Long Calabash Poems
Long Calabash Poems. Below are the most popular long Calabash by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Calabash poems by poem length and keyword.
Traditional-Modern Kitchen
Reeds and dry mud walls,
Into whose crevices, weaving needles and knives are fixed.
Iron sheets of rust on top,
(The only modern feature!)
With leakages through which we can even visualize the sun,
Through which rain water and even...
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Categories:
calabash, africa,
Form:
Free verse
We Were Once Beautiful
It had indeed promised to be a fruitful journey
For we had being brought together by a blue ferry
I had known the birding would be huge but it I will carry
So beautiful it was as we...
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Categories:
calabash, beautiful, friendship, future, heartbreak, hope, lost love,
Form:
Ballade
It Is Our Tradition
Bring the Nzu and
Kola nut
Take it to the
stranger among us,
Let him kiss it and
be bless.
Let him rub the Nzu
on his arms then his
fore head.
It is our tradition
here not to neglect
A humble stranger in
our land.
We kiss...
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Categories:
calabash, africa,
Form:
Narrative
Under the Tree In Africa
Under the tree in Africa, we sap strength
from the songs of the sparrows before sunlight.
as we walk to the farm, the
morning breeze brush our
body from the billowing branches.
We pick up our hoes and...
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Categories:
calabash, africa, children, tree, water, women,
Form:
Narrative
My Roots
My Roots
As dark as charcoal-as dark as rich soil of Africa -
Is the core of my traditional and beliefs – it’s obscure
Knowing that deep beneath my skin, soul and spirit is hidden the lineage
My unborn...
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Categories:
calabash, art, culture,
Form:
Acrostic
The Night Clerk
The night air with owls cry invitation of canopies of writers to write the
Days using the night pen jolting candle to the candidates aspiring to arson
night. The pans and pots exchanging strong actions...
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Categories:
calabash, beauty, daffodils, longing, solitude, sorrow, , Lullaby,
Form:
Acrostic
Woman of the Desert
Woman of the Desert
Lexis of the wise squeezes into the zephyr just to be heard by those in the wildness
But rather it seems the woman of the land-her ears have been blocked by the acrimonious...
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Categories:
calabash, lust, marriage, miracle, mirror,
Form:
Blank verse
Rain In the Sun
The morning started off with a bang with the noisy traffic speeding bountifully along, the early morning drivers shouting from their cars about the order and the disorder, while the loud horns continue to bellow...
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Categories:
calabash, celebration, community, courage, emotions, engagement, friend, international,
Form:
Narrative
Poet Portion
I am paradise when my heart sings with riddles that only understood by the responding heart...
I am the rocket only when my emotions backfires the truth that has never been told before...
I am the calabash...
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Categories:
calabash, birthday, confidence, freedom, success, uplifting, wisdom, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Throne
‘Ezenwayi’the great woman
Who lives at the boundary
Between the living and the dead
She knows that an empty calabash
Can not sink down the river
She thought the people
Why a pregnant goat should be above
Being dragged to the...
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Categories:
calabash,
Form:
Blank verse
Wake Up
The story of the unknown
Has been unravelled
And now the weak, strong and fearless
Have all fled on their heel
Leaving that blameless child in a shattering state
To fight for his guiltless life
He cried so loud
As the...
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Categories:
calabash, people, child, grave, people,
Form:
Epic
As They Leave (1)
As they leave,
They leave for us
Calabash full of sorrow and agony
They leave for men a plate of frustration
And desperation.
As they leave
They leave for women nothing
But cups of tears and fears
As they leave
They leave for...
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Categories:
calabash, adventure, allegory, anniversary, education, funny, history, peoplebooks,
Form:
I do not know?
A Cheater Into the Bottle
Cheater into the bottle,
His wife loved him so much ,
One day she woke up and found his husband
into the bottle near the main door.
She was so confused ,
She could...
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Categories:
calabash, christian, divorce, encouraging, feelings, love, sorry, wife,
Form:
Narrative
The frozen sun
Placed 10th in the contest 2025 Poetry Marathon Mile 13 by Mark Toney. Contest was judged on September 3rd, 2025~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Afrobeats played in the background,
his sweet breaths...
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Categories:
calabash, addiction, africa, confusion, dance, drink, joy, song,
Form:
Narrative
I Have Seen the Stars Fallen
I Have Seen The Stars Fallen
The pageants veiled, and gnawed at gladness,
As prism from far inter-stellar space;
And they eclipse and the luminosity fa’e over the
phase,
And...
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Categories:
calabash, introspectionsky, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
The Day I Married My Love
The day I married my love
How would I forget the day I married my love ?
The day daddy lavished wealth and fame
As he filled city hall with people and wine
And made music available from...
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Categories:
calabash, marriage, memory,
Form:
Verse
Passage
We were like men on earth,
We ate bread and drank from the same calabash as they,
When the time came we return to our world,
Signs were; Our toes refute the earth,
And, we walked with our foot...
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Categories:
calabash, adventure, africa, allusion, community, death, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
I Had a Dream When I Was Young
I had a glistening dream when I was young
Bright as an orange on October tree
Near as the horizon on the rim of the sea
Sweet as mango sweating in the grass
Clear as the crystal of the...
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Categories:
calabash, imagination, philosophy, dream, longing, dream,
Form:
Free verse
African Artist
I must say you are one of those African
artistes that drive my soul to the skies
and show me what the world looks like
with the lens of legacies.
You drown my soul into the depths
of...
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Categories:
calabash, africa, me,
Form:
Free verse
My Way, I Know It Well
I know it, I know it well
Its to pleased myself, the lost part
Hanged in the neck and cuffed on the wrist
Whilst long ago father lived at peace, he was him
And here I claimed intelligence
Intelligence with...
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Categories:
calabash, philosophy, me, lost, day, lost, me,
Form:
Classicism
My Apology
My Apology
At times we run out of words
Sorry may never be enough in -
Acknowledging our faults
Our shortcomings covers us with fear
So we hide in caves-covered in wounds of failure
Today I have strength to say...
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Categories:
calabash, blessing, forgiveness, judgement, poetry, poets, relationship, sorrow,
Form:
Blank verse
And the Poet Wept
He sat among the broken Calabash
With a broken red lips weeping.
His elephant like muse hidden behind
The earthless atmosphere crying like a child.
His venom birthed sadness among the sadist,
He watched the parrotted parrots parrotting by;
They were...
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Categories:
calabash, africa, art,
Form:
Free verse
The Bride Song
THE BRIDE’S SONG
Reaching the market place
My waist-bead snaps
My wrapper unties
Take the beads to my husband’s mother
This wrapper I must tie again
For life’s jewel must be hidden
Not left to the wishful stare
Of a watchful...
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Categories:
calabash, africa, anniversary, blessing, celebration, dedication, eulogy,
Form:
Free verse
Insanity
My mind quizzed me
I became insane
Thrashed by the hopes of yesterday
Vanished dreams embraced me
Gulped down by the qualms of tomorrow
Swam through the ruthlessness of life
With my head buried in anguish of past failures
Hail those that...
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Categories:
calabash, life, sad, me,
Form:
Epic
Coming of Your Soulmate
Stop to cry
Crying day and night
Your soulmate is coming
Insomnia will disappear
When he will appear
No more sleepless night,
No more frustration when you see good couples,
No more imaginary competition with other beautiful women,
No...
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Categories:
calabash, celebration, flower, husband, marriage, poems, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse