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Kaffir Poems - Poems about Kaffir

Absolute blooming creativity!

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Artificial blooms cause delight!
Exquisite freesias, geraniums, hellebores
Iris, jasmine, kaffir lilies. 
My neighbour Oscar
plants quirky realistic stems.
Transplanting unkemp...

Categories: kaffir, flower, garden,
Form: ABC

Skeleton Gardens POTD

...Afterlife Azaleas rise as apparitions 
Bony Buttercups bathe in blooming moonlight 
Cobweb Carnations cater to crystal chaos
Deathly Daffodils dance to the eternal dusty doors
Eerie Evening Primr...

Categories: kaffir, death, flower, garden,
Form: ABC

Who Invented the Coolie

...I
retired from education, sharing with (not scaring)
OUR YOUTH
oblivious of persistent prejudice, labor migrant past piercing 
the present
until i left America for South Africa, returning to Nat...

Categories: kaffir, absence, abuse, africa, america,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Bouquet

...A Bouquet

Astute; beautiful Chrysanthemums
Decadent earthly Foxglove
Gentle hands; immaculate
Judging Kaffir Lilies
Miniature noises orchestrated
Pretty; quiet Rudbeckia
Shocking trellises; ...

Categories: kaffir, earth day,
Form: ABC

Candidate

...Candidate

that's my wife's business,
he will make it for you, not tomato sauce but grated coconut sauce which is fried without oil wrapped in banana leaves like pepes.
It is wonderful for a tong...

Categories: kaffir, care, city, culture, love,
Form: Political Verse

Candidate -Calon-

...CANDIDATE
that's my wife's business,
he will make it for you, not tomato sauce but grated coconut sauce which is fried without oil wrapped in banana leaves like pepes.
It is wonderful for a tongue...

Categories: kaffir, art, conflict, culture, food,
Form: Political Verse

Identity Apples

...Identity Apples

iam a fat skeleton, resurrecting 
from the sad memories of dada 
and dark mysteries of aminism 
iam buganda 
i bleed hope 
i drip the honey of fortune 
makerere, think tank o...

Categories: kaffir, africa, analogy, anxiety, assonance,
Form: Didactic

I Play With the Souls of Men

...I play with the souls of men 
From their births to their deaths
I play with the souls of men 

I play with the souls of men 
From their primitive laughter and
Lies i know the souls of all men
...

Categories: kaffir, africa, emotions, life, men,
Form: Villanelle

Sands of a Distant Shore

...As a young man, I longed for passion in life
setting my sails, spent far from home
seeking out exotic lands
stirring oceans into a frenzied foam.

Oh, to breathe the scent of new perfumes
to ta...

Categories: kaffir, growing up, life, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Late Night

...Into the kingdom. 

From the kingdom was I bourne ancestral sailed into the fall of the hemispheres equator. Other earth side I became alive.  The table on the fringe.
From the kingdom all my cult...

Categories: kaffir, best friend, change, england,
Form: Free verse

Shackles of Apartheid

...I look all round me and I’m engulfed by shame 
I see people chanting freedom 
But they have nothing tangible to show they are free 
Because their freedom’s trail is unknown to them 

Shackles of...

Categories: kaffir, africa,
Form: I do not know?

Paint Me White and I Will Still Be Black

...You can paint me white and I will still be black 
Turn my ebony black hair, make sure the chemicals 
Touch every strand of my hair, erasing all trace of 
My pitch black kaffir but I will still be ...

Categories: kaffir, anti bullying, deep, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

Patsey Letter From Enslaved Black Woman

...(INSPIRED BY 12YEARS A SLAVE)
LUPITA!!! LUPITA!!! LUPITA!!!!
Has become the new beat!
Red carpet to the streets of London
her name you scream!
Shows still rattles on  
on her
about her
Elle  
Drum
Ta...

Categories: kaffir, world,
Form: ABC