Africa Personification Poems

Born into a world, beautiful, free
Innocence, beauty, perfection.
Can do no harm, a soul without sin.
Happiness, excitement, time to explore.

Taking time to trust oneself,
The world so...

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I’m a really big gal from Africa.
My legs are like pillars and a trunk and tusks I’ve got.
You’re safe with me; I don’t eat meat.
I...

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Gerry the giraffe am I
on tiptoes six metres high

In Africa I was born in the wild
& grew up there as a child

I went exploring as...

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I am the original African queen of huntresses.
My golden and taut body in unison with my sisters,
as we bunch and tense our muscles ready to...

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TRUTH 3

Truth shot point blank through
the centre of her forehead 
Blood spurting, soiling fine furs
of humanoids at play with
slick lies and shallow Hansard words

They try...

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TRUTH 2

Truth came to stroke, hold with joke
sprinkle justice and joy
transform lies with tears
lift hearts from holes
with bells on her toes

Out of the dirt, up...

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TRUTH 1

Truth came from the purest of pure
the smell of pine between toes endure 
from crystal streams where trout shimmer
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Soothing, lissome; render the facsimile of its
Heart; Such a spright with adore imbued.
‘Er pelt’s so sleek; as petite fry’s 
In its nurse’s, gentle and suckling:...

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furry fingertips danced around the head
shaggy and zigzagged, 
Somehow making him seem more fierce
made sense as he was the king

fingertips of green rose up to...

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I am vulture
My soul case may be repugnant,
However, I have every sawbones decimal
On my speed dial
Before any croacker decrees justice
On a soul case,
They confer with...

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Human hunters with spiffy new clothes
Driving jeeps, yelling obscenities, 
Blowing their inflated egos up with puff
Their guns are huge, angry, and mean. 

I run from...

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The child I birth not 

It was a dream than a trance 
It was a vision not a division 
It was aspiration and not an...

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River Ethiope has swallowed another big
                   ...

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Hello. I was born after the Civil War. My name is Jim Crow.  I was not a real individual, but rather a caricature designed...

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When I return to earth in my next earth life,
I will be found in Africa, trumpeting and pounding the ground.
Shaking leaves and trees as I...

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