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Great Energy
...What great energy existed way back then and what or who thrust it out in all directions with unimaginable speed How was that energy transformed becoming matter gaining mass Was it by ......
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Hal Deats
Categories:
rift valley,
perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Her Wish
...HER WISH…. To strip its last dignity have it bare and hopeless longing for warmth. The sun rays to kiss its soma burn its soul leaving nothing but a ghost clothed with shame regret and loss. Los......
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Nontombi Khambule
Categories:
rift valley,
betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Wide-Eyed Children
...mother star beams as she beholds her errant brood six diverse, rocky planets the innermost, a dense, two-faced, frosty furnace the outermost, pulverised much interfered with by a jovial n......
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Ian Love
Categories:
rift valley,
children, innocence, planet, uplifting,
Form:
Verse
Teaching Myself
...I Salvation is the first freedom of humanity "*****Sapiens," self-defined, "Wise Man" from Africa, Olduvai Gorge, the Rift Valley, experts say Research especially why we are special: conundrum - ......
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Anil Deo
Categories:
rift valley,
addiction, america, community, identity,
Form:
Acrostic
Honeymoon Destination
...HONEYMOON DESTINATION *****sapiens have travelled very far in time From the gaping rift valley all around the earth Invented science, shaped their future and dream Mode......
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
Categories:
rift valley,
science, space, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Every Woman Is Mt Everest
...Every woman is Mt. Everest. To win gold medal in contest, climb from snow-capped peak pass via area of volcanic eruptions. You'll end in the rift valley, the terrain of flowing rivers, the land......
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Categories:
rift valley,
metaphor, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Adrift In Daydreams Upon the Banks of the Nile
...an average of 2,830 cubic meters per second of rich silt forms an alluvial plain spreads outward in a fan shape from sedimentary deposit whereby ancient Egyptian civilizations got bui......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
rift valley,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Virgin Libation, Where Are the Gods
...When our cries travel not again through the sky And the sun shines directly on our barren heads Communal labour to clear filth render to apologies The wise who hear and cautions spoke of no truth ......
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Lambert Adwini-Poku
Categories:
rift valley,
africa, assonance, cry, devotion,
Form:
Epic
More Than Just a Habitat
...The home of mankind and makind’s favourite drink existing in a size bigger than spain and france combined with its new flower, a diplomatic capital of its continent and a paradise for vege......
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Funom Makama
Categories:
rift valley,
africa, community, earth, education,
Form:
Ode
Four Africa Poems
...MOMBASA Full moon uneasiness Veranda dining, seven course style, One day after my thirty sixth birthday, I dine alone, in a poem. Waiting for the Moon to pass to wane and contemplate for Zan......
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Stephen Barry
Categories:
rift valley,
adventure, africa, travel, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Devil's Wife
...Inverse Goddess of life, You destroy what you refuse to love, Love not, what your loins thirst for, The smallest act of pleasure for you, When you pee, when you poo, Drives another nail into the......
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Brian Johnston
Categories:
rift valley,
evil, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
Africa
...Take a journey through the East African Plains soaring temperatures of 120 degrees and that is in the shade. Intensified sounds of insects humming and buzzing. Going about their daily life cleaning ......
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Shadow Hamilton
Categories:
rift valley,
africa,
Form:
Haibun
Arab Spring
...From Tripoli to Cairo I saw the intifada leftover After Tunisia and Yemen Like a dam broken After it had sucked life from dry sand Morocco, Kuwait, Djibouti and Oman I heard birds singing at the clif......
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L'Nass Shango
Categories:
rift valley,
political, seasons, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Great Rift Valley
...land mass subductor steam engine conductor core generator......
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Stephen Parker
Categories:
rift valley,
nature
Form:
Haiku
Kilimanjaro
...KILIMANJARO Almost lost. Scanty ice below equator, Trackless wilderness of ice and fire. Africa’s king. I’ve climbed none higher. Kilimanjaro with majestic crater Like the long-gone ......
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Sidney Beck
Categories:
rift valley,
adventure, places,
Form:
Quatrain
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