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Tugela Poems - Poems about Tugela


My Best Bouquets

...My Best Bouquets

Exotic crocuses and ferns, Appalachian Trail …
Baby’s breath that takes one’s breath away -
Orchids and epiphytes near inland waters of KwaZulu-Natal
A few fro...
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Categories: tugela, adventure, africa, allusion, america,
Form: Verse

God Bless You

...God Bless You

Before me lay the Dust of us all
Treated by us all as an orphaned babe
The sun scalded my tan
You, you gathered under layers of clothes
-	the difference and similarity of us both...
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Categories: tugela, africa, life,
Form: Free verse



We Peservered

...We created love with warmth 
Dongas and forests felt it
I heard a polite voice of love 
Its said we peservered 

We created love beautifully, it grew like trees of the forest, that grows next to...
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Categories: tugela, happiness, love,
Form: Narrative

A River Streams Straight Through Her

...She slow- slips feet in poems

Tears trickle from sky- high eyes
down earth's cheeks to find the stream

I love your long water veils
abseiling splashed self down, 
streaming gently life's she...
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Categories: tugela, change, imagery, poetess, poetry,
Form: Alliteration

Utopia Poetry Contest, Hell and Heaven, March 28, 2017

...UTOPIA POETRY CONTEST BY 03/28/2017

Hell cannot tell of its attractions, I assume
I searched for brochures on the internet
I even went to the Library of Congress last June!
Does heaven win mere...
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Categories: tugela, bible, death, forgiveness, heaven,
Form: Light Verse



Don'T Go Now

...Don't go now
My heart is drought
Stricken for love
The eyes of the tugela river
Beg us to stay in love...
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Categories: tugela, africa,
Form: Tanka

The Master of the Tugela

...As the salty sweat runs along a smooth path on my back
The sun burning my skin to the finest of nature's browns
My heaving eyelids are slightly lifted to one of Africa's superb monuments...
Endles...
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Categories: tugela, nature
Form: Imagism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things