Township Poems - Poems about Township

...There is a place that doesn't go to sleep, From dawn to dusk, Nothing changes, Desire is on the run. There is a place where ambition and rivalry are birthed, Sycophants seize the day, Sing t......Read the rest...

...City hub on wings apogee of ultra bright fire within urban comet tangerine signpost to future halcyon spot amidst buoyant step onrush Bouncy castle perk spurs avid market stall pitch bargai......Read the rest...

...Oh Contention civil liberties that I so mention enduring the cooperating social groups non-functional non-binary confused disrupted abused circumstance non-existent analytical di......Read the rest...

...Written: 21 July 2023 Submitted to No. 1231 New Poem Only Poetry Contest Sponsored by Brian Strand Bridging the Unbridgeable Chasm* As rises the wealth of nations, As grows the limb of a ......Read the rest...

...The ice-cream parlor is just across the road from a small white clapper-board church. I sit in a window seat, watching the little town and the sidewalk as it moves people around, thought-rea......Read the rest...

...day ends in a shanty town When crossing the bridge to the shanty town The day was almost over, blank and tired and due to pollution, the light on the bridge had a hue of aureate The huts in th......Read the rest...

...I In church, decor by Desiree Seymour Jesus rose up again, we sang with gusto There followed communion, bread and wine Thoughts: He, bread of life ; we, bread too! If he were a loaf, Jesus, THE ......Read the rest...

...Fieldwork is stellar, sexy, or strenuous and sad Talking values, prolonging childhood Is not for the faint hearted among S. Africa's "Coloured" My "township" boasts about acting backward Using walls for urination, or there on streets Many walk all day long with beer in hand (never discreet) We reward bad for good; kindness is meekness minus J......Read the rest...

...A boy saw his friends flying  the balloons and went to his father crying in saying , " Daddy ! It is my birthday too, Buy me some balloons " It is summer time  my son, You were born in Wi......Read the rest...

...I am not a stranger to the dark. Yes, Im strong to bear the light, Even if the darkest of nights bark... The best in me will keep up the fight. I am with you, dear friendly black-- The lan......Read the rest...

...Midst many senior-citizens of our little township, Has been Mr. Captain, a solemn man in his mid-nineties, One, enjoying each-and-everyone's abundant friendship, Who looked much younger, yet, as t......Read the rest...

...I Fifty years ago - I was about ten - My grandfather wept for a tree: Blue Spruce, one in the township ... I empathized, but didn't understand II This morning, in 40-hour rain, I wept for m......Read the rest...

...All day long, from 7:15 am today, needs come To my gate, with either "pastor " or "vaderrr" Justin & John T needed breakfast before work They did not go directly, to fellow churchgoer I found som......Read the rest...

...Krishna grew up in Gokul town with foster parents. He was not only the darling of his parents who pampered him, but the whole township, caught in his charms, loved him. He won the hearts of men and w......Read the rest...

...I Now nearing that age of no hair, & more No hair on head, more hair in ears & nose I do a daily discipline of Matthew 6: 9-13 Then a Psalm, before a recorded sermon In my youth, girls not God, ......Read the rest...