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Best Poems Written by Itumeleng Cangua

Below are the all-time best Itumeleng Cangua poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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The Great Star of Africa

14-03-2023

Clear cut diamond
530 carats gem
Mined in South Africa
Queen Elizabeth I wonder
How did you feel
Knowing The Great Star Of Africa was never yours
Did you think you would just bond
With it during your term
Or we would just forget that it came from Africa
You made a blunder 
Which you never had to deal 
With the day you accepted it its force
Elevated you even higher wherever you went
As it sparkled on your sceptre and on your head
It made you stand out in any room you find yourself or in any crowd
You spent
Your entire life mesmerized by it but now that you’re dead
And Charles is about to be crowned
King will he have the guts to bring it
Back home where it belongs 
Will he finally see it fit
I wait for that day where the wrongs
You made are acknowledged and are made right
The road ahead isn’t easy but it looks bright

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Africa My Homeland

Africa My Homeland

I am the face 
fixed on a map
A space
with boundary, leaving no gap
I am a homeland
desecrated when I was abducted from my rightful nation
A brand
with a name which precedes my reputation
I am a continent
incapacitated not to live up to his flair
A dissident
doors shut daily to his face unless I straightened my hair
I am  a riddle
narrated to my kids stuck in Britain, France and America
A bridle
used only by Africans for Africa

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My Car

30-10-2021

My car
Fast and noisy
Revving hooting spinning
A powerful engine out there 
Mustang

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I Grew Up In a One Roomed Shack

I grew up in a one roomed shack
a king size Coca-Cola space
crammed like Marlboro cigars in a pack
a place I ran to for defense
my home which some see as a plight
where my family had to find the right way
it was my bedroom at night
my mother's pantry by day
a lounge where my dad like a doc upon a cadaver dissected
The Star while his kids goggled at Luxor television
I grew up in a shack protected
by corrugated irons walls of a mansion

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Dead Man Tells No Tale

17-05-2017

They say dead man tells no tale but I say he does
He's like an artist who picks up the mike
And sings any song he like
He's six feet under but his voice
Tells a tale he's written
Just listen attentively to what he says sadness and rapture
Reflects all over his picture
Because dead man does tell tales if chance given

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L See Weed Upon My Quest

I see weed
upon my quest
waiting anxiously to impede 
me from my conquest
and if I cringe
this weed quadruples
causing my goals
to recede like mirage
causing the deadline to pass me by disorientated
although no one knows what's beyond the shore
I take a stand explore
new ideas to achieve and achieve all I wanted

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In the Mist of Love

For my wife

In the mist of love
Time and Beauty age
but when passion galore
our love glows with rage
as we swore
incinerate any weed
which sprouts upon what we establish
with our deed
we cherish
The feelings we feel
the pain the laughter
even when we are dead we’ll still fulfill
this love complement each other
within this passion of love

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A Giraffe

09-06-2022

A giraffe stretches
Just like Burj Khalifa to
Grab food from above

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If Only I Knew

If Only I Knew

If only I knew where her love stands
I'd just follow the voice inside
see how the road bends
for long I've tried to set this feeling aside
question if what I feel is real
sometimes I wish I could just oblige
consummate this love I feel
first impression she took my pledge
made me see another despicable side of love
that side I'd love to remove.

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Lean and Furry

28-10-2021
                      
                               Feline
                        Lean and furry
               Stalking sprinting panting
              The fastest cat in the forest
                             Cheetah