Bird Poetry
...The chanting begins before dawn outside
my window to the rainforest, "I'm here!",
"I'm here!" echoes down the valley beside
"Baker!, Baker!", here , there and everywhere.
The morning census has...
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Categories:
napier, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
South African Freedom Day
...freedom day
(april the 27th 1994)
far too many brave compatriots died
and
flooding rivers of tears were cried
far too many families ripped apart
with
daggers cutting into their heart
the pai...
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Categories:
napier, forgiveness, history, hope, life,
Form: I do not know?
I Am Me
...12th June 1979
JAMAICA
I am the liquid in my tears
And the refreshment in my glass of water
I am the song I sing
And the meaning of a poem
I am the place I stand
And I am a helping hand
I am tear...
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Categories:
napier, inspirational, poems,
Form: Free verse
You Inside of Me
...I keep thinking
That some thing inside of me belong to you
And aye! You owe me some thing
I keep thinking
That all your voyages shall bring you in my waters
And my shore shall alwa...
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Categories:
napier, love, me, life, me,
Form: ABC
Consideration
...I was about to think, and then I began to think about what I was about to think about. I am thinking, thinking about what I am thinking about, to see if I should be thinking about what I am thinking ...
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Categories:
napier, inspirational,
Form: ABC