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Soweto Poems - Poems about Soweto

Soweto Poems - Examples of all types of poems about soweto to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for soweto.
Masekela!
...By Cherbo Geeplay I can touch the rhythm of your beats, and sense the chirpy throb; the music streams it currents to my pulse, the hair on my skin rises, the trumpet ricochets, filling the roo......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Elegy



The Land of My Fathers
... By Cherbo Geeplay Africa, this sun drenched bliss, come to Botswana and see the terrific translucent creeks of Okavango Delta, as it blends with the sun rays and glistened. Let the unmist......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, africa, culture, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
Thrill the Thriller
...Let me play you violin I hope you will dance Don't mind how to begin Till you loose all steps into trance And wonder if you've been therein I don't mind if it hurts My fingers and my back......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, africa, art, birthday, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
South Africa
...South Africa The rainbow paled in South Africa the end of apartheid has ended, freedom for all. Not quite, the poor in Soweto are getting poorer. The difference it now consists of white poor a......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, africa, anti bullying, color,
Form: Blank verse
S Africa
...Africa South Africa is a ramshackle state When it got rid of apartheid the people Of Soweto did get the spoil But are poorer than before The ANC is corrupt and sinking deeper into the mire Of c......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Blank verse



My Hero
...MY HERO This is a brand new truth so give me focus attention, in spite of all I've been through life keep challenging me, just realizing am on a sinking ship, following folks in friendship hop......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Africa's Puberty
...AFRICA’S PUBERTY When puberty sets in, The wind feels good on A little leg and thigh, Some belly button And budding bottom. Tattooed dames, Sexily renamed From Elizabeth And Isabelle, To L......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, woman, youth,
Form: Blank verse
Crossing the White Line
... Ebony drunk and burnt rubber sienna swerving, I crossed the white line ... And tragically, with emotional intensity, word vehicular hit a vanilla-colored human being My coal sens......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, anxiety, color, psychological, race,
Form: Free verse
A Place Called Home
...Born and raised in the streets of Soweto Ndofaya, kasi lama kasi is what i call it Grew up in search for gold all i found was coal A shack for a house but it was home The streets made you wi......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, education,
Form: I do not know?
Madiba
..."Madiba" The currents keep up sparking up and down Such elegance, your life had more scenes than an epic flick Defined humanity you did, even in death you deserve a crown Singlehandedly you kept ......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, appreciation,
Form: ABC
Blood of Our Youth
...The Blood of Youth 16 June sad tune visible blood visible flood our beloved were killed we need to be healed an oppression discrimination the Soweto uprising the Soweto protesting so sa......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, violence,
Form: Narrative
Anc and Joe Slovo
...ANC and Joe Slovo ANC took on the white -run system and won, we hoped for a new free country an apartheid- free land The “Rainbow Nation sprung to life reconciliation, dancing in the streets......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, absence,
Form: Blank verse
Anc and Joe Slovo
...ANC and Joe Slovo ANC took on the white-run system and won, we hoped for a new free country an apartheid-free land The “Rainbow Nation sprung to life reconciliation, dancing in the streets, ......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, absence,
Form: Blank verse
Children of Xenophobia
...Children of Xenophobia Children eating bullets and firecrackers Beggars of smile and laughter Silent corpses sleeping away fertile dreams Povo* chanting new nude wretched slogans Overstaye......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, abuse, addiction, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Identity Apples
...Identity Apples iam a fat skeleton, resurrecting from the sad memories of dada and dark mysteries of aminism iam buganda i bleed hope i drip the honey of fortune makerere, think tank o......Read the rest...
Categories: soweto, africa, analogy, anxiety, assonance,
Form: Didactic

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