by Besma Riabi Dziri |
Categories:
africa, beauty, happiness, home, pride, tribute,
I want to word my very Love for you
though as a shy child, I start to stammer
a beloved Mother, my sole bijou
as I am of your prime Land enamoured.
A rose breathing the scent of your terra
born and bred knowing no other home soil
how can I bear the burn of your Summer
anger and worry within my chest boil.
I want to paint my very pride in you
with drops of my blood and ivory star
then draw your nature and beauty anew
how would my poetry meet who you are?
To my dear mother, shall I, You compare?
TUNISIA, Your Love, I'll ever bear.
by Besma Riabi Dziri |
Categories:
africa, art, blessing, feelings, how i feel, humanity, patriotic,
To my terra of roots
my allegiance I vow
I wallow in your fruits
and to your flag I bow.
Dream not till wake of dawn
beaming sun light I wait
burst of glee of no bourn
the feels of the soul, sate.
Awe chills into my spine
as your Hymn in pride sung
for Home in peace I pine
and love never be swung.
How could my pen, you turn
in a fine rhyming word
as my quill longs to learn
inking with grace and verve.
by Arthur Vaso |
Categories:
africa, arabic, art, brother, friendship, introspection, poetry,
Livers
bleed
lungs
gasp for breath
vessels of poetry
read
pain disappears
tears recede
love floats above the sea
tides of sadness
recede
planted in marshlands
seeds
friendship bloomed
living for words
no longer matters
I embrace my brother
love his might
standing on cliffs ledge
gazing this new morn
softly I whisper
we are one
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu |
Categories:
africa, inspirational, patriotic,
I feel African in every vein
the arteries pulsate with love
this continent is so dear to me
I feel African in every breath
the challenges the world paints
I see not but beautiful Africa
All Africans here and far away
join me to hold Africa together
no piece should go to the winds
The unity of the land of Africa
the resources of the land of Africa
are gifts no humans brought here
Patriots of Africa come hold hands
this land you owe loving service
dust off yourselves to build Africa
Old Africa where is your wisdom?
come out of your boxes and unite
the world is vibrant, lets wake up
I feel African in every vein
Africa my sweet-heart duty calls
by Sai Lin Lip |
Categories:
africa, friend, grandchild, moon, stars, sunset,
Man loves friends
Babies have toys as friends
Children have peer groups as friends
Young men like making friends
Friends can become spouses
Entrepreneurs have ambitions and dreams
as friends
Stars are friends of the moon
The splendid glow is the friend of sunset
The shore is the friend of the sea
We are friends of our grandchildren
Pets are man's friends
Only genuineness and sincerity of heart
Showing a true love
Only sincerity and cordiality
Is a sign of friendship
by Poet Destroyer A |
Categories:
africa, america, community, culture, earth, race, self,
-THIS IS NOT A POEM-
Hey, Poets stop by, give me a shout out.
Tell Me Where You Are From;)
I promise I won't show up on your doorstep.
If you are having a bad day, let me have it
If you have awesome news, don't be greedy
---SHARE! SHARE!
By all means --- SHARE THE NEWS!!!
................. LOVE THE POET DESTROYER
by Olusegun Ojo |
Categories:
black-african amergrandmother,
All's not about Darfur
I've seen it, eerie winds
Moonlight through our thatch
We kissed round, one *palmie gourd
Kigali was but a miss
Waist-beads - beats to love
Have you heard the talk-drum,
*Fela's horns of brass,
Or the *Aladuras' joy of Alleluia?
My grandmother still walks miles
Just because her forbears did,
And shame on malaria
For the dearth of men
Oh, on Mandela's earth
Of Soyinka's nobel ideas
Africa - a big breast,
the good, the bad, the ugly. . .
all, as sucklings!
*palmie - palm wine
*Fela - Celebrated afrobeat musician
*Aladura - a popular african instituted christian sect noted for heavy prayers
by Zhane Robinson |
Categories:
africa, freedom, love,
The cost of freedom has increased, the price went up.
It takes alot to be free, but the price is love.
And the PRIZE is love.
Not saying you have to sing; kumbaya around a fiery ring,
but voices and rainbow hands will raise high to the night sky
as we shake off shackles and chains
and they slide down
and wrap around
the original drum,
which beats and sings out song that'll never fall from the tongue.
It clicks shut, complete with lock and key.
And we are poor slaves joining hands with empty pockets
and shackled hearts.
The cost of freedom has increased,
which is why when we form our ring,
there's a low drum beating in the dark.
by Aby M'Baye |
Categories:
africa, anxiety, desire, growth, humor, love, remember,
Make as you feel it
In the sense of your feel
Without forgetting sense
Fais comme tu le sens
Dans le sens de tes sens
Sans oublier le sens
Aby M.
by Mbongeni Khoza |
Categories:
africa, family,
BLOOD TIES
O Brother mine,
aeons, we bathe in fiery pits;
epochs, you quench your thirst,
from my wells of wisdom…
Broken by the mallet of Creation,
away you went.
Then came you.
Likewise, your seed…
Centuries you’ve suck me dry.
Your nests glitter with my blood,
atop my remains, your rivers flow.
My seed dammed to the Throne…
Bronze shackles, you gave!
As cousin Arabia fuels your rage,
Rage, rage, rage…
As for in time you’ll kneel.
And forgive I shall,
for your sins are mine.
O Brother mine.
Timeless clocks,
bring us together.
As in fiery pits, we bathe.
Our Seeds will bear fruit,
Love and Peace…
As to dust we wither.
by Weydene Winster |
Categories:
africa, america, animal, birth, color, culture, faith,
If we just let go...
If we just let go
To not live in fear
To just go with the flow
I think the world may just be a better place
The world may... just turn out allright
Where peace could live and love could embrace.
If the soul is so dark that not even a sprinkle of white
Paint could cover it
What has become of our species...?
We cant just go with the flow
Sometimes it can be poisonous
We cant live fearless when danger is all around us .
Everybody is doing something for selfies reasons
The world might never be a better place
The world might never turn out to be allright
We can choos...
We can choose in which direction we want to go!
by Sibusisiwe LETA Ncede |
Categories:
africa, age, character,
It was to love deeply and unconditionally
It was not to compromise my well being
It was to regard any human being with fairness and equality
Never judge a book by its cover
Never make a promise you cannot keep
Never underestimate your enemies
Never anticipate your heart desires
It was to stand up for those I cherished
It was to fight for what I believed in
It was to embrace my humanity
by Sibusisiwe LETA Ncede |
Categories:
adventure, africa, appreciation, blessing, character, confidence, future,
Pour your heart to the world
Feel those extra ordinary feelings
Pour your heart to the one you love
Receive those blessings
A dream has come true
Is it that the truth
Show yourself,
The truth is a wonderful thing
As it puts things in perspective
Honesty is a priceless thing
As it shows who you are
Love is a two way ingredient
As it acknowledges what you are capable of
Show yourself,
Pour your resources into your hands
Feel the air
Pour your tears into the sky
Feel the vibration of the universe
A dream has been manifested
Is it that the truth?
Show yourself.
by Richard Nnoli |
Categories:
africa, confidence, courage, motivation,
let hate be your enemy
with out love
the heart is heavy
it bleeds and create
isolation
it torture it victim
to no avail
it never bring happiness
but darkness
it slowly kills it victim
to isolation
with out love
the heart is empty
it bleeds no go value
to it victim
who bears no light
to life
but destruction without
no godly soul
it is too bad to hate
cos it fruits are ugly
so instead to live in darkness
let hate be your enemy
by Wendy Watson |
Categories:
africa, heartbreak, people,
A poet touched my heart last night, he wrote of deprivation
Of child abuse, starvation's plight, the heartaches of a nation.
This juxtaposing universe so vividly portrayed
Has made me feel discomfort by the message it conveyed.
At liberty in mind and soul and body I am found
But on this self-same spinning globe such miseries abound.
Lord help me to appreciate each blessing you provide
And may I show benevolence with your love as my guide.
11/08/18
by Richard Nnoli |
Categories:
africa, confidence, courage, freedom, friendship love, tribute, trust,
The best things in life are free
Love is free
Peace is free
Kindness is free
Happiness is free
Joy is free
Care is free
Togetherness is free
Expression is free
Opinion is free
Choice is free
The best things in life is free
The universe is free
Our planet is a free zone
Life is free
The air is free
To live freely is to live fullfiled
To fight is free
Our world is free
Our reality should be free
Our education should be free
Our mentorship should be free
Our knowledge should be free
Above all our freedom
Should be free cos
The best things in life are free
by Pheko Motaung |
Categories:
africa,
Love your people
And hate foreign devils
For my country
I'll die and leave the world
And govern paradise
by Richard Nnoli |
Categories:
africa, courage, deep, growth, relationship,
The rich also cry
Be happy for all you got
For great expectation
Are never guaranteed
The rich also cry
Worry not for another mans meat
For his trouble you don't know
So as the cries he shade in secret
The rich also cry
What is good
Is bad for the bad
In this world be grateful
For you live not by your
Self power
But nature
For love so many rich
Don't know till now
The rich also cry
He runs the town
His rich and sleepless
So many want to have a rich
Friend
For money now is the new
God
Yet peace he knows not
While you admire the rich
Remember
The rich also cry
by Pheko Motaung |
Categories:
africa,
You sizzle in mystic purple
by Mohamed Salih |
Categories:
africa, cousin, creation, feelings, happiness, love, wife,
It never falls never drys,greens forever
Whenever it extends,it grows moreover
Our love is like that tree,greens forever
On the deep rooted tree,friends forever
Each bird sings fruitly ,And sends clever
Each leave drops water and rains lever
We runabout as pilgrims every year
by Funom Makama |
Categories:
africa, community, education, environment, violence,
History has formed us into one braid
to stay strong and never surrender to any blade
standing side by side to be each others shade.
Why then do we classify one another into grades?
So that some cut others off just b’cos they are made?
There’s still hope, this togetherness will not fade
whatever it is, we have collectively paid
let’s stop hate from this unprecedented raid
so that unity will eventually get love laid.
We are Africans! Enough has been said.
by Charcoal Nsibande |
Categories:
love,
Dark Skinned Lady. the ever poised legendary beauty, granary of compassion & culture whose stunning reign sparkles the night.
Dark Skinned Lady. comandress of matriotic forces, the earthquake that shakes the pillars of racism & sexism the stream that feeds liberating consciousness
Dark skinned lady. epicenter of the ripples of Africanism. Divinity of a soul tranced by a rhythm, a rhythm forged by the beat of a drum, the drum pumping life into the veins of my Africa!
by Philip Odiete |
Categories:
africa, brother, cute love, dream, sorrow, trust, war,
In many dreams of you, I wish
If I could get my hands on the wings
If only I could come over to you now,
It would be the best moment in my life.
Alone in a cool evening
With the light of a candle and the breeze from afar
And then the moment would draw close
And the night would become our friend
And nature would support our breathe
And our dream would seem simple
And nightmare be far from us
For the moment would be the beginning of a new era
And the dawn would bring joy
Happiness and love
by John Chizoba Vincent |
Categories:
africa, age, art,
FIGURES OF MY LOVE
No one recognises when love begins
But we know when it ends
A flower cannot blossom without a sunshine
And men cannot live without love
So in the nouns of my heart I love you
Through the verb of my love I cherish you
But the adverb of my love will multiply audibly
In the adjective of my wisdown I beautify you amicably
Prepositioned the thought of my heart for good
In the conjuction between love and hatred
Through the pronoun of two beings
We will fly higher so that they exclaimed
What love is to those in the dark side
On that day of our love, beautiful virgins will faints
On seeing the colourful love English we've made.
by Patricia L Graham |
Categories:
africa, anger, children, community, discrimination, racism, world,
Them that never cease to claim
Everything that’s ours is theirs.
They take our lands,
They spill our blood;
Our children are consumed by lust.
The future, but a toxic mix:
Ancestors lived and died for this?
This legacy, blighting as a spell;
Contaminating, burns a living-hell.
Who is man and who is beast
When one pretends to love but hates?
Copyright 23.10.14
(Written for Black History Month Oct in UK
The killing continues in plain sight and in various guises)