Long Soweto Poems
Long Soweto Poems. Below are the most popular long Soweto by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Soweto poems by poem length and keyword.
Identity Apples
Identity Apples
iam a fat skeleton, resurrecting
from the sad memories of dada
and dark mysteries of aminism
iam buganda
i bleed hope
i drip the honey of fortune
makerere, think tank of africa
i dance...
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Categories:
soweto, africa, analogy, anxiety, assonance, bangla, bereavement,
Form:
Didactic
My Hero
MY HERO
This is a brand new truth so give me focus attention,
in spite of all I've been through life keep challenging me,
just realizing am on a sinking ship,
following folks in friendship hoping...
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Categories:
soweto, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
When a Man Loves You
Excerpt from Resonance of the Soul – Flowers and Harmonics. This poem appears in the soon-to-be-published anthology, published by IEME LLC, and coming soon to Amazon and major bookstores. It is also featured on YouTube,...
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Categories:
soweto, for her, growth, inspirational, love, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
An Ode To My Grandmother-Jane Mvula
[This is an advanced version of a poem
that I wrote on the 5th of February
2008,
titled "The 15th of June" in
commemoration to my late
Grandmother,
Jane Mvula]
_______An Ode To My Grand(Mother)__
______
15 June 1918, was when...
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Categories:
soweto, absence
Form:
ABC
Solomon Mahlangu: My Blood Will Nourish the Tree That Will Bear the Fruits of Freedom
(special thanks to a friend who shared this tribute to Solomon Mahlangu)
Solomon Mahlangu: My Blood will Nourish the Tree that will Bear the Fruits of Freedom:
Solomon Mahlangu was trained as an MK soldier with a...
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Categories:
soweto, black african american, courage, death, dedication, education,
Form:
I do not know?
Racism in the Vatican
Woe to you… whitewashed tombs!
You glitter in gold vestments,
swing incense in marble cathedrals,
chant Latin like sacred thunder—
but your silence
is louder than the bells of Rome.
Tell me, O Holy See,
why must the holiest of seats
remain the...
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Categories:
soweto, christian, dark, god, hate, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Listen to their voices Youth Day
Inspired by Youth Day, a drive through Soweto combined with Phil Collins music.
Listen to their voices
(Youth Day)
By Michelle Morris
17/06/2024
Driving through Soweto
Seeing the makeshift stalls
People hustling to survive
Part of their daily grind...
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Categories:
soweto, africa, community, encouraging, feelings, perspective, visionary, youth,
Form:
Lyric
Jones Town
Used to be a happy go around…later shrouded in frowns…?
For many a birth places…what are the shades of their faces…?
A log of many a cases…where are the words of their paces…
Memories of a ghetto…not in...
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Categories:
soweto, memory, , western,
Form:
ABC
A Comrade Like Ben
A Comrade like Ben
A statesman like Mandela diplomatically
suspended the necessary struggle of opposites,
gummed his fragmented land together with reconciliation….
exploiters to exploited , murderers to martyrs
imperialist to invisibled indigenes
lives in Sandton and councils Bill...
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Categories:
soweto, history, inspirational, loss, political, visionary, freedom,
Form:
Elegy
Children of Xenophobia
Children of Xenophobia
Children eating bullets and firecrackers
Beggars of smile and laughter
Silent corpses sleeping away fertile dreams
Povo* chanting new nude wretched slogans
Overstayed exiles eating beetroot and African potato
Abortions and condoms batteries...
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Categories:
soweto, abuse, addiction, africa, allegory, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Misfortune of a Poor
Hey blokes…do you really know what life is…?
Like living in the ghetto…any memories of Soweto…?
Maybe you can’t…make me a chant…
Yes…I know…because I grow…
In the streets…where my feet…
Would meet…the dead…and the underfed…
Where food variety was scarcity…like...
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Categories:
soweto, analogy, anger, appreciation, change, dedication, growing up,
Form:
ABC
P O E M 2013
P.O.E.m 2013
I.
---
Pretoria isn't far from Soweto yet
Earth's curve still hid each from the other
As blind eyes denied the other's pride
Colored only, European only - apartheid
Eradicated, chance for understanding
Only blood and bombs could determine
Negro and white...
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Categories:
soweto, christmas, earth, peace,
Form:
Acrostic
Fare Thee Well, Madiba Page 1
Goodbye, Grand Warrior of Mveso
Of Qunu, of Transkei, of Soweto
Grand Warrior of Rivonia and Robben Island
Goodbye, Grand Warrior of Azania, of Africa
Fare thee well, beloved icon of the World
Fare thee well, resilient Madiba
I speak not...
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Categories:
soweto, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
For Nelson Mandela An Elegy
Aluta continua
Was that word another message replaced
And the room spun dark as web
The tree no longer walks the night
The bush is silent on the veld
Madiba has passed the lion sleeping
Has left the fruit falling
Has left...
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Categories:
soweto, death,
Form:
Elegy
No Truth For Africa
How long shall we try to convince her to see the truth?
How long would she pretend, when the truth sits in-between her breast cursed?
Deception and lies she fed her children but she hypocritically crave for...
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Categories:
soweto, black african american, children, love, truth,
Form:
I do not know?
The Rainbow Is Out
the rainbow is out now,
I saw it this morning on my way to school
the rainbow our heroes of old died fighting for
...
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Categories:
soweto, africa, black african american, culture, forgiveness, freedom,
Form:
ABC
Crossing the White Line
Ebony drunk and burnt rubber sienna swerving,
I crossed the white line ...
And tragically,
with emotional intensity,
word vehicular hit a vanilla-colored human being
My coal senses were belly dulled
by the intoxicating, sepia...
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Categories:
soweto, anxiety, color, psychological, race, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Anc and Joe Slovo
ANC and Joe Slovo
ANC took on the white -run system and won, we hoped
for a new free country an apartheid- free land
The “Rainbow Nation sprung to life reconciliation, dancing
in the streets, which...
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Categories:
soweto, absence,
Form:
Blank verse
South Africa
South Africa
The rainbow paled in South Africa
the end of apartheid has ended, freedom for all.
Not quite, the poor in Soweto are getting poorer.
The difference it now consists of white poor as well.
The new leadership...
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Categories:
soweto, africa, anti bullying, color, corruption,
Form:
Blank verse
Thrill the Thriller
Let me play you violin
I hope you will dance
Don't mind how to begin
Till you loose all steps into trance
And wonder if you've been therein
I don't mind if it hurts
My fingers and...
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Categories:
soweto, africa, art, birthday, celebration, crush, dedication, for
Form:
Rhyme
Madiba
"Madiba"
The currents keep up sparking up and down
Such elegance, your life had more scenes than an epic flick
Defined humanity you did, even in death you deserve a crown
Singlehandedly you kept the white fleas a bay,...
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Categories:
soweto, appreciation,
Form:
ABC
Anc and Joe Slovo
ANC and Joe Slovo
ANC took on the white-run system and won, we hoped
for a new free country an apartheid-free land
The “Rainbow Nation sprung to life reconciliation, dancing
in the streets, which have become...
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Categories:
soweto, absence,
Form:
Blank verse
Scrubbed White Like Clothes
Scrubbed white like clothes on a river stone
I search for words to write your name
Lathered of vowels
Bleached of syntax
Sanitized by the drenching light of the sun
All I have left is a glossary of feelings
Words without...
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Categories:
soweto, historyclothes, river,
Form:
Free verse
The Violent Street
Our brothers
Were treading their cool streets
Without anxiety
All day long.
Then while they slept
The noise like those of giants
Woke them suddenly
Immediately
To the street
They rushed
And watching they saw the elephants
But sadly this new specie of elephants
With rude...
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Categories:
soweto, satireday, sound, day, sound,
Form:
I do not know?
The Rain-Bow Nation
Hey!
are
you
a
Zulu?
Am
a
Bushman...no
you
are
a
Bantu,a
Bantu
or
Hottentots?
Maybe
an
Afrikaner. ...
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Categories:
soweto, hate, inspiration, inspirational, satire, slavery, symbolism,
Form:
Prose Poetry