Long Springbok Poems

All that does encompass bespeaks wonder in everything
bubbling brooks and waterfalls does your glory ring
terrestrial and celestial ever fill our eyes with seeing
how can not it's splendor not fill our very being
 
raindrops in waters...

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A BUSH FIRE  
               
One scorching afternoon,
A sudden splintering sound was heard,
The nearest was the buffalo herd,
They smelt the smoke...

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Plenty of room in « Le Foot »* for Soccer
     For Doug Vinson at PoetrySoup.com
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I have longed for you my love
as committed the tanager to sing
my yearn to hear your voice
as watercourses the mountains spring
 
My joy leaps like the springbok
at the thought of coming home
the beating heart within...

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Love transcends all 
By Michelle Morris
18/03/2023

When we were first separated
It felt like a shot to the heart
Feeling like I wouldn't make it
The world becoming grey and dark 

People thought I was fine 
No one looked...

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Estosha 
(Great white place)

Many have heard but few have seen
The beauty that lies with the heart of Africa
It folks, falls, flora, wildness life, wildness animals, lakes, rives, 
This is a place with the strength of...

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ALIEN

Someone came to my room last night
An alien, I am sure, in frisson of delight
He crumbled on my dilly springbok breasts
And kissed my tits between love and rests
He was good at love, so how could...

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Antelope.

A springbok runs fast on the savanna avoiding
lions and other predators, but ultimately it is
destined to become food for slayers and thus
 useful. Going back two and a half million years, 
my African ancestors too...

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Gootle bought a springbok(money no problem)
Passed to it a dibbuk
The springbok ran with a little wren
Gootle booked a Reebok ( money?, no problem)







dibbuk= a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls...

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Is there something he’s not telling me?

His eyes pierce through me
Like a sharp arrow does to the poor springbok
Coming from a hunter’s hand of rage
Behind me I can feel his pierce hurting me
A shivering strike...

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A stealthy tiger stalks his prey
His eyes alight with cunning gleam;
And tho' the world may peaceful seem
The lissome springboks graze and play --
The danger lurks, not far away

He crouches low, his muscles taught
While calculations fill...

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BLACK BEAUTY
One sunny afternoon
Mooching about the streets to kill time,
Lo and behold! What did I see?
A damsel
A very pretty damsel walking the streets alone.
She had dark oily skin which glittered conspicuously
Under the espy of the...

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It's functionality,is to cover the boobs
Emphasizing the beauty of being an African woman
It is pride that shows its uniqueness 
Unveiling it's necessity of manhood 
Dance your heart out
It's not the pace that shows its form
Actually...

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She has the tools to draw you in,
without such tricks as flesh or skin,
perfect orbs that stun unknown:
eyes that spoke, to me alone.

Every feeling would they betray,
want and hatred as clear as day,
love and need...

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Situated on the Southern tip of Africa
Where two oceans meet, lies my country of birth
A rainbow nation is what we are called
With eleven official languages
and many diverse cultures
it is not difficult to grasp why...
 
Skeptics...

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