Short Mandela Poems

Sixty seven minutes
Help the poor every day is
Mandela day...

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Sixty seven minutes
Help the poor every day is
Mandela day...

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Sometimes vision breaks
stone walls and hardened hearts
and leads to freedom....

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after Mandela
nice laws - then Blacks play race card -
merit drowning with discards...

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Tanka 
Our democracy,
Bought by the highest bidder,
Is an empty word 
We do not need elected crooks
We need a new Mandela...

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Today I’m grateful for Nelson Mandela…
Who understood when all is said and done…
the main purpose of freedom
is to create it for everyone

...

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Bible Scholars scratching their head
     Lion turned to wolf, lambs confused 
     Reality is a video, soft and remolded like lead
     Who is behind this ?  Reality bent and bruised...

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When i have 
taken the 
journey of 
no return,

   Tell my 
grand-
grand 
children_ 'i 
lived in the 
times of 
Nelson 
Mandela: ha-ha-ha 
now that alone is 
music to my 
ears...

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Her
Nelson
Mandela
tenacity
has final reward
with elated cries of
glee in newly elected
democracy. This much honored
lady of Burma birth is free at
last to share her worth in her peaceful mirth....

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Unfamiliar flag,
It's up and down
Today I saw it
Weeping on its knees.
Murmuring students
Hold tears, someone
Else is dead again
The university mourns.
Death, why in our abundance
Is your harvest so rich?...

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The foundation of the UNO collapsed,
The Nobel trust bankrupted,
In my dreams,
Where is Mandela?

Again in dark,the continent
Invite Edison,
Where is Mandela?

Mandela gone,
Wiping the tears all in mourn!...

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Suddenly
we are freed from the burden
of technology.

The universe
reveals itself in a flicker
of golden candlelight.

Mandela, a circle
without beginning, without end.
Can we know ourselves?

Image: Pixabay...

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This is so unfair,
It may cause despair,
With no repair,
Abomination...

So cruel,
Like a car with no fuel,
Which needs a refuel,
Before it starts.

Mandela said it,
That if it can be learnt,
Then it needs to be taught,
To get rid off....

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Mind's eye mandela

My anchored threads of thought

Internal musings

Spun into my soul's fine cloth

Tether me to life's hard earth.

 

(January 16, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Master here i am just waiting for you
Angels do not hasting all your wings
Not even in the twilight do i have fear
Dark day may lie ahead for our nation
Everyone must heed the master call
Living the life which i was ordained
Acceptance of my journey back home...

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Limerick: Once Lucy met Heidelberg Man

   for Nelson Mandela

Once Lucy met Heidelberg Man
Then Neanderthal and Peking Man
Tortoise said to the Turtle:
“Where’s your doggone girdle!”
“What a disgrace to my race,” said Bushman!

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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This young man has helped our sons and daughters
Good as the first responders, essential workers, doctors
He doctors songs of Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel
And shares his humor, wisdom, with news clips parallel:
See the better side of my country, Late Mandela loved us all...

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Courage
Haiku: by Tom
2/21/2021

Being courageous
isn’t the absence of fear,
but controlling fear.


“I learned courage is not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who is unafraid,
but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela 
...

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I
On day ten of 2023
I stand but upon my knee
To celebrate a rosette dawn
It's almost 5 am, heavens open:
Give us peace, wisdom, kindness
For others: we have hurt enough
Time for Ubuntu: human - being
Not human doing, doing, doing

II
LORD, we thank thee
A morning of promise in 2023...

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NELSON MANDELA


N-National 
E-Endearing    
L-Leader,     
S-Society’s 
O-Optimum  
N-Nostrum 
 

M-Mythical  
A-Apostolic 
N-Negotiator, 
D-Divinity’s
E-Emissary,
L-Liberty’s 
A-Apotheosis!   


© Demetrios Trifiatis
 07 DECEMBER 2013


GREAT MEN NEVER DIE!

Dem. Trifiatis...

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Sparkle, sparkle, little twink
Meghan Markle, doncha think
Marrying your princely fella
Not quite like that time Mandela
Was set free from years in prison?
Seems that public ire has risen.
Sometimes, tiaras do corrode
And princesses turn back to toads.
The biggest threat to being woke:
Get eaten by like-minded folk....

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As the most impenetrable darkness 
It is dissipated by a single ray of light
So
An army of evil men is defeated 
By a single virtuous man 
For
He has Good on his side! *



© Demetrios Trifiatis 
       30 July 2019



* One has to think of Mahatma Gandhi and of Nelson Mandela among
thousand of other men in history!...

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I believe he is the best,
the great above the rest.
Not only in Africa,
but the rest of the world.

He suffered several years
in the university of understanding,
but he never changed at all
like the heroes do.

I believe is my best,
the best above the rest
because he is not corrupt,
biased and greed.
Mandela is great!...

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When I tell you to build dams over rivers and seas,
To build bridges betwixt beings and make existence ease;
You laugh at me and politicize each one of my fights,
I don't quit; I don't accept failures; I am at my heights;
I am Gandhi, Nehru, Mandela, Luther, Lincoln, oh!
Who, on the paths of Jesus, Allah, and Ram always go..!!!...

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Mandela, Power
Madiba, Freedom
Words He stood and lived for.

Mandela, Peace
Madiba, Justice
Words He seeked and pursued.

Mandela, Tolerance
Madiba, Hope
Words He exhibited and gave.

Mandela, Truth
Madiba, Unity
Words He speeches and embraced.

Brightening His universe in completing
His dream,
Mandela the Mandala

©Kofi Asokwa-Nkansah...

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