Best Bride Price Poems
Bride Price: Gratuitous MarriageIn 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 PriceNature 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 Priceuncle
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
The Bridie Price of An Unfortunate LadyTHE 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