Long South africa Poems
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SeeSee
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
south africa, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Things That Break IPoems about Things that Break I
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
south africa, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Classified Part ThreeThe photograph that Tim had shown me a few hours earlier certainly did not do it justice.
From what I could see it was a large triangular shape on three legs which were all at a...
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Categories:
south africa, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
CECYL, SON OF OUR SOIL : CONSUMMATE REVOLUTIONARY{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given...
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Categories:
south africa, africa, allegory, character, death of a friend,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Queen of EnglandQueen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
...
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Categories:
south africa, appreciation, celebration, death, grief, loss,
Form:
Clerihew
My Brother--Nelson Mandela, Umtata, South Africa--Tribute PoemNelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.
As a prevailer of great affliction, he was like a Greek God fighting for the—"Common man!”
I had...
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Categories:
south africa, brother, confidence, dedication, discrimination, inspiration, motivation, strength,
Form:
Couplet
Voting With Our FeetIt seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace
And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small subcontinental WhitePatriarchal colonizing gratitude
for God's universally healthy
multicultural EarthTribes.
It was so...
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Categories:
south africa, community, destiny, earth, happiness, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Jim Crow's DemiseHello. I was born after the Civil War and met my fate after much civil unrest. You may have never encountered me, but some things you might already know. My name is Jim Crow, and...
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Categories:
south africa, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ill Fated AddressAN ILL-FATED ADDRESS
Being on holiday in Athens was truly the best 21st present
my parents could have given me, stayed with my granddad,
felt great, I traveled on my own, no more an adolescent.
Sad that I...
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Categories:
south africa, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Effects Caused Bymultipartism In a Democratic StateThe word Democr,now days all African nations engaged in democracy together with multipartism ,such countries are Tanzania ,KENYA,UGANDA,MALAWI,ZAMBIA,MALI,GHANA e.t.
HUMAN RIGHT;This is a positive...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, courage, war, people, africa, hate, may,
Form:
Bio
Effects Caused Bymultipartism In a Democratic StateThe word Democr,now days all African nations engaged in democracy together with multipartism ,such countries are Tanzania ,KENYA,UGANDA,MALAWI,ZAMBIA,MALI,GHANA e.t.
HUMAN RIGHT;This is a positive...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, courage, war, people, africa, hate, may,
Form:
Bio
Effects Caused Bymultipartism In a Democratic StateThe word Democr,now days all African nations engaged in democracy together with multipartism ,such countries are Tanzania ,KENYA,UGANDA,MALAWI,ZAMBIA,MALI,GHANA e.t.
HUMAN RIGHT;This is a positive...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, courage, war, people, africa, hate, may,
Form:
Bio
Effects Caused Bymultipartism In a Democratic StateThe word Democr,now days all African nations engaged in democracy together with multipartism ,such countries are Tanzania ,KENYA,UGANDA,MALAWI,ZAMBIA,MALI,GHANA e.t.
HUMAN RIGHT;This is a positive...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, courage, war, people, africa, hate, may,
Form:
Bio
Effects Caused Bymultipartism In a Democratic StateThe word Democr,now days all African nations engaged in democracy together with multipartism ,such countries are Tanzania ,KENYA,UGANDA,MALAWI,ZAMBIA,MALI,GHANA e.t.
HUMAN RIGHT;This is a positive...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, courage, war, people, africa, hate, may,
Form:
Bio
Effects Caused Bymultipartism In a Democratic StateThe word Democr,now days all African nations engaged in democracy together with multipartism ,such countries are Tanzania ,KENYA,UGANDA,MALAWI,ZAMBIA,MALI,GHANA e.t.
HUMAN RIGHT;This is a positive...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, courage, war, people, africa, hate, may,
Form:
Bio
Effects Caused Bymultipartism In a Democratic StateThe word Democr,now days all African nations engaged in democracy together with multipartism ,such countries are Tanzania ,KENYA,UGANDA,MALAWI,ZAMBIA,MALI,GHANA e.t.
HUMAN RIGHT;This is a positive...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, courage, war, people, africa, hate, may,
Form:
Bio
Effects Caused Bymultipartism In a Democratic StateThe word Democr,now days all African nations engaged in democracy together with multipartism ,such countries are Tanzania ,KENYA,UGANDA,MALAWI,ZAMBIA,MALI,GHANA e.t.
HUMAN RIGHT;This is a positive...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, courage, war, people, africa, hate, may,
Form:
Bio
Effects Caused Bymultipartism In a Democratic StateThe word Democr,now days all African nations engaged in democracy together with multipartism ,such countries are Tanzania ,KENYA,UGANDA,MALAWI,ZAMBIA,MALI,GHANA e.t.
HUMAN RIGHT;This is a positive...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, courage, success, war, people, africa, hate,
Form:
Bio
Effects Caused Bymultipartism In a Democratic StateThe word Democr,now days all African nations engaged in democracy together with multipartism ,such countries are Tanzania ,KENYA,UGANDA,MALAWI,ZAMBIA,MALI,GHANA e.t.
HUMAN RIGHT;This is a positive...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, courage, success, war, people, africa, hate,
Form:
Bio
Once Upon a TimeTwo of the greatest gifts that God ever gave to mankind ...
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Categories:
south africa, age, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Nigerian Independence CelebrationAs October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.
I produce...
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Categories:
south africa, celebration, freedom,
Form:
Alliteration
Solitary Confinement 1SOLITARY CONFINEMENT 1 : Number Four
Many chains, many locks and bars
clattered at four in the morning
black bitter coffee drugged
a single bucket of cold water
...
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Categories:
south africa, africa, body, character, emotions, history, humanity, integrity,
Form:
Bio
Biography Mark Hurlin SheltonMark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton...
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Categories:
south africa,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Echo Returns NotThe Echo Returns Not
Sponsor : Unseeking the Seeker
[ Poet’s note : SOLOMON MAHLANGU was a South African Freedom fighter & cherished leader in revolutionary army, Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was sentenced to death by...
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Categories:
south africa, adventure, africa, angst, character, conflict, courage, death,
Form:
Prose Poetry
MEMORIES OF WARMEMORIES OF WAR
In prison we turmoiled
packed up cards to fall
whilst they sucked
genitals like bonbons
a quartz on a table
gleamed its knowing
War torn ghettos with
swollen stomachs
stretched wide, auras
shattered, splintered...
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Categories:
south africa, 12th grade, character, conflict, courage, emotions, faith,
Form:
Bio