Townships Poems - Poems about Townships

... Written: May 06, 2025 for contest by Edward Ibeh ************************* Like kernels, the day's enigmas start to unfold, The green folk are s......

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...MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES Don’t go back to heavy sleep dwell in the wakefulness of I AM THAT I AM here mulberries and butterflies beckon across filtered fences which you can comely cl......

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...ALUTA CONTINUA : FORCED REMOVALS ( Poet’s Note : I’m posting this poem here as a South African history student recently asked to interview poet on Forced Removals. I read this poem which he enjoy......

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...{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given a full P......

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...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......

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...#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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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