Long Ila Poems
Long Ila Poems. Below are the most popular long Ila by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ila poems by poem length and keyword.
When You ReturnSojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great hunter
Whose courage put the forest sprite to flight?
Earning him the...
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Categories:
ila, adventure, africa, black african american, imagination, journey,
Form:
Didactic
When You ReturnSojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great hunter
Whose courage put the forest sprite to flight?
Earning him the...
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Categories:
ila, africa, beauty, culture, eulogy, history, nature, people,
Form:
Free verse
MeI seldom look in
the mirror anymore,
my razor-blade with an
edge of jagged rust –
gave up “Creature features”
with my early need to scare
a girl into my arms at the theater
a shower...
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Categories:
ila, humorous, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, wisdom, writing,
Form:
Free verse
To My FatherArabic script doesn't survive PoetrySoup, I hereby rewrite my previous submitted Arabic poem in FrancoArab letters,
laqad kunt fina al-saraj al-munir .... wa kunt alsadiq wa kunt al-khalil
wa kunt rasul al-mahabati fina .... wa kunt shifa'...
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Categories:
ila, death, father son,
Form:
ABC
Sereti Mabjaleke sereti sa ngwana mobu,
Itsibulo la murufe'a phogole
ke mmina nonyana nna ke ila tlhantlhagane
Gesu re bina ka tlhwatlhwadi tse pedi re a tshagela
ke gabo mebala ye mesehlana ya maribariba.
Re senya disele, re kgobakgobela mello'a...
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Categories:
ila, appreciation, beauty, character, confidence, happiness, identity, me,
Form:
Narrative
The Society Calls Me Black!The Society Calls Me Black!
I looked into the mirror, but all that was painted was black,
"Blackey," they call me, but my brain isn't dark.
These potentials led to pits in the dark,
Welcome, the society calls me...
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Categories:
ila, africa, art, color, conflict, discrimination, writing,
Form:
Free verse
So Then She FlewLittle Ila of warm Indian waters
was born without fins but with feathers.
“Fishes don’t fly,” they constantly told her
wings in water are just a bother.
Tightly she wound them close to...
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Categories:
ila, dream, inspirational, uplifting, voyage,
Form:
Rhyme
Cat PoetryHere is a delightful book of Cat Poetry, written from Cat's point of view. For the people who love cats, and the cats who own them. Love, Joe and Ila.
https://app.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/im-a-cat/ba1ea2f9-0188-4bf2-bede-d9bde3b8d5a2
"I'm A Cat"...
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Categories:
ila, animal, cat, humorous, imagination, love, wisdom, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Where Are The Statesmen and Women?(written by Ila Farrar-DiMino)
Where are citizens echoing
"Give me liberty, or give me death"?
Where is a statesman whose wisdom and courage
could cross a frozen Delaware to save an army and
a nation?
One declaring his signature boldly...
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Categories:
ila, freedom, horror, inspirational, integrity, political, prayer, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
Raw RoleRaw Role
I wasn’t born an actor
I was born into the world
Full of characters…
And i automatically pick’d up
My role
Ever since, i have been trying to
Learn my lines
To fit on the gland world stage
Along the way, i...
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Categories:
ila, age, allah, angel, birth, celebrity, christian, riddle,
Form:
Free verse
IlaI speak to you with words
of Forever, and Always; call
to you, using splashes and dashes
of light, pulsing beyond any
common obscurity...but there is no
code to my caring – beaming
slip-less slides, and raging currents
of timeless...
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Categories:
ila, birthday, feelings, heart, love, marriage, valentines day,
Form:
Free verse