AFRICAN POEMS

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The African Child

Oh! African child
Today is your day
We all gathered
To celebrate you
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Ola Olawale

Ola Olawale
African Sun

When I was four years old
My village mates and I
Used to gossip
About the African sun
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Ibrahim Bangura[cleffy]

Ibrahim Bangura[cleffy]
The African Dictator

Have you ever heaped up
all the possible disgusting wastes
from a high-level hospital

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Michael Aete

Michael Aete
Gone But Not Forgotten

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
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Kareem Azeez

Kareem Azeez
A Letter Of Anti-slave Trade Memorandum.

A LETTER OF ANTI SLAVE-TRADE MEMORANDUM.
At the meeting
Of an international NGO
Which took place in Freetown
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Shalom Kasim

Shalom Kasim
African Woman

Womanhood is a pride
Tied around her waist
To package her mountain
In her little boubou;
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Dauda Tholley

Dauda Tholley
Shine On

People of my kind black Africans,
Black and attractive Africans
See how bright you shine
Your bright blackness shines even in the dark.
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Mimi J Milson

Mimi J Milson
Seduction

One day
you gonna walk in this house
and i'm gonna have a long African
gown
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Nikki Giovanni
Holy Delay

Destiny delays not because You deserve it less...
You are just put under the rader For that little test...
It must not come at 18 or a year later
At least for an African I guess
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Jesse Marfo

Jesse Marfo
Be Wise

Be the man the nation needs,
Lead an example to the upcoming generation
Be the voice of the voiceless woman
instead of being the pain of the painless woman.
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Palesa Molokomme

Palesa Molokomme
Ka'ba

'A closed window looks down
on a dirty courtyard, and Black people
call across or scream across or walk across
defying physics in the stream of their will.
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Amiri Baraka
No To Xenophobia

Michael Johnson once said " I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain"

I understand we all have our differences.
But while learning about history
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Mancoba Dludlu

Mancoba Dludlu
Aggressive Believer

Aggressive believer
Steve Anc

The frozen ground,
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Steve Anc

Steve Anc
The Two Kings

King Eochaid came at sundown to a wood
Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen
He had outridden his war-wasted men
That with empounded cattle trod the mire,
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
Song (my Heart To Thy Heart)

My heart to thy heart,
My hand to thine;
My lip to thy lips,
Kisses are wine
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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar
African Poem

African Poem.

Write the poem with a purple crayon
Remembering that one lives longer with so little frowns.
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Shalom Kasim

Shalom Kasim
Homeland

In the scorching heat of the African Horn
Where the sun's rays hit ,hot
The aridity is harming and hellish
The bore holes offers little help
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Cabdi Muqtaar

Cabdi Muqtaar
A Song Of Liberty

The Eternal Female groand! it was heard over all the Earth:
Albions coast is sick silent; the American meadows faint!
Shadows of Prophecy shiver along by the lakes and the rivers and mutter across the ocean! France rend down thy dungeon;
Golden Spain burst the barriers of old Rome;
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William Blake

William Blake
Daughter

Why is the world at peace.
This may astonish you a little but when you realise how
easily Mrs. Charles Bianco sells the work of American
painters to American millionaires you will recognize that
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Gertrude Stein
Notes For A Speech

African blues
does not know me. Their steps, in sands
of their own
land. A country
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Amiri Baraka
Action Case

Hey!
Wake up!
Is what I heard, a call from beneath,
I checked my watch and, a deep breathe,
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Brian Dredan

Brian Dredan
The Pity Of It

I. In South Africa

Over the lonesome African plain
The stars look down, like eyes of the slain.
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Katharine Lee Bates
To The Nile

Son of the old Moon-mountains African!
Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile!
We call thee fruitful, and that very while
A desert fills our seeing's inward span:
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John Keats

John Keats
General Joubert

(Died, South African War, March 27, 1900)


With those that bred, with those that loosed the strife,
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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling
Conversion

African Guardian of Souls,
Drunk with rum,
Feasting on strange cassava,
Yielding to new words and a weak palabra
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Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer
Drum Stick

It's one of my mom's favorite chicken quarter , When I suddenly cook the whole peck of Drum sticks ....

She looks and smiles right to my face , and :"son you got it big in there "
I simply say :"Something down there mom" Drum stick moment's ,
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Joseph Nwakushabeni

Joseph Nwakushabeni
Wake Nicodemus!

Nicodemus, the slave was of African birth,
And was bought for a bagful of gold;
He was reckon'd as part of the salt of the earth,
But he died years ago, very old.
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Henry Clay Work
The Defence

Piensan los Enamorados
Que tienen los otros, los oios quebranta dos.

Why slightest thou what I approve?
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Henry King
Respondez!

RESPONDEZ! Respondez!
(The war is completed--the price is paid--the title is settled beyond
recall;)
Let every one answer! let those who sleep be waked! let none evade!
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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman
Poem (chicago)

'My age, my beast!' - Osip Mandelstam

On the lips a taste of tolling we are blind
The light drifts like dust over faces
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Bill Knott
King Borria Bungalee Boo

KING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO
Was a man-eating African swell;
His sigh was a hullaballoo,
His whisper a horrible yell -
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William Schwenck Gilbert
The Rock Cries Out To Us Today

A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Mark the mastodon.
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou
Hunter X Hunter: Chimera Ant Arc

I think this one's a blast
To make the story grow fast
I watered it with delight
By watching it day and night
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Andrew Eufre Belga

Andrew Eufre Belga
The Lion.

Lovely woman! how brave is thy soul,
When duty and love are combin'd!
Then danger in vain would controul
Thy tender, yet resolute mind.
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William Hayley

William Hayley
Two Kopjes

(Made Yeomanry towards End of Boer War)

Only two African kopjes,
Only the cart-tracks that wind
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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling
The Parliament Of Fowles

Here begynyth the Parlement of Foulys

THE PROEM

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer
Pity Of It, The

I. In South Africa

Over the lonesome African plain
The stars look down, like eyes of the slain.
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Katharine Lee Bates
A Tribute To Henry M. Stanley

Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee,
The great African explorer Henry M Stanley,
Who went out to Africa its wild regions to explore,
And travelled o'er wild and lonely deserts, fatigued and footsore.
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William Topaz Mcgonagall
How The Melbourne Cup Was Won

In the beams of a beautiful day,
Made soft by a breeze from the sea,
The horses were started away,
The fleet-footed thirty and three;
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Henry Kendall
The African Prince

IT was a king in Africa,
He had an only son;
And none of Europe's crowned kings
Could have a dearer one.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
No Autumn's Intercepting Chill

1516

No Autumn's intercepting Chill
Appalls this Tropic Breast-
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
To Sr Henry Vane The Younger

Vane, young in yeares, but in sage counsell old,
Then whome a better Senatour nere held
The helme of Rome, when gownes not armes repelld
The feirce Epeirot & the African bold,
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John Milton

John Milton
My Smallheaded Pearshaped

my smallheaded pearshaped

lady in gluey twilight
moving,suddenly
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E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings
Gone But Not Forgotten

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
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Kareem Azeez

Kareem Azeez
Jugurtha

How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
Cried the African monarch, the splendid,
As down to his death in the hollow
Dark dungeons of Rome he descended,
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To Sir Henry Vane The Younger

Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old,
Than whom a better senator neâ??er held
The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled
The fierce Epirot and the African bold,
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John Milton

John Milton
A Song (#3)

MY heart to thy heart,
My hand to thine;
My lips to thy lips,
Kisses are wine
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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Vacant Lot

Mrs. Coleyâ??s three-flat brick
Isnâ??t here any more.
All done with seeing her fat little form
Burst out of the basement door;
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Ultima Thule: Jugurtha

How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
Cried the African monarch, the splendid,
As down to his death in the hollow
Dark dungeons of Rome he descended,
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sonnet To The Nile

Son of the old Moon-mountains African!
Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile!
We call thee fruitful, and that very while
A desert fills our seeing's inward span:
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John Keats

John Keats