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Veld Poems - Poems about Veld

The Echo Returns Not
...The Echo Returns Not Sponsor : Unseeking the Seeker [ Poet’s note : SOLOMON MAHLANGU was a South African Freedom fighter & cherished leader in revolutionary army, Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was sen......

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Categories: veld, adventure, africa, angst, character,
Form: Prose Poetry
MEMORIES OF WAR
...MEMORIES OF WAR In prison we turmoiled packed up cards to fall whilst they sucked genitals like bonbons a quartz on a table gleamed its knowing War torn ghettos with swollen stoma......

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Categories: veld, 12th grade, character, conflict,
Form: Bio



SOUP
... here is my own recipe letters simmering e vs v d s v e dp o vel p mo opes om m delvs po v veld opes om poem solved ......

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Categories: veld, analogy, fun, poems, word
Form: Free verse
Not Wanted
...With Waheed they had roughly dealt, The bitterness still deeply felt. Enroute did Celts him with stones pelt And he's like the hit with strong belt "Let's watch him smile and fail to melt" He wo......

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Categories: veld, cry, evil, fear, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Love Transcends All
...Love transcends all By Michelle Morris 18/03/2023 When we were first separated It felt like a shot to the heart Feeling like I wouldn't make it The world becoming grey and dark People th......

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Categories: veld, i miss you, love,
Form: Lyric



Earth Seeks To Entertain
..."The sounds of Earth Is the Music of my Soul" Earth Seeks to Entertain No sound pleases me like falling rain. When it drums on my roof It banishes my every pain. Its little drops both chee......

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Categories: veld, care, creation, earth, music,
Form: Rhyme
Please Don'T Tamper With Us Forests
...As you can see I am very big,... One of the biggest forests in the world. I belong to a major league Of chief forests of the veld. I pack, daily, tons of oxygen Which I release to the atmosphe......

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Categories: veld, creation, environment, fruit, nature,
Form: Rhyme
School Child and Disciplining Belt
...Its wound an ugly welt And its pains deeply felt, A school child shall again melt At the sight of A Disciplining Belt… The child could his teacher user stalk, As he tries to home calmly walk ......

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Categories: veld, age, bullying, care, child,
Form: Rhyme
Our Story, Their Technology
...I I was walking in India's jungle (Dehra Dun) At the Himalayan foothills, alone Ten thousand years before Christ was born I spied a plant, barely a meter tall Graced with red and green fruit: "M......

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Categories: veld, celebration, depression, endurance, inspiration,
Form: Bio
Plastic Americans In Cape Town and Elsewhere
...In South Africa, we imitate Thanksgiving, even "Black Friday!" Is it business or American culture-wannabees I hear awkward Howdys; "How U doing?" Narratives of "space ...customer care" Just as pla......

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Categories: veld, abuse, addiction, africa, america,
Form: Epigram
Handful of Empty
...Holding out my unchained hand, light as evaporated air is the emancipation accrued debt equity By making reparation demands, this long overdue affair has a short tabled legislation prob......

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Categories: veld, history, perspective, slavery, truth,
Form: Bio
Unto You My Lord
...I’ve asked you for love, but my heart Is a playground of pains like matchsticks & veld, I’m a broken-pieced soul. I prayed for success, instead all I see Is them whammies in numbers of mega bus, ......

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Categories: veld, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Our Wild Life Beckons
...The mighty roar of the King of the Bush at the crack of dawn, Its majestic sound, being the first Thing you hear, as you yawn, And the laugh of the sly hunch backed Hyena, as it creeps, slouched......

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Categories: veld, animal,
Form: Free verse
Jungle Veld
...The jungle veld The veld was thick with grass Burnt grass charcoal black Shining black like gates of hell Ashen clouds were fleeting the sky Spraying tiny sobs of snow flakes The wind whistli......

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Categories: veld, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
India's Stories - and Yours
...I You have seen them tell ... of things Indian In dark South Africa, in the 1960s, BOMBAY ... MADRAS, and CALCUTTA were destinations As great as LONDON! We didn't know NYC, or Paris Yes, old cul......

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Categories: veld, adventure, community, education, hope,
Form: Didactic

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