What Does Africa Look Like?
What does Africa look like?
Does it look like me?
Or am I not original?
Have I been fashioned and beautiqued
What does Africa look like?
Does it look like home?
Is it really crowded with forests,
Underground gold?
What does Africa look like?
Does it have any streets
With strange beings walking
Daring your heart to beat
What does Africa look like?
Does it have cloudy blue skies?
Can you clearly see the stars and moon?
Without lights blinding your eyes?
What does Africa look like?
Are streets paved in gold?
And everyday is like the first
Where you never get old?
What does Africa look like?
Does it have long hair and pretty eyes.
And hate its very people
For covering up and trying to hide.
What does Africa look like?
Does it centralize on sex?
And fill its people with false love?
Choosing what or what not to neglect.
What does Africa look like?
Is it covered in ageless stones?
That open up a whole new world
That no one has ever known?
About this poem
Questions about the identity of an African American.
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Written on February 21, 2010
Submitted by sheryl9gray on February 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | Axbc Axxc Axxc Adxd Accc Adbc Axxc Axcx |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 956 |
| Words | 207 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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