Soweto Poems - Poems about Soweto

...Woe to you… whitewashed tombs! You glitter in gold vestments, swing incense in marble cathedrals, chant Latin like sacred thunder— but your silence is louder than the bells of Rome. Tell me, ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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... 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......

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...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......

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..."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 ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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, ......

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...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......

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