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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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...Image of South Africa Cape Town Table provided by Pixabay Token Steps 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 ****** Above ......

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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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