Townships Poems - Poems about Townships

...April 16—Rain No Rain In 2025, the world ended With the collapse Of the worldwide climate system. Monster storms of the century devastated half the world. But the other half of the......Read the rest...

...#I_am_boy_away_from_home! Like a bird, when one day its obligated to leave the nest and learn to fly by itself, learn self-reliance and survival, face the unfamiliar, the horror's of men and predato......Read the rest...

...OLD AND NEW 2 : BOARDROOM Jackal preyed on dimpled dolls smiling gold on slender wrist nosing down a slippery path scowling schoolboy promoted beyond his mediocre castle Mammals sat on......Read the rest...

...Down a runway skybound to cross a continent, see from a window a city fall away with bright beads strung along a coast, then turning inland, clumped townships shrinking to solitary lights......Read the rest...

...According to a 1975 article published in Winnipeg Press, those 3 stones, found in Eastern Townships of Quebec, serve as evidence that Phoenicians embarked on a treacherous sail across the Atlantic, r......Read the rest...

...I saw one flag raised and another fall I saw the great lie of justice and equity for all I saw a crisis that stopped the world I saw a wall to keep out the cold I saw a man in the outer l......Read the rest...

...From high above the mighty eagles soar and gaze with teary eyes upon the land; a proud and peaceful nation thrived, before the bombs began to fall with czar’s command. Their saddened eyes see ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...How is it my fault that I took a leap of faith Like any naive girl in townships looking for good life I mixed with wrong people who promised me soft life in Dubai Excitement journeyed my mind to......Read the rest...

...I The railway is long gone In the 1960s, Apartheid ethnic townships were grown Where I sit now, is one - "Coloured" Newtown - But raping of nature as culture, as steamship-pasts When transported......Read the rest...

...NOTE: In 2022, Nelson Mandela's famed South Africa, sanitation STINKS especially outside big cities. Municipalities only burn diapers ('KIMBIES', in local lingo) as women & a few men walk the LOCATI......Read the rest...

...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVIII - Tongue Teasers If the « Yellow Race » could have invented the alphabet, they wouldn’t still be seeing « Images » when they close their eyes. Picasso, Dadaism, Surrea......Read the rest...

...As the sun sets A hot wind like this Does not belong in downtown Lansing But here it is Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans My wife and I We hold down our pouncin......Read the rest...

...Eastern townships Land of settlers A blur across centuries The land my father loved Land of my ancestors Miles of nostalgia Farmland at rest Barns with cows and horses Hills and valleys Stre......Read the rest...

...No Primus Inter Pares Germans at the Costa Brava they just cannot yield ‘Brava’ the fight and they are conquering once more Always the first on the beach or the striped deck chair but The tow......Read the rest...