Mongo Poems - Poems about Mongo

707 BRONX JUMP

...A street beat… no, a clave/ not just one, but a chorus of Cuban souls, whispering stories of sun-drenched streets/ sugar cane rum, and women of the streets/ Conga lines in the neighborhood/ Fidel Cas...

Categories: mongo, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

Ode to all African Dreamers of the Written Word

...In the vast and verdant landscape of African literature, a constellation of luminous stars once shone bright, their radiant light illuminating the complexities of a continent’s soul.
 
 O Achebe, A...

Categories: mongo, art, beauty, black love,
Form: Free verse

Bantu People

...Bantus 
Are well known as  
The ancient hibrow Israelites, 
In all Africa and abroad, 
They protect their 
Culture and 
Traditions which reffer 
To Deuteronomy and 
Laws 
Of Moses. 

When ...

Categories: mongo, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Dedicated Verse To Student Elijah Johnson Brother Nightingale

...inahitaji kuimba mbele
 ya wanakwaya kila mahali
Sing brother sing
Imba kaka imba 
Imba kaka imba

Nightingale brother
His name is Elijah 
He's a nightingale 
His God is still...

Categories: mongo, 9th grade, boy, celebration,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Bored

...not revving
but remming
her skateboard
rimming railsliding
catching some air
before the extension
she tucked kneed wanting
trick transition tweak topsheet
i tail grab switch tools stoked stal...

Categories: mongo, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Lou

...Sometimes i think I’m falling, away from the dark, the pain and the memories, still leave a mark, life is a lesson, and wounds leave a scar, the spiralling staircase, is never that far, what if all a...

Categories: mongo, cute love, deep, happy,
Form: Rhyme Royal

The Day the Drum Died

...The Day the Drum Died/Dedicated to The Watts Drum Circle


It's festival time!...Congeros!...Timbaleros!...Same place same time
The Villager Caller is on the scene looking and waiting to do his t...

Categories: mongo, africa,
Form: Free verse

Cocoon

...Moist cocoon, most horrid home
What are these paintings for?
To fill, with glee, a shutters frame?
Or anchor awkward eye?
Those thick black strokes, do they pull upon,
All oceans breaking bread?...

Categories: mongo, adventure, history, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Flash Gordon

...A famous earth hero by the name of Flash Gordon,
would venture with his friends Hans Zarkov and Dale Arden,
in an interplanetary rocket invention,
to a faraway planet that is known as Mongo.
Neve...

Categories: mongo, adventure, fantasy, science fictionearth,
Form: Rhyme