Long Zambezi Poems
Long Zambezi Poems. Below are the most popular long Zambezi by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Zambezi poems by poem length and keyword.
To the Heavens For Hope
Back again ...
Her daily hour of hope ...
She came every evening to The Hem ...
Just a big hole in the earth, really, a barren canyon of dust,
Perched on the south edge of the Congo, near...
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Categories:
zambezi, absence, adventure, africa, animal, longing, science, science
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Odyssey From Africa 3a
CHAPTER 3 The River
While they paused to rest a moment
Han gazed suddenly behind them
To the south a long way distant
Faintly rose a hazy ribbon
From the grassland; Han spoke quietly,
"Loved ones, we are...
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Categories:
zambezi, adventure, africa, fantasy, history, humanity, mythology, science,
Form:
Narrative
Feel Africa
FEEL AFRICA
Silence!
Silence Africa!
One can hardly get Africa to be silent;
Africa habours a pulsating bubble.
Everyone in Africa bounces to rhythm resilient.
Africa, like Zambia, or
Zambia, like Africa;
Dear ones, whichever comes first
Swells with energy in the sun!
You see...
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Categories:
zambezi, art, history, heart, work, africa, heart, pride,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
No To Xenophobia
HEAL THY SELF O WOUNDED AFRICA
(no to XENOPHOBIA).
Wake up a voice shouted...
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Categories:
zambezi, africa, betrayal, conflict, corruption, death, sad, violence,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Birds No Longer Chirp Peace
With these winds of July ever sweeping the earth,
How should I follow the footprints of men that believed that no man shall auction another?
... Here, dawns are graceless, birds are no longer early to chirp...
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Categories:
zambezi, africa, anxiety, conflict, confusion, leadership, political,
Form:
Free verse
Gentle Ripples Passing - Lake Kariba
Water lapping at edge of the boat beneath the silence of the sky
Swaying branches of mopane trees and fish eagles cry
Wind of changing seasons and melting palates of hue
in the blood red sunset glow and...
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Categories:
zambezi, adventure, beauty, inspirational, life, nature, nostalgia, peace,
Form:
Blank verse
A Zambezi Saga
The brook thrums as it vaults over the piled rocks
Rolling on deep into the Zambezi valley
Twisting, flirting with the rigdes that compliment the escarpment beyond
And the indigenous lass strolled to the rivulet a rose...
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Categories:
zambezi, africa,
Form:
Narrative
My Beautiful Africa
By Parizo Van Thulare
I was born endless miles from the town
Where tales are told about the king in his crown
Where plates are treated same glass
So fragile respect is of the erything
So beautiful...
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Categories:
zambezi, beauty, celebration, culture, holiday, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Whispers of An African River - Mana Pools National Park
Ripples of blue and silver dance
impala males jump and prance
In a land where imagination roams to and fro
and the waters of old eb and flows
Dust holds memories from near and far
The sky, escarpment, and water...
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Categories:
zambezi, adventure, animals, nature, travel, life, water, life,
Form:
Blank verse
Oh My Africa
By Parizo Van Thulare
what have we done this time ?
What happened to together as one ?
Why us?
Why now ?
I thought what we had back in the ages was through
I thought that blood which was...
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Categories:
zambezi, africa, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
Lonely
My Mother, like many saints, is compassionate,
Though lion-like, my father is considerate;
Like banyan tree, my family is well-branched out,
Grandmas, Grandpa, Uncles, Aunts - all are good; no doubt...
Precious among all, Pink Pearl, I am so...
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Categories:
zambezi, life, lonely, loss, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Africa
A place to be; a home to live,
Full of cultures and traditions,
rivers of live.
In crossing the Mediterranean,
‘criss-crossing’ the continent, you see…
A mountain of rivers,
running the Niles to desert,
crossing the Niger to the ocean,
a Congo in...
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Categories:
zambezi, nature, people, places, song, sound, song, sound,
Form:
Epic
AFRICA'S SACRED ARK
Soon,
The sacred black ashes and dark disfigured, but resilient bones of our enslaved, enraged and estranged ancestors,
Will awake from their centuries of dazed, polluted and denigrated slumber, to reclaim, revamp their bastardized and emasculated...
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Categories:
zambezi, africa, corruption, humanity, independence day, poetry, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
How Can a Bird That's Born For Joy Sit In a Cage and Sing
I am the wounded, standing
nude in thy midst
Showing to your eyes the
stripes of thy iniquities
Tears dripping down my chin
as drops of rain from the grey
clouds
My face wrinkled with the pain
of...
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Categories:
zambezi, allegorypeople, people, , western,
Form:
Free verse
I Look Through the River
In the realm of the mighty Chobe-Zambezi,
Where once we thought blessings flowed freely,
I used to look through the river, deep and dazzling,
Its currents whispering stories untold,
Mild and bold, the air's gentle caress,
Looming over a navy...
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Categories:
zambezi, death, death of a friend, deep, depression,
Form:
I do not know?
Zambia Was My Mother
Zambia was my mother—
shaped like a butterfly resting in the heart of Africa,
her wings curved not by nature alone,
but by the lines of empires
who came to take what was never theirs.
They called her Northern Rhodesia,
after...
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Categories:
zambezi, appreciation, celebrity, cheer up, courage, culture, first
Form:
Free verse
Son of the Sun
Applauses were even, numbers and faces were odd.
Clay was molded and fate washed her palm
Sentences were bold as my story was told.
One of a rusty heart of iron stitches
One of haggard feet of million hitches.
The...
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Categories:
zambezi, africa, celebration, culture, destiny, hero, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
I Love Africa
I love Africa, my beautiful Africa
I can roam in the bushes
I can run up the mountains
Down the valleys
Across the plains
Or get lost in the forests
Or the caves
I can soak the sun
On the sand at the...
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Categories:
zambezi, africa,
Form:
Free verse
Sticks and Stones
If you are cathedral of consecration
I'm the voluminous chime summoning souls
If you are the moonglade mountain peak
I'm the fedora of snow atop you
If you are the bantam flame of hope
I'm the mammoth...
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Categories:
zambezi, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Wood With a Mellow Breath
With palms so chaste and a grip so pure
She wraps her fingers around the mallets
Letting them sit in the space between her thumbs and first fingers;
When she makes her first few strokes
Hammering smoothly up and...
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Categories:
zambezi, africa, nostalgia, poems,
Form:
Free verse
'Current' Statements on Kariba Dam
Zambezi's strength rules
who can harness our river?
electricity from water?
Nyami, Nyami
Kariba Dam damaged
by six decades of water
the Tonga tribes celebrate
Nyami, Nyami
May 10, 2022
Joseph May's contest on Naani.
Two naani of 24 syllables each
current statements about currents
When the...
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Categories:
zambezi, 11th grade, courage, god, river, soulmate, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Africa
The black panther; no spots for fear,
Accustomed by the frails of the forests,
To the long stretch of the Nile,
Such beauty, I marvel at.
Grazed fields, wetting bullock's appetite
For the savannah- a stone...
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Categories:
zambezi, africa, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, environment, love, pride,
Form:
Chant Royal
Beautiful Africa
Dainty queen undevoured
Bride of the rising sun
Beautiful Africa,
The savor of thy fragrance
Calls my tongue to sweet ballads!
Your velvet skin carved in black gold
On your loins do diamonds glow
Your perfume is the silky oil of...
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Categories:
zambezi, adventure, angel, art, beautiful, beauty, black african
Form:
Free verse
Call Me Africa
Call me Africa,
The land of the ancient chiefs
That lie in ruins.
Iam the sun-scorched plains
And the roar of Mosi oa tunya.
Iam the rolling hills
And the lush green valleys
Where rainclouds come to rest
And the mopane is...
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Categories:
zambezi, 12th grade, africa, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Mosi Oa Tunya
The mosquitoes were dancing outside net,
Singing their treacherous songs of death;
“Let us in, we need your blood”.
I rose and rushed out of
The brick and pole cottage
From liquid waste demands,
Having been carousing in solitude
Till evening.
A...
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Categories:
zambezi, nature,
Form:
Ballad