Long Bantu Poems
Long Bantu Poems. Below are the most popular long Bantu by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Bantu poems by poem length and keyword.
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 of africa
i dance...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, analogy, anxiety, assonance, bangla, bereavement,
Form:
Didactic
The Whips of History - 3
We will be the trustees of life's passions...
The villas of villainous Rome are burning behind me
from Capua to the Cisalpine Alps the skyline is smoldering from her savage sins,
monuments of luxury built, furnished, and...
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Categories:
bantu, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
My Hair
My hair has always
had a mind of its own
Stays doing whatever
it wants whenever
it pleases
Just never bothers to do
any of it, at my convenience
Will take its sweet time
to grow
When I'm most...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, beauty, culture, hair, nature, race,
Form:
I do not know?
For the Love
This is for the love… ...
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Categories:
bantu, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh Black Americans
Oh! Black Americans,
Africa is your motherland
And most Africans love you
Not because you are called African Americans
And lost your African mother tongues
And cultures.
Being called Americans while speaking
African dialects , suit...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, america, black african american, malayalam, tamil,
Form:
Free verse
Who Cares For You
Wealth brings many friends , but a poor man 's friend deserts him.
Proverb 19:4
Who cares for you?
When we separate with good people
We feel to cry,
Remembering
The good times
...
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Categories:
bantu, 12th grade, care, confidence, courage, cute love,
Form:
Free verse
Africa
Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Africa
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: February/1990
Africa,
I see Africa,
land of my people's
birth -
I see tribes,
tribes
...
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Categories:
bantu,
Form:
Light Verse
I'Ve Got Fire In My Soul
I know what it means
To go to bed without food
To go to school without shoes
To yearn for Eqaul Education
to free your mind
Just to be told you just can't handle
White education
Here's Bantu education...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, class, courage, growth, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Alliteration
African Rhythm
I am....
An Ashanti warrior A Bantu dancer
I am a Yoruba royal clothed in my Asooke
Dancing Adowa and kpalogo to tunes from wulomei and masekela
I am proud Masai
Standing around manyattas,
Jumping...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, beautiful, black love, culture, history, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Bantu African-American Warrior
Africa rains
Who reigns
Raise Me Up from a tribe
A group of traveling white men gave me a ride
Brought us the African to this here place
where are other types of men who were...
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Categories:
bantu, anxiety, betrayal, bullying, character, conflict, humanity,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Marriage Between Young White Women and Young African Black Men
Marriage between young black men
And young white ladies can work well
If the young white women accept to live
Bantu way with their husbands.
Meaning to focus on black african cultures
And traditions
While living...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, culture, emotions, encouraging, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Origin of the Name Swahili and Language, Bantu Name
Origin of the name Swahili
Or " Kiswahili" ,
One person said , " Iswa ile"
Another person said," Iswa iyi "
Swahili is one of the Bantu
Languages
Like isiZulu , Kifuliru,
Kinyindu, Kikuyu
Xhosa, Chewa,...
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Categories:
bantu, 12th grade, africa, arabic, education,
Form:
Other
The Story of Africa
The story unfolds
darkness today
but tomorrow it will be day
We might not see but we sure know
Poverty is not the story of Africa
not this blinding darkness either
We grope, we fall but that's not it all
we curse...
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Categories:
bantu, africa,
Form:
Classicism
My Curses
I curse away one head to stabilize the thinking,I curse away the set of eyes that forever fall from the face to set a clear vision.I curse away the spear,the nation builder to educate the...
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Categories:
bantu, patriotic, political,
Form:
Free verse
I Know Who You Are
I KNOW WHO YOU ARE
You are the morning
Virgin ripe like the full bunch Benin banana
Crystal clear like the revered coastal river
Bright and bold as the Bantu warriors
Resplendent with the radiance of the sun
at first peep...
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Categories:
bantu, dedication, devotion, life, loveme, me,
Form:
I do not know?
African Silence
African silence
Since when have you been speaking?
Like a thunder you have been
In which language have you been teaching?
Like a master you had seen
My son saying what you think costs life
From where are you accent? Bantu...
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Categories:
bantu, abuse, africa, conflict, culture, heart, lonely, silence,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bantu Poem, Shahiri Mussabwa 9
Telling you the truth
You will end up hanging
Yourself and I will lose you
While I am still crazy for you
_________________________________
Better I use lies
To protect our relationship
Because I know that Lies
Always...
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Categories:
bantu, 12th grade, africa, feelings, heartbroken, romance, romantic,
Form:
Other
Bantu Migrations: Ntu, Umb, Mumbi, Nagabumba
when they reached Cameroun, from the heart of Africa's West
they had no priests; they had no religion; they knew IMMENSITY
they had, too, the fairest of metaphors (no macho patriarchy):
recalling the POTTER who breathed into the...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, culture, history, humanity, language, mother, religion,
Form:
Didactic
Developing Like a Distant Runner
Incredible in nature, diverse in settlement
a home to the big five beasts
and a constant retailer to glory takers
of distance running in the global games event.
The scrolls of its historic make up
are chaptered by the hunter-gatherer...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, community, earth, nature, society,
Form:
Ode
Ubuntu a Paradigm Shift
Ubuntu
P andemonium the polymorph perverse un-reflected paradigm of our time casts
A narchy tumultuous turmoil killing sprees beheadings senseless hatred and results from ...
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Categories:
bantu, love, war,
Form:
Acrostic
Roots
Roots
Who are we? Is the quest in nous?
That rings each mos. as I think
Of roots and the traditional trail
Till a muffled loud voice echoed
...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, , western,
Form:
Blank verse
My Okra.S Kin
Hi biscuit, you’re mighty and cute
So acute in hearing that I’m spearing fruit
Perhaps you didn’t know, I’ve lived in the South…too.
Entertained a name in the halls of high school
I thought it was cool, even back...
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Categories:
bantu, confusion
Form:
I do not know?
At One Bantu Wedding
Speech , " You are married today , our daughter!
We are here witnessing your...
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Categories:
bantu, africa, happy, wedding,
Form:
Free verse
Iam from Africa
I am from Africa, and my name is Africa, I come from the Queens and Kings of the bemba Kingdom. We are bantu-speaking people .
I am from Africa, the birthplace of humanity, and my melanin...
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Categories:
bantu, africa,
Form:
Free verse
The New Middle East
Middle East Future
I have not written anything today, why should I? The future
in the Middle East is clear there will be a rapprochement
between USA and Iran, naturally two countries are surprisingly
alike...
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Categories:
bantu, adventure, age, allah, allusion, cheer up,
Form:
Blank verse