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Short Townships Poems

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


I Love Meadowlands
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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Categories: townships, africa,
Form: Tanka



Kuiken Little - My Own Baby Chicken
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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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: townships, animal, bird, caregiving, creation, cry, culture, pets,
Form: Senryu
Cattle
oh, this grinding surge
roaring into battle,
how the air is filled
with the sabre rattle;
how the sky is blacked
by fires in their burning,
how the townships sacked
by counter-strikes returning;
how the guns and shells
through the air are streaming,
how the tolling bells
bleed into the screaming;
oh, the fight for land, 
conflicts over chattel,
how the days are spent
in slaughtering the cattle....

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: townships, death, history, people, places, social,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things