Short South Africa Poems

Snow in south africa
Nothing unusual
These days...

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

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Wake up now
Gentle south africa
Buhari's scum
Is murdering your country
Awake your patriotism...

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I saw millions of roses
As I passed by the countryside	
All dead and laid before my eyes
Side by side....

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These marmots of South Africa 
Build cities underground.

The youngsters roam around in bands …
But I don’t know how they sound!...

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I
Hope dances in sparkling terms

II
Dashed justice equals ascerbic lives

III
Hope sparkles like false diamonds in South Africa...

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I love meadowlands
And kasie where africans
Celebrate their
Ghettorization
In the land of their birth

Kasie:townships in south africa...

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She weeps
The widowed motherland
This country bleeds
The stupid jacob zuma years
Then azania dreams no more

Azania:the afro-centric name of south africa...

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I
Siblings stolen
Why list the nations ills ...
Bring Chicken Little home

II
Kuiken has cage during light
Twilight cheeps, louder -- plaintive --
Back in box, quietest baby...

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I
divide and rule, fear Black -
they said in South Africa
Choice: Die with democracy

II
we'll love & reassure you: 
Dr. King did. Bombed. Taped! Stabbed 
by lady at book-signing...

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The Cape Point of Africa, where cold and warm oceans meet, boasting the beauty of our table mountain covered by a table cloth of cotton cloud.

Cape Town,
South Africa
10/03/2016...

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I
Here it is vetkoek
Mince, homemade roll, Rooibos -
She doubles as nurse - blessed home

*Rooibos is sold in USA, but is an export of South Africa. Great health tonic, tea ... No caffeine...

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TIME issues:
1. Whenever I am short on time, I eat my watch, and always have seconds to spare.

2. Why do I still buy old clocks and collectible watches in a cellphone age? I love keeping time....

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A besieged torrent
Unveils a rainbow nation 
Fluorescent smiles


Thabang Ngoma
16-07-2015

South Africa

Sponsor: SKAT A 
Contest Name: In 3 lines, represent your Country or State flag...

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No one knows
Why you cry makoti
Death is beautiful
Lady barnard's ghost
Cooks a storm for the dead

Makoti:a young married woman
Lady barnard:a legendary ghost from colonial times south africa...

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A fellow from the south of South Africa
Waltzed around in a skirt made of taffeta
Some thought he was strange
With his long curly mane
A lump in his skirt proved him male to the maxima...

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A fellow from the south of South Africa
Waltzed around in a skirt made of taffeta
Some thought he was strange
With his long curly mane
A lump in his trunks proved him male to the maxima...

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South Africa is inundated with a problem
Kidnapping, baffled with an emblem

Months passed and devastation still lasts
In the minds and bodies of the casts...

Prayers can help
All the time, we need not yelp...

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A fellow from the south of South Africa
Waltzed around in a skirt made of taffeta
Some thought he was strange
With his long curly mane
A lump in his trunks proved him male to the maxima


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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BBC DOCUMENTARY 

South Africa in picture's 
The Bang , Bang Club

THE WORLD OWES YOU NOTHING

YOU OWE EVERYTHING TO LIFE 
 
Black & White

Township Savagery captured @ Shutterspeed

Smile's as Far & Wide as the Lens Dare Reach...

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I
In South Africa, one can avoid Online poetry
But I did not as easily in America (USA)
I couldn't believe I could stay away months
But some of you have, or longer still
The reunions are delicious, contagious, to relish 

II
To follow ......

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South Africa, South Africa
so proud a nation
as a rainbow fades
the dry wind pervades
whilst we impress more
with less
how we turn gold to lead
as millions bled
for what? What for, really? 
are we divided?
undecided? 
uncertain
as the rope tugs the curtain?...

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strelitzias die -
shrunken birds of paradise
sag between green leaves


* It is now autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.
Strelitzia is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa.  A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower....

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I
A flood here, wars over there, and there ...
I love Jesus, but U fight to breathe, so unfair

II
Lord Jesus, You give me reasons to rise
Help Ukraine, all victims, even the unwise

III
The sad state of South Africa, the world
The Grace in your words, prayer unfurled...

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The one who wanted to stay
is now chided by Brother
as the one who got away
followed his Wife to England in 60
and revisited in 79
absence so dearly noted
replete the years
saint not sinner
who rode the years
not persecuting by choice
because missing South Africa is inconsolable...

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