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Premium Member Admiral Lord Nelson
Blessed with ingenuity, he fought advancing tyranny
That stormed the sea in twenty-three  great warships sailing furiously.

That day, October twenty-first, saw Admiral Nelson at his...

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Categories: nelson, courage, england, freedom, hero,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Nelson Mandela
N – either one of his parents
E - nvisage the route he would take,
L - eaving behind the security of a place called home, 
S...

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Categories: nelson, history, people, political
Form: Acrostic
Madiba Is Dead: Nelson Mandela
Giant of justice has visited Baba Umkulukulu
The lion that gave in to wolves like sheep
To be sheered for our own freedom has died 
Father of...

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Categories: nelson, africa, death,
Form: Elegy

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Nelson Mandela: Many Stumbles, No Mumbles
Each time I raise my gaze to the night sky,
A million stars stare back, shedding happy tears of light.
And I cannot but stare back in...

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Categories: nelson, eulogy, forgiveness, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Son of Madiba (Tribute To Nelson Mandela)
Who are you to dream of chains
And yet proclaim of victory
How do you lie in chains
And yet stand in liberty
When do you pay a debt
That...

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Categories: nelson, black african american, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
For Nelson Mandela An Elegy
Aluta continua
Was that word another message replaced
And the room spun dark as web
The tree no longer walks the night
The bush is silent on the veld
Madiba...

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Categories: nelson, death,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Nelson Mandela
Many born will choose paths in search of glory and fame              ...

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Categories: nelson, death, dedication, grief,
Form: Acrostic
Nelson Mandela
There was once a MAN;
An Iroko in a forest of shrubs,
A dew pond in a desert.
There was once a MAN;
A moral compass in a world
Where...

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Categories: nelson, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy
Tribute To Horatio Nelson
Thou 
great 
son 
of 
the 
land!

Salute! 
Salute!! 
We 
Salute 
thee!!!
An 
unwavering 
patriot, 
undaunted 
mountain.
British 
admiral 
and 
nava 
hero.
Toulon 
submitted 
to 
thy 
naval 
prowess.
At 
Calvi,thy 
right...

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Categories: nelson, tribute
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Baby Face Nelson
1908-1934  Not taken soon enough! Not only the good die young.

For Epigram Contest
By: Richard Lamoureux...

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Categories: nelson, funeral, funny,
Form: Epigram
Ode To Nelson Mandela
How can such a mere mortal
Afford that contagious smile?
A smile of love and innocence
Smile of a man sans grudge
A smile that unites mankind
A haloed smile...

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Categories: nelson,
Form: Ode
A Tribute To Nelson Mandela
By applying policies of apartheid 
Or practising  racial discrimination 
Who want themselves or their clan 
To be seen above than the rest of the...

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Categories: nelson, black african american, inspirational,
Form:
Nelson Mandela
Unkosi Rholihlahla Mandela,
born into the Madiba clan in the village of Qunu 	
grow up in Mvezo in Umtata,Transkei
Dalibhunga, the prince of the Tembu tribe
son of...

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Categories: nelson, best friend, brother, father,
Form: Free verse
For You, Tata Madiba - Nelson Mandela
FOR  YOU, TATA  MADIBA
                 Nelson Mandela

The beauty...

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Categories: nelson, africa, dedication, eulogy, freedom,
Form: Elegy
The Journey Nelson Mandela
18 July 1918
Mnvezo you gave birth
A birth to a son of Chief Henry 
Mandela
In the land of the Bathembu 
Tribe

You nourished your son with 
great...

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Categories: nelson, death, hero,
Form: Bio

Book: Reflection on the Important Things