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Bride Price Poems - Poems about Bride Price

Chinese Female Poets: English Translations VI
...CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Creamy Melons by Chao Luan-Luan translation by Michael R. Burch Scented with talcum, moist with perspiration, like pegs of jade inlaid in a harp, ......

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Categories: bride price, body, flower, girl, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Unmarried Beautiful
...As a young beautiful black butterfly Fresh and uncultivated, Pure as gold and shiny as diamond A dream of every man. My mama is proud as Mt Kilimanjaro To have a daughter beautiful as rainbow ......

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Categories: bride price, africa, marriage,
Form: Free verse



Lousy Boyfriends
...His looks and physique, Add on to that someone else's mind and brains, I am sure it will be like salt to the season-less. Add to all that someone else's generosity, It will be like spice to the s......

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Categories: bride price, angst, boyfriend, community, confusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Tradition Marriage
...People married by chain, other married by rings, Married by bride price, other agreed each other, Boys paid on it, some girls paid on it. Partners who are some, other share the tribe, Choose wh......

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Categories: bride price, 2nd grade, celebration, love,
Form: Free verse
Dream Turn Nightmare
...On a never lonely street was where I grew up There we played from morning till dusk Then we woke up neat and free, but back home laced with dust Slightly dirtier than those lazy ducks Our po......

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Categories: bride price, anxiety, child abuse, lonely,
Form: Free verse



Spare Me the Knife and the Bed
...I only asked for a pen,not a ,p*nis, I only ask you to touch the books,not my boobs, I need school fees,not the bride price, Please,give me education, but not ejaculation, Use the knife to cut ve......

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Categories: bride price, girl,
Form: ABC
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 m......

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

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Categories: bride price, community, for him,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member I Don'T Belong To Me
..."No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. That includes one's self." - Sara Teasdale I don't belong to me (it’s true), you don't belong to you. Can't be denied, a simple truth, but one emb......

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Categories: bride price, appreciation, god, love, religious,
Form: Quatrain
Shall You Shall I
...Who can save mama? Being stripped naked Mocked, turned and scorned By villains, aliens beyond Shall you? Shall I? They came with perplexed clothings Coatings with absconded beauty I know we ......

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Categories: bride price, africa,
Form: ABC
The Elegant Maiden
...Short but beautiful, Beautiful and dutiful. Dutiful in deligience, Deligent and intelligent. The mood of thy pleasantries, Wroth fables of dignities. Your egg-y shaped physiognomy, Mount emo......

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Categories: bride price, beauty,
Form: Ode
Unity In Cultural Diversity
...The westerners eat Amala and Ewedu We eat Akpo and Ofe Nsala They dance Juju and Apala We dance bongo and atilogwu the beat of life. T^he Northerners speaks hausa whilst we speak igbo They marri......

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Categories: bride price, art, beautiful, , western,
Form: Free verse
Women's Day: Let's Trade
...It's time for me to do Marriage trade Is it what some call bride price? Never mind..I am a merchant so i call it trade Barter trade system is my best I give you a living thing for a living ......

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Categories: bride price, animal, woman, women,
Form: Blank verse
The Cry of a Young Girl
...Pave way for your younger brothers, this is the price i have to pay as 13 year old, first born girl I have no say in my education welfare my dad by now has already received my bride price I wonder......

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Categories: bride price, africa, anger,
Form: ABC
Miss Priceless
...Too worthy to be behold Too precious to be sold No price on earth worth her So I need her as bride with no price Tell her father and his kinsmen That am unworthy of their priceless But neither am I ......

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Categories: bride price, beauty, love, marriage, me,
Form: Blank verse

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