Mandela Poems

The Quantum Deja-Vu Mandela Effect

I Finally Figure Out How To
Express A Thought Simply...
And Refine The Words To
Their Core, For Effect...

***

Then I Come Back To It
Later, And It Surely Means
The Opposite Now...

!!!!!!

Perhaps I Had
Generalized Just Right?

*Magic Hat*

-Gray Squirrel

09-02-2025

Mandela, Forgive Us

Mandela, forgive us—
When Robben Island set you free after twenty-seven winters,
You stepped into sunlight and showed us the way.
You taught us peace when the world expected vengeance,
You offered us hope when our hearts were torn.

Your vision was a land reborn,
A South Africa dignified,
A rainbow nation rising beyond its past.
You told us to do better—
But oh,

DEILYGRATITUDE FREEDOM NELSON MANDELA

Today I’m grateful for Nelson Mandela…
Who understood when all is said and done…
the main purpose of freedom
is to create it for everyone

NELSON'S STORY LIVES ON

At nine, lost a father
Raised by a single mother
Had to switch home
Not as a prince in a throne

Nelson's story lives on
Stripped of who he was
Forced to take an English name
And carry the weight of that shame

Made to wear a suit
Told to change his voice
But deep down he knew
He never really had a choice

The boy who

Trilogy of Nonviolence Advocates Rev King Jr Attys Mandela and Gandhi!

The "Trilogy of Non-Violence" advocates peacefully uplift humanity
Humanity is to behold a peaceful way of overcoming the struggle of life.
Life, where all souls are valuable and with love are diminishing hate
Hate! Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. states, "Driven out by the light."
 
Light of the world for humanity to see shining bright, eliminating darkness
Darkness, which

Mandela and Shoebills

So suddenly 
it appears in
my Facebook
feed as if it
has always been
part of nature
as if it always
made its presence
known in all the years 
of nature shows 
I've been watching
surely a monstrous 
bird that eats baby
alligators 
and kills its brothers
and sisters is worthy
of a one hour
documentary
but no it's as if
it crossed a border
into my timeline
or did I

James Mclain And The Mandela Effect

In those fearful time's by memories clear,
James McLain, a soul once gripped by fear.
Within the labyrinth of my own mind,
The Mandela effect, a twist defined.

Through unfairly, I faced a daunting fate,
Unjustly convicted by the state.

Mental tempests, an internal weight.
Florida's prisons, a brutish place a primitive place,
My resilience endured despite the state.

Fifteen years entrenched in strife,
Raped

Mandelas Birthday Poem

(Today is Tata MANDELA’S birthday. Freedom lovers all over South Africa are celebrating his legacy of Compassionate Love. I wrote this poem on his birthday when he was still alive. I am so grateful that I was humbled to serve in his government whilst he was President of the First National Democratic Government in South

Spreading Happiness

South Africa is the first  
Place in Africa where you  can find more Excellent
Roads , rail ways , ports and Airports than some
European, Asian, American, Oceania  countries 
And more best world  wine companies. 
During apartheid many black people where living
In locations, treated as foreigners in their Country 
No black person occupied the  presidency or

At Dawn At Prayer

I
On day ten of 2023
I stand but upon my knee
To celebrate a rosette dawn
It's almost 5 am, heavens open:
Give us peace, wisdom, kindness
For others: we have hurt enough
Time for Ubuntu: human - being
Not human doing, doing, doing

II
LORD, we thank thee
A morning of promise in 2023

Chasing Colors

I
-- Stopped to chat: at the one store open
This second day of 2023 here:
Where a month from mid- December
Is the usual "holiday" for child & worker -- 
Mr. L saw me rush off chasing something
This new time had crimson skies, painting
I had not ever seen. Walked a mile
Down near the darkening sky, westward
And back as

Slumlords and Christians

I
When my landlord is a slumlord
The sermons also mock God
"There but for Grace go I"
Helps see a plank in my eye

II
Here, no exposing of hypocrisy
Makes a difference to men, women, me:
Sex and money, sex for food -- for lazy
Is the South African -- post-Mandela's day**

Note**
27 April 1994 was the first democratic election in South Africa,

Hang On

My country in Africa - though I am Indian in origin -
Lies torn and tattered, corrupt and corrupting
No water for weeks, only Mandela's Charity trucked in some (2 trucks today) 
After a whole week of dry faucets. With electricity, there's LOADSHEDDING
Or rationing of power, so one must research the hours each day ... 
And decide

Comparing Luther and Mandela

Shall I forget my asking a brother:
“Who of The Two has A Much Taller Order?”
And Dairy Hand mishandled An Udder,
For round spinning to watch Close Adder…

Martin Luther and Nelson Mandela,
If they were Fidelis - Fidelia, 
Then Stark Crudity of South Africa
Matched Mixed Decency of America 
And True killers, sometimes reasonable,
Same as Searching Eyes for The

Nelson Mandela Quotes

“Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”

“A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

“I learned that

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