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Rhodesia Poems - Poems about Rhodesia


No Name
...No Name by Cathrin Stuart Do you know how it feels when you say nine months you carried me, but could think of no name? Do you know how it feels when you say you held me for the first time,......

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Categories: rhodesia, birth, child, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member AND SO, IT BEGAN
... England had joined WW II, War declared against Germany All men and women of the age Required for conscription, joined, Bravery had to be shown, Even cowards could not decline. Trembling the......

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Categories: rhodesia, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member True Freedom part 3
...We left our intrepid adventures on the plains of the Serengeti and there we will re-join them. Pukka has heard word of an evil genie down in the old Rhodesia He appears to have set up shop taking w......

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Categories: rhodesia, adventure, africa, animal,
Form: Imagism
Absence 2 and Hrms Commonwealth
...II I was thinking ... Absences Used to make hearts grow fonder Or so the proverb said, in my youth True in some ways ... Untrue in another Some have departed poetry and breath Such is human ex......

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Categories: rhodesia, africa, america, international, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Molay Wins Day and Dairy
...We emigrated from England to Rhodesia, I was just Seven when I began grade two, My wonderful father always there if I wanted a Cuddle or a good old boo-hoo, My English still rocky as I was most......

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Categories: rhodesia, school,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Love In Post World War Ii
...LOVE IN POST WORLD WAR 11 3rd and final episode of trilogy My Grandfather was incredibly anglicised Studied in London and qualified as an optician My mother learnt English at school, She was m......

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Categories: rhodesia, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time To Get a Move On
...Oh, to move to Ethiopia Or maybe Eritrea And if they hadn't changed the name I'd move to North Rhodesia There's a bit of heaven in Pakistan Or the balmy life in Turkmenistan But why mov......

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Categories: rhodesia, immigration, satire, world,
Form: Rhyme
A Lovesong
...The Love song I woke up early in a good mood thinking of writing a love poem to my wife. looking in the YouTube, I came across “The three tenors,” couldn`t resist their beautiful voices. I wa......

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Categories: rhodesia, absence, allusion, birthday, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Africa
...AFRICA Africa! A land of many nations, Full of cultural heritage, Endowed with untapped attribute, Has been present since the stone age. A continent built on a strong basement, Gifted with na......

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Categories: rhodesia, adventure, africa, earth, education,
Form: ABC
Here Or Lost Love Yes
...Here Or Lost Love, Yes? My name is Gemma. I was born in Rhodesia. I’m 36. I’m a pretty Native Indian woman. I have many interests like tattoos of which I have eight, including an Indian wise woman o......

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Categories: rhodesia, angst, betrayal, confusion, depression,
Form: Verse
Is Death An Igbo Man
...IS DEATH AN IGBO MAN? Quietus: ‘Nna Grave, this is Quietus from Vaults and Sons International. My containers don arrive?’ Grave: ‘Yes Oga Quietus. From: —Cairo—Syria—Boston—Kangan......

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Categories: rhodesia, conflict
Form: Free verse
Africa!!!
...She is the mother place of all humanity. From her womb was birthed the first man. The first self aware and inventive beast, Standing erect, carrying tools of his own invention. Science tells us......

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Categories: rhodesia, people, placesmen,
Form: Narrative
Bookstrings 1
...I arrived earlier in time To witness the great work of creation When from the dust emerged the first man I saw the destruction of the Noah’s world And the reconstruction thereafter The earliest ......

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Categories: rhodesia, education, history, on writing
Form: Rhyme

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