Long Veld Poems
Long Veld Poems. Below are the most popular long Veld by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Veld poems by poem length and keyword.
The Echo Returns Not
The 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:
veld, adventure, africa, angst, character, conflict, courage, death,
Form:
Prose Poetry
MEMORIES OF WAR
MEMORIES 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:
veld, 12th grade, character, conflict, courage, emotions, faith,
Form:
Bio
Our Wild Life Beckons
The mighty roar of the King of the
Bush at the crack of dawn,
Its majestic sound, being the first
Thing you hear, as you yawn,
And the laugh of the sly hunch backed
Hyena, as it creeps, slouched
Close to...
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Categories:
veld, animal,
Form:
Free verse
Israel Beckoned In a Dream
Israel Beckoned...In A Dream
This secular skeptic beheld,
eyes hallucinated, harried, felled
and haunted by
holographic images gelled
that didst silently scream herald
ding exhaustively
roaming, schlepping, meld
ding and trudging across
elapsed, nor quelled
blinkered, bloodied dead souls
across fractured wartorn veld,
where bludgeoned ghastly
eons of...
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Categories:
veld, body, dream, heaven, jewish, myth, people, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
The Novice Navigator
Only in August moon boundaries
rise ...
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Categories:
veld, life, teen,
Form:
Free verse
A Bush Fire
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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Categories:
veld, animal, fire,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
veld, death,
Form:
Elegy
Love Transcends All
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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Categories:
veld, i miss you, love, memory, mother daughter,
Form:
Lyric
Our Story, Their Technology
I
I was walking in India's jungle (Dehra Dun)
At the Himalayan foothills, alone
Ten thousand years before Christ was born
I spied a plant, barely a meter tall
Graced with red and green fruit: "May I?"
I prayed to the...
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Categories:
veld, celebration, depression, endurance, inspiration, nature, planet, religion,
Form:
Bio
Africa
Ive seen Skies light up my mind with interludes of lightning so breathtaking
that the aftershock of the Thunder served as a reminded to breath
Its power and beauty danced along the background of a shadowy mountain...
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Categories:
veld, childhoodnight, light, fire, fire, light, night,
Form:
Free verse
Handful of Empty
Holding out my unchained hand,
light as evaporated air
is the emancipation accrued debt equity
By making reparation demands,
this long overdue affair
has a short tabled legislation probability
Many moons of unpaid slave wages owed me,
fills my bosom with hollow...
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Categories:
veld, history, perspective, slavery, truth,
Form:
Bio
Poem For My Village
In the hearts of eastern side,
One day I will return.
Ashamed and with the spirit of abandonment but
I’m sure you’ll still be standing,
Holding on to the wheel and spear,
That you were told it’s your savior
Leaders...
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Categories:
veld, africa, birth, celebration, change, discrimination, future, home,
Form:
Free verse
Severed Tree
the poor old tree,
so long,to tell a story,
a story of scars,
a story of axe-wielding men,
a story of clown monkeys and squirrels,
suffer so,like an old,old tree,
rooted on earth,clinging to life,
so stagnant,in tears,perspiration,
bear fruit at old age,
do...
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Categories:
veld, nature,
Form:
ABC
Earth Seeks To Entertain
"The sounds of Earth Is the Music of my Soul"
Earth Seeks to Entertain
No sound pleases me like falling rain.
When it drums on my roof
It banishes my every pain.
Its little drops both cheer and sooth.
When it...
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Categories:
veld, care, creation, earth, music, rain, soulmate, sound,
Form:
Rhyme
Unto You My Lord
I’ve asked you for love, but my heart
Is a playground of pains like matchsticks & veld,
I’m a broken-pieced soul.
I prayed for success, instead all I see
Is them whammies in numbers of mega bus,
All tight up...
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Categories:
veld, prayer,
Form:
Narrative
Please Don'T Tamper With Us Forests
As you can see I am very big,...
One of the biggest forests in the world.
I belong to a major league
Of chief forests of the veld.
I pack, daily, tons of oxygen
Which I release to the atmosphere.
That...
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Categories:
veld, creation, environment, fruit, nature, planet, sympathy, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ostrich
A bird of grandiose stature, he struts the veld
do not anger him for his powerful kick
can main or even kill. Gently he watches
over his brood their mother left long ago.
It falls onto him to incubate...
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Categories:
veld, africa, bird, nature,
Form:
Personification
Jungle Veld
The jungle veld
The veld was thick with grass
Burnt grass charcoal black
Shining black like gates of hell
Ashen clouds were fleeting the sky
Spraying tiny sobs of snow flakes
The wind whistling a chilling sonnet
The horizon a Gothic potrait
Twin...
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Categories:
veld, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Well If You Insist
Well if you insist
I am not the color of my skin or the clothes on my back.
I am not who or what you assume me to be.
I am not a foul mouthed...
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Categories:
veld, africa, brother, father, identity, mother, son,
Form:
Abecedarian
Highveld Winter
I love the quiet and long shadows of winter,
Thrown as I walk in the veld through brown grass tall,
When the sun is low and the cold is bitter.
Finches and waxbills no longer twitter.
Under foot the...
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Categories:
veld, dark, environment, winter,
Form:
Villanelle
Anticipation
Anticipation
This morning the sky was bright red
Before turning to a dirty milk
The air is still
The heat is intense and dry
You can hear the leaves crackle underfoot
You can feel the energy in the air increasing
Like...
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Categories:
veld, bible, christian, faith,
Form:
Narrative
India's Stories - and Yours
I
You have seen them tell ... of things Indian
In dark South Africa, in the 1960s, BOMBAY ...
MADRAS, and CALCUTTA were destinations
As great as LONDON! We didn't know NYC, or Paris
Yes, old cultures have stories, much...
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Categories:
veld, adventure, community, education, hope, student, success, symbolism,
Form:
Didactic
The Accident
The accident
Its as if I can see you rolling on that veld
With your head hitting on the stones.
Its as if I can hear your loud cry as the trees keep on ripping your clothes.
I can...
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Categories:
veld, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
Each inch of my niche
The whirlwind rolled in rings at the eyewall,
Wild gale blew through the open tropical field.
I'd forgotten to close the windows tight,
And the ensuing rain inundated each inch of my niche.
The hurricane hurriedly stripped the veld...
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Categories:
veld, natural disasters, nature, peace, rain, storm, wind,
Form:
Free verse