Long Ile Poems
Long Ile Poems. Below are the most popular long Ile by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ile poems by poem length and keyword.
We,The Beggars
We have come to you
Like the sun to the cloud does
Anything you can afford
Please,do,spare us.
We've been under this bridge
even the ants gossips us
Because we share the same meal.
We have come to you
President soldier,Pastor Navy
Money,nuts,fruit-
we'll appreciate!
We...
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Categories:
ile, allegory,
Form:
Light Verse
Beer Sio Maziwa
Sijui ni wangapi wata'define my history,
Wakitumia hii story.
But kitu najua ni ati nkifa,
maybe;
Walevi ndo watachangisha doh kwa matanga,
na maybe;
Wengi watasema Marto alikuwa tanker.
Na ukijaribu ksema marto alikuwa wa youth ya church,
apo ndo MC atalenga iyo...
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Categories:
ile, art, break up, drink, first love, for
Form:
Epyllion
Eulogy To Mrs Aminat Olaboopo
EULOGY TO MRS (Ph.D) ALIHAJA, AMINAT OLABOOPO ...
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Categories:
ile, africa, birth, courage, eulogy, grandmother, hero, mentor,
Form:
Epic
The Legend of Celine, the White Lady
THE LEGEND OF CELINE, THE WHITE LADY
In French Canada no legend is more tragic than that of Celine,
A beautiful Quebec maiden who, long ago, fell in love with Alain....
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Categories:
ile, loss, love, mysterywedding, city, love, river, wedding,
Form:
Quatrain
Eko
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EKO @50
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOSS
DATE OF THOUGHT:2015
A damsel was born decades ago
Her name is EKO
Eko Ile Ogbon
She is the most sought after amongst other
The eyes of the Southwest states
The favourite of her mother...
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Categories:
ile, africa, anniversary, blessing, class, fish, , western,
Form:
Bio
Eko Akete
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EKO AKETE @50
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOST
DATE OF THOUGHT:2015
A damsel was born decades ago
Her name is EKO
Eko Ile Ogbon
She is the most sought after amongst other
The eyes of the Southwest states
The favourite of her...
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Categories:
ile, africa, age, blessing, celebration, history, tribute,
Form:
Bio
Know My Heart
Know my heart
I was tired of writing love songs,
But anytime i see you my heart beat gives me melodies,
Your sweet voice gives me tunes,
Your natural beauty gives me inspirations,
And now here I am with my...
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Categories:
ile, cute love, emotions, love, relationship, teen love,
Form:
Prose
The Celtic Cross At Ile Grosse
The Celtic Cross at Île Grosse
by Michael R. Burch
“I actually visited the island and walked across those mass graves [of 30,000 Irish men, women and children], and I played a little tune on me whistle....
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Categories:
ile, christian, courage, death, faith, family, immigration, ireland,
Form:
Free verse
Jida’s Odyssey
(The tale of Jida, the rat who reached for the sky)
In the green land of Ile fair,
Where fruits were heavy and sweet was air,
There lived a rat, both small and spry—
And he did long to...
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Categories:
ile, sky,
Form:
Narrative
Mr Cokeman
You see I've been misunderstood majority of my life
Its as though if living were war
then im the knife
Its not my fault society embraces suicide
Label me an aspiring mathematician
Cuz I have nothing to hide
but a...
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Categories:
ile, black african american, dark, feelings, identity, lost,
Form:
Free verse
YOUNG AND OLD
YOUNG AND OLD
Wisdom is the only entity that rules this sphere.
'Omode gbon, agba gbon lafi dale ife.'
The translation cascades from life's vault:
On the wisdom of both youths & adults,
The four-walls of ile-ife are founded.
To...
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Categories:
ile, 1st grade,
Form:
Rhyme
You Do Not Know Me
Dark angels dance overhead
Storm clouds swirl within my head
Smiles are the veils of hidden thoughts
Tormented souls question not what is not
Ile St Louis, a swamp of nighttime beasts
Where soon poets shall roam
All that changed, the...
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Categories:
ile, evil, flower, tribute,
Form:
Light 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:
ile, 12th grade, africa, arabic, education,
Form:
Other
21st Century Love
Ilianza na masalamu za hewani.
"Niaje".
Masmile za confusion,
Fusion ya lust na trust,
Compilation ngori ju huoni mahali mnafikishana
Mbio za ujana huishia kitandani,
Au kwa cell ndani.
Makosa ni kukosa kuona future
Kwa mkono nikatattoo hour glass,
So that every morning nikiamka...
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Categories:
ile, africa,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Leaving Chicago
Above the roller-coaster rain clouds,
there's a moment when the wing tip of the plane
cuts seamlessly into serene blue as it banks
over Chicago. It's a layover in the sunlit limbo
of the hope...
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Categories:
ile, places
Form:
Free verse
Beautiful Childhood
You won't und'stand if you d'nt experience it,
My fatherland is where I cut my poetry teeth.
'Tis also the place where I had a splendid childhood,
Naija- where we cruise our tyres around the hood;
I remember days...
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Categories:
ile, childhood,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To Moremi
Moremi beautiful princess in Ile- Ife.
Moremi beauty is mightier than sword.
Queen of beauty, queen of brawn,queen of brawl.
Irresistable charm that eyes could not ignore.
The rich came for her but Moremi would not.
The royal too but...
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Categories:
ile, conflict, love, princess,
Form:
Free verse
The Fowlsome Bustard
Erstime, ere bards nor Wondering Joyceters
did glybb their gobs with glanjous tongue,
Sir Slip The Most (a Figleafmoistner)
was undangled…and his sling unslung.
‘Twas on the Ile de Deux Sans Mustard,
with her Fowlling Fopplott...
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Categories:
ile, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
Boy Malaysia
Who is this Malaysian boy?
His style is dashing,
His eyes are beckoning.
He is the eastern boy from Nnewi,
With the hands that work all day,
Where poverty has no space.
He is the western boy from Ile-Ife,
With the reckoning...
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Categories:
ile, adventure, boy, hope, inspirational, travel, western,
Form:
Narrative
He Cheated On Me
Dafina catens
```He cheated```
He cheated and said im the liar,
Aty me ni elder wa brothel me ni malaya,
Akapack... madem ni wengi akaishia ulaya,
Sina ubaya bro ulinipata kwa choir,
He cheated on me na madem wa campo,
Aty...
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Categories:
ile, allegory, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Jalopy
Jalopy
J unkyard treasure discovered under a pile of worn tires held together with bailing wire duct tape and faith.
A ntique veteran of time traveled back roads before the miles of asphalt Interstate...
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Categories:
ile, adventure, car,
Form:
Free verse
Silver Strands
The heaves and the roars and the sighs
Are less frightening to passer-bys
Than the terrible moans
Of the hollowed out stones
Which bring forth the dead sailors’ cries.
The sky in the west has gone red,
Dyeing rocks on...
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Categories:
ile, death, fantasy, satire, people, people,
Form:
Limerick
Iseyin
ISEYIN MY TOWN
If you don't know,
'Emi lomo ISEYIN ORO
'Oro omo EBEDI MOKO.
I know my town, I love my town,
I celebrate my town, as great town to everyone, I praise my town, and I cheer...
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Categories:
ile, africa, allegory, thanksgiving, together, truth, urban,
Form:
Bio
The Land of Rhyme Remembered
Sail most by north, by west the least,
until the moon sets in the east.
There, in a sea the colour of custard,
ye'll see the Ile de Deux Sans Mustard
where locals speak like buccaneers,
calling...
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Categories:
ile, cute, fantasy, sea,
Form:
Couplet
Brighter Days Are Approaching
L-onely dusk is just over,
O-ne new dawn has broken;
R-ain so cold has turned
I-nto a warm air in the open.
D-ay eighteen in March is fine,
E-vening shadows disappear;
L-ong night passes from eyes...
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Categories:
ile, birthday,
Form:
Acrostic