Get Your Premium Membership

Soweto Poems - Poems about Soweto

Premium Member When a Man Loves You
...Excerpt from Resonance of the Soul – Flowers and Harmonics. This poem appears in the soon-to-be-published anthology, published by IEME LLC, and coming soon to Amazon and major bookstores. I......

Continue reading...
Categories: soweto, for her, growth, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Listen to their voices Youth Day
...Inspired by Youth Day, a drive through Soweto combined with Phil Collins music. Listen to their voices (Youth Day) By Michelle Morris 17/06/2024 Driving through Soweto Seeing the makeshi......

Continue reading...
Categories: soweto, africa, community, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Lyric



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......

Continue reading...
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......

Continue reading...
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......

Continue reading...
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......

Continue reading...
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......

Continue reading...
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......

Continue reading...
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......

Continue reading...
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 ......

Continue reading...
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......

Continue reading...
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......

Continue reading...
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, ......

Continue reading...
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......

Continue reading...
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......

Continue reading...
Categories: soweto, africa, analogy, anxiety, assonance,
Form: Didactic

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things