Benjamin Zephaniah

(15 April 1958 / Birmingham)

poet Benjamin Zephaniah
#33 on top 500 poets

Benjamin Zephaniah Poems

1. Vegan Steven's Vegan Clothes 3/7/2012
2. Wot A Pair 1/3/2003
3. Ride 1/3/2003
4. The Death Of Joy Gardner 1/3/2003
5. Vegan Steven 1/3/2003
6. Fair Play 1/3/2003
7. Eat Your Words 1/3/2003
8. Sos (Save Our Sons) 1/3/2003
9. Neighbours 1/3/2003
10. What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us 1/3/2003
11. De Rong Song 1/3/2003
12. Who's Who 1/3/2003
13. Everybody Is Doing It 1/3/2003
14. The Race Industry 1/3/2003
15. White Comedy 1/3/2003
16. Nature Trail 1/3/2003
17. Dis Poetry 1/3/2003
18. We Refugees 1/3/2003
19. Talking Turkeys! 1/3/2003
20. The British 1/3/2003

Comments about Benjamin Zephaniah

  • lil pump (6/17/2018 6:16:00 AM)

    he can rhyme better than me

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  • D’anton (6/13/2018 7:57:00 AM)

    He is very funny and likes reggae

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  • elysha (6/6/2018 4:37:00 AM)

    really good
    love that song

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  • loly pop (5/24/2018 5:54:00 AM)

    I love this dude he is a rastaferian [3

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  • trh56 (5/22/2018 10:49:00 AM)

    he is such a great poet.

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  • bobobbob (5/22/2018 8:19:00 AM)

    I am in class getting facts about him he is 60

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  • scott (5/16/2018 5:42:00 AM)

    car to hopedall
    i luf yoowprick

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  • David Cartledge (4/29/2018 2:54:00 AM)

    I once heard a Benjamin Zephaniah reciting one of his poems, maybe on BBC Newsnight. There was a refrain something like, I love the grey I'm here to stay. My wife and I loved it and want to find it.

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  • LilKitty (4/25/2018 8:55:00 PM)

    i need to know.... like very soon...... or any poems about magic?

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  • LilKitty (4/25/2018 5:06:00 PM)

    or even magic? ? ? like my school is having a costume thing soon and i need to find a poem to match my costume (a benjamin zephaniah poem) and my costume is luna lovegood from harry potter

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Best Poem of Benjamin Zephaniah

The British

Take some Picts, Celts and Silures
And let them settle,
Then overrun them with Roman conquerors.

Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years
Add lots of Norman French to some
Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously.

Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans,
Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese,
Vietnamese and Sudanese.

Then take a blend of Somalians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians
And Pakistanis,
Combine with some Guyanese
And turn up the heat.

Sprinkle some fresh Indians, Malaysians, ...

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Neighbours

I am the type you are supposed to fear
Black and foreign
Big and dreadlocks
An uneducated grass eater.

I talk in tongues
I chant at night
I appear anywhere,
I sleep with lions

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