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Best Bride Price Poems


Bride Price: Gratuitous Marriage
In bridled hovel on denuded strand
Tanned damsel loiters on barter stand
Waiting for purloined fealty her title to brand
Festooned in ritual garb, decked with lavish garland
As noble peacock, her fecund colors are fanned
Waiting eligible suitors her utility, virility to scan
Her father a lofty price doth rightly...

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Categories: bride price, daughter, family, family,
Form: Rhyme
Nature Bride Price
Nature Bride Price

Thou bride play possum

With her groom, love dies

Nature like a groom who pram

Divorce is his case, has eyes

Commanding earth to turn forward

The price of a bridegroom precious

Nature precession, like to come upward

Precaution the bridge of underming hius

 

One and one, the earth bride...

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Categories: bride price, nature, earth,
Form: Blank verse
Uncle You Can'T Eat My Bride Price
uncle
you forgot you had a niece
you work in glasses
you wear the best clothes
you reign in shinning shoes
you eat the world at once
you send your kids to fly 
you pretend to care
you pretend to call
you live comfortably 
   while I get bitten. 
 ...

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Categories: bride price, community, for him,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Bridie Price of An Unfortunate Lady
THE BRIDIE PRICE OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY
Quietly her love fathomed
The glittering incisor,
A puissant one unravished,
An aesthete affirmed.
Wide in comb of friend
A pilot stood aghast
In rapt marvel of a portrait.
With no joy of dislike he lust:
“I cheer a bride that loves my name;
Such that beckons cheerio...

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Categories: bride price, adventure, art, aubade, beauty,
Form: Elegy

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry