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Kraal Poems - Poems about Kraal

Lend me a pen

...Lend me a pen, Xhosa's reverberates in me, with honour, one kneel on the ground, hail the tongue clicks, yesterday I was my mom's lil boy, today I woke up a husband, Eastern cape transformed me to a ...
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Categories: kraal, africa, butterfly, culture, cute
Form: Free verse

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Ruling winds the austral buttes naked slopes ...

                   as vortex smoky rise aloft Zulu's kraal
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Categories: kraal, africa, hope, peace, tribute,
Form: Kwansaba



Husband Feebly Tried To Smite Figuratively

...Preface preceding promiscuous philandering peccadillos
undermining energy and time not spent with missus
and mother of our precious progeny,
whereby, yours truly sought, (somewhat assertively, mod...
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Categories: kraal, betrayal, conflict, depression, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Energy Vampires

...Like a new baby into the world,
Like a new baby chick into an old kraal,
Sometimes I feel so exposed and vulnerable,
My energy is even at stake.

I am exposed to the energy vampires, 
They do s...
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Categories: kraal, anxiety, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse

This Smokig Heart-Kumoyo Kwitukha Translated

...Attention! Sit squarely listen keenly, clear your ears
Face on the sun your ears, to melt the tar
Having melted it, to make lighter your ears
Listen now, listen again

I keep begging you, I knee...
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Categories: kraal, i love you, longing,
Form: Free verse



Why Die So Young, Why Die So Innocent In Classrooms

...Narratives of students shot in cold blood
Not on a shooting range
Draw a mass media headline flood
Background check seems a request strange

To diehard hearts hooked to the dollar
From a gun lo...
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Categories: kraal, poems,
Form: Free verse

An African Rose-Love Poem

...When I stood my face, to steal a glance
You stood your face, to steal a glance
When I caught the thief, catching a thief
You arrested me, I chained you

The sun had just dropped, I had not eaten...
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Categories: kraal, beautiful,
Form: Verse

Moon's Fortune

...I always think, big big and bigger
Less do I forget, asking why and why?
Of all that happen, not a moon bigger
Very little do care, why new no lie
Every mind target, the task ooh ******

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Categories: kraal, africa,
Form: Acrostic

Merry Christmas To Family and Friends

...To my friends and family

You are the ones who let me in
When I need an Inn
Even when I have to stay in a kraal
You will still make that call
On this day of joy and love
I wish you happiness
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Categories: kraal, christmas, family, life, love,
Form: Ballad

Plane Ride

...PLANE    RIDE


I  would go back to the amber waving grain
I  long to fly to  America again
Oh yes it’s corny  I know
To say I love America but it is so
When I look around at the restriction 
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Categories: kraal, america, freedom, world,
Form: Couplet

Fire In Neighborhood

...Fire in neighborhood
makes you no victim
rejoice, laugh, feast
if you are the bull
in the kraal, a ram
the rest cows, sheep
what makes you sad?
joyfully, scatter your lips
that was carelessne...
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Categories: kraal, relationship, satire,
Form: Free verse

Deaf Bull

...Deaf bull sired calves
calves grew and sired blind calves	

Blind calves grew and sired calves
they grew and sired dump calves

Dump calves and sired calves
they grew and sired foolish calves
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Categories: kraal, destiny, humanity, satire,
Form: Couplet

Fire In Neighborhood

...Fire in neighborhood
makes you no victim
rejoice, laugh, feast
if you are the bull, ram
in the kraal fenced
the rest cows, sheep
what makes you sad?
joyfully, scatter your lips
take an extra ...
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Categories: kraal, political, power, satire,
Form: Free verse

Hyena

...Hyena
tired and hungry
cried loudly near kraal
saw little hope for a meal
prayed...
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Categories: kraal, allegory, america, political,
Form: Cinquain

Human Cravings

...“Are you aware of human cravings?”
bursts out my grandpa, lips shaking
“Cravings, cravings for everything humans do!
Drink all beers as fish in water 
Elope all queens as a bull in a kraal
Fight...
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Categories: kraal, allegory, humanity, lust,
Form: ABC

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