Long Townships Poems
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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:
townships, africa, allegory, character, death of a friend,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Unquotable Quotes: the How of Democratic Kill - Ixl Part Two
Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill - IXL, Part Two
No, tell me not my vote now does not count
(Shakespearean Sonnet)
No, tell me not my vote...
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Categories:
townships, freedom, humanity, international, leadership, power, society,
Form:
Sonnet
Brisk temperatures at dawn and dusk herald incipient early Autumn
Brisk temperatures at dawn and dusk herald incipient early Autumn...
here within southeastern
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
encompassing quite a geographic swath
bordering Philadelphia County
to the southeast, including areas like Lower Merion,
Cheltenham, and Abington townships,
forming the southeastern boundary
of Montgomery...
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Categories:
townships, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, blessing, joy, sensual, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Xlviii - Tongue Teasers
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVIII - Tongue Teasers
If the « Yellow Race » could have invented the alphabet, they wouldn’t still be seeing « Images » when they close their eyes. Picasso, Dadaism, Surrealist and Abstract painting...
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Categories:
townships, humor, imagery, irony, satire, word play,
Form:
Epigram
ALUTA CONTINUA
ALUTA 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:
townships, 12th grade, change, courage, deep, endurance, extended
Form:
Free verse
When I Was a Boy 1960s
I saw one flag raised and another fall
I saw the great lie of justice and equity for all
I saw a crisis that stopped the world
I saw a wall to keep out the cold
I saw a...
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Categories:
townships, childhood, history, world,
Form:
Couplet
MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES
MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES
Don’t go back to heavy sleep
dwell in the wakefulness
of I AM THAT I AM
here mulberries and butterflies
beckon across filtered fences
which you can comely climb
for a bountiful bestowing
pick, a...
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Categories:
townships, butterfly, change, color, earth, environment, identity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Rubicon Crossing
Written: May 06, 2025 for contest by Edward Ibeh
...
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Categories:
townships, adventure, history,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
townships, history, inspirational, loss, political, visionary, freedom,
Form:
Elegy
Jimmy Page Was Here On July 4th
As the sun sets
A hot wind like this
Does not belong in downtown Lansing
But here it is
Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans
My wife and I
We hold down our pouncing bouncing patio table
At the...
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Categories:
townships, happiness, music, nostalgia, peace, places, river, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Crossing a Continent At Night
Down a runway skybound
to cross a continent,
see from a window
a city fall away
with bright beads
strung along a coast,
then turning inland,
clumped townships
shrinking to solitary lights
sunk far apart
into hours
of featureless dark.
Disconnected
from the...
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Categories:
townships, flying, night,
Form:
Free verse
No Primus Inter Pares
No Primus Inter Pares
Germans at the Costa Brava they just cannot yield
‘Brava’ the fight and they are conquering once more
Always the first on the beach or the striped deck chair but
The towel goes right up...
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Categories:
townships, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Earthbound Sobriety
While crossing Verrazano Narrows Bridge
recurring mem’ries of New York recapture
history and civilization of the two boroughs
provide me with deep interest and emphasis.
Brooklyn in its old Dutch for “broken land,”
and Staten Island named “Staaten Eylandt”
named...
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Categories:
townships, history, hope, imagination, introspection, time, me, metaphor,
Form:
Narrative
Crowned May Queen
Crowned May Queen
As the music flows in my mind and soul in cheer
I dance around on my toes in the sun kissed fragrant fields
of wildflowers and tall emerald green grass yields
With a breath of life...
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Categories:
townships, celebration,
Form:
Quintilla
Restricted Life
Human life deserves a platform to unfold
Away from straitjackets of pious scrutiny
Whose eyes, ears and hands feel so cold
They reject freedom and project a mutiny
Born from the scorn society pours on freedom
Curtailing every...
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Categories:
townships, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Richman Shenanigans
How is it my fault that I took a leap of faith
Like any naive girl in townships looking for good life
I mixed with wrong people who promised me soft life in Dubai
Excitement journeyed...
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Categories:
townships, anxiety,
Form:
I do not know?
Rising From the Ashes
RISING FROM THE ASHES
Wordancer
The eyes of the dragon seen through the trees
Mesmerize minds and cause bodies to freeze.
Which way to go, which way to turn;
No time for questions when the trees burn.
Just jump in the...
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Categories:
townships, confusion, death, depression, fear, hope, natural disasters,
Form:
Rhyme
Environmentalist Minor
I
The railway is long gone
In the 1960s, Apartheid ethnic townships were grown
Where I sit now, is one - "Coloured" Newtown -
But raping of nature as culture, as steamship-pasts
When transported folk (colonial) found new castes
Around the...
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Categories:
townships, africa, anxiety, environment, jesus, journey, words,
Form:
Rhyme
A boy away from home
#I_am_boy_away_from_home!
Like a bird, when one day its obligated to leave the nest and learn to fly by itself, learn self-reliance and survival, face the unfamiliar, the horror's of men and predators, stormy winds and thunders,...
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Categories:
townships, absence, encouraging, fate, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Face To Phase
Runaway is what they used to believe
But the streets is all we have
All we had, now its us versus the cities
Straight outta townships
We beginners but labeled as sinners
All we need is faith,...
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Categories:
townships, dedication, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Verse
Born To Die At Stromboli
« Think, the world remembers only the poets. The name of a country depends on how its poets behave. »
...
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Categories:
townships, on writing and words, may,
Form:
Free verse
Mysterious Orbs
According to a 1975 article published in Winnipeg Press, those 3 stones, found in Eastern Townships of Quebec, serve as evidence that Phoenicians embarked on a treacherous sail across the Atlantic, reaching North America well...
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Categories:
townships, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
In Memory of Motherhood
In Memory of Motherhood
Pain scribbled signatures in mothers buttocks
announcing the beginning of sunset
sun rays remained un vomited from the beauty of rainbows
war tied ropes of struggle round their necks
many rhymes of suffering sung ...
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Categories:
townships, abortion, absence, abuse, adventure, africa, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
I Fear My Country
The scars are reflected upon the wrinkled skin
Carried down through the anguish of history
But Beauty shines through their forgiving smiles
We are a nation history has spoken to
Yet We rejoice and feel free in the...
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Categories:
townships, peoplewoman, beauty, prayer, beauty, may, drug,
Form:
I do not know?
ARTIST : 3 - specular verse
contemporary Persian ancient
blending intro-imagery with peach
...
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Categories:
townships, allegory, allusion, art, change, character, deep, extended
Form:
Verse