Long Savannas Poems
Long Savannas Poems. Below are the most popular long Savannas by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Savannas poems by poem length and keyword.
Soccer
Lisa and I had been watching some boys strut about, as they played soccer, in their little shorts, in the freezing cold. It’s an old animal story.
The game ended, or it was intermission and about...
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Categories:
savannas, boy, life, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
The Land of the Brave
Drink the Namibia Countryside
Namibia a West African country, on the Atlantic coast
Namibia’s beauty is wonderfully surreal and alluring,
With endless savannah and bushland
With most stunning landscapes in Africa,
with acres of ocean shores, woodland...
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Categories:
savannas, addiction, animal, beautiful, beauty, ocean, travel,
Form:
Name
Ode to all African Dreamers of the Written Word
In the vast and verdant landscape of African literature, a constellation of luminous stars once shone bright, their radiant light illuminating the complexities of a continent’s soul.
O Achebe, Awoonor, Mongo Beti, Ama Ata...
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Categories:
savannas, art, beauty, black love, change, creation, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Hidden Treasure
It`s always inspiring to be strong in appearance,
Brave to catch up the essentiality of the sun.
How marvelous the wind blows to beat the sensations as one.
Yes, the pride is deep for BLACK skin to have...
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Categories:
savannas, adventure, analogy,
Form:
Classicism
I AM AFRICA
I am Africa, the cradle of mankind,
Where ancient footprints in the sands of time entwined,
The birthplace of humanity, divinely designed,
In my esteemed valleys, where life first aligned.
I am Africa, the cradle of civilization,
Where mighty empires...
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Categories:
savannas, africa, nature, society, visionary, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Picky
Picky child I was
before & still am as
I’m writing this
picky, petite poem –
I am different
now…I’ve changed for
the better, though
it was a challenging
chore
Clever and cheery
teenager I am in the
present and past,
getting used to
foods I once didn’t
adore...
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Categories:
savannas, adventure, africa, animal, appreciation, beauty, child, uplifting,
Form:
Acrostic
Care For Mother Earth and Her Everything
Spare a thought
For buffaloes, bulls and bears groaning, mourning, starving
Under your collar don’t blow hot
Making rivers and rodents sad, carving
Space and time you don’t own
Encroaching on privileges animals and plants possess
In their comfort and...
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Categories:
savannas, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Green Sahara
The Great Sahara desert as large as the continental United States
a deadly vast searing wasteland of sand dunes mountain high
The expansive buckle of the world's desert belt void of color
dotted by scarce oases of what...
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Categories:
savannas, poems,
Form:
Free verse
A Demon and His Harlot
HER SKIN PRODUCED OILS
THAT WERE LIKE EXTACTIONS
OF THE LAVBER PLANT.
HER SKIN.
HER TONE,
WAS AS HONEY
AND HER LOVE TASTED AS SWEET.
I WOULD HAVE HOLIDAY
WITH HER BECAUSE I LOVED
THE RICH TASTE OF HER BODY
HER KISSES WERE AS...
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Categories:
savannas, art, beauty, business, celebrity, clothes, creation, drink,
Form:
Chant Royal
Monsters
We can try to hide it
Most will attempt to push the thoughts down
We’re not naturally virtuous creatures
It’s quite the contrary - we’re monsters deep down
From the savannas we arose
Fighting fiercely to survive
Selfish, instinctive, amoral, and...
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Categories:
savannas, america, conflict, courage, emotions, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Monsters
We can try to hide it
Most will attempt to push the thoughts down
We’re not naturally virtuous creatures
It’s quite the contrary - we’re monsters deep down
From the savannas we arose
Fighting fiercely to survive
Selfish, instinctive, amoral, and...
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Categories:
savannas, angst, anxiety, beautiful, change, conflict, evil, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Wrote This Poem
Consummated under sheets of inspiration,
Conceived in cryptic dreams,
Created from cloudy concentrations,
The words flowed onto a wrinkled sheet of paper.
I concealed the verse under my pillow,
Entombed beneath my peaceful slumber,
Safe from grating barbarians.
For I do not...
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Categories:
savannas, on writing and words
Form:
Free verse
Insatiable Desire
In our souls, an insatiable desire resides
A force compelling, where reason often hides
A primal instinct, hidden deep below
Millennia of evolution, it's hard to overthrow
Man and woman, our ancient kin
Yet modernity's journey did begin
Acknowledging our past,...
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Categories:
savannas, allusion, angst, creation, earth day, environment, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Fragile
What is life's meaning?
What is the purpose in life?
I'm afraid humanities insatiable appetite for answers
Is creating existential angst in our lives
A brain hardwired on the savannas
Full of fear and aggression has become wise
This is...
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Categories:
savannas, allegory, analogy, appreciation, conflict, courage, dark, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
One People, One Love
A classroom of wonders of earth and space
Eons ago a few hundred, the human race
Mankind comes out of African Savannas of gold
One color, one people, a tale to unfold
And perhaps guided by one love
The...
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Categories:
savannas, analogy, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Vanishing Animals
(African populations are being killed off by war,
famine, disease, and neglect...when will we try to help them?)
Time,
stretching out, encompasses curtains,
on distant savannas, of shimmering heat.
And animals vanish:
ibex and antelope; elephant; grouse.
Here once, now going or...
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Categories:
savannas, angst, life, loss, natural disasters, nature, sad,
Form:
Free verse
There Was a Giraffe
There was a giraffe
living somewhere in the savannas
a nightmare was its confusing life
laughable its appearance
Bits of its head dotted the body
the tail and bones had bits of the head
most of the legs...
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Categories:
savannas, animal, fairy, irony,
Form:
Imagism
A Bed of Hay
A Bed of Hay
Across the fields a long time ago,
Where sparrows flew and lilies grew,
I skipped in play oblivious to hate,
And ran with the wind and sang with the beasts.
And slept on a bed of...
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Categories:
savannas, africa, america, history, racism, slavery,
Form:
Sonnet
Oh Africa
OH !AFRICA.
Alone I stand on foreign land,
My home is here, my heart not true,
Oh ! Africa, your soul I crave.
Through destiny, my...
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Categories:
savannas, absence, adventure, longing, missing,
Form:
Narrative
When Death Dies
Amber of golden flakes wither to a crisp
And green vines slither up the tree's limb.
Hills flourish up around like a wind's cold wisp
That leaves nothing more than this Grim.
Wrenched cries have eternalized
Its great wrath...
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Categories:
savannas, angst, dark, death, depression, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Baboons
Watch out all you kiddies
Or I'll bite off your face
I'm a nasty baboon
It's my favourite taste
I'm usually quite cranky
Not a happy old soul
Chew on dead carcasses
Eat cheetahs whole
Why am I so ornery
It's the baboon's way
Reared...
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Categories:
savannas, nature, old, old,
Form:
Quatrain