed, crazy city, warm and cruel at once, ragged, torn, sublime, brimming with African life, alive in an African summer night. 3. Zimbabwe, you are us, Morocco is infused in our veins, Nigeria lingers on our wet kisses, Malawi, we...

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Categories: johannesburg, forgiveness, freedom, history, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Johannesburg
From my window pane, i behold your soulful presence. I whose gaze is gripping, whose passion has known the melancholy of nature` s splendor. There` s no brilliance to be compared to your glittering lights in the night season. your Meadows are charming. your lawns unstrip like a green carpet cast upon the mountain side, and your streets are bustling with different colors,...

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Categories: johannesburg, places, me, , western,
Form: Free verse



Johannesburg
A busy city, Lots of light A dazzling skyline Great by night African sun, Almost set A stack of memories Hard to forget Africans united Happy together Proud to be there, now and forever The one and only place to be Is the city run by the ANC One day I’ll return alone To only city I can call home....

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Categories: johannesburg, black african american, happinesscity,
Form: I do not know?

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