Cowrie Poems - Poems about Cowrie

...In Biafra, when we drank from the tilting cusps of dank leaves and washed with the spittle of cassava, the sun scorched like hell. Añuruedoahu*, the oasis of war, like worldly cowrie, stagnant......

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...Upon the crest of a whispering wave, A love letter sealed in a bottle's embrace, Tossed by the tides, an age ago, Lost in the depths, where mysteries flow. Within its parchment, emotions res......

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...Written: June 23, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ Bonds packed with zeros—harmony, grief, regrets, In this endless cycle, memory no longer begets.......

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...The strange men made strange fruits Point. Strange Strange fruits fruits and Men the difference only in color Multiply the hate. divided. but blood is same Between strange fruits and......

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... "The 50 Move Rule" Thomas Crown rolled his smile around her frown Romance blew a warm breath over her pristine cowrie shell Voodoo Mojo ......

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...At the beach, digging beneath the pier harvesting minute shells; sharks teeth and all sorts of goodies; I make jewelry you see; Cowrie earrings paired exclusively with brown Tiger-Eye......

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...Idol is there seated plotting cowrie shells baptized dollars cow-hide suffocated with air comfort women in their best Cambridge fraternity with honors commander with his platoons sky-men in the......

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...When The Arrow Of God is No Longer At Ease Things Fall Apart The Voice of The Enemy Within Whispers At Dawn saying Weep Not Child as The House Boy named Maru looks at The Sterile Sky and ......

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...His skin is coated in red ocher, making it hard for his enemies to notice him midst termite mounds. He wears a headdress of cowrie shells and ostrich feathers, for his battle is a sp......

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...His skin is coated in red ocher, making it hard for his enemies to notice him midst termite mounds. He wears a headdress of cowrie shells and ostrich feathers, for his battle is a sp......

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...How beautiful is she! Her teeth are white, sparkling in the Sun as she expresses her joy in her heart with a beautiful smile Her eyes are as enchanting as no story that has ever been writte......

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...When 'The Arrow Of God' is 'No Longer At Ease' 'Things Fall Apart' 'The Voice' of 'The Enemy Within' 'Whispers At Dawn' saying 'Weep Not Child' as 'The House Boy' named 'Maru' looks at 'The Sterile ......

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...Head honcho, forever bristling Bleached exterior, this mask of countenance Princey, let me kiss you, my liege We are only Men in Black - Chieftain for the cause Priest of neoclassism Maestro ......

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...Before They Came Sitting here with my daughter between my knees, I braid her hair; One by one I place the lucky cowrie shells in her hair. I hear the call and response in my village. The roll was ......

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...They tell me I love you. They say that when I laugh with you; my eyes shine like cowrie shells in shrines, my cheeks dimple in gaiety, my pulse thumps rapidly like the drumbeats of the gods. They te......

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