Long Kimberley Poems
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Old MateI have this burning desire
To find old mate
I want to sit
And chat with him
Under a Gum and setting sun
About what has come
And what has passed
Times of old
Places we’ve been told
Along the wallaby track
Signs of danger
Moments...
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Categories:
kimberley, 12th grade, absence, courage, desire, old, ,
Form:
Free verse
They Called Him DiamondThey Called Him Diamond
They called him Diamond still do and his colour is black like
scorched earth frozen shadows of hell shafted and grafted on
his scarred broken shoulders deprived of not only his name...
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Categories:
kimberley, power,
Form:
Narrative
Killing MachinesOnly eighteen and conscripted to the military,
no choice of mine it was the norm at this time and scary,
barely out of school and still wet behind the ear,
too young to watch an adult movie or...
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Categories:
kimberley, children, men, military, sad, soldier, war, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Ou Allons Nous: Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Where Are We Going By T WignesanOù allons nous? Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Where are we going” by T. Wignesan
Ils sont venus dans une petite ville
Une bande à moitié nue soumise silencieuse
Tout ce qui restait de leur tribu.
Ils sont venus...
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Categories:
kimberley, discrimination, grief, horror, prejudice, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Gothic 17
"Gothic 17"
provided they are
all story
and no reflection
I’m all for heroines
those coiled springs
minds like vampires
the ones
who
never sleep
sharp teeth
dripping words
that bleed
kissing lips dreaming
lips speaking, punctured
Northanger
North anger
abbey nuns clipped
speaking like demons
novitiates...
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Categories:
kimberley, muse,
Form:
Narrative
I couldn't talk about it so I wrote a poemTRUTH
By: Kimberley Pittman
There's history in heathens; the Earth has been our home,
Though lost in our own hell, it's a place we've come to own.
My heart is gold, yet its worth is judged by you,
And...
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Categories:
kimberley, appreciation, confidence, death, how i feel, life,
Form:
Free verse
Warm Heart of AfricaThe emptiness and unhappiness so closely related
Left her with a hole bigger than Kimberley.
No man dug fortune, only misconception and silence.
Her predecessors left her no gold to kick the dust off.
They only left deprivation and...
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Categories:
kimberley, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Grief of the Eighties1980
With deep sadness, I heard the awful news,
My favourite stand up comedian Richard Pryor,
It was June 9th while being in a drug-induced psychosis,
He poured rum over his body and set himself on fire.
1981
It was cold...
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Categories:
kimberley, memory, remember,
Form:
Quatrain
The ManFor years I thought I was the man because of my independence
uncanny work ethic
and my wit..
For years I thought that it would be me and only me for the rest of my life......
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Categories:
kimberley, lifelife, love, me,
Form:
Free verse
Blood DiamondsA stone so beautiful
The gem of gems
This carbon icon
A girls best friend
In many a place mined
All legal and right
To be marketable
To be pretty in sight
On our Jewellery do we wonder
Where ours come from
Is...
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Categories:
kimberley, black african american, business, death, life, loss,
Form:
Rhyme