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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MANDELA, NELSON (B. 1918) Matches Found: 62 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ( SONG FOR...) WINNIE MANDELA - BELOVED HEROINE, by SATHIMA BEA BENJAMIN Poem Source First Line: Nomzamo %winnie mandela Last Line: Peace and freedom %for us all Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) ABAFAZI (WOMEN), by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the shining tyumie river Last Line: And give their lives: %the struggle continues Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement AFRICA, by RONALD CHAMBALE Poem Source First Line: Africa is a lovely continent Last Line: Let's all together take up %our revolutionary fight Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) AFRICA, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something strange about africa: big letter 'a' Last Line: Our dear, dark, sweet, and wondrous africa, stand tall Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) AH! RHOLIHLAHLA!!, by NOGQAZA WE JOJO Poem Source First Line: Man, they say, usually lives up to his name Last Line: This is our land! %open the door Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) AZANIAN LOVE SONG, SELS., by DON MATTERA Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) BIRTH DAY PARTY (FOR NELSON MANDELA), by MARY ANN WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: No cake %no new wish Last Line: Careful not to step on anyone's toes Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) BIRTHDAY HAIKU BLESSING, by NKOSI SIKELELA Poem Source First Line: The sunrise will melt Last Line: And end its frostbite Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) BIRTHDAY IN THE DUST; FOR MANDELA IN HIS SEVENTIES, by JR. HOUSTON A. BAKER Poem Source First Line: The dust and great trees Last Line: No great and settled trees %resist Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) BLACK CHILD / NO KING IS GREATER THAN YOUR FATHER, by NANA MASASU Poem Source Last Line: Through the tough road %to freedom Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) BLACK LITANY, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can't be the devil Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) BLACK LITANY, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can't be the devil Last Line: So this is what %hell is Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) CAN I GET A WITNESS HERE, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA Poem Source First Line: How shall I tell them at home Last Line: Unmoving %are you one or several Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) CORRECTUS HISTORUM (TESTAMENT TO WINNIE MANDELA), by RASHIDAH ISMAILI Poem Source First Line: We browned and blackened bodies resound Last Line: To this world we make %with our hands Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) DECEMBER SIXTEEN, by LINDIWE MABUZA Poem Source First Line: Comrades %I was not there Last Line: To hunt and haunt the enemy %our of our home, our social equal home Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) ECHOES THAT SHIVER THE SKY, by SANDILE DUBE Poem Source First Line: I emerge by the front door Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) EVERY PATRIOT A COMBATANT, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though I do not howl like a wolf Last Line: Kick terror in her vampire teeth %mayihlome! Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) FATHER TO SON, by J. L. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Father %yes, son %who is nelson mandela Last Line: How soon will apartheid end? %soon, very soon, my son Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) FEBRUARY, 1990, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, mandela- Last Line: Bearing our burden of hopes and fears %and impress your radiance %on the grey morning air Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) FOR MANDELA, by KAREN DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The chokers of 'the resistance' foolishly Last Line: Typing into a hangman's noose for %the death of aprtheid Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) FOR NELSON MANDELA, by LENRIE PETERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nelson, in this your 70th year Last Line: You are of that number Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) FREEDOM, by RAJEN GOVENDER Poem Source First Line: The stone %wrapped clumsily Last Line: Freedom you remember in your stoop %is always one stone away Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A HERO - DR. NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI Poem Source First Line: Three scores and a decade of survival Last Line: Liberation day %on which you will declare the peoples' republic of amandlavia Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) HERO OF HEROES, by VERNON A. FEBRUARY Poem Source First Line: Another dead body in the street Last Line: Monuments of marble %in the south Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) HONOR: OUR STORY INTO HISTORY (FOR WINNIE & NELSON MANDELA), by DIEDRE L. BADEJO Poem Source First Line: What am I Last Line: For fullness %for freedom Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) I HONOR YOU ALL, by MPHO SEGOMOTSO DOMBO Poem Source First Line: Let there be peace Last Line: Bring fighting freedom to our lives Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) JUNE 16TH 1976, by IDA GLRENDA SITHOLE Poem Source First Line: On that day, june 16th 1976 Last Line: Let us continue with the struggle %we shall win Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) LET MY PEOPLE GO, by GLADYS THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The cold light of a winter dawn Last Line: To our long awaited marriage, %and freedom Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) MANDELA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How does the old man spend his day Last Line: Away from wife, %away from life! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) MANDELA, by TIJAN M. SALLAH Poem Source First Line: Now the moon has glazed over kraals Last Line: It is time for unrelieved celebration Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) MANDELA AND ALL COMRADES IN PRISON, by ILVA MACKAY Poem Source First Line: You are just number 466/64 to them Last Line: We too shall know no rest %till she comes back to us Variant Title(s): Mandel Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) MANDELA'S SERMON, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed are the dehumanized Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement MERCHANTS OF MENACE, by BRIAN WILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: The unborn seed %of your own death Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) MY COUNTRY (FOR MANDELA), by ZINDZI (ZINDZISWA) MANDELA Poem Source First Line: I stand by the gate Last Line: He'll be back some day Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); Women NELSON MANDELA, by RICHARD CLOKE Poem Source First Line: Can we converse Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) NELSON MANDELA, by SIM E. N. KOMBEM Poem Source First Line: Nelson %mandela %flame of my peoples dreams Last Line: And the centuries pain reigns Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) NOMZAMO (FOR ALL THE STRONG WOMEN OF SOUTH AFRICA), by MBULELO MZAMANE Poem Source First Line: Nomzamo, your look is filled with pain and sorrow Last Line: Where do you get the strength to carry on? Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) NOTES ON A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death traces a shining circle Last Line: Not burst mute earth %with its upright cries? Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); Negritude (literary Movement) OUR ARMY, by M. SCHOON Poem Source First Line: In the middle of the night Last Line: And handed me his a.K Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) PEACE, by MOLLY KHANYILE Poem Source First Line: Let's build a wall of peace Last Line: Freedom day and night Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) PEDIGREE, WITH WEIGHT (MATOUBA, BASSE TERRE, 1802), by LEMUEL JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: This island now %beautiful as suicide Last Line: With firstborn fly and plague Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) PLACES OF STONE, by UNKNOWN+137 Poem Source First Line: We can remember them, alone Last Line: In the face %of indifferent stone Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) POEM FOR NELSON MANDELA, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where I live it is sunday Last Line: Daughters. This is philadelphia %and I see this sunday clean Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) SOUNDS OF A BURNING HOUSE: 3. A TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA, by SIM E. N. KOMBEM Poem Source First Line: Mandela -- mandela %flame of my peoples hope Last Line: Sisulu %mahlangou %steve biko %mandela %where are you Subject(s): Biko, Steve (1946-1977); Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) SOWETO PAINS, by GEORGE MALEKA Poem Source First Line: Influx control %pass laws Last Line: A living symbol %of our times Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) TEARS IN AFRICA, by THABO SEROTE Poem Source First Line: Tears in our country Last Line: Can never stop us %going to freedom Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) THIS COUNTRY IN TURMOIL, by ZINJIVA NKONDO Poem Source First Line: This river %this country in turmoi Last Line: Fruit in the splendor of our commitment Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) TO NELSON MANDELA, by MUNYONZWE HAMALENGWA Poem Source First Line: The tree has not borne fruit Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) TO NELSON MANDELA: A TRIBUTE, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That straight walk from the Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) TO THE YOUNG MXENGES, by BEAUMONT SIBISI Poem Source First Line: Be grieved and accept, after grief Last Line: Our children %all children Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA, by UNKNOWN+136 Poem Source First Line: Along this road of war Last Line: For those 70 heartbeats %we still wait for your homecoming Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) TSHAKA ZULU TO TODAY'S FREEDOM FIGHTERS, by MARGARET GOSS BURROUGHS Poem Source First Line: Compatriots, %ours is an unending struggle Last Line: We will win Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) UDF SONG, by PATRICK FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: We came to cape town from the corners of this land Last Line: The people united, will never be defeated %forward, forward,victory or death Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) UHURU, by ELIE LUBETSKY Poem Source First Line: Nelson mandela Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) UKUTHAYELELA (XHOAS PRAISE POEM ... FOR POETS IN EXILE), by RACHEL ZEPP Poem Source First Line: It is not the shields of comrades conceal you Last Line: Oh, exiles bereft, it is truth must console! %hi! Hi! Hi! Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) WALK PROUD, / MY BROTHER, by SIBYL RAE COLLINS Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans; Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) WHEN THE GHOST OF BENJAMIN MOLOISE APPEARS, by ZAYID MUHAMMAD Poem Source First Line: It will be a great day Last Line: The ultimate death to %apartheid Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) WHO AM I?, by FLAXMAN QOOPANE Poem Source First Line: I am the souls Last Line: I am a revolution sure of its %victory Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) WORD & WORLD, by ABENA P. A. BUSIA Poem Source First Line: Am I am brother's keeper?' %first breaking of the blood bond Last Line: They with silent tears now sow Subject(s): Exiles; Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) XHOSA CHIEF NELSON MANDELA, by UNKNOWN+135 Poem Source First Line: Then the country was ours - the land, the forests, the rivers Last Line: This transkei boy %they could not kill him Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) YOU DIE IN PIECES; TO NELSON MANDELA, by SHARON CUMBERLAND Poem Source First Line: Christ didn't want it either Last Line: One cell at a time Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) YOUR LOGIC FRIGHTENS ME MANDELA, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your logic frightens me, mandela Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918) |
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