Long South african Poems
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Chapter 114 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Godfrey and Barrington's Fiesta and Food Reperation ShiftDamian was on the tele-video
conference with various Prestigious
Proper people of distinction. The US
Vice president was on Skype along
With Secretary of State. He spoke
With Russia's top diplomat, Valeiry
Sergei Shonikov, South African president
Holu...
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Categories:
south african, color, husband,
Form:
Alliteration
Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.
Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1
(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)
He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw a ewe eat a yew.
I ate on the ait eight...
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Categories:
south african, word play,
Form:
I do not know?
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 african, africa, allegory, character, death of a friend,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
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 african,
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 african, adventure, africa, angst, character, conflict, courage, death,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Rebirth Poem Xi - Black Painting On a Black WallBlack Blood was used to paint a picture on a Black Wall. Black Blood was used to paint. Black Blood. Blood bought from the very same people who stood side by side with you 25...
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Categories:
south african, hate, jealousy,
Form:
Free verse
Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993 Parts One and Two [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...
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Categories:
south african, anger, friendship, may, words,
Form:
Elegy
ALUTA CONTINUAALUTA CONTINUA : FORCED REMOVALS
( Poet’s Note : I’m posting this poem here as a South African history student recently asked to interview poet on Forced Removals. I read this poem which he enjoyed....
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Categories:
south african, 12th grade, change, courage, deep, endurance, extended
Form:
Free verse
South African Freedom Dayfreedom day
(april the 27th 1994)
far too many brave compatriots died
and
flooding rivers of tears were cried
far too many families ripped apart
with
daggers cutting into their heart
the pain is felt still deep today
on this glorious sun-splashed South...
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Categories:
south african, forgiveness, history, hope, life, memory, nostalgia, peace,
Form:
I do not know?
Zippitys PlaygroundThe playground I chose to write about,
Is open twenty four seven, night or day,
It is beyond any expectable doubt, dangerous
Paradise to young animals, some human
Children perhaps even envious!
Zippity was a young, playful giraffe,
His mother always...
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Categories:
south african, animal,
Form:
Free verse
The Darfurian GirlI enjoyed an almost idyllic childhood. This was marred only at the age of ten by my circumcision, a cruel and primitive custom among my otherwise enlightened people. In my grandmother’s hut, I was held...
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Categories:
south african, bereavement, character,
Form:
Prose
My DestinyI have a destiny,
That most of you look down on,
As being poor and backward.
That many desire to change and have me assimilated,
But I'm surely destined to be African.
When you meet me, I've got more melanin,
And...
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Categories:
south african, africa, culture, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
GigiI had meet Gigi Fernandez at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
at the tail end of Flower Power with the scent of carefree loving in the air
exchange students finding themselves in a different world...
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Categories:
south african, lost love,
Form:
Lyric
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:
south african, children, men, military, sad, soldier, war, women,
Form:
Rhyme
I Will Never See Them AgainI Will Never See Them Again
“Abide with me . . . , as the darkness deepens,
When earth’s joy grows dim . . . , its glory passes away,
Through darkness and sunshine . . . ,...
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Categories:
south african, loss, lost, tribute, family, family,
Form:
ABC
Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993, Part Three [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...
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Categories:
south african, friendship, world,
Form:
Elegy
Binky and Danker Dunker Dew"CROCK" DOSSENBERG McHENRY
...
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Categories:
south african, business, fashion, music, sports,
Form:
Chant Royal
Oh Black AmericansOh! Black Americans,
Africa is your motherland
And most Africans love you
Not because you are called African Americans
And lost your African mother tongues
And cultures.
Being called Americans while speaking
African dialects , suit...
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Categories:
south african, africa, america, black african american, malayalam, tamil,
Form:
Free verse
The WomenThe Women
(for the countless women, names unknown, who bore the brunt of Apartheid, and who fought the racist system at great cost to themselves and their families, and for my mother, Zubeida Moolla)
Pregnant, your husband...
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Categories:
south african, courage, daughter, death, dedication, devotion, farewell, forgiveness,
Form:
I do not know?
My Name Is Lelawala-WWhere sunless river weeps and waves into the deep
Please awake me not as I sleep very charmed sleep.
Have many a names in different cultures world over
Boann, Anqet, Mujaji, talaya, Lelawala, & Tsoninar
...
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Categories:
south african, me, native american, rain, river,
Form:
Rhyme
Talus ChampionshipHE READ WHAT WOULD BE CALLED THE
"ROLL CALL OF CHAMPIONS"
THE COMPANY NAMES THAT COMPRISE
THE TALUS, AND THE SANCTIONING BODIES
THAT RECOGNIZED THE TALUS CHAMPION AS
THE PREMIER CHAMPION IN WRESTLING
THE PRESTIGE OF HOLDING THE MOST
PRESIGESES PRIZE...
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Categories:
south african, adventure, appreciation, drink, encouraging, food, inspirational, language,
Form:
Chant Royal
Long Walk To Freedom,We the nation that survived
discrimination building a
civilization brand new evolution
94 new birth welcome to earth
You fought for our freedom 27
years in prison coz u had a
vision...
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Categories:
south african, change
Form:
ABC
WTC Remember Temba
Lovingly lauded.. they marauded.. rightly applauded
Saffa gaffers did thrill
Willow wielding wizards of Oz
Yielding…lampooned..marooned..jaffas
Festooned spill just like Seville .
Must remember..the ember burning
Yearning of Temba Bavuma
Kept his sense of humour
Despite being the victim of flimsy...
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Categories:
south african, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Displaced In KathmanduOur dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its porcelain thrones into the walled garden’s weedy rear yard. Village...
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Categories:
south african, anxiety, fear, war, , western,
Form:
Haibun
My Proud Palestinian Wife: Talk To Us About Suffering - EmpathyI
She was not unduly unkind, maybe a tad smart
Not ever imagining I am close to Israel and Palestine
My wife comes from Jeneen, a hot spot
But I quickly think of Jacob - NABLUS - old Neapolis
The...
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Categories:
south african, america, analogy, discrimination, forgiveness, jesus, jewish, prejudice,
Form:
Prose Poetry