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Livingstone Poems - Poems about Livingstone

My loveable gobbler

...One fine morning, I went to the farm,                                         I was not welcomed by him,                                                  
And I searched him all over the farm,      ...
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Categories: livingstone, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Narrative

Livingstone

...When Livingstone got back to quarters
It was time to pay off his porters
His account was in London, no branch was nearer
So each man got a check made out to bearer...
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Categories: livingstone, africa, humor,
Form: Clerihew



Teasingly Tasteful

...What a stunning body
More pleasing on the eye than you’ll ever know
A selection of voluptuous curves and pleasing undulations
So scintillating and gorgeous like an alpine pass
If you were a natio...
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Categories: livingstone, adventure, crush, desire, for
Form: Light Verse

Dr Livingstone Presumed

...A man with a mission in land afar
To take his faith, become a star
And show the Afrikan the straight and narrow
Highlight slavery and end its sorrow

From Scottish gray town he did hail
And joi...
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Categories: livingstone, africa,
Form: Rhyme

Stanley, An American, Recounts His Meeting With Livingstone

...I’m like, “Yo!”,
and he’s like, “Woh!”,
and I’m like, “Good to meet,”
and he’s like, “Real neat,”
and I’m like, “Jungle sucks,”
and he’s like, “It’s big bucks,”
and I’m like, “It’s the pits,”
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Categories: livingstone, history,
Form: Couplet



Saving the Cathedral 3

...When Coventry was cowed, it got Godiva.
The French were frantic, so God sent them Joan,
and Stanley showed up just when Livingstone
required him.  Enter left, a doughty diver!

What wasn’t neede...
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Categories: livingstone, uplifting,
Form: Sonnet

Spotted

...A teapot clapping is a fish bowl clucking and an irrespective thought can be as cloudy as a drop of ink on a page. Beware the trotting dusty bowl on trusted legs. Moving. Daring darning dancing dogs....
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Categories: livingstone, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?

David Porcher

...David scored the only, first goal,
In the first match against Brazil, 
The host nation of Paralympics,
All his guts and grit he did spill. 

From Livingstone in Scotland, 
David played for Hibs...
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Categories: livingstone, football, sports, strength,
Form: Rhyme

The Lone Seagull

...The Lone Seagull

Lone Seagull flying
gliding in the gentle wind
on a lonely night

With only the moon
to light his path as he flies
in search of the truth

How piteous life is
to quarrel ...
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Categories: livingstone, flying, freedom, solitude,
Form: Haiku

Dance African Queen

...You are an African Queen.
Let your roots be the glow over your brazen soul. 
You are peculiar to the soil.	
Peculiar to a continent that holds history worth abiding.
A history that tell tales of ...
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Categories: livingstone, africa, pride, race,
Form: Free verse

Maya Angelou

...Doctor Maya Angelou the writer
Maya Angelou the actor
Maya Angelou the poet
The singer that was Maya Angelou
That Black lady
With silk smooth voice
Like silk smiling under the finger’s touch
S...
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Categories: livingstone, death, memory,
Form: Free verse

59th Minute

...Its the last minute of the 11th hour
I have seen a demon wondering searching for a soul
A priest coveting the ass of another man's woman at church
Convince people you have a speed dial to God's Kingd...
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Categories: livingstone, africa, allah, allegory, angel,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberMy Inner Strength

...For Achilles it was his wounded heel
For Sampson his cut off hair
For me I would loss my inner strength
If you were no longer there

Like Stanley looking for Livingstone
Like Ponce de Leon searching ...
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Categories: livingstone, love,
Form: Rhyme

The Murder of Civilisation

...An Englishman lost in afternoon tea,
Memories of a lotus flower love
Rajas and elephants in Delhi
Livingstone the explorer
Religion to convert

Laurence of Arabia
A leader of men
The Boers and the Zu...
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Categories: livingstone, patriotic, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDavid Livingstone

...Long, long ago and longer
When I was but a child
I read of Doctor Livingstone
Who ventured in the wild.
Dr. David had no fear
He went where few had gone.
This missionary and explorer 
To Africa was d...
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Categories: livingstone, adventure, history,
Form: Epic

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