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Short Landless Poems

Short Landless Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Landless by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Landless by length and keyword.


The West
Cattle rolled tracks
Straw sacks
Migrants rode lonely
Lonesome rhythm in sound
Landless –...

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Categories: landless, allegory, cowboy-western, history,
Form: Free verse



Between Rivalry and Savagery
The rivalry
             disputes spaces   and fights as
             landowner and landless   
             cat and  mouse  ...!
             Ignorant men
             fight over money
             equal to dogs for garbage ......

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Categories: landless, allusion, analogy, conflict, education, extended metaphor, poetry,
Form: Epigram
A Lone Flower
a lone flower grew
in the dark on a hill
defying nature 
it bloomed with free will

this barren terrain once
was empty and landless
now full of color 
spilled on this empty canvass

every time a petal 
dropped into the earth
vibrant colors exploded
similiar to a soft gentle verse

a lone flower grew 
in the dark on a hill
that flower was me
finally I am fulfilled...

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Categories: landless, beautiful, deep, growth, happiness, life, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Samba Samba
The roaring gun that knew no owners
The ghost incarnated in a metal 
groaning in the Pearl of Africa
Terminating the blood f cattle keepers
Hurtling the flesh of land tillers 
Tormenting landless hunters
Scaring away lions of Mburo
And leaving Mbarara homeless 

Samba Samba
The gun of a dictator
The gun that killed Ugandans
The gun that liberated Ugandans
The gun that we know better
As close friend and closest enemy 
The gun we still carry...

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Categories: landless, africa, death, racism, violence, war,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs